I See Another Slippery Slope for More Government Butt-in-ski-ism

This has been going on with the Huckster for quite a while.

Joseph Botwinick

 

Yep. In my district, they lock down the coke machines during school hours. Kids can get their sugar/caffiene rush after school, though.

Those machines paid for a lot of services that don't get funded now.

 

Aspartame. Mmmmmmandating poison for the youths, how sweet it is.

 

What they really want is to get rid of soft drinks and dispense Ritalin from vending machines!

 

Imagine mandating the selling of healthy foods to captive kids* instead of junk! Yeah, what a buttinski


*they generally are not allowed to leave the premises so they are stuck with whatever the schools make available unless they bring it in with them.

You know, don't you, that the whole anti-aspartame conspiracy is co-ordinated by the Stevia industry?

 

Humm perhaps we need to raise the soda drinking age to 21

 

I'm glad tobacco has been stigmatized. I'm allergic to the smoke.

 

Tobacco was stigmatized a long time ago in my family. I was raised to believe it was disgusting and a sin. Never even tried a ciggarete. Seems to have worked.

Joseph Botwinick

 

Although I think smoking is quite nasty, using the reasoning on stigmatizing it based on the fact that a few people are allergic, we need to stigmatize peanuts, laytex, cats, onions, garlic...

 

Apples and oranges.

Your eating peanuts, onions and garlic may affect your breath, but that would not trigger and allergic reaction in me, but your smoke would. Processed foods which contain peanuts & other legumes must be so labeled now - not exactly a stigma. Cats already are stigmatized - people rarely bring their cats into public places.

 

Question:

If daisy and I agree on something, should I hit "report post?"

 

People who write that sort of thing just don't realize how often and strongly I agree with them. I suppose that's because I usually post when I disagree with something.

 

You know, don't you, that the whole anti-aspartame conspiracy is co-ordinated by the Stevia industry? </font>[/QUOTE]No Daisy I didn't know that. Thanks for the info. Did you know that when aspartame hits 87 degrees F it turns to wood alcohol?

Mmmmmmmm, wood alcohol. Can I get a chocolate covered jelly doughnut to go with that?

 

Poncho said...
And to Poncho, in honor of Homer Simpson...

D'OH!!!!

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp

 

Poncho said...

And to Poncho, in honor of Homer Simpson...

D'OH!!!!

You've been hoodwinked!

 

Doh, right back at ya.

The effects of aspartame are documented by the FDA's own data. In 1995 the agency was forced, under the Freedom of Information Act, to release a list of ninety-two aspartame symptoms reported by thousands of victims. It appears this is only the tip of the iceberg. H. J. Roberts, MD, published the medical text "Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic" -- 1,000 pages of symptoms and diseases triggered by this neurotoxin including the sordid history of its approval. [See Video "Sweet Misery, a Poisoned World"]

Since its discovery in 1965, controversy has raged over the health risks associated with the sugar substitute. From laboratory testing of the chemical on rats, researchers have discovered that the drug induces brain tumors. On Sept 30, 1980 the Board of Inquiry of the FDA concurred and denied the petition for approval.

In 1981, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner, Arthur Hull Hayes, ignored the negative ruling and approved aspartame for dry goods. As recorded in the Congressional Record of 1985, then CEO of Searle Laboratories Donald Rumsfeld said that he would "call in his markers" to get aspartame approved. Rumsfeld was on President Reagan's transition team and a day after taking office appointed Hayes. No FDA Commissioner in the previous sixteen years had allowed aspartame on the market.

Dr. Betty Martini has worked in the medical field for 22 years. She is the founder of Mission Possible International, working with doctors around the world in an effort to remove aspartame from food, drinks and medicine. According to Dr. Martini, aspartame has brought more complaints to the American Food and Drug Administration than any other additive and is responsible for 75% of such complaints to that agency. From 10,000 consumer complaints FDA compiled a list of 92 symptoms, including death.

The history of aspartame and its approval has a political history as well as a scientific one. According to Dr. Martini,

"When Donald Rumsfeld was CEO of Searle, that conglomerate manufactured aspartame. For 16 years the FDA refused to approve it, not only because its not safe but because they wanted the company indicted for fraud. Both U.S. Prosecutors hired on with the defense team and the statute of limitations expired. They were Sam Skinner and William Conlon. Skinner went on to become Secretary of Transportation squelching the cries of the pilots who were now having seizures on this seizure triggering drug, aspartame, and then Chief of Staff under President Bush's father. Some of these people reach high places. Even Supreme Justice Clarence Thomas is a former Monsanto attorney. (Monsanto bought Searle in 1985, and sold it a few years ago). When Ashcroft became Attorney General, Thompson from King and Spalding Attorneys (another former Monsanto attorney) became deputy under Ashcroft. (Attorneys for NutraSweet and Coke).

"However, the FDA still refused to allow NutraSweet on the market. It is a deadly neurotoxic drug masquerading as an additive. It interacts with all antidepressants, L-dopa, Coumadin, hormones, insulin, all cardiac medication, and many others. It also is a chemical hyper sensitization drug so that it interacts with vaccines, other toxins, other unsafe sweeteners like Splenda which has a chlorinated base like DDT and can cause auto immune disease. It has a synergistic and additive effect with MSG. Both being excitotoxins, the aspartic acid in aspartame, and MSG, the glutamate people were found using aspartame as the placebo for MSG studies, even before it was approved. The FDA has known this for a quarter of a century and done nothing even though its against the law. Searle went on to build a NutraSweet factory and had $9 million worth of inventory.


SOURCE

Some pretty big names making some real good money forcing this stuff on the market. Enough to even turn snopes into a propaganda site for them.

Who's being hoodwinked now?