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Vitamin

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(Big Pharma)

Vitamins are organic molecules that are essential to an organism in small quantities for proper metabolic function, naturally occurring in food.[1][2] The production of synthetic vitamins, added to food or sold as pills, is controlled by a cartel of Big Pharma/ Big Chem corporations.

Food fortification

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Slide from a 2001 NASA presentation "The future of warfare circa 2025" lists vitamins as a possible agent for untraceable biological warfare.[3]

Fortification is the practice of deliberately increasing the content of one or more micronutrients (i.e., vitamins and minerals) in a food or condiment. According to the WHO, fortification is used "to correct a demonstrated micronutrient deficiency in the general population (mass or large-scale fortification) or in specific population groups (targeted fortification) such as children, pregnant women and the beneficiaries of social protection programmes."[4]

Vitamin pills

Half of all American adults—including 70 percent of those age 65 and older—take a multivitamin or another vitamin or mineral supplement regularly.[5] Big Pharma is ambivalent about it, "while the likelihood of harm is small, the likelihood of a clear health benefit is also very small—and also we have no clear proof yet of such benefit.[6]

Gates Foundation

The Gates Foundation high interest in delivering doses of vitamin A in Africa, though not by giving them more actual food, except as an acceleration of "future large-scale food fortification and biofortification'.[7] In 2014, it was announced that research backed by the Foundation could offer a new solution to the problem of vitamin A deficiency by creating modified gut bacteria.[8][9]

Official opposition narrative

Vitamin pills are also big business for alternative health care providers.[10]

Problems with both narratives

In 2001, 13 of the world's largest pharmaceuticals companies were fined a £534m for operating an illegal price-fixing cartel on the supply of vitamins throughout the 1990s, to ensure that consumers paid over the odds for vitamins used on their own and in products such as cereals, biscuits, drinks, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.[11]




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