> Interesting how nobody's found half a rat in a factory that makes actual drugs, as opposed to "officially-not-a-drug" supplements. Heh. You don't quite seem

> Interesting how nobody's found half a rat in a factory that makes actual drugs, as opposed to "officially-not-a-drug" supplements. Heh. You don't quite seem to be getting the argument. Supplements are officially food, and we find pieces of rats in food all the damn time. (Also bits of metal, glass, human body parts, bugs, and every other crazy damn thing you can imagine.) (Related: Food is potentially dangerous, but it's not tested. Again, what makes a vitamin C pill need clinical trials, but food not? Keep in mind, modern "food" is often just the product of a test tube, while many supplements are just lightly processed food (fish oil, for example). What's the difference?) What you need to do is figure out why it's a huge, huge, problem for their to be half a rat ground up in Joe Slob's dietary supplements, but just one of those things for there to be a some rat in his hamburger bun. So far, your argument for why supplements should be treated differently than food seems to consist entirely of "supplements are not food, legalistic tricks notwithstanding." That's...probably not going to convince anyone who doesn't already agree with you. If that's a goal of yours, you might want to rethink. (Also: You keep saying "fraud", but fraud is already a crime. Is it your argument that supplement makers aren't being prosecuted due to some massive far-reaching conspiracy at every level of the government? Or when you say fraud do you have some special definition of the word different than everyone else? Just curious!)