At 04:35 PM 01/18/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>>Basically, in one post, I blamed the FDA for
>>overregulating supplements and accused the FDA of launching armed raids on
>>healers performing anything 'unorthodox.'  (And by the way, the FDA *does*
>>do this.)
>
>I don't know about the guns, but the FDA did indeed raid a Stevia producer.
>In addition to selling the sweetener, he also sold a cookbook.  Agents had
>the audacity to mark the books, meaning they could not be sold.  Can you say
>censorship?  He got a good lawyer and called the news cameras out and won in
>the end.  But the FDA nearly put this man out of business.
>
>Dori Zook
>Denver, CO

        No surprise but those that head the FDA also have a financial stake at
preventing those things that could benefit your health but endanger their
financial well being. Hmmm.....

Dr. Dave