Hell, when it really comes down to it, they don't surpress things like psychedelics or stem cells, either. In so far as the FDA is involved at all, it's in following mandates from congress. Those things are suppressed as a matter of policy that's much broader than the FDA.

You can burn a lot of calories and get a lot of vitamin D from cutting the head off of a beached whale. The FDA is terrified of how this is not patentable.

Exercise suppression is delegated to car-brained urban planners who design single-zoned suburbs without sidewalks where the only way to get exercise is to explicitly make it a consumer activity by driving to a gym to uselessly walk on a treadmill

It's more about not promoting their positives.

The sun is shining but no shadow is cast.

There’s also some alternative medicine grifters trying to claim stem cells can cure anything. (What they call stem cells is basically just taking cells from people’s right arm and injecting it into their left arm).

Actual stemcell therapy is revolutionary for a few illnesses but doesn’t change much for the rest. But some alternative medicine grifters are trying to capitalise on the hype the name has.

I’m guessing Kennedy believes in the grifters, whose “therapy” has been rejected FDA approval because the is no evidence it works at all.

Yes, pasteurisation is generally regarded as a massive breakthrough for a reason

Even worse, farms that don't use things like antiparasitics can allow for milk to transfer parasite eggs, and sometimes live parasites, in the milk. Behind the Bastards did a great episode on the beginnings of the Pure Food and Drug Act, and one of the incidents that was mentioned was that occasionally, before large-scale pasteurization, you would get milk that was literally writhing with worms.

You're welcome for that thought just before lunch.

Yeah, raw milk being in this list is just weird.

Isn't it a drug from the 50s? The patent would have expired decades ago.

I do an annual camping trip with a big hike to a fairly high point in the area. Most years the group and I will take a small dose of psychedelics. It almost feels like some sort of pilgramage. The fresh air, the wind through the trees, the accomplishment of the hike, the exercise, it is all great and the psychedelics just seem to bundle it all together.

I agree, but neither should we be selling it in the supermarket.

Of course, there's a huge range of options between those two.

The problem with that is that they're gonna murder their children (and other dependants) with this shit.