But now obama is president. I see where this is going. We need more regulation. Deem all vitamins and supplements as controlled substances. Only gov’t and powerful pharmaceutical companies should handle this stuff. Only they should be allowed to grow carrots. It will be a felony to be caught growing vegetables in your backyard. And add taxes on taxes to those who “use” supplements.
I agree with you 100% — more regulation and taxes.
“Deem all vitamins and supplements as controlled substances. Only gov’t and powerful pharmaceutical companies should handle this stuff. Only they should be allowed to grow carrots. It will be a felony to be caught growing vegetables in your backyard. And add taxes on taxes to those who “use” supplements.”
They’re just trying to bring us in line with the EU. If you want to see where we’re going just watch the laws passed in Brussels.
Not so far fetched, virgil. In Cuba if you grow two carrots and sell one to a neighbor, it IS a felony. All carrots belong to Castro/the collective. Even mini-capitalism lands you in jail.
I’ve been a huge user of supplements for decades and for a few years worked as a health writer, including inhouse stints at a couple of large manufacturers. That was a long time ago, and the big companies were very very careful to label properly, maintain manufacturing standards, and to never print a misleading word in their catalogs/ads. An FDA inspector told me she’d found horrible unsanitary conditions at some small companies and did what she could to get them fixed and/or put them out of business.
But now...I worry a lot about what’s going into my pills and potions. Why? Because virtually everything in the health food store is made in China. My expensive whey protein was once labeled, “Made from Wisconsin milk.” Now it’s only “Distributed by” an American company. With the Chinese so careless about dry milk products, I may be forced to turn to ukky soy. Of course with soy, you need organic non-genetically modified soy and who can trust the labels? Could be all soy milk comes from China too. (Milk from cows makes me barf, even smelling it.)
I’d welcome FDA oversight again, if it protected us from dirty products and dishonest manufacturing. What we decide to ingest had darned well better be our own choice though.
TROUBLE: The UN Codex AliCodex Alimentarius is a trade Commission under the control of the United Nations/World Trade Organization that intends to make all therapeutic dosages of vitamins, herbs and other supplements illegal by December 31, 2009. They claim this action is being taken to protect the public from toxic substances.
In other words, The UN wants to make us all as unhealthy as African hut dwellers.