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15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug

Companies

 

Dear readers,

 

Several months ago, I wrote the original version of this article (15

ways...) and found that readers really loved it. Dr. Mercola (www.

Mercola.com) summarized the article and shared it with his readers,

expanding the story with his own comments and comparisons.

 

The result is a combination Health Ranger / Dr. Mercola piece that's

worth sharing again. So here's the new version of this satire piece

about organized medicine and the FDA. (The original story, published

July 2005, is found at: http://www.newstarget.com/009844.html ) Feel

free to forward this and share it with anyone sane enough to care

about what's happening in medicine these days.

 

 

 

 

 

15 Ways the Auto Industry Would Change if it Operated Like Drug

Companies

 

 

What would happen if you had to buy your car from a company that

operated in the same way as the pharmaceutical industries? Mike Adams,

the Health Ranger, came up with 15 unsettling changes that would occur.

 

Cost

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Your car would cost $4.5 million, a 30,000 percent markup over cost.

 

The same car would be available in Canada or Mexico for less than $5,

000.

 

 

Dealing with Competition

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Meanwhile, automakers would be lobbying Congress to outlaw bicycles

and airplanes, just as the drug companies try to do with herbs and

nutritional supplements.

 

All auto imports would be banned. If you drove a Toyota down from

Canada, you would be arrested.

 

Car dealers would be bribed with money, free vacations, free food,

and free cars by automobile sales representatives to push certain cars.

 

 

Safety

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Cars with no seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, or other safety

systems would be declared perfectly safe by the FDA, which would

instead focus on the dangers of bicycles.

 

Driver's Ed programs would be cancelled nationwide, and people would

be encouraged to buy new cars rather than repair damaged ones or avoid

accidents in the first place.

 

Safety tests showing that cars were dangerous would be buried, and

scientists who produced such results would be prevented from ever

conducting car safety tests ever again.

 

After being sued by customers injured in the cars with no safety

systems, automakers would further lobby Congress to pass laws

protecting car companies against class-action lawsuits.

 

Any federally mandated warnings about car safety problems would be

printed in small type on a tiny label hidden under the driver's seat.

 

Driving certain cars would cause side effects like loss of sex drive

or full-body muscle pain.

 

 

Advertising

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Car companies would heavily promote new models each year, which would

be no different from the ones they were selling 30 years ago.

 

Car companies would invent reasons for you to buy a dozen or more

cars.

 

Automobile advertising would be filled with pictures of happy,

healthy, energetic drivers, but the cars would break down constantly,

fail to perform as promised, and quickly stop working.

 

Cars would be sold to you with extra features like a sunroof, air

conditioning, or a navigational system, but when the car arrived none

of these features would be included, just as drug companies exaggerate

the " multiple health benefits " of their products.

 

 

Dr. Mercola's Comment:

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This article is spot on. If you enjoyed it half as much as I did,

then please forward this page to a friend or relative by using the

blue " E-mail to a Friend " link in the very top upper right section of

this page (right below the search box). You can also include a short

note with something specific for them as to why they might want to

consider subscribing to the newsletter to improve their health.

 

Unfortunately, this parody does not only apply to the pharmaceutical

industry. The obscene business practices of companies that sell

dangerous chemicals in the form of drugs, processed foods, and toxic

products, coupled with the industry-friendly laws of a

bought-and-paid-for Congress, have slowly evolved into a deadly system

that would be clearly insane if applied to any other aspect of life.

 

When it comes to protecting your health from deadly chemicals,

neither the government nor the industries that sell the dangerous

products have your best interests foremost in their minds. Here are a

few more analogies showing how deranged the system currently is:

 

If the movie industry were run like the food industry, any film

critic who wrote a negative review would be sued under the terms of

" movie disparagement laws " passed by a heavily lobbied Congress. The

movie producers might not win the case, but the critics would be

bankrupted by legal fees.

 

If restaurants were regulated like the chemical industry, then

restaurant owners would perform their own health inspections on a

voluntary basis. Only the very largest chain restaurants would even do

that.

 

If the police operated like the EPA, they would only arrest people

for five very specific types of crime, like murder with a blunt

instrument committed on a Tuesday. They would ignore all of the others.

Usually, they wouldn't even bother to investigate.

 

If the school system were run like the FDA, students would test

themselves at home and then simply tell the teachers how they did. The

school system would depend on fees paid by the students' parents, so

they would pass nearly everyone. Of course, only wealthy families

could afford the fees -- poorer students would be unable to get a high

school diploma at all, and would be barred from most jobs.

 

Your safety from dangerous chemicals is clearly largely in your own

hands. Play it safe and minimize your exposure to them:

 

Rather than becoming dependent on drugs, maintain your health with

proper nutrition and exercise.

 

Buy organic, prepare your own food as much as possible, and avoid

fast food at all costs.

 

http://www.Mercola.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

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