Monsanto wound up selling off aspartame to another company a few years ago. They’d be suing that company now, not Monsanto.
You can sprinkle aspartame on top of an ant hill and it will kill off that colony. That’s what it was originally destined for, the scientist who worked on it originally was trying to develop a better insect killer. As a neurotoxin, it works.
James Schlatter would find that information interesting to say the least. I say that because back in 1965, while working as a chemist for G.D. Searle, he was working on making short peptides for a new ulcer drug when a peptide got sterified with methanol. He tasted it and found it to be sweet. That's how aspartame was discovered. It was totally by accident and had nothing to do with killing insects or neurotoxins.
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