So much hand wringing over the recent studies endorsed by the FDA that alcohol is unhealthy for human consumption!

My questions are these:

What has the FDA done to lead us to believe that human health is their priority?

Why does the wine industry care what the Fed says?

Like Julie Andrews taught us in The Sound of Music, “Let’s Start in the Beginning, it’s a very fine place to start”

Commercial advertisements are littered with FDA approved products that cause dastardly health results labeled as “side effects”. The goal of the FDA appears to create life long dependencies using semi-toxic drugs, where the answer to one drug is another, compiling unwanted contraindications. The evil villain in this scenario is the FDA itself. The FDA is in fact akin to a sinister drug dealer character in New Jack City veiled in the form of the medical industry fostering revolving dependency and a deepening set of medical issues created by the consumption of these sanctioned drugs.

What all citizens of the world desire is freedom of choice. To this end, Charles Bukowski told us “Find what you love and let it kill you.” Could anyone say they love the pharmaceuticals they are taking?

Many segments of the population do love to celebrate and gather together to share a great bottle of wine.

This is the essence of the story that the wine industry needs to tell. People love their friends and their families. They love to celebrate the joys and milestones of life. Wine’s story in these moments remains a semanal part of our cultural story. It isn’t for us in the wine industry to fight the fallacy that the FDA has any part of our medical health in mind when giving its opinions on what is and isn’t healthy. Frankly, no one much wants to indulge in the discussion of what may kill us, because as Mr. Bukowski wisely told us, life is a terminal condition, and it is for us to choose with what we fill the living moments of our celebratory dance around the sun.