Quotes about Big Government from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
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 "A spate of "natural cure" books have looked at some of the marketing practices of the drug companies, the power of the food companies and Big Pharma, and the porous influence of these huge conglomerates on agricultural policy and on the FDA, and these books and authors have concluded that it's all a great big government conspiracy to keep you from knowing what you need to get yourself well and to stay healthy and out of the medical system. That the big evil people in government and in power don't want you to know the truth."- Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
 "While I am extremely cautious by nature about the role of big government in anything, I do accept the report's recommendation for the Department of Health and Human Services to play a vital role in developing consumer access to safe CAM practices. Due to the urgency of the healthcare situation in America the federal government should create a new office of CAM to facilitate
the integration of these therapies into the country's healthcare system."- Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.) |
 "It's just another example of the arbitrary nature of big government.
At that point, Congress introduced more than fifty bills to stop the FDA from taking action against saccharin, and it passed the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act of 1977. This kept saccharin on the market but required a warning label: "Use of this product may be hazardous to your health. The product contains saccharin which has been determined to cause cancer in laboratory animals."- Marion Nestle, What to Eat (Get the book.) |
 "Holmer decided he could win on one count: populist inclinations against big government. As the organization had done in the early 1990s, when it campaigned against Bill and Hillary Clinton's health care plan, Holmer drafted two unlikely characters to make his case in the media: Harry and Louise, the smart-talkin' seniors on a mission to protect America from a government that seemed bent, in this case, on "getting into my medicine cabinet." Holmer spent millions on the campaign."- Greg Critser, Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies (Get the book.) |
 "But in one way we are living in a condition of virtually a corporate dictatorship in which big government and big industry decide what information the consumer can have. It's the object of the Cancer Prevention Coalition and my personal objective to ensure that this information, which has been buried away in government and industry files, which vitally affects our lives, our health, our welfare and those of our children and our families be made available to the public and let the public decide. And I think the market place should take over where government has failed."- Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) |
 "It's best known for an aggressive TV and newspaper campaign against adding drug benefits to Medicare that featured "Flo," who warned against letting "big government" into her medicine cabinet. The group could raise and spend unlimited sums, without disclosure, as long as it didn't directly intervene in an election—such as by endorsing a candidate.10"13
The group was founded by Tim Ryan, former marketing director of PhRMA, the industry trade group for drug manufacturers. According to The Wall Street Journal, he did so at the "behest and expense" of major drug companies."- Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
 "They immediately proposed, in the name of escaping "big government," to dismantle the social programs that had been constructed over the years since the New Deal.
The victorious Republicans claimed a "mandate" from the people for their program. But it was hardly that. Only 37 percent of the electorate went to the polls, and slightly more than half of that had voted Republican. If anyone had a mandate, it was that 63 percent of the population which seemed alienated from a political process dominated by two unpopular major parties."- Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (Get the book.) |
 "Sadly, big business and big government have usurped their impossible dream. Old-fashioned whole soy foods that contribute to health if eaten in moderation have given way to ersatz products that lead inevitably to malnutrition and disease. Gigantic corporate farms and billion dollar soybean-crushing and food processing plants have driven out small farmers and cottage industries. The result worldwide is an epidemic of disease in humans and other life forms mirrored by a malignant increase in pollution and overall damage to the planet—a kind of cancer on the body of Mother Earth."- Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, The Whole Soy Story: The dark side of America's favorite health food (Get the book.) |
 "It could be undertaken in a political climate of anarchy or under government sponsorship, though I reiterate my point that the post-peak oil predicament is liable to render big government dysfunctional and impotent. I would be more concerned about what might happen on the local and regional levels, and I will discuss that later. Military aggression against other nations is another probability, essentially resource wars, and these are already under way. How long the United States can keep it up is a big question mark."- James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "This is exactly the kind of problem against which central government as we know it would prove ineffective, as big government will be subject to the same encumbrances of scale as big agriculture or big business, while the competency of government to redistribute wealth is always questionable—and in the Long Emergency, land will be wealth. If government does attempt to reallocate land on an emergency basis, it might only foment a resistance that would threaten whatever remaining legitimacy it had." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) |
 "This is why the FDA and the FTC and big government want to suppress information about natural remedies; it simply will cost them money. Remember, it's always all about the money. Can you see why I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore!?
Use of Books. Another way drug companies increase the sales of their drugs is to pay millions of dollars to doctors, alleged experts, who in fact, are paid spokespeople for the drug companies. These experts then write books about the health benefits of certain drugs."- Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.) |
 "Americans who are skeptical of anything that smacks of big government fear that a universal health plan would restrict personal freedom. But the market system already has done that. Those with health insurance often can go only to physicians or hospitals approved by their plans, unless they are wealthy enough to pay the fees out of their own pockets. Many Americans fear that it would cost too much, even though the market system already has given the United States the world's most expensive health care with little to show for it."- Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) "To discredit the single-payer idea, insurers, HMOs, for-profit hospitals, and other private interests play on Americans' long-standing fears of big government. This view was summed up by Susan Pisano, a vice president of the American Association of Health Plans, who contended in 2002 that a single-payer system "would lead to the creation of a large federal bureaucracy that would be less responsive and actually raise issues of cost, access and quality more than it would solve them." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.) |
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