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Food Chain Radio Show #1117
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Split the FDA into FA and DA?
Guest: Dr. Renee Dufault Author, Unsafe At Any Meal
Something is not right…
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Should the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) be split into the Food Administration and the Drug Administration?
Over the past 40 years, American men have lost 59.3 percent of their total sperm count, and continue to lose their count at the rate of 1.4% per year.
Over that same 40 years, the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder went from 1 in 2,000 to 1 in 42 boys and 1 in 189 girls today.
During the past 15 years, the rate of people dying from Alzheimer’s disease in the United States increased by 55%.
And…
Though the U.S. has only 5 percent of the world’s population, it consumed 54 percent of the pharmaceutical drugs introduced over the past four years…
What is not right?…
Fingers point in all directions as to why things are not right, and continue getting less right.
Some point to the bad things that have been allowed into the Standard American Diet (SAD) by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), including heavy metals like the mercury used in the processing high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and the glyphosate weed-killer used to grow most of America’s principal commodity crops.
And in pointing out what has been allowed into the SAD diet, and how the sales of pharmaceutical drugs is expected to exceed $1 trillion dollars in the next few years, some people point to a possible conflict of interest at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
And they lead us to ask…
Leave a comment below: Should the Food & Drug Administration be split into the Food Administration and the Drug Administration?
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