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"They are patentable, and as such, generate billions and billions of dollars in profits for the companies that manufacture them—and the medical system that distributes them. Herb Quality Ninety-nine percent of the herbs used by American companies do not come from the US. They are imported from Eastern Europe and from many third-world countries such as India, China, and Mexico. Unfortunately, these countries use large amounts of insecticides and pesticides in the growing of their herbs." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Yet, when hospitals focus not on profits, but instead on providing care that helps patients, they often wind up being punished financially. Several hospitals around the country have experimented with integrated, supportive programs for patients with congestive heart failure. When you have congestive heart failure, your heart can't pump blood effectively, and fluid slowly builds up in your lungs." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In 2002, according to Angell, the industry spent $31 billion (14% of its sales) on R&D, compared to its profits, which were $36 billion (17%). More startling is that they spent $67 billion (31%)—almost double their R&D budgets—on "marketing and administration." The industry claims that it spends $802 million on the development of each new drug, a cost that justifies high retail prices. Angell recalculated the cost at about $100 million. In all, and by any measure, the industry invests precious little in R&D, and therefore—despite its public presentation—is not an innovative industry." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Sensing profits to be made, mainstream corporate players have been buying up natural and organic producers of cosmetics and personal care products over the past decade. Clorox Company, a manufacturer of bleach and other consumer products, purchased Burt's Bees, a product line of natural soaps, lotions, and shampoos, for $913 million in November 2007. In previous years, Colgate-Palmolive bought Tom's of Maine, the natural toothpaste and deodorant manufacturer, for $100 million, and L'Oreal paid $1.4 billion for the Body Shop chain of natural product stores." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"As I outlined in Chapter 1, pharmaceutical companies do not make a lot of money from a drug once it becomes generic; they stay in business, keep market share, and grow profits by constantly developing new drugs that can be sold at significantly higher prices while under patent. The second reason for developing these medications was that the drug companies wanted to find medications that eliminated the gastrointestinal bleeding, a serious complication for many patients, associated with the older NSAIDS." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Gunther Enderlein, who published papers on this research in 1921 and 1925, referred to them as profits. Protits are tiny dots in the blood and cells that you can apparently see with any microscope. These dots or colloids of life are virtually indestructible and survive even after the body dies. According to the phenomenon known as pleomorphism, these protits develop or change form in response to a changing condition (acid/base balance) of the blood or cell milieu." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Chapter Four: You Lost Your "Right To Know" "The cosmetics industry has borrowed a page from the playbook of the tobacco industry by putting profits ahead of public health." -Sen. Edward Kennedy, September 10,1997,at Senate hearings on the FDA Reform Bill More than three decades ago, consumer advocate Ralph Nader made one of the first public declarations about how thoroughly the cosmetics safety deck is stacked in favor of manufacturers and against the buying public. "The FDA claims to see great advantages in voluntary [industry] actions ?" - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Thus, the bark was exported at great volume and sold for substantial profits in Europe as a general febrifuge (though quinine is only effective against malaria), and entered into the standard medical repertoire at home and abroad. As the eighteenth century progressed, however, European mercantilism—with its emphasis on creating (or commandeering) markets that could be controlled by a single nation-state—deepened into the beginnings of imperialism." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, this has meant that these companies' previously safe products are in danger of being laced with problematic chemical ingredients as the companies' new corporate parents cut manufacturing corners or try to maximize company profits. As large corporations made similar in-roads into organic foods, they lobbied the U.S. Congress to dilute organic standards so they could use more synthetic ingredients and still call their products organic or natural." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"The pharmaceutical companies made billions of dollars in profits, in part by inappropriate (though legal) direct advertising. Olympic gold medalists Dorothy Hamill and Bruce Jenner did television endorsements for Vioxx. Three Dog Night sang, "Celebrate," to sell Celebrex. Five years later it was all over. Commentators used the label "debacle," "folly," and other synonyms to summarize what happened. Such judgments miss the point." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"It's very tiring. The profits are nickels and dimes, so you need to be able to stay on top of your business. You have to be singularly oriented. It's very tough at all ends of the spectrum, from the owners down to the guys loading and unloading at the docks." Over a hundred thousand trucks deliver goods to Hunts Point annually. In the past, rail was the preferred method of shipping, but trains are no longer dependable. Boxcars get waylaid in Chicago shipyards and it takes days to get them back on track, by which point the merchandise has gone off." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Eking out profits from the constricted pricing margins requires not only high production volume, but a stake in other aspects of distribution. Apple growing today entails vertical integration, with companies simultaneously involved in growing, sorting, packing, storing and shipping. The Grapple was formed in this crucible. With farmers either giving up or branching into different aspects of production, peripheral industries have had to adapt. Established in 1905 by Snyder's grandfather's uncle, C&O Nursery is now the oldest active nursery in Washington, and one of the oldest in North America." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"That means more profits for food companies. Consequently, most of the cuts of meat in supermarkets are from grain-fed animals. However, the meat from grass-fed animals is more nutritious than the meat of grain-fed animals. It contains more conjugated linoleic acid (a component of fat that boosts fat-burning and the buildup of lean muscle mass), more omega-3 fats, and vitamin A. In addition, it has less fat, cholesterol, and calories. Farms that specialize in grass-fed cattle are also better for the environment." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"By 1970, the year before Mitchell's moon walk, Boeing suffered a setback in profits and needed to cut back sharply on staff. Schmidt, along with hundreds of others, was one of its casualties. Boeing had been such a key source of R&D jobs in the area that without the aerospace giant, there was virtually no work to be had. A sign at the border of Seattle read, 'Will the last one to leave Seattle please turn off the lights?' Schmidt made his third and final career move. He would continue on with his consciousness research, a physicist among parapsychologists." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"The answer is: to develop a patentable product that can maximize profits. Natural substances cannot be patented. For example, Vitamin C or magnesium cannot be patented. However, a foreign substance can be patented. Big Pharma's job is to maximize profits for its shareholders. It is much more profitable to promote a patented product than it is to promote a natural product. Remember, anyone can manufacture and promote Vitamin C. Only the company that holds the patent to a foreign substance such as Provera?can manufacture and promote it. PROVERA? Provera?" - David Brownstein M.D., Drugs That Don't Work and Natural Therapies That Do (Get the book.)

"One hundred percent of the after-tax profits from sales of my products go to the Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer. You can purchase products from my retail line—laundry liquid, hand dishwashing liquid, Citrus Sage All-Purpose Cleaner, Citrus Sage Glass and Window Cleaner—at www.imusranch foods.com and at thousands of stores all over the country. • Biokleen (www.biokleenhome.com) • Ecover (www.ecover.com) • Earth Friendly Products (www.ecos.com) • Seventh Generation (www.seventhgeneration.com) • Sun and Earth (www.sunandearth.com) • Planet (www.planetinc." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"While the hot-selling technology companies held little more than a promise of sales in the future, the drug companies were succeeding in real time, making profits at more than twice the rate of the broader market, a feat they had accomplished for two decades. They weren't the high-risk technology companies they claimed to be. They made money even when the economy turned sour. Selling medicines was an odd business. Disease meant money. Suffering brought profit." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In Weizsacker's words: A situation is given, a trend develops, tension increases, a crisis comes to a head, there follows an outbreak of illness and with that, after that, the decision is made: a new situation is created and settles down; the profits and losses [from before] can now be disregarded. The whole functions like an historical unit: turning point, critical disruption, transformation." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"With these organizations in place, the pharmaceutical cartel's control was complete, and tremendous profits were assured. CODEX ALIMENTARIUS In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in "alternative" medicine, with its preference for non-invasive and natural therapies, including herbal supplements. The pharmaceutical cartel saw this coming many years ago. In 1962, a commission called Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "food code") was established by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Since drugs are on patent for a limited number of years, every year spent waiting for approval from the FDA means losing a year of profits. Couple that with the fact that the FDA could now honestly say that, because of cuts, it was understaffed. The answer was essentially legislation allowing pharmaceutical companies to pay the salaries of the staff at the FDA. In 1992, the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) stipulated that a fee (now $576,000) be paid to the FDA by the pharmaceutical companies for each new drug application." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Pharmaceutical and supplement manufacturers have to increase sales and profits, as all businesses must, and they do so in part by developing drugs to treat disease and also by convincing people they need meds to prevent disease or lessen the perceived risk of future illness. The result is that nondisclosure of potentially harmful side effects of the drugs they make has become routine. Unearthing and compiling that veiled or hidden information is the mission of this book." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"TABLE 2 Contextual Differences between Drugs and Nutrients Related to Tests of Efficacy Characteristic Drug Nutrient Profit margin Large Small (access to funds for testing) Patent protection Usually available Usually not available Ethics Placebo controls Placebo controls often acceptable usually unacceptable when outcome involves serious disease F. profits and Patents A." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The cosmetics and personal care products industry successfully created the illusion of public safety, and so long as profits stay high, they will not be too concerned about liability issues associated with harmful ingredients in their products; they feel confident they can always create enough doubt about health claims to avoid accountability in any court of law. Meanwhile, mainstream consumers are mostly content to believe that if the products they use contained threats to their health, the FDA would surely intervene and alert them." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Most of its profits came from Parke-Davis, the subsidiary selling prescription drugs. Parke-Davis had once been an independent company that had grown to be the world's largest drug manufacturer. It was founded in the 1860s, when H. C. Parke and George S. Davis took over a pharmacy in Detroit, Michigan, and expanded it into a small drug company. The two men focused their efforts on selling alkaloids, medicines made from plants. The company's first success was the marketing of cocaine." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In recent years, IBM has shifted its focus from selling hardware to servicing large database systems, where profits are higher. An even better analogy for the hospital industry is a low-margin, high-volume business like personal computers. Dell earns only about c percent profit on each computer it sells, but it sells millions and millions of them. Similarly, hospitals want as many "bed turns," or as much "throughput," as possible in their profitable departments. The best way to accomplish this is to expand the capacity of high-margin departments to increase volume." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In the following years, driven by investors hungry for profits, every major pharmaceutical company strove to outdo Glaxo's success. Gradually a set of selling tactics emerged that came to be known among industry insiders as the blockbuster model. The recipe goes something like this: Focus your money and marketing efforts on drugs for chronic illnesses or problems like heartburn, cholesterol, and depression. The most profitable of these medicines are taken every day and don't cure illness. They only treat symptoms." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In addressing lifestyle issues rather than actual diseases, Prozac vastly expanded its market base and paved the way for a succession of lifestyle-enhancing medications— Viagra, most notably; Lipitor and other cholesterol medications; a series of other psychiatric drugs—which have overwhelmingly driven Big Pharma's profits over the last decade. It worked beyond anybody's expectations. Sales of Prozac hit $2 billion in 1998.4 In 2002, more than 11 percent of American women and 5 percent of American men were taking antidepressants, which amounts to about 25 million people." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "What is not so widely known is that, as a group, psychotherapeutic drugs, along with cardiovascular medications, have been the primary source of Big Pharma's profits over the last two decades. Collectively, central nervous system drugs, of which psychiatric drugs are the primary component, are among the fastest-growing segments of the world market. CNS diseases, which include Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well as psychiatric diseases, are, well, hot. They represent dream marketing opportunities for drug makers, for a number of reasons." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "David Healy calls it a "wholesale creation of depression on so extraordinary and unwarranted a scale" so as "to raise grave questions about whether the pharmaceutical and other health care companies are more wedded to making profits from health than contributing to it."31 To treat the moderately ill before the severely ill sets a terrible precedent. It seems to go against the basic medical ethic: triage. You treat the worst affected people first." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "FDA must start enforcing the law and return to a culture that places public health concerns ahead of industry profits."53 In the drug industry generally, marketing dominates science. The drug companies consistently spend almost double on marketing what they do on research.54 As omnipresent as drug ads on TV have become, expenditures on advertising make up only a very small portion of the marketing budget." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

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