"Think you can trust the FDA with your health? Think again!"

I treat anything with grandiose headlines like this as fiction. Albiet I don't know enough about any of the details so there may be part fact here but for me the safe option is to treat it as fiction.

No observation will be perfect. It seems rational and uses little inflammatory language. Some I know is true from having a small family farm in the midst of giant agro-industry. (Southern Louisiana sugar cane, corn, and soybean land) my brother freaked when I told him the airplanes were spraying glyphosphate on the corn and beans. He'd wondered how the whole field "ripened" all together and no, it doesn't completely wash off. Glyphosphate (Roundup) is actually not that harmful. But it burst his little "conservatives won't harm us, who would do that?" bubble. Heh.

We do allow harful substances in our food more than most countries do to corporate greed. Even China and Russia ban foods additives that we use. It's kind of sad really but welcome to our capitist Utopia (not).

I think much of it is true. Too much corporate control over regulation in America is leaving us unsafe - IMO that was the point of the story and I agree. I recall other stories related to the issues this story brought up as an omnibus and this story seems to be in fair agreement, but it isn't a science article.

I have read lots of articles like this and a few years ago decided to eat as close to how food comes from nature as possible. I eat less meats, I eat more veggies. I eat organic when I can. I grow some of what I eat. I think you need to be an educated consumer. Humans don't need to drink cows milk.