“Risky drugs” & Animals
Mrs. Schlafly’s fine article (Free trade in risky drugs, 15 Feb.) paints an accurate and dismal picture of the situation today wherein China produces most of the drugs and drug ingredients sold in America. The problems associated with this from razorblades to toxic poisons added to the lack of American quality assurance (30 FDA inspections last year of the 6,800 +/- foreign drug facilities, no unannounced foreign inspections, no FDA translators, no FDA foreign inspection specialists, inadequate registration of foreign facilities, and now Chinese research facilities to conduct stem cell research and cell-engineering) are only part of this somber outlook.
Interested Americans need to be aware of the recent and continuing transfer of millions of dollars of animal testing on billions of dollars of new and improved drugs that is likewise being transferred to Chinese “laboratories”. No, not because of “:free trade” or “capitalism”: it is leaving the American economy and American quality assurance because of the current overwrought American animal attitudes fostered by the Animal Welfare Act.
This Act, like the Endangered Species Act and the Wilderness Act et al, has been expanded for 30 years. The growing and all but absolute Federal role to “protect” first chimps and rabbits has now expanded even to rats and mice and all but shut down any reasonable animal use for human benefit. The British testing companies that fled animal rights thugs and criminals that assaulted them and harassed their families in Britain are now joining the American drug testing refugees in fleeing to China. All of this is in the name of being “humane” while endangering humans.
Like the cries for felony charges for allowing chickens owned by others to fight, or cries for double jeopardy for someone convicted of dog fighting, or government closure of horse slaughter facilities across the nation despite the wishes of owners to sell to them and horse product users to buy from them. This unnoticed drug quality shift of manufacture and quality testing quietly belies radical changes in our society far beyond the matter at hand. American animal adoration is endangering all of us as well as our children and the future of the United States as a free republic that was once the envy of the world and the dream of oppressed people everywhere.
Jim Beers
15 Feb. 2008
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