Originally Posted by
MrTroy
"When he asks is it worth it?" on drug research and standards, he says no. I say YES. If all of the sudden Food and Drugs were no longer regulated, than some really shady stuff would go on. Obviously the point of a business is to make a profit. Now if you were a food company, say McDonald's, and you could get away with using below USDA Grade A beef, which, with no regulation, would not exist. So without the USDA we wouldn't even KNOW that they were using low quality beef. McDonalds buys low quality beef to save 25% on their bill for beef.
Now this beef may carry more disease and other nice things associated with low quality crap, but doesn't really taste different. More people might get sick here and there, and who knows WHAT is in the beef. Same thing with drug ingredients, instead of testing a drug for 10 years, they see some good results after 1 year, and decide to push it to market. Who knows if the ingredients in the drug will cause cancer, to cause pregnant women to lose their baby, to have 10% of men have a drop in testosterone levels, to have 8% of people die of a heart attack from the drug.
I just don't trust drug and food makers to do the HEALTHY thing when it comes to their product if there was no regulation. I would hate to see the factory conditions of some food factories if there was no government health standard.
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