Do you assume that we all trust anything available on a shelf of a store? Plenty of us do not-I don’t use e-cigs, I don’t do drugs, illicit or prescription, and I don’t eat processed, or even most canned food. I’m a responsible adult-I don’t apply, eat, smoke, or drink anything without reading the ingredients and looking up the contents on the net, and I don’t trust or need the FDA to tell me how/what to eat, smoke, drink or wash my dishes in.
And the FDA doesn’t care at all if you are a lab rat-if you don’t believe that, check out the ingredients on the next pre-packaged food item you consume, or the next OTC drug you take for a sneeze. And it is not “for the children”, either...
How about we go back to being responsible for our own kids and our own selves, and hiring companies not connected with government and/or lobbyists to do independent testing on new products? I’m sure there are plenty of testing labs who would appreciate the business-put it into private hands and let them bid on it.
There is not enough time in the day for the average person to inspect and test everything that would need to be inspected.
And I have no interest in growing the food myself.
Who do you propose hire the independent companies? I can't afford that. Or were you suggesting the government spend the money on independent contractors so that whoever is in office can funnel contracts to their bundlers?
I've got no problem with that in concept. Adults need to care more about their children than the state.
But it's clear some adults don't care and there is a compelling reason why regulation is being considered. Year after year, generation after generation, kids were being turned into addicts.
Here then is what Newt said about caring for kids in '97.
Civilization cannot survive with twelve-year-olds having babies, fifteen-year-olds shooting one another, seventeen-year-olds dying of AIDS, and eighteen-year-olds graduating with diplomas they cannot read.