I ran across a news article from August 10th. it explains in great detail why we have become an unhealthy society. It mirrors what we have been telling people for a long time, but at its core, it explains why we are here, in the quagmire.
The debate about health care would be a non-issue, had the FDA NOT overurned a LAW passed by congress in 1938 – which stood until it was rescinded by the FDA in 1973.
Of course, the FDA did not have, and was not GIVEN the POWER to overturn this legislation. It did so without public notice, no fanfare, and no publicity.
What was in this law?
Here is a quote from the article:
“If some readers are old enough to remember, in the middle half of the 20th century, there was a law put into place by Congress issuing a food label on food products that were not what they said they were. In Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food he describes that these food items were given the name ‘imitation’ food. The law was called the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The law read, “…there are certain traditional foods that everyone knows, such as bread, milk, and cheese, and that when consumers buy these foods, they should get the foods they are expecting…[and] if a food resembles a standardized food but does not comply with the standard, that food must be labeled as ‘imitation.’” ”
As a small time cosmetic manufacturer, we are held to the letter of this law, and MUST list every ingredient we put in the products that we manufacture, package and sell.
As producers of food for our own family, and for those of you that have “discovered” us, we raise, and grow food and value-added products that have never seen chemical pesticides, weed killers, pollutants, growth hormones, or antibiotics, except to save an animal, which then does not produce anything (like goat milk for our lotions, or eggs) that we would consume, use or sell for use, until the antibiotics have passed out of their systems and they are once again healthy. So why do the big food corporations get away with this?
Once again, it boils down to money.
If we greased the palm of the FDA bureaucrats, we too could ride on easy (spelled s-l-e-e-z-y) street…
This has lead to the use of foaming degreasers in toothpaste, shampoos and other body products – known carcinogens, high-fructose corn syrup and other corn by-products in over 90% of the 47,000 + “food” items in the average grocery store. All increasing the risk of cancer, obesity, diabetes, sores on the scalp and skin, dry skin issues, and a myriad of other maladies, which we run to doctors to “fix” for us. And they “fix” our ailments with chemical ointments, drugs, and everything else under the sun – except nutritional education and restoration of the natural balance in our lives that comes from eating healthful, nutritious foods, and getting rid of the shampoos, anti-bacterial soaps, lotions, and other items e pour on our skin, in our hair and in our mouth that should never have been touched.
Through education, and telling our selves “no” to bad things and “yes” to those things that are good for us, we won’t need the “Health care” system for much…
–Pat