"Risky drugs" & Animals

by Jim Beers

Mrs. Schlafly's fine article (Free trade in risky drugs, 15 Feb.) paints an
accurate and dismal picture of the situation today wherein China produces
most of the drugs and drug ingredients sold in America. The problems
associated with this from razorblades to toxic poisons added to the lack of
American quality assurance (30 FDA inspections last year of the 6,800 +/-
foreign drug facilities, no unannounced foreign inspections, no FDA
translators, no FDA foreign inspection specialists, inadequate registration
of foreign facilities, and now Chinese research facilities to conduct stem
cell research and cell-engineering) are only part of this somber outlook.

Interested Americans need to be aware of the recent and continuing transfer
of millions of dollars of animal testing on billions of dollars of new and
improved drugs that is likewise being transferred to Chinese "laboratories".
No, not because of ":free trade" or "capitalism": it is leaving the American
economy and American quality assurance because of the current overwrought
American animal attitudes fostered by the Animal Welfare Act.

This Act, like the Endangered Species Act and the Wilderness Act et al, has
been expanded for 30 years. The growing and all but absolute Federal role
to "protect" first chimps and rabbits has now expanded even to rats and mice
and all but shut down any reasonable animal use for human benefit. The
British testing companies that fled animal rights thugs and criminals that
assaulted them and harassed their families in Britain are now joining the
American drug testing refugees in fleeing to China. All of this is in the
name of being "humane" while endangering humans.

Like the cries for felony charges for allowing chickens owned by others to
fight, or cries for double jeopardy for someone convicted of dog fighting,
or government closure of horse slaughter facilities across the nation
despite the wishes of owners to sell to them and horse product users to buy
from them. This unnoticed drug quality shift of manufacture and quality
testing quietly belies radical changes in our society far beyond the matter
at hand. American animal adoration is endangering all of us as well as our
children and the future of the United States as a free republic that was
once the envy of the world and the dream of oppressed people everywhere.

Jim Beers
15436 Eagle Tavern Lane
Centreville, VA 20120
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- Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Centreville, Virginia with his wife of many decades.

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