I think it's not right to talk about a corporate takeover of the FDA. It was a corporate project to begin with, so there was nothing to take. Big Food lobbied h

I think it's not right to talk about a corporate takeover of the FDA. It was a corporate project to begin with, so there was nothing to take. Big Food lobbied hard for its creation, wrote the legislation, bought the politicians who rubber stamped it, staffed it with friends and stooges from the start, and immediately leveraged it in their own interest. The FDA wasn't so much corrupted as born that way. I don't know much about the formation of those other agencies so they're probably fine :/.