Strong Medicine: What's Ailing the FDA?

We're not on the farm anymore, we live in a world of man-made "cures" for illnesses caused by man-made products. Food, drugs, radio waves, air pollution...do we have to grow our own food on the top of a mountain somewhere surrounded by a lead wall? Even then you may get bombarded with ultra-violet sun rays and satellite signals. There will always be some kind of toxicity to look for that someone should have caught beforehand.

There are a lot of problems out there with the FDA. Its important to talk to your doctor and to lead a balanced lifestyle. A pill will not cure you.

ts of consumers. Under Reagan, not only did his G.D. Searle sympathizer of an FDA chief push through aspartame with insufficient testing and adequate evidence of danger, but the FDA washed its hands of the snake-oil business, so that both effective and worthless alternative medicines can compete side by side with nothing but a disclaimer, muddying the waters for everyone, which is how conservatives pull the wool over everyone's eyes and make the "free" market expensive!

The ownership of the FDA by business interests goes completely against the principles on which progressive Teddy Roosevelt signed the Pure Food and Drug Act into law. Need I mention that a huge influence on this decision was "The Jungle" by socialist muckraker Upton Sinclair, who exposed the abuses of the Beef Trust that rival today's abuses by Capitalist China. Except for Roosevelt, Republicans have tended to be regressive, favoring the welfare queens of the corporate world over the interes

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