NEWS: Vitamins Soon to be Classified as Drugs?

and so the creation of yet another black market begins.

really really scary!! I hope it doesn't happen!!

Well here's a well-written, cool-headed, well-researched article.

This says it all, right there. Thanks, Nick.

overkill

Again, where's the source for this? Do you see a source for this that I missed somewhere? I don't see any evidence, in this article or on any of the pages the author linked to, that gives any supporting evidence for those statements. Even the site he got them from cites no sources whatsoever.

How the hell did this get onto the newswire? Editors asleep at the switch?

More importantly, how did anyone read more than halfway through the damn thing without realizing it's bullshit?

Could we possible stop with this new shitty rhetorical technique of just prepending the word "Big" to an industry name to demonize them?

Oh well. At least this conspiracy theory has Nazis. I hate it when conspiracies forget the key villians.

Fluoride here people, fucking FLUORIDE!!! We must protect "Our Precious Essence".

You know what's wrong? Those plastic bags y'all sell milk in in Canada. Milk comes from juggs, not bags. Gross.

I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.

I pass by rows and rows of pills and potions at Walgreens, Osco, CVS, GNC, etc. If all these products are not made by Big Pharma or Big Chemical, who makes them? Elves?

What the hell does that have to do with anything?


Also, good job vilifying them by adding Big to their title, implying that all large companies are inherently evil. A rational view, to be sure.

SG newswire runs on a very simple principal. Ask three questions.
-Is this story unsubstantiated?
-Is this story reactionary?
-Is this story completely retarded?

If you answer 2 out of 3 with a "yes", then it gets approved.

This one takes a hat trick, so it didn't even get checked for spelling and punctuation before they posted it.

Let's start here...

If you need further explanation:
People act if anything "herbal" fell like manna from heaven and wasn't manufactured for mass consumption in a laboratory inside a for-profit company. "the hell it has to do with anything" is at what point in the ledger does a company pass over from good to evil?

Way to miss the boat on this one. This is old news, and many of the Kickback All-Stars in Washington have been working for years to undermine our access to dietary supplements and foreign prescription drugs, all to support their friends in the pharmaceutical industry that have very deep pockets come election time.

Most importantly, direct your attention to Sen. Ted Kennedy, one of the key players in the longstanding effort to "reform the FDA" by allowing it to use both public and private funds, through a separate new agency, to conduct drug research. This same legislation, which was being hotly fought over this spring, along with several very important amendments to fix the more ludicrous components, had such vague wording that it leaves the door wide open for the government to declare almost any supplement and a great many food products as "drugs" and regulate them accordingly.

I unsubstantiate my own stories, thank you very much.

I thought we established this already?

I can appreciate that based on certain unnamed threads

Yeah, it seems as if half of these posts have a mental block that keeps them from realizing that this entire story is a fantasy presented by a company that sells fucking vitamins!