>
> 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 Â 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
