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I've known it about the FDA for a REALLY long time. People are only even now waking up to the fact that it's not just pharmaceuticals but food as well. You think the typical "foods" and food additives people eat are safe because they've been "approved" by the FDA? Yeah, keep thinking that. Let me know how it goes for you.

In the meantime, farms that provide *real* food (like raw milk - you know, the stuff our ancestors drank without problem for thousands of years) are being raided by the feds.

If you really wanna see how much the FDA cares about you and your health, go compare the labels on a "food" product (like breakfast cereal) between what is sold in the U.S. and the same product as sold in Europe. Have a shovel ready to help you pick your jaw up off the ground.

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Spent 1 yr in Italy and 3 in Switzerland, and 14 yrs traveling far and wide in Europe, South America, Africa, Mediterranean islands, etc. The difference in food, whether fresh or packaged, is jarring! We are nutritionally backwards in this country, starting from the ground up. We poison our soil, we poison everything we grow in it and then we poison everything we make with it.

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Bingo. And then people wonder why Americans suffer so many health issues.

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And why we’re so fat!

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I'll have you know, I am not fat, but undertall. I should be like nine feet tall.

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I have a similar problem!

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I'm undertall in the midsection.

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Why am I soft in the middle now, when the rest of my life is so hard?

~Paul Simon "Call Me Al."

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Ratios are hard.

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Believe it or not, fluoridated water may play a big role in that as well:

https://curetsky.substack.com/p/pforced-pfarmaceuticals

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Fortunately, I’m on well water or rain water with whole house filters. No fluoride.

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Same!

*clinks muddy glass of water with Judy*

(I kid)

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We don’t need “free” healthcare. We need nutrition and not poison.

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They still use literally tons of pesticides that are banned here in Mexico and South America

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Not in Chile tho, NAFTA ensures that

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827 million,831 million 1.2 billion and 3.9 billion

Tons of pesticide used by USA,EU,Brazil and China respectively in 2019

FYI

(The four largest exporters of agricultural product)

All have their own lists of banned pesticides

Don’t trust the compliance with their own bans in Brazil and China…

And fat people eat too much, period. Calories are cheap and available here, and nature intends for us to gain weight

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you're right

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anecdotally, I never gain weight when I'm in Europe for long periods despite eating huge amounts of food and exercising less than in the US.

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So I should go on the European diet...by moving to Europe...

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not sure it's worth it

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I was in Italy, drinking and eating pasta and pizza and lost weight. Here, I work out like a fiend and eat zero carbs and I can’t lose an ounce.

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when I was in Italy, I hardly saw any overweight people at all. I'm a big eater and I couldn't even handle their idea of a full lunch, course after course. Something's not right.

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The USDA, the Dept. of Ag are just as captured and in cahoots with their counter-parts at FDA.

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Without a doubt! I would love to know what in the Constitution makes the federal government believe any of that is within their purview anyway.

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Well that's an easy one...nada, nothing, nyet, zilch, zero...

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We’ve allowed it to continue because the public either doesn’t know, or many just don’t care or too many just trust federal agencies/government to do what’s right for them, to make them safe. Let's hope more are realizing these agencies could care less about our health and more about keeping their cronies in power and racking in the $$!

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Don’t we know it! Just check out what they’re doing to small farmers, the Amish, and soon to a backyard garden near you!

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I volunteer on a small, organic certified farm. You wouldn't believe the amount of BS regs they have to go through to run the operation. From local town ordinances and building inspectors, to state level regulations, to the 'organic cert' itself. Think the big AG businesses face the same hurdles?

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Of course not! Been following the case of Amish organic farmer Amos Miller in PA. It’s insane what the state of PA is putting this farmer through, especially when you consider the # of complaints & recalls & tainted products from commercial growers/dairy operations. The lawfare is mind boggling!

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They are trying to make 'an example' of the man...as a warning and threat to similar farmers.

Going up to my original thought, the USDA, FDA, CDC and many other Federal level agencies need to just be abolished. No reform, just nixed. Sure, some of the regs/rules might, maybe make sense. So, let the States decide if they want to adopt them. And let the States get the voter feedback if the Legislature starts waffling around or Governors turn to unpopular 'Executive' mandates. Hey...we can dream right?

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1000% agree with you!

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RFK Jr speaks Truth to Power & calls out these very important issues

He should be given authority to be a temporary Tsar overseeing and restructuring of these captured government agencies

Our nation’s health is deteriorating rapidly

It is a vicious cycle where Big Chem Big Ag Big Pharma Big Food Companies can all benefit from poisoning us and our children - we lead the world in obesity, diabetes, pre-diabetes, autoimmune diseases such as Parkinson’s- and our food supply is often toxic intentionally- follow the $$$ circle where one hand washes the other

The Amish are examples of excellent health fur all us to follow!

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I agree.

We do not need to be building back better!

We need to deconstruct. the US govt has too many people on their payroll.

we did not elect these turds..... I still can not figure out how this balloooooned in the past 40 years!

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Never mind restructuring - abolishing would be more apropos.

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The people who are freaking out over Project 2025 would explode if you suggested abolishing regulatory agencies, but I'm with you. Let's get rid of them all.

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I live in an area with lots of Amish, see them regularly in the grocery store...with carts full of white flour, sugar, cans of Crisco, 12-packs of Mountain Dew, Twinkies. I think they're probably not as healthy as everyone assumes.

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My favorite was seeing an Amish farmer spraying his field with the chemical tank and a sprayer pulled by a team of horses.

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Ditto!

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The Amish have enough congenital conditions because of inbreeding to fill twenty medical journals.

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Just hush and eat your cricket powder…

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Have you ever read the FDA definition for "natural flavor"?

Unfortunately, almost everything offered as a "healthier" version of a food product has this mystery ingreduent added.

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I've looked at a lot that the FDA has done. Ever looked into why they took phenylpropanolamine (a *very* effective decongestant) off the market in 2005? One very flawed (IMO) study. https://curetsky.substack.com/p/the-fda-does-not-care-about-your

One. Yet listen to the laundry list of side effects on any pharmaceutical commercial today, and they still remain. Yeah, tell me the FDA cares about your health.

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I have lived in a place far far away where even in mud villages inhabited by the illiterate, everyone boils milk fresh from the buffalo before using it, They would consider anyone who didn't to be a moron.

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I and my family have been drinking raw cow milk for years with no issues.

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You know how the comments sections here and on other friends-of-undeclawed-cats' Substacks have not been empty of readers saying "I took the vax but was sorry later" and when other readers say "what the fuck were you thinking?" the vaxed-but-regretful say "well I trusted...."

Where have they been, the past 50 years? They never heard of the Dalkon Shield, Rely Tampons, morcellators, abdominal/vaginal mesh, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.? Of Vioxx and Celebrex? Of every NYT and Washington Post etc. etc. etc. article every year or so *until* this our Plague Era, advising people to always get second opinions because medical errors are so common?

This is yet one more thing on us, that we failed to burn the house down after the first ten times this happened.

[edited for grammar]

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Destruction makes perfect sense. That which can be destroyed by the truth, should be. There are numerous instances where God ordered his warriors to completely destroy a city and annihilate false idols and everyone and everything in them. Too harsh? Apparently not.

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Reliably just on time, the Bible-thumping.

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Think of it as page-turning to support your excellent point. As gato has brilliantly observed, action taken must be swift and early, with which you surely agree. “you get to keep the rights you will fight for, and the fight must be early and instant.”

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Yes. But let this be an illustration to frequent commenter Kertch, who accuses me of a strange purported obsession in commentary with religions/cults:

Because there is so much Bible-thumping.

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There you go again. You just proved my point.

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No, darling. You proved mine.

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“Burn the house down”

might seem like overkill (LOL) to some, but I like it because we’re far too weak. This is kittengarden-level pattern recognition for me. Your phrase reminded me numerous times warriors failed to follow orders and it came back to bite everyone. I live in a Dem-wrecked, Bloomberg-compliant town and it’s a constant battle here.

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I consider Republican-dominated states like Oklahoma and Alabama to be utterly wrecked too. Adherence to our foundational principles is a step too far for them as well.

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How did that scene in "The Wire" go when McNulty was talking to the attorney? "Everybody just shuts up and keeps getting rich"?

Surely somebody has that bookmarked.

Edit -- Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAZZdL1qhk8

The relevant rant:

"If only half you motherfuckers in the States' Attorney's Office didn't want to be judges, didn't want to be partners in some downtown law firm. If half of you had the fucking balls to follow through, you know what would happen? A guy like that would be indicted, tried, and convicted. And the rest of them would back up enough so we could push an clean case or two through your courthouse. But no, everybody stays friends, everybody gets paid, and everybody's got a fucking future."

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any man with integrity will be driven to drink

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Boxed wine is so economical.

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Or drugs, or both!

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yes!

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Good grief no, I'm in hospital pumped on drugs. They are gross. Stick to wine, beer scotch whatever. Way better.

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*looks in right hand, then in left*

🤔

*thrusts chest, fists on hips, cape flows in wind of giant off-stage fan*

I am Captain Integrity.

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Nice work gato.

Not surprising at all. And I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. What else could we expect when the FDA and manufacturers negotiate user fees while at the SAME time negotiate performance measures....AND proposed changes the FDA has to meet in order to collect the fees?

Here are the performance measure Big Pharma uses to determine the amount of the fees:

1. How quickly the FDA responds to meeting requests

2. How quickly it generates correspondence

3. How long it takes from submission of a new drug application until FDA approves new drug

4. How long it takes FDA to refuse drug....hmmm

Interesting that the user fees keep increasing. Now they are 65% of the $5.9 bil budget.

I mean what could go wrong?!

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And that is a clear problem, a basic and obvious conflict of interest.

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It is. The most concerning to me is number four because that incentivizes "end-runs".

It'd be like a crooked accountant being asked by a client the best way to make tax aversion look like avoidance for a fee...and the fee increasing with how "hairy" the tomfoolery is in order to achieve those ends.

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I was under the federal procurement restrictions for most of my career. Moved back and forth from government to contractor, and back to government. We had no real problems with corruption except for a few bad actors, who were caught. But we were never allowed to work on projects where we had a financial interest in the counterparty — To the point of owning a few shares of stock disqualified you. We couldn’t accept gifts, except for nominal value. We always paid for our own meals and never took travel expenses from an organization that we were not working for. The crap the medical community was doing is just unbelievable to me. We would have had the entire lot up on charges.

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"It's not a conflict if we're all playing for he same team."

*winks, discreetly slips fiver across table, winks again just to be sure*

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Once upon a life I worked with lawmakers. A little more than ten years into a twenty year career a certain especially slimy legislator and I had a brief encounter following a long-simmering contemptuous relationship that was known to leaders in both parties. I had recently blocked legislation he was pushing to benefit his local corrupt donors at the expense of my mom and apple pie client. He had been bad-mouthing me a long time, making my job harder. Beating him should've been enough, but one day I had my fill of his insults and I gloated about beating him and made reference to a particularly scummy thing he had done, MeToo stuff before MeToo was a thing. Thought nothing of it, was in an empty hallway late in the afternoon with nobody else around.

Two days later I was accosted by local journalists covering the capitol asked me to respond to a complaint the legislator had filed against me. I thought it was a joke, was the first I had heard of it. There ended up being a public investigation of the complaint. Ahead of the public hearing I was pulled aside separately by both a D leader I was very friendly with and an R leader I was friendly with. Both telling me the same thing: "I know you want to say what you want to say about him in the hearing. But you can't. The public already doesn't trust us. So we can't give them another reason to not trust us. We have to protect The System." Referring to his MeToo stuff and his dirty money trail.

In other words, "The public knows we lie, are predators, are corrupt. So we have to lie more to protect The System." It never occurs to them that being truthful is the only way to regain the public's trust.

I ended up going right to the edge with what I wanted to say in that hearing, without crossing the line they had warned me not to cross. I was cleared of any wrongdoing, worked many more years with lawmakers before I walked away. He eventually ended up in the crosshairs of an investigation about his MeToo stuff (funny how that happened on its own), was found guilty, paid a public price from it and his elected career ended not long after. Karma. Though it's too bad his dirty money trail never came out.

But I learned in unmistakable terms that The System protects itself first and foremost. No amount of corruption, no amount of scummy behavior, no amount of lies matter. Just don't expose how corrupt, how scummy, how many lies it is built on. Or else "the public might trust it even less." This is truly how they think.

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Ghislane Maxwell was convicted of trafficking children to nobody... 👀 And nobody says a word.

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The behind the scenes provision is the wrong target. The problem with the FDA NIH & CDC is that those employees were allowed to profit directly from their connections to vaccine manufacturers. They could collect royalties and other payments from people and firms that they were supposed to be supervising on behalf of the government. Also, the destruction of emails under subpoena is a crime as is advising someone how to avoid the subpoena. That should be prosecuted. Funding gain-of-function was against the law, but they did it anyway. They should be prosecuted. They committed perjury before Congress. They should be prosecuted.

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The revolving door where those in Congress came from an industry and then served that industry's interests when voting or those in Congress left Congress to become a big wig in a company because they had "insider" information and knew the machinations on how to get the best deal for their new boss has existed for a long time.

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just a head's up that your 1st law is quite similar to a PJ O'Rourke quote... https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/37035-when-buying-and-selling-are-controlled-by-legislation-the-first

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I knew I had heard it before but couldn't remember where! Thanks!

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appeared in Parliament of Whores

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Great Book

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Federal Death Authority.

A friend of mine who has been a serial entrepreneur in the medical device space for many years has told many a tale of this corruption over many a bevvy.

He says that when he began in this field a couple decades ago, you could get a medical device through the regulatory maze for a few million in seed and series A funding, but that now it requires a minimum of a hundred million to do it.

This, of course, severely limits both what organizations can afford such an outlay, and thereby severely limits innovation in the market to those that are close to a "sure bet", both in terms of market acceptance, but to a greater extent on the prospect of regulatory approval.

This is just one sector and the tip of an enormous iceberg. Like every government program, it is nothing more than a scam to enrich the rulers and their cronies at the expense of the rest of us.

It is difficult to even conceive of how much more healthy and prosperous we would all be without the Federal albatross stifling creativity and stealing, one way or another, the capital needed to nourish it.

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This leaves such a bad taste in my mouth.

My sister and I both went to nursing school.

I did my stint for a few years in a hospital, hated it. It is like a hotel for sick people hahah haaa...

I went in to private ortho surg practice and never looked back.

My sister went straight to NIH -- she worrrrrshiped Collins and Fauci.

Every one that works there is a zombie too.

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30 yrs in Pharma. 30 yrs this has been the play book. Probably been happening since original FD&C act....presently, I see nothing on horizon positioned to change this.

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And that's why I chose long ago to regulate my own Pharma.

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Preventing this kind of thing is one of the agenda items in the much-feared Project 2025. Not an endorsement, just an observation.

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The corruption has certainly run deep these past four yrs. it is evident to everyone accept those who refuse to look.

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Wait till the vaccinated, really start dying off, this DNA altering process that they injected into the believers, will make them very angry, but their anger will be focused not on the government, or the pharmaceutical industry, but only on the ones who refused to get the JABB!

Because that’s who they are.

They can never be wrong, or apologize for their mistakes.

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It appears every aspect of the government and its related bureaucracy is primarily engaged in stealing taxpayers blind and passing on favors for cash. They had to first make budgets unnecessary , lump everything into a big omnibus bill, and print money to keep from really pissing off the taxpayers. They now steal more than can be paid by tax alone.

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It's soooo nice that the agencies were also allowed to interpret federal law and establish their own actions based on their misguided and corrupt interpretations under the Chevron deference case precedent. Totally clear that all this time the filthy foul fiends in bureau rat offices were lying, cheating, grifting, and abusing every office every day. Nobody in America should ever trust anyone at any agency ever. The bureau rats are disgusting from top to bottom and deserve no respect and no pay. Screw this evil system and everyone who works for it. Scum.

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Yup

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