interesting but scary documentary about the FDA
topdocumentaryfilms.com/war-on-health/
It's about how the FDA works to restrict consumer access to natural products, like raw milk, organic food, vitamins and herbs. It's not about protecting people from unsafe food, supplements and drugs. It's about helping big pharmaceutical companies make money.
Here's one scary story from the documentary. A group of cherry growers had a website and on that website, they included a link to the Harvard Medical School website, whi*****luded some information about how cherries were beneficial to people with gout. The FDA went to the cherry growers, literally knocked down their door with their guns drawn, and demanded they remove this link from their website because it was akin to "making health claims" and the FDA does not permit food/vitamin/supplement companies to make health claims because if you make health claims about a food/vitamin/supplement, somehow that magically transforms that item into a drug. Since those "drugs" have not received FDA approval, you would then be selling or marketing an unapproved drug, which is illegal. Whether or not the health claims are proven doesn't matter. If you sell cherries, you are not allowed to tell your customers about the benefits of eating cherries.
Kelly
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Most drugs prescribed to children, for instance, have never been tested in children and have not been proven safe or effective in children. Drug companies are not allowed to tell doctors that these drugs are safe or effective for children, but they are allowed to visit pediatricians (who of course only treat children), to give them free samples of these drugs, to buy them lunch, to give them all sorts of "goodies," etc. The pediatricians are then allowed to prescribe these drugs to children.
Kelly
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This is definitely a good thing!
But, do you know what year that video was made? Seems like the vitamin/mineral world - like you said drug companies all spout some type of benefit of their product without having it yanked from the market.
This is definitely a good thing!
But, do you know what year that video was made? Seems like the vitamin/mineral world - like you said drug companies all spout some type of benefit of their product without having it yanked from the market.
Yeah, drug companies can spout benefits of their product because they are "approved drugs." They have been approved by the FDA. If you grow cherries and claim that eating cherries has any health benefits (even if you can back up your claims by reputable studies), the FDA says your are then promoting a drug, not a food. But unless your cherries went through the drug approval process of the FDA, you would be selling an unapproved drug, which is illegal.
Kelly
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The FDA and USDA have raided many companies, small dairy farms, etc. with guns drawn to stop them from selling vitamins, herbs, raw milk, etc.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
The FDA and USDA have raided many companies, small dairy farms, etc. with guns drawn to stop them from selling vitamins, herbs, raw milk, etc.
The USDA has raided farmers that sell raw milk with guns drawn, however.
Kelly
Please note: I AM NOT A DOCTOR. If you want medical advice, talk to your doctor. Whatever I post, there is probably some surgeon or other health care provider somewhere that disagrees with me. If you want to know what your surgeon thinks, then ask him or her. Check out my blog.
on 10/2/12 11:08 pm
This is something that is such an unbelievable hardship for small farms. The large farms that produce soy and corn get massive subsidies, and the little place I get milk from gets a pittance. BUT they still have to jump through all of the hoops in terms of farm conditions and food processing requirements.
Meanwhile the FDA is completely okay with huge feedlots feeding cows dead cows (yes, they put beef tallow in industrial cattle feed) and pumping animals full of antibiotics thereby creating drug resistant bacteria. Our food supply is not grown or protected as it should be and we are a sick country as a result. Truly a shame.
But hey, just pop this $50 pill and you'll feel better! (My eyes just rolled out of my head.)
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