Re: FDA Announces Plan to Eliminate Vitamin Companies

Just as I was about to type out a quick (yes, quick!) reply in agreeing with Chris, I saw your reply that suggests a different interpretation. So now I have to type out the whole idea just to be clear ;).... I keep wanting to post quick, smashNgrab drive-by posts, honestly I do, but the people won't let me LOL!

Many of the genuine Vitamin/Supplement/Herb companies were eliminated quite some time ago. Perhaps not all of them, but I suspect most of them. Why else would the establishment have done an about face on what once was their educated philosophy on all vitamins/supplement at large: "the notion that vitamin supplements, such as Vitamin C, will improve a person's health is absurd... as we've always claimed, any and all people can and should get all the nutrition necessary for good health from their food supply by eating "a balanced diet", and thereby save themselves teh expense of vitamins that do nothing more that produce costly urine". That was then, before they had the old industry in large part substituted by new players seeming to play the same part as the old, honest players. This front has been in place for well over a decade now, and has served it's purpose well.

Between J.R. Christopher and Richard Schulze , they both spoke of seeing, as far back as 1980, prominent Vitamin factories lined with drum after drum of their "raw products" - like coal tar, petroleum-based by products, various types of animal products / animal parts / animal by products / fecal matter, and rocks, of course, don't forget lots of rocks "minerals", and metal too, filling out the recipes of supplement factories in existance over twenty years ago.

This said, one must consider, what/which Vitamin industry is the FDA now claiming that it has set it's sights on? My impression is, the FDA has been dangling the Vitamin/Mineral/Herb/Supplement industry upside down by it's ankles for many years. A lot of the former, genuine, honest companies folded. No doubt there are still some who've managed to hold out and stay in business, and maybe this is what the old news as new news is about; uncle sam by way of the FDA now intends to give a good shaking to the industry it's been handing upside down all these years....just to see what else might fall out on the floor, shake loose, dislodge, and be swept into a trash heap. I get the impression that the intermediaries that have been content to front for the FDA these past few decades - our industrial supplements providers who've been remarketing other industry's waste products, have perhaps outlived their usefulness and are soon to be made extinct as well. Gee, I can't wait until the day when I must get a note from a doctor in order to take to the pharmacy to get my daily allowance of carrots or spinach or ginger... they will allow us ginger, won't they?. Tweet