Do a Google search, "How many people has the FDA killed". See what
comes up.
Incidentally, you get it from both directions - leftists who claim
that the FDA is too lax and others who claim it is too stringent. Too
lax in supposedly allowing dangerous drugs/food products and too
stringent in keeping potentially life saving drugs off the market, as
well as over-zealously functioning as our nanny in regard to the foods
we eat.
Furthermore, do you really think that food companies aren't poisoning
us for fear of the FDA?
Do you remember the soup company, Bon Vivant - an old, very respected
company. One incident of botulism in 1971 and within a month the
company filed for bankruptcy. Recently the same thing happened to
Topps Meat Co. after an
E.Coli outbreak was traced to their beef
patties. A 67 year old family business, knowing it could never
recover from this stain on its reputation, it closed its doors in a
week.
China is even less forgiving. If they follow their usual practice, the
owners of that company will be executed - a perhaps extreme response
but not entirely unjustified if it can be demonstrated that they
knowingly distributed the tainted product.
Incidentally, I have no objection to those proven guilty of
endangering the unaware public being taken to court and suffering
civil, as well as possibly criminal, penalties. I say "unaware"
because people have the right to endanger themselves, e.g. with
tobacco or alcohol, etc.
Fred Weiss
