Monday, September 21, 2009

What's the deal with the FDA???

You can't watch TV these days without being inundated by (prescription) drug commercials, tauting "cures" for anything from a limp dick to various pulmonary conditions! If you pay close attention, you actually understand some of the warnings that usually end the commercials, with some speed talker trying not to get his tongue in a knot.

Seriously, people! Who in their right mind would ever want to take a medication that has so many side effects?? And they all do!!! Not sure about you guys, but if there is a risk of "serious side effects, even death that has been reported" I'm not putting that in my body! (Thank God I don't have to worry about having a limp dick! LOL) I have yet to see a commercial that does not warn about some sort of side effects associated with their product...what gives??? And why in the hell does our Food and Drug Administration approve the use of these drugs???

I guess this goes back to the pharmaceutical companies lobbying on Capital Hill. Once approved, then they wine and dine the doctors, giving them incentives to prescribe THEIR medications.

Same goes for food...milk produced by growth-hormone injected cows, the meat from cloned animals, pesticides used on the vegetables, the list goes on! You don't have to be a scientist to know that this can't possibly be good for you!!! Is it really a wonder that one third of our population is considered obese??? That cancer and other serious diseases are running rampant?? Diseases that increase the need for heavy duty medications! Which in turn will increase sales for the pharmaceutical companies! Wake up! No one cares about what's best for the general population...it always comes back to one thing...MONEY!

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