FDA needs revamping
The FDA was originated in order to ensure that what you bought was what you got.
Somewhere along the way, this got lost, and now there's lots of holes in 'having to reveal' what's in your product, and another bunch of added rules about 'safe & effective.'
It's no trouble for manufacturers to reveal exactly how much and which substances are in their products destined for human consumption or application to the body...the information is easy to obtain using modern analysis.
'Safe' or 'effective' are another thing altogether...levels of something safe for you might kill someone else, and effectivity is difficult to measure, since in few cases is the effectiveness of a compound 100% or definitively established.
Warning labels are important, but get real, the amount of advertising and the emotional responses it produces far outweighs the effect of any warning...that's why we eliminated tobacco advertising.
The vast majority of the cost of soft drinks, water, wine & beer is the cost of convincing you to buy the product. Without advertising, you probably would buy considerably less of these products, and in every case, that would be better for you, me, our environment and the rest of life on the planet.
Capitalism without controls, is mere theft.
We do owe it to ourselves and our society, to prohibit products which simply aren't good for us either individually or as a society. Highly caffienated products in general are not particularily healthy for individuals or society...they promote poor decision making every bit as much as alcohol or other drugs. Such substance abuse needs to be reduced...my Senator or President is permitted by law to make major decisions under the influence of any substance...there are no controls on substance abuse in high office. Does this make an sense at all? The President or Congress can be high as a kite and declare war or taxes, and there's nothing to prevent it.
