
Originally Posted by
Atomini
Guys... it is one thing for a supplement company to market a product and claim the following types of claims:
"Proven to cure cancer"
"Cures AIDS"
"Re-grows limbs"
It is another thing for a supplement company to make the claim:
"Gets you ripped and 20 lbs. of extra muscle in just 15 days"
The FDA would step in with the former claims and say "hey, unless you can definitively demonstrate those dubious claims of curing those debilitations, you're going to have to pull those claims from your product labels, or we'll pull your product from the shelves". False claims of being able to make you ripped and huge in record time is not something that is as negatively impacting as claims that it would cure cancer.
In any case, when it comes to marketing... the USA (and Canada where I live) are both countries that pride themselves on FREE MARKETS. That means I totally support a company making false claims of getting ripped and putting 20 lbs. of muscle on people in 15 days, and I totally support their right to make those claims EVEN THOUGH I DON'T LIKE IT. By absolutely NO MEANS should the government ever have the right to step in and say "remove your claims from the label or we're banning your product because of those claims". As people have already posted, where do we draw the line? How many claims about other things outside of health and fitness have been made by companies that are as equally as retarded? Teeth whiteners? Scratch remover wipe-on solutions for cars? As-seen-on-TV gimmicks that don't work as they advertise? Acne products that don't work as advertised? All of these companies are free to make their claims and make their sales pitches (and rightly so!). If someone is a stupid enough fool to believe them and buy into them, that's their fault. Those people are not being forced or pressured into buying these things.
I don't want the government "stepping in" to things any more. The government has "stepped in" to too many things 40+ years ago and it has only gotten worse year after year ever since. And this has transformed the population in the western world into this dumbed down stupid population unable to think critically that has been brainwashed into thinking that the government should "step in" and do everything for them, take care of them, make them a better person, etc. and as this attitude of "GET THE GOVERNMENT TO STEP IN!!!!" continues, the essence of personal responsibility will continue to dwindle until you live in a "father knows best" state where the government is making ALL the decisions for you.
Don't believe me? There are countries like that that currently exist. One of them is called North Korea, just do a youtube search on "inside North Korea", and see how fvcked up the people living there are. The government over there controls EVERY GOD DAMN ASPECT OF THEIR LIVES.