You posted an article filled with fear and hyperbole and then made a broad statement that wasn't true. I merely pointed that out. Your statements are anything but well reasoned. The fact that you continue to have to qualify them is proof enough. I'm not belittling you. Calling you ignorant of this bill and its implications is self evident. There's no need to be so defensive.
This article is not a public service; it's just the opposite. No well reasoned person believes the fedgov is going to deny them the ability to buy vitamins at the local Kroger or will make using Ginko Biloba a felony. No rational human thinks that the fedgov is going to place all food production under the control of the UN who will then outlaw personal gardens, local farms and organic producers. No clear thinking person argues that this bill will make it illegal to pick apples from a tree on your property and take them to grandma's to make pie on Thanksgiving. Who really believes you'll be arrested if you grow strawberries and make your own jam? That's crazy talk. But here it is on FR and you're defending it.
This is from your article:
Seems pretty harmless and necessary to me. Yet, this is getting you all fired up. Why? Less than 3% of the food imported into this country is inspected today. With so much product coming from China and Mexico these days, don't you think there needs to be better systems put in place? There was no procedure in place to recall ephedra when it became known that it was making people sick. Because of that, many more people became sick and some died. This bill addresses that problem.
A rational person would look at this and come to a different conclusion than you and many others have. Again, I'm just pointing that out. Consider it a public service. That's just the kind of guy I am.
No, I don't. I actually agree wholeheartedly with the stated mission of the FDA, but I also know that they're guilty of allowing some very nasty drugs and food additives on the market. They're also guilty of putting the makers of beneficial health products out of business. I'm personally aware of one such instance.
Like all bureaucratic federal behemoths, the FDA is guilty of abuse of power.
Calling you ignorant of this bill and its implications is self evident. There's no need to be so defensive.
Why, of course. I should refrain from protesting when I'm being called an idiot and a liar in public because that's just unreasonable. Sorry, but I reserve the right to return fire, or defend myself.
No well reasoned person believes the fedgov is going to deny them the ability to buy vitamins at the local Kroger or will make using Ginko Biloba a felony.
Get informed, friend. Bills have been introduced in Congress several times to do that very thing. Here's the latest attempt to take your access to nutritional products away from you:
"(NaturalNews) Of all the sneaky tactics practiced in Washington D.C., this recent action by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) is one of the most insidious.
While no one was looking, he injected amendment language into the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009 (H.R. 4173) that would expand the powers of the FTC (not the FDA, but the FTC) to terrorize nutritional supplement companies by greatly expanding the power of the FTC to make its own laws that target dietary supplement companies.
First, John McCain introduced a bill that would severely damage the vitamin industry.
S. 3002, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act (DSSA)
Thanks to you, the bill was killed!
Then, its key provisions were inserted into the Food Safety bill.
Your Vitamins Are Still In Danger
But then, again thanks to you, these provisions were pulled.
Now, the Alliance for Natural Health tells us these provisions might become law in the worst possible way.
Unless you act, the financial "reform" bill could give new powers to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), including the power to regulate food supplements -- perhaps regulate supplements right out of existence."
Anti-Supplement Measure Slips into "Reform" Bill Passed by the House