Pharmaceutical Profit

I haven't written in awhile. It isn't that I have nothing more to share with you, I'm simply exhausted --I've been back at work since mid October and these last weeks have been full time. I'm completely spent. Regardless, I read an article today that made me go completely mad, so I thought I'd share my thoughts about it with you. In fact, it is the perfect example to illustrate one of the subjects I've been wanting to talk about: prevention. I'll write about the anti-bacterial stuff next time.

If you've read my previous posts about chemicals, toxins, engineered foods, cosmetics and their devastating effects on our health, you might be thinking it's completely ridiculous. Why would our government not regulate or remove these toxins from all products, if we ingest them on a daily basis? Good question. Why isn't smoking illegal then? Or pesticide use? It's the same reason our government is considering adding cancer-fighting chemicals/ingredients to junk foods to counter the cancer-causing chemicals/ingredients they contain, instead of simply removing them. You can read today's Canada Post article to learn more.

Here's the situation. Like with the plastic industry, the pharmaceutical industry is very influential on an international scale, and has a lot riding on us getting sick. Think about it. There is an exuberant amount of profit to be made in drug and treatment development and licensing. Hell, my anti-nausea meds during chemo was 18$ a pill! Cholesterol meds, cancer treatments, heart disease meds are all very expensive if still under patent. There is no money to be made in prevention. That's all I'll say about it tonight, but I'll discuss it again is future posts. If you're skeptical, I encourage you to do your own research. But I promise, soon you'll be hearing parties who have vested interests in drug development crying about "the conspiracy against medicine".