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To: Eagles2003; Eagles6

Just found this one, Monsanto’s problems are only starting.

They are also the a**clowns who dropped aspartame on the market. Turns into formaldehyde in the bloodstream.

I hope they haven’t doomed the food supply for years. Yields are already down.


3 posted on 05/24/2010 11:57:37 AM PDT by Eagles2003
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To: Eagles2003

I’m sure, like all enormo-conglomerates, they only have our best interests at heart.


6 posted on 05/24/2010 12:01:10 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Eagles2003

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.


12 posted on 05/24/2010 12:06:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Eagles2003

They have ruined the food supply already.


35 posted on 05/24/2010 12:39:08 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: Eagles2003

There is little concern over formaldehyde in the bloodstream from aspartame.

From what I can gather, a liter of soda sweetened only with aspartame provides 160 mg of converted methanol. Almost all sodas now on the market combine aspartame with acesulfame potassium or Splenda, further reducing the aspartame amount. The FDA states that 500 mg of methanol a day is considered safe.

We get methanol from foods we eat already. One source I’ve read states that some of these fruits and vegetables with methanol are countered with other chemicals they contain. If so, and if we only need to worry about aspartame-sweetened beverages, then we should have no more than 3 liters of aspartame-only sweetened beverages a day, or some larger amount of sodas with multiple sweeteners.

Sources:

http://www.methanol.org/pdf/MethanolHealthEffects.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame


36 posted on 05/24/2010 12:39:38 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: Eagles2003

Snopes says nope on this one:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/aspartame.asp


41 posted on 05/24/2010 1:07:25 PM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Eagles2003
Yields are already down.

Prove it.

There are mountains and mountains of surpluses and mountains of data that say otherwise.

58 posted on 05/24/2010 6:40:23 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction, one of the top five worries of the American Farmer each and every year..)
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To: Eagles2003
Turns into formaldehyde in the bloodstream.

I should be well preserved, then. But I am not. So it must be just certain blood types.

69 posted on 05/24/2010 7:29:42 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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