"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- From the book, "The Friends of Voltaire," by Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Who will defend the multi-level marketers, then? And who will defend the natural food industry? Who will defend those who would claim that their health products can cure diseases?
No one? I'm not asking for you to die for them, as was suggested, after all. But, I do wonder if you'd even offer your voice for them. Go into the health food stores and read the labels on the bottles. They may say things like, "Helps you sleep better." But, what they really want to say is, "Cures your insomnia." They cannot say "Cures insomnia" even if it truly does cures insomnia. It isn't a question of whether the statement is true, but whether it makes a claim of taking a person from a sick to a well condition with a product not approved and registered with the FDA.
If I understand correctly, natural food items do not need and cannot receive registration with the FDA. So, if the product cannot receive FDA approval, yet it does, in fact, treat a disease, why do we not allow the marketers to say so?
Isn't there a violation of freedom of speech in here somewhere?
Now, as you think on that quote from Evelyn Beatrice Hall, consider also the words of the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech." It says "no law," and yet we have such a law.
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