Tweet
It seems in today's world that it's not enough to research the products we use, to make sure they're safe, and that we're getting good information on them. There are crooks, liars and con artists around every corner. In both government and the private sector. Now we have to research the actual research itself it would seem. Doing background investigations on CEO's and high profile employee's, hoping to find hidden agenda's and 'good ole boy connections'. Finding an honest company today is like trying to find the needle in the haystack, particularly in the health and medicine fields.
Money Corrupts - If there were ever two words together more truthful then these 2, I'd like to know them.
I was researching vitamin brands today because of the popular show Dr. Oz. On his show he had a leading "expert" on from a company called ConsumerLabs, who states they test over 95% of the supplements we all use today. They charge a fee of $30 annually (sounds fair) to see their reports on what supplements are the best, average and of course the ones that "we should avoid at all costs". Wow, that sounds great. A company that is the peoples watchdog so to speak. They make it out to be they are calling out some of the large phama companies and giving us the straight answers. After all, that's how they make their money right, we pay the annual fee to see their reports after they've done "extensive" testing on these supplements. THINK AGAIN. Turns out, they are double dipping on us. They take payments from phama and supplement companies for "favorable" reports, even though their products are not any good. And it turns out, many of the companies that did not pay a fee to them, made their "avoid these companies" list. That is straight up blackmail. They also don't even have an actual lab where they do testing. They outsource to different smaller labs and don't even have any information on how they audit these labs or even what constitutes a good lab from a bad lab. They just figure it's a buzz word that American's trust. Oh, it was tested at a lab. That means the results must be accurate. It also turns out their CEO worked for the FDA and seems to have learned all the 'good ole boy' tricks and connections. He and his company are not the least bit interested in giving you the straight answers (the one's you are PAYING for). Nope, he's just a straight up crook and a lair, only in the game to make his profit, at the cost of your health. Sound familiar?
We know American's are much more sicker today then years ago. Yes, our lifestyle is a huge reason why, but I can't help but to the think we are also being lied to and cheated at every turn when it comes to seeking health advice, medicine and yes, even supplements. One tries to have a positive attitude and outlook when it comes to this, but that fight is getting harder and harder every day. For every good company or elected official, there seems to be 2 or 3 that are bad eggs.
We may be a sick people, but our corporations and our government is even more sick then we are. What a disgrace.
America - the land of the free (and the greedy)
Money Corrupts - If there were ever two words together more truthful then these 2, I'd like to know them.
I was researching vitamin brands today because of the popular show Dr. Oz. On his show he had a leading "expert" on from a company called ConsumerLabs, who states they test over 95% of the supplements we all use today. They charge a fee of $30 annually (sounds fair) to see their reports on what supplements are the best, average and of course the ones that "we should avoid at all costs". Wow, that sounds great. A company that is the peoples watchdog so to speak. They make it out to be they are calling out some of the large phama companies and giving us the straight answers. After all, that's how they make their money right, we pay the annual fee to see their reports after they've done "extensive" testing on these supplements. THINK AGAIN. Turns out, they are double dipping on us. They take payments from phama and supplement companies for "favorable" reports, even though their products are not any good. And it turns out, many of the companies that did not pay a fee to them, made their "avoid these companies" list. That is straight up blackmail. They also don't even have an actual lab where they do testing. They outsource to different smaller labs and don't even have any information on how they audit these labs or even what constitutes a good lab from a bad lab. They just figure it's a buzz word that American's trust. Oh, it was tested at a lab. That means the results must be accurate. It also turns out their CEO worked for the FDA and seems to have learned all the 'good ole boy' tricks and connections. He and his company are not the least bit interested in giving you the straight answers (the one's you are PAYING for). Nope, he's just a straight up crook and a lair, only in the game to make his profit, at the cost of your health. Sound familiar?
We know American's are much more sicker today then years ago. Yes, our lifestyle is a huge reason why, but I can't help but to the think we are also being lied to and cheated at every turn when it comes to seeking health advice, medicine and yes, even supplements. One tries to have a positive attitude and outlook when it comes to this, but that fight is getting harder and harder every day. For every good company or elected official, there seems to be 2 or 3 that are bad eggs.
We may be a sick people, but our corporations and our government is even more sick then we are. What a disgrace.
America - the land of the free (and the greedy)
Comment