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Termyn8or -> RE: Stevia, as well as my usual slant of course (4/26/2009 3:57:54 PM)
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So far so good. I shaddup and find more people agree with me. About par for the course. Now consider this, where is all the extensive research that made them allow aspartame, saccarine, cyclamates, or for that matter refined sugar ? Even sugar, you know what it does. It pumps the metabolism up which leaches nutrients out of your bones and teeth, and causes a few other problems along the way. If they can ban one, why not the other ?
I bring to the table a new card - olestra. Where is all the testing on that ? What's more olestra was proven to sap nutrients out of your food right in the digestive tract. They did not ban it. I wll not eat anything with olestra in it, and I suggest others do the same.
Now I want to know the rationale behind the banning of stevia, which happened nineteen years ago. I want to know how poisons like aspartame and olestra got approved, and quickly I might add, while this substance needed to be labelled a supplement. In short, I want to know who these suits work for. The chemistry lesson is fine, but that was not the point.
Eventually I think everyone is going to agree, the problem is money. Our FDA does things they execute you for in China, it was in the news. The big problem is what to do about it. On a personal basis, how can we actually steer clear of this crap ? And who knows how many other poisons are lurking in the foods we eat every day.
Right now I want to let it ride. You are showing me that I am not a crazed consipracy theorist, that others CAN see this and therefore it is probably real. I am not going to go into genetically engineered corn which reduces the size of lab animals reproductive organs and they have smaller than average offspring. I am not going to go into the virus they put in milk now which attacks the bacteria which makes it go sour, thus increasing it's shelf life. (they satarted that right around the time I stopped drinking milk, it simply tastes different now)
And I don't want to talk about going out to a farm for raw milk, they will bust you. Bet you didn't know it was illegal did you ? But then we are not to that point yet. Nor are we to the point of discussing why farmers with a big outdoor chicken pen can feed the chickens the old Monsanto mix and call their eggs organic, while another may not because the chickens, though fed an entirely organic diet cannot because they are not given enough "free range" time.
Let's just let this unfold slowly, so we can examine the whoile situation. Sweeteners are in such common use, therefore their effect can be considerable. It is claimed that they want to keep health care costs down, but their actions defy this so diametrically I think few actually believe it. So why is there no action on the part of the public ? The election is over, for better or worse. Can people "sink their teeth" into an issue that could be more important by many orders of magnitude ?
Ya think some sort of public oversight might be in order ?
T
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