Fact vs. Fiction: what the FDA and pharmaceutical companies & lobbyists want you to believe is not the truth!

I am taking a little break in my top ten essential oil countdown so that I can present this article that I read today. The summary being that the FDA wants to call anything that claims to help cure/prevent illness (which is undisputed and scientifically proven, like green tea and cancer or walnuts and prostate tumor growth or cherries and arthritis/gout or now EOs and Ebola) a "drug," requiring that these foods and supplements go through crazy amounts of expensive testing, for which the manufacturers fees would never be recouped. Meanwhile, they have no problem giving drug companies carte blanche on raising dosage on drugs with erroneous claims that said new dosage will help their clients in any way, when in reality, the prior doses were about to go generic, hence the actual reason for change. I, for one, find this behavior by an organization that should be about protecting the American public an outrageous betrayal, and it again shows that the 1% truly rule our "free" nation... http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/fda-targets-essentials-oils-see-eos-as-threat-to-new-ebola-drugs/

Also, this article: http://www.naturalnews.com/047016_ebola_treatments_warning_letters_unproven_cures.html# I guess I should be reassured that the "natural"/holistic/alternative medicine community is speaking out. I just doubt it will lead to any real victory for some time...