Tastemaker

I was riveted last night watching Dateline's expose on illegal prescription drug manufacturing. Apparently China, the land of Perfect Prada Purse, (as well as India and some other countries) is also home to knock-off Pfizer (et al) pharmaceuticals. I am truly alarmed by these 'labs" that copy brand-name drugs down the to the tamper-proof, FDA-encoded sticker at the literal expense of people's lives for big profits. The most horrifying part is that these phony pharmaceutical companies are not substituting sugar and water for the active ingredient but rather using things like the chemicals that make up drywall or the yellow dye used to make highway dividing lines...in other words: poison! While the rampant peddaling of fake Viagra does not solicit a whole lot of sympathy from me, evidence has shown that drugs like Lipitor, used by people to treat high cholesterol and Norvasc used to treat high blood-pressure are being tampered with. Most alarming of all is that Tamiflu, the drug produced by Roche Labs of Switzerland for the much talked-about Avian Flu (of which, in the 10 years since it was 1st discovered in humans, only 124 people in the world have died) is also being copied.

Makes you wonder if big-Pharma isn't actually behind this mass-murder scheme scaring millions of people around the world and forcing them to believe that the reason they are paying a bazillion times more than it actually costs for their presciptions is to guarantee their safety. Others speculate this is the newest way for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to infiltrate Western society. Seems like a conspiracy theory far too grandiose to actually be able to control yet nonethless I find myself at a loss for what to do and whom to trust. Any ideas??