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Food Company Faces FDA Wrath
A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative ^ | 22 July 2011 | John Semmens

Posted on 07/23/2011 2:00:10 PM PDT by John Semmens

Diamond Foods was order to cease and desist marketing walnuts by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The order followed the company’s claim that eating walnuts is good for you. The fact that there is a considerable amount of research verifying the contention that eating walnuts carries substantial health benefits was deemed “irrelevant” by the FDA.

“The relevant fact is that Diamond’s claims were not approved by the agency,” said Malcolm Cheek, FDA Administrator. “The nation’s health is our domain. We are responsible for determining what is and isn’t healthy for a person to consume. Products that hold forth a health benefit must obtain our approval before they can be marketed. Diamond Foods did not comply with this requirement. Hence, their sale of walnuts is forbidden.”

Since the FDA has not previously ruled on the health benefits of walnuts, Diamond was invited to submit its product for testing. “From our perspective, walnuts, as such, constitute a ‘new drug,’” Cheek argued. “Their safety and effectiveness have yet to be determined. Diamond Foods would be well-advised to comply with our established procedure. Failure to comply opens them to the possibility of having their property seized.”

As Cheek put it, “we’re not entirely merciless. If Diamond Foods restructures its message to remove any content alleging any health benefit we will withdraw our order. If they want to say that walnuts are tasty or that a lot of people like them we’d probably be okay with that. They just can’t say that walnuts might improve your health. Even if that’s true, we haven’t authorized them to make such a statement.”

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TOPICS: Food; Government; Health/Medicine; Humor
KEYWORDS: nannystate; regulation; satire; tyranny; walnuts
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1 posted on 07/23/2011 2:00:16 PM PDT by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

Unbelieveable!


2 posted on 07/23/2011 2:05:18 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather ("Kick The Communists Out Of Your Govt. And Don't Accept Their Goodies"-Yuri Bezmenov-KGB Defector)
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To: John Semmens

YAGASROOC ...
Yet Another Government Agency Spinning Recklessly Out Of Control.

Brings to mind one of the lines in the Declaration of Independence indicting King George.

“He hath sent hither swarms of his agents to harass our people and eat out their substance.”


3 posted on 07/23/2011 2:07:03 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: John Semmens

“We are responsible for determining what is and isn’t healthy for a person to consume.”
‘Scuse me?!

Unless you have a paper stating that and signed by God, you are full of excrement.

Sheesh.


4 posted on 07/23/2011 2:07:18 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: John Semmens

LOL John. This one should not have had the disclaimer - we should have been compelled to figure it out ourselves.


5 posted on 07/23/2011 2:07:42 PM PDT by jimfree (In 2012 Sarah Palin will have more quality executive experience than Barack Obama.)
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To: John Semmens
How about ?
6 posted on 07/23/2011 2:08:05 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: John Semmens

“Their safety and effectiveness have yet to be determined. Diamond Foods would be well-advised to comply with our established procedure. Failure to comply opens them to the possibility of having their property seized.”

Government operates via the power of the gun.

They may soon find people “shooting back”. They are acting more and more like a two year old testing to see what it can get away with.


7 posted on 07/23/2011 2:09:36 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: John Semmens

DANG! I got busted. It’s satire! I forgot to check the source!

Good one, as usual. ;-)


8 posted on 07/23/2011 2:10:59 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: John Semmens
Hence, their sale of walnuts is forbidden.

Your hook is always in the second graph...

9 posted on 07/23/2011 2:13:48 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
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To: John Semmens

I wish people would stop posting from this site. It is so believable that it fools people and what’s the point in that? Why make stuff up when there’s so many true outrageous things happening?


10 posted on 07/23/2011 2:20:28 PM PDT by DManA
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To: John Semmens
a ‘new drug’

LOL! I love that one! They might actually use it!

11 posted on 07/23/2011 2:20:28 PM PDT by Da Bilge Troll (Defeatism is not a winning strategy!)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Satire alert, SATIRE. These guys will get you more times than not. You have to be on the alert and look at their URL.


12 posted on 07/23/2011 2:28:19 PM PDT by calex59
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To: John Semmens

Shakedown for campaign donations. Obummer’s bag has no bottom.


13 posted on 07/23/2011 2:39:26 PM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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To: LucyT; BP2; rxsid; null and void; Candor7

In case you missed he first article diamond foods was told they can’t say walnuts contain omega 3 acids and either they take it off the labels or zero and his ilk will seize the company .


14 posted on 07/23/2011 2:40:00 PM PDT by tutstar
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To: tutstar
“we’re not entirely merciless.

Yet.

15 posted on 07/23/2011 2:45:33 PM PDT by null and void (Day 913. When your only tools are a Hammer & Sickle, everything looks like a Capitalist...)
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To: John Semmens

Almost got me again. Went to the article and read,
“It all boils down to the simple question Reagan posed in the 1980 election,” Carney contended. “All the American people need do is ask themselves whether they are better off now than they were before President Obama took office. Once they recall the hopelessness that prevailed under Bush and the Republicans the troubles they face today will fade into insignificance.”
The statement is insane but you know there are people who
would actually believe it.


16 posted on 07/23/2011 2:50:21 PM PDT by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: John Semmens

Almost got me with this one! Whew!


17 posted on 07/23/2011 2:53:44 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: John Semmens

Hay Semmens. good post. I’m with jimfree on the disclaimer.
I would have made top fool Obama size jackass out of my self.
Though that carny quote was more of a direct way of saying what they’ve been saying all along.


18 posted on 07/23/2011 2:58:30 PM PDT by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: calex59

Thanks! Today’s satire is the reality of tomorrow with them targeting Ronald McDonald and Happy Meals, etc..


19 posted on 07/23/2011 2:58:42 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather ("Kick The Communists Out Of Your Govt. And Don't Accept Their Goodies"-Yuri Bezmenov-KGB Defector)
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To: tutstar
Obviously we are beginning to see how nationalist socialism works. Diamond foods has not made its political payments to the WON...and this directly impacts the FDAs review. Thats the way things work in a banana Republic, which WE NOW ARE.

Its ludicrous. Diamond Foods should say "NUTS!"

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20 posted on 07/23/2011 3:03:12 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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