Well, Galz n' Ghouls - our friend, Elizabeth Lucas-Taylor DID it - sent me an email with a link, about - ASPARTAME - one of my favorite RANTS!

So, here, about three hours later, is the result.

N.B. - Nota Bene - if AD WRAPS all of this AGAIN -
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE!

If you can't read it easily - complain to MATT!

I WILL NOT WASTE MY TIME ANY MORE!

Dr. Mercola's Comments: (from website)

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/3/11/one-woman-s-astonishing-experiment-with-aspartame.aspx

The fact that aspartame is endorsed by the U.S. FDA as a safe product, and is recommended by many doctors as a good alternative sweetener in lieu of sugar is enough to make you go speechless with rage.

But I’m not known for being shocked and dismayed into silence. Instead I wrote the book Sweet Deception. If you or your loved ones drink diet beverages or eat diet foods, this book will explain how you've been deceived about the truth behind artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose -- for greed, for profits ... and at the expense of your own health.

The book took several years to write and I had five physicians work on it full time. It is the most comprehensive book on the market addressing this issue. I had to be very careful as the makers of Splenda had their NY law firm write me a 30-page long threatening letter telling me they would sue me if I published the book. It has been two years since the book was published and no lawsuits yet. I guess they realized when you tell the truth it is difficult to prevail in any litigation.

There is so much evidence showing aspartame to be a potentially deadly agent that several prominent, well-educated doctors and even judges have written books on the subject. H.J. Roberts three-pound tome Aspartame Disease -- An Ignored Epidemic is another must-read if you’re anywhere near the fence on this issue. Dr. Roberts' excellent article Aspartame Disease -- An FDA Approved Epidemic is also posted on my site.


Biochemical Warfare Agent in Your Food Supply

Does it make sense that what was once listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent is now an integral part of your modern diet?

That’s exactly what happened with aspartame – it’s the poster child for unconscionable greed coupled with political power that may run as deep as the CIA.

That aspartame is a profitable business should be no surprise. As an example, the Maryland-based biotech company Genex Corporation went from reporting $14.3 million in revenues in 1985, to a paltry $2.8 million in 1986 after they lost their aspartame business.

Genex had been one of the main suppliers of aspartame up until October 1985, at which time the NutraSweet Company began manufacturing the chemical themselves.

Sold commercially under names like NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, Equal-Measure and Canderel, aspartame can be found in more than 6,000 products, including: Diet sodas, juice drinks, and flavored waters

Chewing gum
Table-top sweeteners
Diet and diabetic foods
Breakfast cereals, such as Fiber One
Fiber supplements, such as orange flavored Metamucil
Jams
Sweets


It’s even found in vitamins, as well as prescription and over the-counter drugs such as Alka Seltzer Plus, and some Tylenol medications.


READERS’ COMMENTS:


1. Let's not forget that Donald Rumsfeld used his political connections to get this substance approved by the FDA back in the 70s even tough the FDA had serious misgivings about its safety. It makes you happy to know that Bush thought well enough of his handy-work that he put him in his cabinet. Don't underestimate how powerful these purveyors of poison are and think twice about trusting your health to the "experts".

2. But I thought the FDA said that aspartame was safe........No, they wouldn't....no they couldn't .....Could they ( asked hesitantly) be lying to us ?

3. You should try reading "Natural Health Solutions" by Mike Adams. You can order it from www.truthpublishing.com He gives detailed examples of the FDA's corruption and how they have not been interested in our safety for a very long time and are backed by the drug companies. Very interesting read.


4. How can we collectively help all those people out there who are not aware of the dangers of all the additives in food products they buy? Any ideas are welcome....

I talk to people (grassroots) in stores/supermarket checkout lines/ in the street etc I talk to anyone who will listen & tell them to read labels & boycott products containing aspartame/ acesulfame k/ zylitol & most E numbers. I tell people to look it up on the web if they don't want to accept what I say. PLEASE, let us try collectively to start a worldwide boycott of aspartame riddled products so that it is eventually removed from the market. I live in France & travel to Spain & Germany. These chemicals are everywhere.....

When you realize that the FDA in 1980 knew of the toxicity of aspartame and that it was a political maneuver that allowed it's use in food products - Reagan owed Donald Rumsfeld a favor - it really makes you sick. Monsanto makes billions from this monstrosity yearly (as well as from untested GMO foods planted all over the world).

It would make so much more sense to use Stevia or even just plain sugar. We as individuals who read mercola etc must reach out to help others & get rid of this edible agent orange.

World governments have lost all credibility by allowing this chemical in the food chain. let us band together to break this gridlock Monsanto has on our health. United we will succeed.

5. Thank You Donald Rumsfeld, (yes the ex-secretary of defense) failed warmonger who had the clout years ago to push aspartame through the FDA and profit big time to the demise of the general public.


NEXT - from yet another website:

http://www.purefood.org/Monsanto/revolvedoor.cfm

1/21/01 - Monsanto and G.W. Bush Administration: Who Will Own the Store?
?Monsanto employees and government regulatory agencies ?employees are the same people!

Date: Tue, 07 Dec 1999 10:43:59 -0600?From: Peter Khaled ?Subject: Revolving Door - Updated list - FYI

??David W. Beier . . . former head of Government Affairs for? Genentech, Inc. . . . now chief domestic policy advisor to Al ?Gore, Vice President of the United States.??

Linda J. Fisher . . . former Assistant Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Office of? Pollution Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, . . .then ?became Vice President of Government and Public Affairs for ?Monsanto Corporation and now (2001) is Deputy Director ?of the Environmental Protection Agency.??

Michael A. Friedman, M.D. . . former acting commissioner of ?the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA)? Department of Health and Human Services . . .now senior? vice-president for clinical affairs at G. D. Searle & Co., a? pharmaceutical division of Monsanto Corporation.??

L. Val Giddings . . . former biotechnology regulator and? (biosafety) negotiator at the United States Department of? Agriculture (USDA/APHIS), . . .now Vice President for Food &?Agriculture of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).??

Marcia Hale . . . former assistant to the President of the? United States and director for intergovernmental affairs, . .?.now Director of International Government Affairs for Monsanto? Corporation.??

Michael (Mickey) Kantor. . . former Secretary of the United? States Department of Commerce and former Trade? Representative of the United States, . . .now member of the ?board of directors of Monsanto Corporation.??

Josh King . . . former director of production for White House ?events . . . now director of global communication in the? Washington, D.C. office of Monsanto Corporation.??

Terry Medley . . . former administrator of the Animal and? Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States? Department of Agriculture, former chair and vice-chair of the ?United States Department of Agriculture Biotechnology Council, ?former member of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ?food advisory committee, . . . and now Director of Regulatory ?and External Affairs of Dupont Corporation's Agricultural Enterprise.??

Margaret Miller . . . former chemical laboratory supervisor for? Monsanto, . . .now Deputy Director of Human Food Safety and? Consultative Services, New Animal Drug Evaluation Office,? Center for Veterinary Medicine in the United States Food and? Drug Administration (FDA).*??

Michael Phillips . . . recently with the National Academy of? Science Board on Agriculture . . . now head of regulatory affairs ?for the Biotechnology Industry Organization.??

William D. Ruckelshaus . . . former chief administrator of the? United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), . .?. now (and for the past 12 years) a member of the board of? directors of Monsanto Corporation.??

Michael Taylor . . . former legal advisor to the United States ?Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s Bureau of Medical? Devices and Bureau of Foods, later executive assistant to the? Commissioner of the FDA, . . . still later a partner at the law ?firm of King & Spaulding where he supervised a nine-lawyer group whose clients included Monsanto Agricultural Company, .?. . still later Deputy Commissioner for Policy at the United? States Food and Drug Administration, . . . and later with the? law firm of King & Spaulding. . . . now head of the? Washington, D.C. office of Monsanto Corporation.*??

Lidia Watrud . . . former microbial biotechnology researcher at ?Monsanto Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri, . . .now with the? United States Environmental Protection Agency Environmental? Effects Laboratory, Western Ecology Division.??

Jack Watson. . . former chief of staff to the President of the? United States, Jimmy Carter, . . .now a staff lawyer with? Monsanto Corporation in Washington, D.C.?? Clayton K. Yeutter . . . former Secretary of the U.S.? Department of Agriculture, former U.S. Trade Representative ?(who led the U.S. team in negotiating the U.S. Canada Free?Trade Agreement and helped launch the Uruguay Round of the? GATT negotiations), now a member of the board of directors of? Mycogen Corporation, whose majority owner is Dow?Agro Sciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical? Company.??

Larry Zeph . . . former biologist in the Office of Prevention,? Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, U.S. Environmental? Protection Agency, . . . now Regulatory Science Manager at? Pioneer Hi-Bred International.??


*Margaret Miller, Michael Taylor, and Suzanne Sechen (an FDA?"primary reviewer for all rbST and other dairy drug production applications" ) were the subjects of a U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) investigation in 1994 for their role in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of Posilac, Monsanto Corporation's formulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbST or rBGH).


The GAO Office found "no conflicting financial? interests with respect to the drug's approval" and only "one minor deviation from now superseded FDA regulations". (Quotations are from the 1994 GAO report).


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TOM’S COMMENTS -

Granted, this is an old posting, from 2001 - seven years ago, so there are probably many NEWER NAMES from this “REVOLVING DOOR” between MONSANTO and FDA and other high-placed administration and governmental positions - like - RUMSFELD --- WARMONGER EXTRAORDINAIRE!

CHEMICALS - CHEMICALS - CHEMICALS - - - EVERYWHERE -
and hardly a SAFE DROP TO DRINK!

Additives purposely put into FOOD we eat - LIQUIDS we drink - ANIMALS we cook and eat - PHARMACEUTICALS we ingest - TO GET HEALTHIER, NO LESS - - -


PAIN - PILLS - POISONS - PROFITS ! ! !

OBESITY EPIDEMIC - DIABETES EPIDEMIC - CANCER EPIDEMIC - LUNG DISEASE EPIDEMIC - HOMELESS EPIDEMIC - UNINSURED EPIDEMIC - OIL PRICES INCREASE EPIDEMIC -

AND CORPORATE PROFITS SOAR ! ! !

AND YET - - - LONGEVITY IMPROVED - - -


SENIOR CITIZENS LIVE LONGER -
GO BROKE SOONER -
KEPT ALIVE LONGER -
HOOKED ON DRUGS ! ! !

In my humble opinion, anyone who fails to see this SELF-SERVING CONNECTION must be either BLIND - OR BRAINDEAD!

It begs the questions -

WHAT IF EVERYONE BOYCOTTED ALL DRUGS?

Would Americans actually live longer, safer, healthier, more pleasant lives - and have more money in the BANK?

WHAT IF - PAIN WAS A PURPOSELY PROMOTED PRODUCT OF PROFITEERS?

WHAT IF - CURE WAS A “DIRTY” WORD TO “THEM?"

Would OUR GOVERNMENT LIE TO US?

YOU BET YOUR NUTRASWEET ARSE!