Would you sacrifice your family's health for the profitability of a businesses?

from Stardock Forums

http://nhpr.org/post/sriracha-maker-says-factory-will-remain-california

In short, people have been complaining that the fumes from this factory are causing health problems. The owner is threatening to relocate.

"Sriracha hot sauce maker Huy Fong Foods has been tussling with the city council of Irwindale, Calif., near Los Angeles for months now over whether the factory's spicy smells harm its neighbors. There's been legal action and suggested fixes, but also pleas from other cities for the company to consider moving there."

Isn't it ironic thta every time a business owner has to confront the possibility that the waste/exhaust from his business may cause harm to the community he starts throwing the word Communism around... :|

"David Tran, the CEO of Huy Fong, says he escaped from Vietnam almost 35 years ago to be free of the communist government there and its many intrusions.

"Today, I feel almost the same. Even now, we live in [the] USA, and my feeling, the government, not a big difference," Tran says."

So, in your opinion, should the residents shut their entitelment, commie-punko traps, suck it up , get a job, and deal with it, because it would cost jobs..., or should there be regulation in place to protect against possible harm?

 

 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Huh????  o_O ;P :S

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Yea, sorry I went off on a tangent.

Just this one question.

If someone in your family was suffering ill-effects from the exhaust/particulate matter released by a factory, would you tell the family member to suck it up and deal with it, or would you try to work out a resolution, either on your own, or through your elected officials, even if it meant that the factory would relocate?

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

He doesn't see much of a difference? So besides being an uncaring ingrate, he's also a political scientist? "Don't let the doorknob hit you in the butt on your way out, Tran."

Could be that the fumes aren't so good for people: http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/06/07/after-inhaling-hot-sauce-fumes-three-people-are-hospitalized/

Hot peppers evolved those substances to keep normal, (not idiotic human) animals from eating them.

So, if he doesn't feel like filtering out the fumes and acting responsibly...far as I'm concerned, he can take off and go somewhere people don't give a crap about their health.

 

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Go find the hottest pepper spray you can find....give Mr.Tran a shot in the face with it and ask him if he feels that was an intrusion to his health.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If the factory opened recently and is now spewing harmful pollutants in to the air and folks are getting sick from it and or the fumes/stench have depreciated the value of their properties then yes they have a right to complain. 

When I bought my home it came with certain expectations of use, including enjoying going out and having a nice BBQ in my back yard. I bought it that way.

Now if a company moves in some where near by IMO it is their onus to not be a public nuisance and depreciate the value of my home as well as my ability to enjoy it in relatively the same fashion as before they moved in. 

Now if one bought a home in the vicinity of an established factory /business they would have willingly bought it knowing of the (stench) and IMO would have no right to formally complain unless the stench dramatically increased all of a sudden......

 

Harmful/toxic fumes are a different story and are typically actionable as factories are regulated to ensure air quality and public safety.

 

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Actually, it depends on who was there first, the factory or the homes/residents. If the homes and residences were there first, then the company should move elsewhere for sure. If the factory was there first, then the residents should be quiet because they knew it was there when they moved in. 

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Doesn't matter who was there first.  Employee health and safety matter, too.  Bottom line, such a business practice is immoral, unethical, egregious, but totally legal.  So its permitted.  Besides, Ayn Rand would totally approve, so it has the blessings of the 'establishment,'  and the true christian politicians.  Washington + god = must be right. 

 

EDIT:  Would I?  No. I left the rat race a long time ago.  I don't buy new clothes made by slave labor.  I wish I knew how to turn my conscious off so i could revel with the rest of them. 

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The Native Americans were there first.

Fat lotta good it did them.

 

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Well I wouldn't sacrifice my family's health for profitability of a business.

I do love me some Sriracha, it's fantastic.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

The problem with Global Corporate Capitalism is that it highly rewards sticking the exploitation to someone without a voice. The key mistake the owner made here is that the people getting f***ed over are here in the US, not in Malaysia.

When Malaysian kids die in factories, no one in America will hear enough about it to care. They key is to f*** over people who can't be heard by the limited attention span of the American Progressives - and do it over and over, until a cheaper, even more voiceless market is opened up by trade treaties!

Capitalism could be a very beautiful system if it were exclusively executed by moral, intelligent beings. Alas, humans got their hands on it.

Anyway, off to get a latte and then watch [insert hot tv series title here]!

Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

The profitability of his business might suffer were he to environmentally 'contain' his business...but ALL endeavours have the same responsibility to others.

If his 'business' was the cultivation and research into sarin or small pox  I'm sure people wouldn't find the need to ask the question.

 

Look up 'Union Carbide'.

Read 'Future Shock'.

Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

Future Shock, wow, read that during the last mellinium!  Interesting read.