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- Honest Human
  
  This blogger questions conventional healthcare approaches in lucid prose.
- A Quaker Nurse and Her Ramblings
  
  Elderberryjam uses the journal about her life as a nurse to provide insights into deficiencies in the health care system.
- Linda Diane Feldt
  
  This holistic practitioner provides lovely personal insights into healthcare, nutrition, and the business of living.
- The Ethicurean
  
  Lots of food-related morsels from media reports about food.
- The Bovine
  
  Provides coverage of raw milk issues, with special emphasis on Canada.
- Chronic conditions
  
  Entrepreneur and author Pat Sullivan uses his personal experiences to provide sound advice for dealing with chronic health-care problems
- Staying Healthy
  
  Health advocate Mike Adams gets preachy at times, and runs on like a direct-marketing pitchman, but his analysis and advice are right on. His views on how and why the health system are turned upside down are worthy of attention.
- The Free Radical Report
  
  Good common sense about nutrition, money, and life in general from a man who has made his own discoveries about the power of diet.
- Insightful analysis
  
  Mark Schauss does a nice job of getting behind the statistics and studies related to health care. He also shares entertaining insights into everything from sports to garbage.
- Views from a "Professional Patient"
  
  Michael Weiss has much experience with the medical establishment because of his chronic illnesses, and provides lots of useful, and entertaining, information.
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Health and Business Sites
- Weston A. Price Foundation
  
  This foundation is "dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism." It's made a big push to expand legality of raw milk.
- rawmilkparty.com
  
  This site keeps up on the happenings of dairy club owner Max Kane, and his resistance to Wisconsin legal campaign to extract information about raw milk farmers.
- Nutrition Circle
  
  Organized by nutritionists, this site encourages discussion of approaches for using diet and supplements to relieve disease and chronic conditions.
- National Animal Information System (NAIS)
  
  This informative site focuses heavily on the potential problems of the upcoming NAIS regulations, including faulty logic and interference with our liberties
- Raw Milk Facts
  
  This site does a nice job of presenting the pro-raw-milk side, in clear language, with little of the emotion common on other sites.
- Billie Best
  
  This writer-speaker-farmer has written a short book about the politics of sustainable agriculture, available for downloading on his site.
- Family Farms Cooperative
  
  This website came into being with the government's crackdown on the Michigan farmers supplying raw milk to hundreds of members in Michigan and Illinois. Lots of important news here.
- Michigan Raw Milk Crisis
  
  Raw Milk for Me is another site providing ongoing linkages and coverage of the crackdown on raw milk in Michigan.
- Small Farm News
  
  Lawyer Carl Little provides information about the legal and business challenges facing many small farms.
- The Benefits of Grass Feeding of Animals
  
  Learn the benefits of grass-fed meat, including research and other news on food issues.
- Fighting the Medical Enemies
  
  This site by medical ideologue Mark Sirkus is refreshing in its challenges to the medical establishment, though shrill at times.
- Herbs and Botanicals
  
  Well-documented reference information about herbs, from Memorial Sloan Kettering
- Reference Site
  
  Good reference site about diseases, symptoms, and treatments
- Explaining Conventional and Alternative Health
  
  An admirable government-sponsored effort to articulate health-care treatment distinictions
- Center for Studying Health System Change
  
  This site does a nice job of keeping tabs on problems in the healthcare system, reporting on studies and news affecting doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies.
- Got Raw Milk?
  
  A nice introduction to the realities of raw milk.
- The Food Times
  
  This nonprofit news site "seeks to transform our understanding of the modern food system...by gathering and distilling existing food news and information..." Lots of info about CSAs, children's diets, and even, occasionally, raw milk.
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- Tainted Loans, Tainted Food
  
  Tainted food from China has more in common with toxic loans than we realize.
- Got Milk? Get Investigated
  
  The uncercover war against small dairies.
- USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
  
  The story behind the National Animal Identification System (NAIS).
- Old McDonald Had a Farm...And He Got Arrested?
  
  State and federal agencies crack down on small farms.
- Buying Food Fresh from the Farm
  
  As the farm-to-table trend takes hold, farmers see a new business opportunity
- Farmers Say No to NAIS
  
  Three Michigan farmers get ready for NAIS enforcement in their own way.
- A Raw Milk Raid Leads to a Special Thanksgiving
  
  A farmer's "community" comes to his rescue after he is terrorized by state and federal agents.
- The Raw Milk Wars Heat Up in Ohio
  
  Ohio goes after raw milk farmers with a vengeance.
- Retailers Get Caught Up in the Raw Milk War
  
  Retailers who help distribute raw milk feel the heat from local enforcers.
- States Target Raw Milk Farmers
  
  Michigan goes after a farm co-op, with a very heavy hand
- Getting a Raw Deal
  
  California shutters a California raw milk dairy in a vain search for E.coli
- A Federal Blight for Cherry Farmers
  
  The FDA goes after small cherry farmers for letting people know the benefits of cherry juice
- Hormone Battle: Big Pharma vs Small Business
  
  Big Pharma doesn't like women using natural hormones made by small pharmacies
- A Family Outfit Versus the Internet
  
  Standard Process tries to keep its vitamins off the Internet
- A Renaissance for Health Care?
  
  Two young MDs bring a fresh approach to medical care
- A Pinch of Salt with Some Supplements
  
  The damage done by "snake oil" marketing of supplements
- Complex Diet for Small Business
  
  Growing international efforts to regulate supplements

Friday

Jun232006

What Does the FDA Have in Common With the California Medical Board?

Friday, June 23, 2006 at 10:08PM

I've been doing a lot of research involving the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over the last few weeks, in connection with my upcoming column at BusinessWeek.com next Tuesday. I've been struck by a striking similarity between the FDA and the California Medical Board, which I've written about in connection with the medical malpractice claims of Roberto Glaubach regarding the death of his daughter, Veronica, following childbirth. That similarity: arrogance.

I don't want to describe details of my upcoming BusinessWeek.com column, but suffice it to say the FDA possesses near-dictatorial powers over food and drug companies--and isn't reticent about using those powers against law-abiding businesses that lack the resources to fight back. See if you agree. As I said, the column will appear beginning this Tuesday at www.businessweek.com, click on Small Biz along the top.

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