<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 1:54 PM, William Flynn Wallace <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></span><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">I do not know if I am a radical or not. But I do seriously wonder why the research that is so sorely needed before we put chemicals on crops or anything else that goes into foods is not done. Oh I know why - politics, payoffs, money under the table, corruption at every level. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The same goes for the FDA - why do we see so many recalls of drugs, so many lawyers advertising to file lawsuits against drug makers? Not enough research.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### There is way too much research required before food or medications can be marketed. The FDA, both as it pertains to food and to drugs, should be abolished. The FDA does not provide net benefit in terms of safety. It slows down scientific progress, imposes insane laws (e.g. forbidding the use of carcinogenic substances in food), increases prices of food while lowering its quality. The recalls occur despite the FDA forcing pharma to burn literally hundreds of millions of dollars per drug to get to market. Predatory lawyers always are ready to extort money from pharma under any pretext. The sale of drugs should be covered by contract law, with options for the vendor to refuse liability.</div><div><br></div><div>---------------</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Go to the extreme - buy organic foods. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Something an individual can do, as opposed to doing our own drug </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:18.6667px">resea</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt">rch.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:14pt"> (actually I am doing my own drug research by taking the the doctor orders and actin g as a guinea pig)</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Organic food is a religion. Completely non-scientific, a hodgepodge of wishful thinking and anti-technological superstition. I drink grass-fed milk because it's full of omega-3 acids but otherwise I tend to stay away from organics - I don't like the feeling I partake in a cult, and have to pay for it double.</div><div><br></div><div>-------------- </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"></span></div><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The rift between rich and poor, individuals and nations, is getting worse, as everybody knows, and that will cause much trouble in the years to come.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Frankly, I don't care. The poor have been getting richer for decades and I am supposed to feel guilty about doing even better?</div><div> </div><div>-----------------</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">So - it's just not enough. And I have no answers to how to get people to sell their yachts and 20 million dollar houses, or even just to give a bit each month for world hunger, etc. </span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### There is no "world hunger". There is widespread evil and stupidity, and, disappointing as it may seem, charity is not going to solve this problem.</div><div><br></div><div>Which does not mean I would be against charity - to contrary, it is one of the noblest human impulses - but it still won't solve the Third World's problems.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał</div><div><br></div></div>
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