"Think you can trust the FDA with your health? Think again!"

I treat anything with grandiose headlines like this as fiction. Albiet I don't know enough about any of the details so there may be part fact here but for me the safe option is to treat it as fiction.

No observation will be perfect. It seems rational and uses little inflammatory language. Some I know is true from having a small family farm in the midst of giant agro-industry. (Southern Louisiana sugar cane, corn, and soybean land) my brother freaked when I told him the airplanes were spraying glyphosphate on the corn and beans. He'd wondered how the whole field "ripened" all together and no, it doesn't completely wash off. Glyphosphate (Roundup) is actually not that harmful. But it burst his little "conservatives won't harm us, who would do that?" bubble. Heh.

We do allow harful substances in our food more than most countries do to corporate greed. Even China and Russia ban foods additives that we use. It's kind of sad really but welcome to our capitist Utopia (not).

I think much of it is true. Too much corporate control over regulation in America is leaving us unsafe - IMO that was the point of the story and I agree. I recall other stories related to the issues this story brought up as an omnibus and this story seems to be in fair agreement, but it isn't a science article.

The article makes broad alarming claims without letting us evaluate the evidence for those claims ourselves (no citations). It's one thing to say "linked to cancer", but without explaining how that was tested or the numerical results, we cannot deduce the significance.

Also, BST does not keep cows in lactation. Keeping cows bred does. BST increases milk production, once in lactation. One blatant falsehood like this makes me doubt the article even more.

It IS true that in other regulatory environments (EU, Japan, etc), food additives tend to get banned that are allowed by the FDA. The writers just undermined their own credibility to an extent that somewhat casts that in doubt, which is too bad.