Well, the name is FDA - Food and Drug Administration.
Where do any of you see Natural Health or Alternative Medicine in that name?
FDA's job is to adminster drugs and work with pharmaceutical companies (regardless of whether the topic of this discussion is true or not). If people stop taking drugs, those trillion dollar industry goes bankrupt. Do you know how much money government, stock holders lose?

Hoping that FDA would promote natural health is like:
- Medical professionals wanting people not to get sick
- Soda manufacturers wanting people to drink plenty of pure/clean water
- Oil/gasoline industry promoting electric or hybrid vehicles to prevent pollution
- Gun/weapon manufacturing companies wishing for world peace
etc. Get the point?

Professor Paul Zane Pilzer, who was also economic advisor for 2 past US Presidents, wrote a super brilliant book (among his other books) "The Next Trillion" where he gives a very in-depth explanation with examples and proofs about relationship between tobacco, drug, medical industries, FTC, FDA, etc. There is also a CD available for The Next Trillion for those who don't want to take the time out to read this book. Just to mention - Prof. Pilzer was involved in research of addictive materials for tobacco industry in his very early years and he learned & tells us how this addiction is used now since those industries own most of children's food industry, snacks, etc. these days (Kraft, Nabisco, etc. ring a bell?).

Below is a free chapter from this book:
http://www.paulzanepilzer.com/TNT%20-%20Chapter%201.pdf
It's only 15 pages and I highly urge to take 10 mins to read.

This chapter outlines J.I. Rodale's war against Federal Govt regarding preventing him to promote health related issues. After Rodale's death in 1971, lots of new medical 'discoveries' also took place and same physicians who helped govt. to condemn Rodale and his research/books (that were not allowed to distribute) said that they were wrong and Rodale was right.

Below is his website: http://www.paulzanepilzer.com/index.htm

It is upto us, individuals to promote what is RIGHT and not give more attention to what is WRONG - remember Law of Attraction? You activate vibrational energy of the thought where your attention, energy & focus goes to.