U.S. Military Starts Producing Vaccines: New Billion Dollar Experimental Vaccine Market?

The U.S. military is getting into the vaccine business. And why not? Pharmaceutical companies are desperate to develop new products to recover lost profits from expiring patents on block-buster drugs. Having the U.S. Military purchase vaccines that are not even FDA approved for "biodefense" purposes is a brilliant marketing scheme. Too bad it also subjects our fine men and women in uniform to be guinea pigs in a great billion dollar vaccine experiment! A recently released 122 page report, which was published in 2009 but never released to the media or shared with Congress, states that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is on track to spend billions of dollars "to create flu vaccines and specialized medicines to protect military personnel from germ warfare agents." Wow, what a great market for the pharmaceutical companies! They get to use your tax dollars funneled through HHS to develop new vaccines, and then your tax dollars are used again to purchase those vaccines and distribute to our military, who become basically test lab rats to help them find the next block buster vaccine or drug to unleash on the general population, of whom they have complete legal immunity if anything does go wrong and a bad product gets into the market. It's a win, win, win market for the pharmaceutical industry, and a lose, lose, lose way of life for the U.S. military and American public.

The Military’s Prescription Drug Addiction

The military has spent at least $2.7 billion on antidepressants, and $1.6 billion in narcotic painkillers like Oxycontin over the last decade. According to the Military Times, DoD orders for anxiety medications and sedatives like Valium and Ambien increased 170 percent from 2001 to 2009. By 2009, 1 in 6 active duty service members were on some form of psychiatric drug, including 17 percent on antidepressants. In 2010, a significant Army report on suicide found that in 2009, 20 percent of the active duty force (106,000) had been prescribed at least one medication for pain, anxiety or depression, while prescription drugs were involved in one-third of the 160 active duty suicides that year. Of the 188 accidental/undetermined deaths from 2006 to 2009 caused by drugs and alcohol, 74 percent involved prescription medications.

U.S. Government Wants More Farmers so They Can Join the Military – Not Grow Food

In a recent meeting attended by Joel Salatin, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack stated that it was concerning that rural America now only represented 16 percent of the population, because it gives 40 percent of the personnel to the military. According to Salatin, the USDA goal of increasing the nation's farmers is not about food, healing the land, or stewarding precious soil and resources; it's all about making sure we keep a steady stream of youngsters going into the military.