I’ve noted before the current trend in federal government is to restrict what’s good and ignore what’s dangerous. The obvious reason is that’s where the money goes. A primary example is the FDA. The people running that show are paid by drug companies not regulate them, but to go after the competition, namely, natural remedies.
Bill Sardis explains this particularly well:
Despite recent outbreaks of foodborne disease (Salmonella in peanuts) and approval of deadly or problematic drugs (recently Vioxx, Seroquel, many others) compared against few if any reported deaths in the newly implemented Adverse Event Reporting for dietary supplements, the Federal government is aiming its regulatory muscle at vitamin, mineral and herbal pills.
What can you do about it? Short of dangerous foolishness such as assassinating those responsible, there’s almost nothing you can do to change the path taken by bureaucrats. They don’t care about you and I, and have every intention of working against our interests knowingly. I refuse to grant them the cover of sincerity. They lie, and they know it’s a lie.
The other thing is doing what folks have done for centuries when government has been wrong about human needs: smuggle. All this regulation does is raise the price on natural remedies, but they could hardly stop the actual the trade. War on Drugs, anyone? Were I in the position to do so, I freely admit I would smuggle and deal vitamins and herbs in the future. The government is wrong on this, and merits zero respect.
