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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SaburoS on June 29, 2007, 02:06:52 AM

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: SaburoS on June 29, 2007, 02:06:52 AM

I wonder what the true risk of rBST is if the charges of seemingly faulty/dishonest FDA testing are true. (http://www.consumersunion.org/food/98ny699.htm) It doesn't prove that rBST is unsafe for human consumption, but it seems that the FDA could have done a second round of testing based on the test results of the first.
If this VIDEO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E-5KivgwO4) is true, it makes me wonder what other potential health hazardous products get "rubber stamped"  through for public consumption.
I wonder how many other stories get "modified" by Fox as well as other networks.

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: Odee on June 29, 2007, 03:59:53 AM

pretty much all of the stories get modified.  Problem is, there are no "News Reporters" anymore.  Just distorters like the tabloids out for ratings.

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: lazs2 on June 29, 2007, 08:04:21 AM

the FDA is a tax supported government agency... how could they screw up?  Obviously they are needed or... or... who knows?

lazs

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: SaburoS on June 30, 2007, 01:57:26 AM

If this is the standard MO of all three organizations involved, then they are all corrupt.

Fox news for trying to manipulate a report.
Monsanto for trying to keep the facts suppressed.
The FDA for incompetence or outright corruption.

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: wrag on June 30, 2007, 04:22:24 AM

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Originally posted by lazs2
the FDA is a tax supported government agency... how could they screw up?  Obviously they are needed or... or... who knows?

lazs

HUH????

You real sure about that Laz?

Or is the FDA supported by food and drug companies?

Last I heard the food and drug companies paid for the FDA?

While it may be taxs that support it I believe the taxs come form food and drug companies????

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: myelo on June 30, 2007, 08:44:56 AM

In the past, the FDA was funded entirely by the treasury. Since the early 1990s and substantial portion of their budget comes from user's fees, paid by industry as part of the approval process.

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: lazs2 on June 30, 2007, 09:23:39 AM

yepper... taxes support it.

It is a GOVERNMENT AGENCY..  it should be done away with.   If we had private industries that had ratings systems and people could simply choose.. they would try harder to get a good reputation.

The government doesn't care about theirs.. how could it get any lower in any case?

lazs

Title: Health hazzard?
Post by: myelo on June 30, 2007, 03:37:14 PM

If you could trust private industry to produce safe food and drugs on their own, you wouldn’t have needed the FDA in the first place.  But when you have instances such as Massengill manufacturing a sulfanilamide elixir containing diethylene glycol (antifreeze analog) killing over 100 people, mostly children, it’s clear manufacturers aren’t going to do this on their own.