The FDA & Drug Companies

The FDA is the Food & Drug Adminstration, a government entity set up to protect us mere "meaklings" from the horrors of, well, bad food or pharmaceuticals.

Since 1992 it has accepted payments from the larger "pharmies" to accomodate the 'fast tracking' of clearance of certain drugs.

Since 1992, the pharmaceutical companies have concentrated on "lifestyle" medicines, the ones more likely to make them a larger profit - and which are easier to advertise on television - rather than ones that address serious medical problems.

The FDA is complicit in this, basically accepting 'bribes' by another name.

It's similar to having all your local thieves, burglars and rapists funding the local police station in return for not being arrested.

It could only happen in America - where money appears to be a million times more important than people's health.

Guess what? It grips my shit