FDA Dupes Interpol Into Illegal Kidnapping and Deportation of Herbal Medicine Vendor

[Oneironaut Zero]

FDA dupes Interpol to achieve illegal kidnapping and deportation of herbal formulator Greg Caton And ya wonder why people don't trust the government.

[StonedApe]

FDA dupes Interpol to achieve illegal kidnapping and deportation of herbal formulator Greg Caton And ya wonder why people don't trust the government. Nah, I wonder why people do trust the government.

[Supernova]

The FDA apparently has a long history of doing these sorts of things to providers of natural, herbal, and alternative medicines. Seems to me to suggest that higher-ups of the FDA are getting big cuts from the pharmecutical industry. Think about it, the pharmaceutical companies can't copyright natural medicine, meaning that natural medicine has the potential to majorly hurt their profits by removing some people's need for their products. As we've seen from how bad the banks screwed things up a couple years ago, American corporations are fine with stepping on the little people to pull in more money.

[tommo]

You'd think Big Pharma would just buy these businesses. Maybe the government can be bought for less than you would think.... hmmmm

[nina]

Great find O...very interesting article, I had no idea such things went on amongst herbalists and the FDA and co.

[Oneironaut Zero]

The FDA apparently has a long history of doing these sorts of things to providers of natural, herbal, and alternative medicines. Seems to me to suggest that higher-ups of the FDA are getting big cuts from the pharmecutical industry. Think about it, the pharmaceutical companies can't copyright natural medicine, meaning that natural medicine has the potential to majorly hurt their profits by removing some people's need for their products. As we've seen from how bad the banks screwed things up a couple years ago, American corporations are fine with stepping on the little people to pull in more money. Exactly. It really sheds a lot of light into the under-handedness of many federal 'issues,' such as why certain things are illegal, while other, more harmful, things aren't. Great find O...very interesting article, I had no idea such things went on amongst herbalists and the FDA and co. Neither did I! I mean, there is always that sort of speculation about it, but people tend to file it away under 'conspiracy theory.' It's stuff like this that really puts it into perspective, though.

[nina]

Most definitely.

[mcwillis]

Well that article has just made me feel really sad.