More aspartame sneaking
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Dear Friend, Right now, in the midst of a major childhood obesity epidemic, the giant dairy lobby is trying to force the federal government to redefine “milk” to include artificial sweeteners such as aspartame in children’s school lunches without proper labels. So instead of chocolate or strawberry milk with sugar, high fructose corn syrup or some natural sweetener, Big Dairy now wants to replace that with aspartame in our children’s milk and pretend it’s a healthy choice for you and America’s children and keep this all a secret by not requiring proper labels! Aspartame has a long clouded history, with fraudulent science submitted during the original FDA approval process, links to mood alterations including anxiety, agitation, depression, headaches, insomnia, and memory, learning problems and seizures and brain tumors. And not surprising, the company that created by aspartame was bought by Monsanto in the 1985. In 1999, Monsanto admitted to using genetic engineering of bacteria to create aspartame, which is now used widely as an artificial sweetener in diet soft drinks, chewing gum and diet foods as a sugar substitute. Tell the FDA not to cave to Big Dairy - Keep improperly labeled Aspartame out of our milk! I http://action.fooddemocracynow.org/...cCdx&source=taf |
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How Aspartame Became Legal - The Timeline This seems especially pertinent: Quote:
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They can't put undisclosed aspartame in milk. It could make someone with PKU very, very ill.
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You speak as though Monsanto cares. |
The law is allowing for artifical sweeteners to be put in milk and still call it milk instead of "dairy beverage" or some such. It will be labeled with ingredients like any other chocolate (or other flavor) milk label. In fact I recently was thrilled to find chocolate milk at the store made with Splenda (prominently labeled). This is not a battle that LCers should fight. Are you trying to get all diet beverages sweetened with aspartame pulled off the shelf too?
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LCer's won't fight it, we just marvel at the hypocracy of the Dairy lobby. Others cannot use "milk" in the name of their product if it contains non-dairy additives, but BigAgraPharma companies can.
We want to make sure all the unnatural additives are included in the ingredients list, not hidden. |
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I don't think it's that a lot of us want to fight something that is sweetened with aspartame, it's that we want to know exactly what's in our food. |
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They might when a class action lawsuit is leveled at them. |
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Well of course, that would cost them money |
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Right, and all ingredients will still be labeled even with this law. So I don't understand the problem? Here's the actual information from the Federal Register, not the partial infomation from the Food Democracry Now website: https://www.federalregister.gov/art...-dairy-products And lest you all think I am some Monsanto shill, I certainly am not. I am a big fan of local, organic, pastured foods. But for LC to work for me, I cannot eat only those foods, so I do use artifical sweeteners, as many low carbers do. With this change all ingredients will still be listed on the ingredient list, period. We are all very used to reading labels I am sure. |
I know they can be sneaky about adding it. Did you see all those big campains when they added it to your regular gum? Yeah, me neither. They didn't change the labels either, though it is added to the ingredients. I only realized it because aspartame makes me sick. If they add it, but don't put something to that effect on the label, do you read familar items every single time you ingest them? Someone with PKU could get very ill or die.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/life/...eet eners.html
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I'm not really sure aspartame is all that bad for most people. But the idea that its inclusion should demand a health claim is kinda weird. This isn't really reduced calorie milk, it's just milk that calories haven't been added to. But... if industry wants to get rid of this... it sort of does look like they're hoping people won't notice the food's got artificial sweeteners (or at least that the kids won't notice, if their parents buy them this stuff). |
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