October 2, 2023
Dear Senator Merkley:
Thank you for your letter of July 7th about diversity and inclusion. You’re right, every kid should be allowed to participate in sports, but at what cost? I support Riley Gaines in saying this is wrong to allow boys and men to compete against women, and use their locker rooms. Why then can’t all men with disabilities compete against women?
Perhaps, on this issue we can agree to disagree.
However, I am writing about a far more important issue, an issue that effects everyone. Are you aware that there is a fraud being perpetrated on the American people by the processed food industry and the FDA.
It’s time to divide the Food and Drug Administration into two separate departments, the drug pushers from Chicago, New York, and new jersey, and the people who actually believe in consuming safe, healthy food.
Wen I moved to Oregon in 1998 most people, including the media, were always looking for a natural cure, whenever possible. Now it seems like the media and the government only talks about solving this problem with a man-made chemical solution, in between their non-stop drug ads.
We know Senator Merkley that when a man-made chemical is created with the best interests of people in mind, we can feel good about progress. But when the motivation is strictly financial, we need to be protected by the government from what processed chemicals are being put into our food. But this isn’t what’s happening at the pharmaceutical-controlled FDA, where apparently there’s a belief that most man-made chemicals are good for us.
The truth is, using natural ingredients is more costly to the corporation’s bottom line. the FDA and most Democrats and Republicans in Congress appear to be completely controlled by Big Pharma, and here’s the proof.
Not until the evidence was so overwhelming did Congress stop Big Tobacco from advertising their highly addictive products, especially to kids.
It took decades of scientific evidence to convince our leaders that the companies that produced this deadly product needed to be sanctioned. but the fines imposed were fairly insignificant, when compared to the damage Big Tobacco did by lying.
But Big Tobacco didn’t stop there. They decided to invest in processed food. So they created highly addictive snacks that were extremely unhealthy and hyper-palatable (that tasted good). In other words, by removing the nutrients and fiber, and by including mostly carbohydrates, trans fats, salt, sugar, and other addictive chemicals they could get people, especially kids, to eat this crap. And once again, it appears as though Congress is unwilling to do anything to protect us.
Looking back, it’s a sad part of our American history that we have allowed our federal government,, along with the tobacco industry and the alcohol industry, to arbitrarily decide to make a fairly safe drugs such as marijuana illegal, comparing it to heroin and meth. While today this same government allows children to be poisoned with processed food and these harmful legal gender-bending drugs, that sterilizes and psychologically damages kids forever.
The sad truth is, selfish greedy minds usually prevail in our unrestricted capitalist system. The dutiful Pharma whores on both sides of the isle made marijuana illegal and said it had absolutely no medical benefit. And even today the politicians and bureaucrats still won’t admit the government was wrong and remove marijuana from Schedule One.
Please take steps to separate the FDA into two agencies so we can once again eat safe food.
Thank you for your valuable time.