"These systems, moreover, interrelate and reinforce one another. We can see this, for instance, in how the constellation in which the academic industrial complex does research for the medical industrial complex and Big Pharma, exploiting the nonhuman animal slaves of the animal industrial complex in university, military, and private vivisection laboratories and producing fraudulent research financed by and for pharmaceutical capital. The dubiously researched drugs are patented, typically fast-tracked into market sales by the obliging Food and Drug Administration, and then advertised through the media industrial complex. Up to 115 million animals die worldwide annually to perpetuate this fraud, and the human victims of research-for-profit succumb to the medical industrial complex for costly "disease management" (not "health care") treatment that treats only symptoms to focus on the ultimate objective of profit. The dissent of animal rights activists is criminalized by the security industrial complex, and many are sent off to languish, along with one out of every one hundred adults in the U.S. population incarcerated in the prison industrial complex."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Steven Best, "Introduction: Pathologies of Power and the Rise of the Global Industrial Complex", in Steven Best; Richard Kahn; Anthony J. Nocella II; Peter McLaren (eds.). The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination. 2011. pp. xvi-xvii
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Military-industrial complex
6 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Military-industrial complex →
Related Quotes
"As Eisenhower delivered his somber address, the foundations of the military-industrial complex were already set and b…"
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unso…"
"What I mean by saying that war is wrong is not only that it is bad but that it ought not to be waged, that government…"
"It is not nuclear violence alone that is the threat to mankind. It is the willingness to kill our fellow human beings…"
"Sending lethal western capabilities to the front lines has been a direct investment in America’s own security in a nu…"
"Edmund Burke, the statesman and orator in England, recounts: He [Haidar] became at length so confident of his force, …"
"Innes Munro, an eyewitness and a captain in the late 73rd or Lord Macleod’s Regiment of Highlanders, records the horr…"
"Robson mentions the plunder of Hindu temples in Tanjore: Hyder entered the Tanjore country, plundering and burning ev…"
"Kirmani proudly recounts the manner in which Tanjore was ravaged by the forces of Tipu: Prince Tippoo with seven thou…"
"Hast thou not seen my horsemen charge the foe, Shot through the arms, cut overthwart the hands, Dying their lances wi…"