Hey Randbots....
See this guy?
His limbs are stunted because his mother took the drug Thalidomide.
He's in Wales. One of at least ten thousand children born around the world with birth deformities.
Know why none of you have that problem?
See this woman?
That's Frances Kelsey, receiving the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Service in 1962.
Why is she receiving that award?
Because Kelsey, with the FDA, made sure the agency
did the ******* job we created it to do -- and put up a stop sign, thereby DENYING you the right to be born deformed.
All around the world, Thalidomide was prescribed, sold and produced deformed babies.
That is -- all over the world
except here.
THAT is what FDA does, however minimally. It's the whole reason it exists. It's exactly why the Biologics Control Act was passed to ensure purity and safety of serums, vaccines, and similar products (1902); why the Food and Drugs Act regulating misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs was passed (1906, with the Meat Inspection Act passed the same day); why the GRAS list --which is the issue here-- was established in 1958.
Now your slavishly Randian efforts to champion the rights of Duh People to ingest salmonella and have babies without limbs is admirable in an ideologically obtuse way, but it's also god damned silly.
Frances Kelsey was presented the Kelsey Award, named after her, five years ago. She'll be 101 next month.
The least you Randbots could do is thank her for the fact that you have arms and legs.
Oh noes, that means you'd have to actually acknowledge Da EEBIL GUBMINT got it right. What a fuckin' nightmare.