It has convinced millions that the providers of food and medicines who thrive on healthy, living customers will sicken and kill those customers unless the FDA stops them. When supplying food and medicine to hundreds of millions of people, accidents are inevitable. Some people are going to get sick. A few will die. Creative and imaginative people have found ways to greatly reduce those tragedies.
Businesses build their success on living, breathing, healthy, happy customers.
The bureaucrats at the FDA build their empire on sickness and death. If businesses are secretly poisoning their customers, mere exposure is the most potent cure. Let the customers know that they are being poisoned and they will take care of the problem. The fleeing customers and the lawsuits they leave behind will decimate the deadly business far more effectively than will a bunch of bureaucratic regulations. Private rating organizations and aggressive investigative reporters seeking sensational stories are far more effective at exposing wrongdoing than are armies of bureaucrats.