FDA FAIL!

Before I begin, let me forewarn you, this post is full of reading "homework," so I apologize for that. If you're not interested, just skip it. :)

Apparently the FDA has forgotten its purpose. Please hop over to the address below, this is the FDA's mission statement. Their whole entire purpose is to protect us from toxic crap.
http://www.fda.gov/aboutfda/whatwedo/default.htm

HERE, you will see a descriptor of propylene glycol. A substance added to shampoos, cosmetics, and sprayed on the outside of your bread to prevent spoilage. Oh, and did I mention, ANTI-FREEZE. Nice. Oh, and it causes kidney damage. The FDA allows this. Non-toxic? I think not.
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/substances/toxsubstance.asp?toxid=240

Here is an article about parabens. I know, it's not really known how harmful parabens are. The blogpost below is pretty thorough. And this is my view on the subject, even if I didn't write it.
http://chemicaloftheday.squarespace.com/most-controversial/2011/3/17/are-parabens-natural.html

Okay, and finally, here are some other foods that contain ingredients that are not listed on the packaging.
http://www.veganproducts.org/sugar.html
http://www.healthyeatingadvisor.com/food-labels.html
http://www.healthyeatingadvisor.com/geneticallymodifiedingredients.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/033162_food_ingredients_chemicals.html

Now, I do realize this is a lot of outside-my-blog reading... But if you're interested at all in this subject, you'll find these interesting.
Let me summarize the above information for you.
The FDA was created to, and still claims to, protect the public from toxic or hazardous substances in our medicines, food, cosmetics and other products. It not only is failing to do so, but is blatantly doing the opposite. Please note, I am a hard-core capitalist, and am NOT saying the FDA should be making everything ILLEGAL. It's a company's right to put poisonous crap in their products if that's what they want. What I AM saying is that the FDA should be informing people about what they're consuming, and make it illegal to put an ingredient in a product without it being stated on the label. Foods that are genetically modified should be so-labelled. Foods and cosmetics that have been treated with toxic chemicals like chlorine, or parabens, should be labelled. Why do they force cigarette companies put horrifying pictures on their packaging but not a diseased kidney on a product containing propylene glycol?
White sugar made from can sugar consistently contains cow bone char, but it's not labeled so! If you are vegan by moral choice, your white sugar probably contains an animal product! It's sick. This subject literally makes my stomach turn because I (and you, too) will never be able to fully trust that a product is as-labelled. I'll never be able to tell if something really is "all natural" "kosher" "vegan" or "organic." Because there are no hard guidelines for what those terms MEAN. How can we be voting with our purchases, encouraging our local stores to provide healthy, natural, chemical-free products if we can't even trust them to be providing the information to MAKE those decisions?
The FDA has failed us all.