Kennedy is quietly doing a good job
Big Food crams all kinds of poisons into foods.
Every single ingredient needs to be listed on labels.
> a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe <
Wow. That’s some crazy stuff right there. I wonder if it would work elsewhere.
IRS agent: “Your tax return looks very suspicious. For one thing, it’s filled with all sorts of errors.”
Me: “I self-affirm that my return is 100% correct. So quit yer yapping.”
We all know how top-down, centralized, Fed.gov regulation always benefit insiders and large corporations, which have the money and connections to game and influences rules set in Washington DC. This is true in finance, pharma, media, and especially AGRICULTURE.
Therefore, RFK needs to give outright unequal and favorable treatment in regulation, tax, penalties, oversight etc. etc.. to family farms and small food processors.
Consider it an aggressive “affirmative action” program for family, local, small-scale agriculture and food processing.
https://www.cspinet.org/sites/default/files/attachment/GRAS%20Comment%20FINAL_0.pdf
Gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA) is a neurotransmitter that was self-determined GRAS by industry for use in beverages, chewing gum, coffee, tea, and candy. GABA was declared GRAS despite the fact that estimated exposures were in excess of what the manufacturer considered safe. In addition, the submitter relied on unpublished safety studies, and failed to consider existing exposures.293 When FDA identified these concerns, the company withdrew its notice. While the company told NRDC that it would not market the product for use in food, it continued to use the ingredient in dietary supplements. NRDC also identified five food products marketed by other companies with GABA as a named ingredient, including bottled tea and nutrition bars.
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Sweet lupin protein, fiber, and flour have been declared GRAS by an Australian firm for use in baked goods, dairy products, gelatin, meats, and candy, despite concerns that the chemicals could cause allergic reaction in people with peanut allergies.
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Theobromine was declared GRAS by a U.S. company for use in bread, cereal, beverages, chewing gum, tea, soy milk, gelatin, candy, and smoothies, despite having an estimated consumption rate that was more than five times the safe consumption level reported by the company’s consultant. On top of this already considerable cause for alarm, the notification did not provide explanations for various safety concerns raised by animal testing of theobromine, including testicular degeneration and delayed bone formation.297 Nevertheless, NRDC found that theobromine was a named ingredient in more than 20 food products, including isotonic waters, nutrition bars, and diet foods.
The reason processed foods taste “better”, bread is softer, lemonade has more body, etc., is because of food additives. When RFKjr is able to get them removed or decreased, those foods may not taste the same, and we may be disappointed, but we’ll get used to the changes. Decades ago, A high friend went to Germany; she said common foods, such as ketchup, tasted nothing like American counterparts; yes, we will have to adjust, but we will be better for it.