The food supply across America is littered with thousands of toxic chemicals, with much of the food being sold in the retail marketplace being banned in other countries.
Big Ag and Big Pharma gets away with peddling toxic products, raking in countless billions as the nation becomes more obese and prone to chronic illnesses.
This system may be changing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as head of HHS but not quickly enough, and opponents of the Big Ag/Big Pharma monopoly are still in the crosshairs.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been waging war for years against health supplements that help people lose weight and regain control of their health, and they have targeted Jared Wheat, President of Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals Inc., with brutal lawfare tactics over the course of decades.
While most supplement companies and their owners are reluctant to get into a messy battle with the federal government, Hi-Tech and Jared Wheat have refused to back down – believing that the people should be able to make an informed decision on what they put into their bodies without government interference.
As a result, Hi-Tech has had millions of dollars worth of its supplements seized by U.S. Marshalls who are now targeting Wheat with a dubious criminal prosecution in an attempt to get him to fold.
Under the Biden administration, the FDA upped its crackdown on the supplement industry, taking popular products off the market and attempting to strong-arm the sellers out of those products out of existence.
The FDA has claimed that DMAA, a popular workout supplement used by millions, is inorganic and its usage can result in health complications and deaths, but Wheat disputes their claim that his products cause any health problems.
Wheat points to the fact that DMAA is naturally occurring within geraniums and is a dietary ingredient grandfathered as legal under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.
Hi-Tech has also pointed to a dozen peer-reviewed studies on the effects of DMAA, and none of these studies have demonstrated any safety concerns. Wheat states that no adverse reactions have been reported from any of the DMAA products offered by Hi-Tech after selling 100 million doses of their DMAA supplements.
Laura Brophy, spokesperson for leading nutrient resale outlet GNC, confirmed that Hi-Tech products “are safe when used as directed,” and that GNC would never have carried them if they were dangerous.
“There is…no scientific/medical evidence that demonstrates any causal link between DMAA and any adverse medical condition, let alone a death,” GNC stated.
Amidst the lengthy and multi-pronged legal battle between Hi-Tech and the FDA, federal authorities began looking into avenues in which they could fabricate charges against Wheat.
They have attempted to claim that DHEA, a steroid hormone precursor sold without controversy at retailers nationwide, produced by Hi-Tech contained illegal Schedule III anabolic steroids.
The amount of Schedule III anabolic steroids detected by the FDA in DHEA provided by Hi-Tech was in the parts per million, an infinitesimal amount.
This is an inevitable byproduct of the synthesis of DHEA, and every similar DHEA product provided on the market tests similarly.
However, none of those other DHEA providers have been investigated, much less charged while Wheat received a criminal indictment for dealing anabolic steroids.
“They could not get us to stop selling DMAA in the civil arena, so they go in and file…an indictment…for red yeast rice and DHEA,” Wheat said.
“Nobody has ever been indicted for DHEA or red yeast rice in America until me. If they are going to charge me with friggin’ red yeast rice, then you’re going to see Walmart and Walgreens, CVS, GNC and everybody else.”
As a result of the lawfare initiated by the FDA against Hi-Tech, over $19 million of their products and raw materials have expired and are unsellable in the marketplace.
This is how overzealous federal prosecutors use the process to punish individuals who refuse to submit to their coercive tactics, regardless of whether they are guilty, hoping that they will fold under the intense economic pressure.
These are the types of abuses that the Trump administration was elected to bring to an end.
In order to make America healthy again, the FDA’s war on alternative health and dietary supplements must come to an end. It is time to end the persecution of Jared Wheat and Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals and remove impediments to alternatives that can defeat Big Ag and Big
Pharma’s stranglehold over public health through free market competition.
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