Good point Catherine. You are right there. On the other hand, "diet" soft drinks often contain Aspartame, a truly deadly neurotoxin, and the FDA does nothing. Millions of people are seriously harmed by it.
If the people choose to empower an entity to review and report on products, with an impartial and clearly defined set of criteria for the evaluation, that is a good thing. The product is said to meet or not comply with a standard. If a legitimately empowered government entity's agents think the people are being harmed by a product, then it should publish the reasons for all to see and place the product on a highly visible and accessible list said to not meet the agreed-upon criteria. Make it mandatory that the vendor place in the sales literature and in manufacturing and sales locations a highly visible notice to that effect. If a producer lies, with the above information being available, then let the harmed party(s) bring an action against the liar, or stop buying the product. The action would fail because the buyer had been warned, screwing the predatory Attorneys as a good side effect. If a producer is demonstrated, or apparently demonstrated, to be making a harmful or ineffectual product, and some people choose to buy and use that product ---for whatever reason---after being noticed, that is the right of both the producer and the consumer. Consider the fluorides in our food, grooming, cleaning products and medicines. Completely approved; yet well demonstrated to be hideously toxic and; and most people gobble them up thinking they are beneficial. We have no right to choose and coerce for another what they believe to be beneficial or harmful. JOH -----Original Message----- From: C Creel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 7:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>FTC seizes Seasilver <<>So should they bust Schwepps?>> Schwepps doesn't represent itself as a health enhancer ; if it did, then yes, they should :-) Catherine -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
