Is not the Food and Drug Administration too valuable to be terminated by the Liberty amendment?
” The Food and Drug Act came into being in 1907 as a regulatory power to clear up the practices of unscrupulous meatpackers, unsanitary stores, and quacks in the field of medicine. As a check on the purity and safety of the foods and drugs we consume, this agency appears to be within the constitutional intent; but like all political organizations, it has gradually expanded. Without adequate proof or legal justification, it has attacked and prohibited many products that are not the concern of this agency. The constitutionally authorized functions of the Pure Food and Drug Administration will not be affected by the Liberty amendment. Their excesses will be stopped. • “How will Government be able to control labor and business monopolies if the Liberty Amendment removes or limits the regulatory powers of the Federal Government?” It is ironic that so many people are worried about labor and business monopolies, and yet it apparently never occurs to them that the monopolist to fear most is Go
