It may also be discovered that Big Pharma and Big Supplement is owned by the same people.... called stock holders. The intent and mission of the FDA is to protect people, but, the funding and political structure is not set up to accomplish that task very well. ..that, along with the pervasive mindset of protecting stupid people from themselves, as though laws against stupidity ever made anyone smarter...limits intelligent careful people along with the idiots.
So, who demands these laws and regulatory political institutions? Everybody that sues anybody when either party screws up. It's always easier to display someone elses ignorance. To choose thoughtfully is my right. To choose wrong is your fault. If someone else gets to choose, it's always their fault. See how that works? Choose for me! No, not like that! ..same old game. Those who are employed to do your choosing for you must limit your parameters in self defense...like any insurance company must. Interesting that the words discrimination and dis-crimination now have an inverse relationship. Ode At 04:52 PM 3/13/2005 -0500, you wrote: > ><<<Are you of the opinion that the pharmaceutical industry isn't trying to >stop the sale of natural supplements? >>> > >Personally, I think in this market-driven society, no one is going to stop >the sale of anything that is making big bucks... and the supplement industry >brings in something like a couple of billion dollars a year, from what I >recollect hearing. That's nothing to sneeze at, even by Big Pharma. > >Rather than trying to stop the sale of natural supplements, I think they >would be more likely to get on the bandwagon and join in reaping the >profits... that way they'd be getting the bucks from the people who do use >their drugs, and also profit from the people who don't. > >If there's money to be made, I think they'd go after it, rather than >possibly losing a huge market completely, which I think is a real >possibility. I'm sure a lot of people who prefer using natural things and >tend to be independent aren't going to just jump into using pharmaceuticals >if the choice is taken away. So instead of bringing those folks into the >pharmaceutical fold, they'd just end up losing that market completely, and I >don't think they want to see that happen. > >Sure, they might not make as much money from a natural herbal that they >can't patent, but any sale is better than no sale when you've got >stockholders to please, eh? > >Denise > > > > >-- >The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > >Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > >To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com >Silver List archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > >Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com >OT Archive: http://escribe.com/health/silverofftopiclist/index.html > >List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > > > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.2 - Release Date: 3/11/2005 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.7.2 - Release Date: 3/11/2005
