But... let's not acknowledge you're safe from that shortage if you're able to ween yourself off that pharma poison.

Nobody's safe... except those of us that don't take any.

“Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.”

If you have a legitimate disease, you can't simply wean yourself off of "big pharma". As an epileptic, I cannot survive without my seizure meds. I take two medications, used to be one. One of those is made by only one company in the world. There is no patent on it it any longer, so there is no money to be made. If they cease to produce, I'm in trouble. I can't "stock up", due to the new classification of controlled substance (thank you drug addicts). It makes it tough on those that are truly ill. Just sayin'.