Yet another nail in the coffin of the right wing loon machine meme about how if we only removed the regulations that hinder the magical free market everything will be alright.
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"GNC-brand bottles of St. John's wort, touted as a cure for depression, held rice, garlic and a tropical houseplant, but not a trace of the herb."
"In fact, DNA testing on hundreds of bottles of store-brand herbal supplements sold as treatments for everything from memory loss to prostate trouble found that four out of five contained none of the herbs on the label."
So ONCE again, we are shown that the right and libertarian teatards are clueless and in fact there is NO such thing as "over regulation"! (note -poorly written or administered regulation are a different subject and the shifting of that goal post is often used by the right to muddy the waters) There is ALWAYS a reason why regulations are created! And the reason - powerful, multi billion dollar companies like scum mart will use any tactic to rip the consumer off as much as possible! It's not bad enough that they're taking advantage of the uneducated who buy into the whole herbal remedy crap - fine there is enough info out there that buyers should know better. But to make a few extra pennies, they cant even bother to put the useless herb they promised to sell you and fill the bottles with what - grass clippings from the front lawn?.
http://ift.tt/1zLLHST
"GNC-brand bottles of St. John's wort, touted as a cure for depression, held rice, garlic and a tropical houseplant, but not a trace of the herb."
"In fact, DNA testing on hundreds of bottles of store-brand herbal supplements sold as treatments for everything from memory loss to prostate trouble found that four out of five contained none of the herbs on the label."
So ONCE again, we are shown that the right and libertarian teatards are clueless and in fact there is NO such thing as "over regulation"! (note -poorly written or administered regulation are a different subject and the shifting of that goal post is often used by the right to muddy the waters) There is ALWAYS a reason why regulations are created! And the reason - powerful, multi billion dollar companies like scum mart will use any tactic to rip the consumer off as much as possible! It's not bad enough that they're taking advantage of the uneducated who buy into the whole herbal remedy crap - fine there is enough info out there that buyers should know better. But to make a few extra pennies, they cant even bother to put the useless herb they promised to sell you and fill the bottles with what - grass clippings from the front lawn?.
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