One example of this is the push to sell an industrial lubricant, back in the 1950s -- Crisco, pure transfats -- as a better-than-butter foodstuff. Cardiovascular Disease was being blamed on animal fats supposedly clogging our veins.
What most of us don't have the time to notice is that replacing natural animal-sourced fats with either transfats or vegetable oils (which tend to go rancid and cause inflammation, to a greater degree than animal fats), which has made the problems of heart disease even worse and created a new "need" for statin drugs, which have created more new opportunities for selling drugs.
But all these drugs are ignoring the real causes of the problems they pretend to solve! The natural ways still work, but we are led by the FDA/CDC to believe they are secretly dangerous, though they can't show us the scientific proof (as we see in their hate campaign against kratom().
The latest example of selling us a drug that the CDC and FDA tell us our children must have, is the push to vaccinate kids in their prime with the Human Papilloma Vaccine (HPV), which is creating terrible side-effects and some deaths (which the drug-promoters -- who have a financial conflict of interest -- deny).
Read Dr. Mercola's analysis of the "Manufactured Crisis" for which the HPV vax is the recommended solution.
When we learn to see these paterns of driving us into doing what they want us to do (because it profits them and their friendly industrial supporters), we can save ourselves a lot of pain and grief later in life.
This is why I find the battle for our right to use herbs like kratom is so important. It is waking the average American to the diet of lies we've been fed for the profit of our corrupt federal agencies and their industrial "partners-in-crime".