French Breast Implants to be Removed

The vultures came home to roost after feasting on thousands of unsuspecting women. The vultures are the individuals at the now defunct French company, Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP). PIP began business in 1991 manufacturing silicone breast prostheses. It quickly became the world's number three implant maker because their products were cheaper than others' implants. But there was a sinister reason why PIP's implants were cheaper. At some point, perhaps even from the first implant made, PIP filled their implants with an unapproved silicone gel. PIP's gel was not a medical grade product, but an industrial gel of the type commonly used in non-medical applications. For almost 20 years PIP enjoyed stolen success at the expense of hundreds of thousands of women who are now being urged to have their shoddy, dangerous implants removed. I personally believe there are very few medically-indicated reasons for breast implants. And 'enhancement' is not one of them. But I also believe that the PIP individuals found responsible should be shot by firing squad. I wonder whether PIP began as a fraud, or became a fraud during the course of its existence. PIP was simply flesh and blood people, decision makers, exercising grossly poor judgement. Did they just sit around the conference table one day snacking on fine French cheeses and sipping wine and decide to enrich themselves by perpetrating this unholy fraud? Well, someone, that is, some one person signed off on the idea. But the decision was surely a collective one. And those are the vultures who should be shot. Dead. My sympathies extend to the affected women and those who support them.