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Rajjpuut's Folly on Friday, July 10, 2009 1:44:30 PM
"FDA . . . Foul, Disgusting Agency" doesn't say the half of it. No more corrupt government entity has ever turned upon the citizens of this country.
Regular readers of Rajjpuut’s little rants will recognize a strong personal antipathy toward the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). That once great organization created in 1906, the very year that Upton Sinclair’s monumental novel/expose` “The Jungle” hit the bookstore shelves, has degenerated into the most corrupt federal organization in America. Rajjpuut, health educator he, believes that only a complete top-to-bottom remake of the FDA will allow any health care plan, now or in the future, any hope of success.
A September, 2006 Spanish study puts second hand smoke in a crowded bar as “over 60 times more toxic than traffic fumes."
The state of California, which can be a little bit nuts Rajjpuut admits, backs up the Spaniards with its own conclusion that second-hand smoke (what's breathed out after first going directly into the lungs of a smoker) ranks in toxicity up there with the most toxic automotive or industrial air pollutants and says California parents “who would NOT willingly fill their homes with motor vehicle exhaust, for their children’s sake, should feel the same way about tobacco smoke.”
Strong words but unfortunately accurate words . . . but Rajjpuut is NOT here to turn the screws a notch tighter on the already beleaguered smokers . . . but rather to ask you to consider this about the FDA: what else besides tobacco products in the United States is allowed to be sold and consumed by mouth without a listing of its ingredients on the package? How did that cozy little arrangement come to be? I submit that it’s just one more long-standing sign of the corruption of the FDA: the typically 554 ingredients of a cigarette are never revealed because big tobacco doesn’t want to lose even one customer, especially a young developing smoker who might look at that god-awful list of chemicals and think, “Oh my heavens, this is what I’m doing to my body!” If the single most unhealthy product available for private consumption is not regulated appropriately, you start to get a handle on the full scope of this nightmare agency's ability to pervert its original great purpose. Gotta love the FDA with all your heart.
Live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut