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This is one of the key questions those opposed to Bill C-51 which is currently going through the Canadian Parliament are asking. Do you want your Government, or even worse the Drug Companies to do so. Do you want the Drug Companies to dictate and also manipulate you into increasing their profits?

It is not just medicines, but the actual food that you eat that they are doing this to. Our government has recently set up a body to decide of the drugs that are being manufactured are fit for their purpose and also cost effective. Some of them have been turned down and people with the disease they are said to help have protested and in some cases have won.

One of those opposed to C-51 put a completely different slant on this. She asked if the Bill would shut the loophole that they drug companies had found so that they had circumvented the prohibition that said they could not advertise. And being able to do so had informed those with the disease that they had found a cure, but it was being denied them.

All drugs start out as plants, someone by one means or another finds out what a plant can do i.e. keep one healthy, cure disease, etc. But then the drug companies either get their hands on it or even worse, find out themselves and search for what they think is the active ingredient(s), so they can extract it manufacture it add other things and then charge the earth for it.

There are documented cases where they have found something but haven’t been able to extract what they want and have sat on it because they cannot make money from it. But the drug companies are not the only ones who behave in this way.

With the discovery of what genes do arose the possibility of combining them and producing what has been called Genetically Modified (GM) Food. Our Government wanting people to eat this, but not to know that they had done so until it was too late persuaded some farmers to grow it. But they had ignored our Soil Association at their peril. They naturally found out and protested, but to no avail. So they went public and after members of their association destroyed them on the grounds that they were putting their crops at danger and the courts said they had not broken the law in so doing other farmers were much less eager to grow them.

Another player in this field is supermarkets. They campaign to open a store in a certain area no matter how many other supermarkets there are there and in most cases they are allowed to do so, but people are fighting back and protesting against this. Others, myself included, have voted with our feet and refuse to buy perishable foods, such as meat, fruit, vegetables, etc from them. But this is only possible, if like me, you have private shops selling these things near you and or Farmers Markets. I am fortunate in having both.

Everything arises historically, one person, or a group of people see a need, want to solve a problem and does something about it. Others get in on the act