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Just Published... The story goes that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, he will jump out and save himself. If you place the same frog in a pot of cool water and slowly bring it to a boil, he will allow himself to be boiled to death. This is exactly what is happening to millions of people around the world. Industry has introduced tens of thousands of chemical compounds into our human environment since World War II. We are the frogs in a vast scientific experiment. In 1992, Intel Corporation tightened its grip on the mesa above the village of Corrales, New Mexico, building its two-billion-dollar flagship plant there. Soon the battle is on between the unholy triad of big money, big business, and politics and a band of "quaint guerillas" that see their peaceful rural lifestyle threatened by the new neighbor on the hill. Touted as a "clean industry," residents soon find out that making computer chips is anything but clean, as tons of toxic chemicals pollute the air they breathe, and their water is pumped out from under them at an alarming rate. Boiling Frogs is a shocking tell-all, a fully documented report of Intel’s takeover of New Mexico, and a cautionary tale for anyone who wakes up to find out that a corporate monster has moved in next door.
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Random excepts from Boiling Frogs: “At the heart of this calamity is the legal concept of the corporation as a person, with all the rights of a ‘natural person.’ The semiconductor industry and its toxic chemicals are therefore innocent until proven guilty under our justice system just as a person would be.” Chapter: Boiling Frogs, page 8 “He characterized Intel in an op-ed piece for the Journal as ‘the guest for whom we rolled out the red carpet only to find out that he has bad breath and an insatiable thirst.’ Chapter: The Water War Rages On, page 69 “Little did we know that a witches’ brew of chemicals was creeping through the screens that night. We will never know what hit us.” Chapter: Assault with a Deadly Chemical, page 9 “Intel insisted that we had an “odor problem” and tried to portray the residents as overly-fastidious yuppie types who didn’t want their backyard barbecues spoiled by a little bad smell.” Chapter: Assault with a Deadly Chemical, page 15
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©2007 Barbara Rockwell
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