FDA 100 yrs of Pretense

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F.D.A. CELEBRATES HUNDRED YEARS OF PRETENSE

 

 

 

 

 

By Byron J. Richards, CCN

 

July 2, 2006

 

NewsWithViews.com

 

Today marks the one-hundred-year birthday of the FDA. To celebrate, the FDA

plans a gala event at the Harvey W. Wiley federal building. The FDA is touting

Dr. Wiley as the “Father of the Pure Food and Drugs Act,” inviting his decedents

to attend their event. The FDA is quite proud of the heritage Dr. Wiley has

bestowed upon them.

 

Apparently, the FDA would like to forget what Dr. Wiley actually believed. He

was an adamant supporter of a true organic food supply for the entire American

public. It was the food industry that did not want this legislation, as they

were more interested in foods adulterated with colorings and preservatives, a

lower quality of food that posed health risks. Dr. Wiley believed that

preservatives in food posed a serious health problem. He thought the regular

intake of preservatives over the course of a lifetime was certain to be toxic

and contribute to ill health. As he stated in his 1905 Congressional testimony:

 

“I think that the use of preservatives in food may be and often is overdone

and that great harm may come from their excessive use….I say, as a plain

business proposition, that the men who put preservatives in food had better stop

for their own good and for the good of their business; and they will.”

 

In the ensuing years Dr. Wiley worked to stand by his words. He sought to

implement the food law to create his vision of a truly healthy food supply for

America. He was undermined every step of the way, forced out of his job seven

years later by politicians and food industry shenanigans. In 1929, at the age of

85, he decided to tell his story of how he was prevented by the food industry,

“science for hire,” and various government officials from creating a wholesome

food supply for America.

 

He saw that the food law had been hijacked by the forces it was supposed to

regulate, for the greed and benefit of a few at the cost of health for

Americans. His book: The History of a Crime Against the Food Law. Subtitle: The

amazing story of the national food and drugs law intended to protect the health

of the people perverted to protect the adulteration of food and drugs.

 

After detailing four hundred pages of government and industry corruption, Dr.

Wiley’s book concludes as follows:

 

“If the Bureau of Chemistry had been permitted to enforce the law as it was

written and as it tried to do, what would have been the condition now? No food

product in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulphurous acid or

sulphites, or any alum or saccharin, save for medicinal purposes. No soft drink

would contain any caffeine, or theobromine. No bleached flour would enter

interstate commerce. Our foods and drugs would be wholly without any form of

adulteration and misbranding.

 

The health of our people would be vastly improved and their life greatly

extended. The manufacturers of our food supply, and especially the millers,

would devote their energies to improving the public health and promoting

happiness in every home by the production of whole ground, unbolted cereal

flours and meals. The resistance of our people to infectious diseases would be

greatly increased by a vastly improved and more wholesome diet.

 

Our example would be followed by the civilized world and thus bring to the

whole universe the benefits which our own people had received. We would have

been spared the ignominy and disgrace of great scientific men bending their

efforts to defeat the purpose of one of the greatest laws ever enacted for the

protection of the public welfare. Eminent officials of our Government would have

escaped the indignation of outraged public opinion because they permitted and

encouraged these frauds on the public. The cause of a wholesome diet would not

have been put back for fifty or a hundred years. And last but least, this

History of a Crime would never have been written.”

 

In hindsight, the cause of a wholesome diet has indeed been put back a hundred

years. The FDA protects and allows numerous adulterations of the food supply,

including: preservatives, chemicals like MSG, chemical-derived food coloring,

highly refined grains, synthetic sweeteners, junk food, genetically modified

food that expresses toxins in every cell, and synthetic bovine growth hormone.

 

 

 

The FDA tolerates animals and chickens raised under horrendous conditions of

abuse and poor health, requiring irradiation to kill germs because the animals

are so pathetically ill and easily infected. The FDA is now considering allowing

cloned animals into the food supply. The FDA refuses to label food in a way that

a consumer can judge important issues. For example, no person would eat

genetically modified food if they had a choice.

 

Every step of the way the FDA protects the chemical companies, multi-national

food companies, and large agri-business companies that produce this trash the

American public is supposed to eat. The FDA stands woefully lacking compared to

the integrity of Harvey W. Wiley, M.D.

 

 

 

In my new book, Fight for Your Health, it is easy to understand the reason for

the subtitle, “Exposing the FDA’s Betrayal of America.” The food quality issue

is one of many issues. Americans are sick and tired of government defending the

profits of industry at the expense of human health and well being. It is high

time we set a course to correct the problems of one hundred years of fraudulent

propaganda and bullying enforcement that serves only the interests of the

wealthy and powerful elite.

 

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