In Europe, food manufacturers have signed up to ‘responsibility pledges’, promising no added sugar, preservatives, artificial colours or flavours and not to ...

Sellings poison

    • Tormato [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      #PodestaEmails. Goddamn. And endless trove of unmasked evil.

      The gift that keeps giving.

      All thanks to fucking hero of the century Julian Assange, for being courageous enough to make sure the public could get to see what these sleazy pricks in government by bribery are really doing in the Greatest Democracy In The World(tm).

      So sick:

      In 1985 Monsanto purchased G.D. Searle, the chemical company that held the patent to aspartame, the active ingredient in NutraSweet. Monsanto was apparently untroubled by aspartame's clouded past, including a 1980 FDA Board of Inquiry, comprised of three independent scientists, which confirmed that it "might induce brain tumors." >>> >>>

      The FDA had actually banned aspartame based on this finding, only to have Searle Chairman Donald Rumsfeld (currently the Secretary of Defense) vow to "call in his markers," to get it approved. >>> >>>

      On January 21, 1981, the day after Ronald Reagan's inauguration, Searle re-applied to the FDA for approval to use aspartame in food sweetener, and Reagan's new FDA commissioner, Arthur Hayes Hull, Jr., appointed a 5-person Scientific Commission to review the board of inquiry's decision. >>> >>>

      It soon became clear that the panel would uphold the ban by a 3-2 decision, but Hull then installed a sixth member on the commission, and the vote became deadlocked. He then personally broke the tie in aspartame's favor. Hull later left the FDA under allegations of impropriety, served briefly as Provost at New York Medical College, and then took a position with Burston-Marsteller, the chief public relations firm for both Monsanto and GD Searle. Since that time he has never spoken publicly about aspartame.“

      Bipartisanship is both poisoning healthy kids, who shouldn’t have school-promoted/sanctioned easy access in their cafeterias to junk food and sweets, and conditioning then to life of junk food consumers addicted to exceedingly high and dangerous levels of salt, sugar and fat. The shit I have to push back against that my young kids have access to in their school settings is absolutely appalling.

      Thanks for linking to portions of the #PodestaEmails. Need to be seen over and over.

      But, but…the Russians. They did this (everything). They wanted Trump. Bernie honeymooned in Moscow. Rachel Maddow says they also shut down a power grid in the Midwest.

      GTFO. You fucking disgraceful minion Neoliberal fascists.

    • Not_irony [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Its amazing that no matter how evil I discover cspitalism to be, it endlessly surprises me