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The FDA needs to be eliminated because it does not regulate anything for our benefit. If anything, it allows companies to poison the populous legally. For example, Oxycontin, prescription drugs, GMO foods, products with fluoride in it, are ALL approved by the FDA. Prescription drugs are one of the worlds largest killers. GMO foods have health risks that we are not fully even aware of yet. Companies like Monsanto use their lobbying pull to push these products through and actually even change the patent laws, to be able to patent genetic modification. The point is, that it plays favorites, just like all the other agencies. On another note, specifically medicine, there are thousands of drugs waiting FDA approval that could save people's lives that are being driven away because of government cronyism. People are actually dying so these scumbags can corner the market and increase their revenues. Cannabis would erode much of the prescription medicine, cotton, food, oil, and reform the automobile industry, hence, why its illegal. The FDA is raiding raw milk facilities and raw milk farms for our "safety," costing small families and businesses a lot of money and pain. Certain drug companies have strongholds on certain medicines and work with insurance companies, partially funded through federal government spending and keep out better, cheaper, and more effective medicines. Its not whats right or wrong, its about monopolization and eliminating competition.

The regulation would fall into the market place... the root of your argument IS correct. It is not in a companies self interest to poison its consumers. Its in their self interest to keep you healthy, satisfied, and buying their products. To think that the FDA is only form of anything that could "regulate" such things completely lacks imagination or faith in humanity. We need to embrace the "I dont know" because what we do know is that what we're doing ain't working.

Competition, free markets, independent product certifiers, individual responsibility are what we need, not more centralized power