After 30 years in the construction industry, I have had lots of opportunity to observe that the beginning of a building is more important than the paint and carpet. Yet the “paint job” is all that most people really focus on. How did we ever get along before the UBC (uniform building code) came along? Why are building that were build a 100 years before the UBC of excellent quality and still in use? What can the natural, organic, whole foods industry learn from this example?
The current socialists solution for a poorly built building (something that is not government business) is force everyone into an expensive government regulation programs of more bureaucracy, more community approval of “land use” of private property that does not belong to the community and numerous permits, fees, inspections and various “quality” tests, all of which only serve to drive the price up and the quality down. Yet, expensive and badly built building are being finished and sold everyday. We must observe and avoid Government intrusion into the natural, organic, whole foods industry.
I am concerned that this same incompetent, socialists, bureaucratic forcefulness will soon be imposed upon the natural, organic, whole foods industry which will regulate it to the point of uselessness. Historically private business and free enterprise have been more than capable of regulating themselves and this is precisely what the natural, organic, whole foods industry must do.
For example the FDA assures quality in the prescription drug business in the USA. Yet Dr. Julian Whitaker reports that “Experts estimate that adverse drug events actually number in the millions and prescription drugs are responsible for more than 100,000 deaths per year.” Nutrients on the other hand have no reports of fatalities. We don’t need to fix the natural, organic, whole foods business with more government regulation because it is not broken! Private enterprise is better at regulating itself.
If you find this to be a strange though then consider the following. UL (Underwriters Laboratories Inc.) is a private business that specializes in testing and qualifying products and equipment. If your product passes the UL standard and gets a UL stamp it meets a very high quality requirement. The UL approval is more desired than government approval and means something much better. We see the UL on products every day.
The same concept could be applied in the natural, organic and whole foods industry. Why ask for the oppressiveness of big brother is we don’t need it? Again we can take care of ourselves and have higher quality. We need to take responsibility for ourselves and appose all attempts by government to regulate our natural, organic, whole foods industry. All the Government will do is add a very expensive “paint job” over a sand foundation of oppressive regulations to our industry which will do nothing to make it what it ought to be.
Senior Editor & CEO, Harvest Source Whole Foods Journal
Darrell W. Ross is a Graduate of Idaho State University with a BA in Art. A consummate energetic business man for over 40 years in a broad diversity of family business ranging from Construction, Excavating, Tree Service, Federal Contracting, Real Estate, Property Management, Retail, Organic Whole Foods Distribution, and Publishing. Darrell is very happily married to Marcia his wife of 39 years and mother of their six Home Schooled children and currently resides in Burley, Idaho with Marcia and their two youngest Zachary and Caroline.
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