#Ararara My Band & I are embarking on a France/Belgium and one of our shows will be @FestivalDesLibe
12th of October, 2025
8:30 pm
Théâtre National in Brussels, Belgium
Don’t forget to get your tickets for this show and other shows on this tour using the link in my bio ⬆️
Thanks for your question David.
You think the FDA approves poison?
Let’s walk through how this actually works.
I've worked in industry 20 years.
Every drug, pesticide, and food additive must pass a brutal process.
Not vibes.
Data. Thousands of pages of it.
Want to put something on the market?
You need to prove:
→ Is it toxic?
→ Does it cause cancer?
→ What if someone’s pregnant?
→ What about bees? Soil? Water?
→ What happens at 0.001 mg over 2 years?
That’s just the start.
Who demands this?
→ FDA.
→ EPA.
→ EFSA.
→ ECHA.
→ ANSES.
Who pays for it?
→ Industry.
Why?
Because the law says they must.
No data = no approval. Period.
These aren’t feel-good blog posts.
They’re full-blown studies under GLP, with standardized methods and auditable records.
Rejected? Often.
Peer-reviewed? Yes.
Re-analyzed? Constantly.
Regulators don’t rubber-stamp.
They slice these studies apart.
“But they’re funded by industry!”
Yes. So?
Remove industry studies and you lose 90% of the data regulators need.
Universities don’t have €10M to run 2-year rat studies.
Industry does - because it’s legally required.
And these studies aren’t locked in vaults.
→ They’re reviewed by panels.
→ Published on regulator websites.
→ Summarized in public risk assessments.
You can literally read them yourself.
Throw it all out because it wasn’t written by someone in sandals and a podcast mic?
Enjoy:
❌ No new drugs.
❌ No safer pesticides.
❌ No science-based regulation.
❌ No climate-friendly fertilizers.
❌ No data on endocrine disruption.
That’s not caution.
That’s collapse.
So what’s the point of the FDA?
To take these mountains of data and say:
✅ This is safe under X conditions.
❌ This isn’t - come back with better data.
They protect you - by demanding evidence, not emotion.
Want to make the system better?
→ Demand transparency.
→ Push for open data.
→ Let independent experts replicate findings.
→ Enforce strict standards.
But don’t torch the whole system because you saw a meme.
Science is messy.
But it’s also rigorous.
And the regulators?
They’re the firewall between you and actual poison.
📌 The problem isn’t that the FDA approves poison.
It’s that people don’t understand how regulation works.
♻️Pass it on.
A scientist with 20 years in chemistry?
🧪 “Bought by Big Chemical.”
But a podcast bro selling detox tea?
✨ “Finally, someone brave enough to speak the truth.”
Make. It. Make. Sense. 2/
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