DUDE
Posted on 07/21/2011 2:35:09 PM PDT by nralife
when nuts are criminalized, only criminals will have nuts
Crap like this beckons for a protest in front of the FDA offices, get a street vendor selling walnuts and on his cart list the beneficial effects and have about 100 people outside surrounding the cart buying walnuts and sticking their tongues out at the FDA building.
Seriously, We can’t but the FDA budget......
Concur - it’s an abuse but it all revolves around how they label the product. If they claim it does something that falls under the definition of a medical device or a drug then prior to the marketing it must be approved by the FDA. If I woul them I’d do a quick recall of all the newly marked packages and repackage without the claim - it would be a lot easier and would eliminate the FDAs requirement that they get drug approval. Again I don’t agree they should be but that is how they regs have been interpreted for years. sigh....being in the food industry Diamond knows the FDAs regs well enough that their quality/compliance people should have stopped this before it went out - someone will be out of a job...
DUDE
Gen 1:29 “Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.”
EPA is poised to regulate all ‘bodies of water’ in the US, including ground water,
I’ve run a small water system in Ohio for almost 30 years. Nothing the epa does surprises me! We have 4 deep wells, and before the epa was formed, the Ohio Department of Health said we had some of the best water in the state. Now, it doesn’t matter how good the water is, we’re mandated to do all kinds of unnecessary treatment. Man! Were the customers wee wee’d up when we had to add chlorine,,,, then organo-phosphate. Not unreasonable treatments, but it ruined the taste of the water, and peeps were not happy about that. Anything further will drastically raise their bills. 20 years ago, the epa rep told me that they felt that $1,500 a year for water was completely reasonable. And that was 20 years ago!
Are they nuts?
"Fuggedaboutit!"
Aside from national defense -- what useful purpose does the national government serve?
But hey the Ad Council can air a commercial saying that Milk is good for your bones and all, they get a free pass.....
So if you are eating a cereal that has walnuts in it with milk you are heavy drug user??????
“Or come out to the east side of my property in the fall and get a couple of tons of them for free. “
I had two huge trees in the yard of my old 1830 farmhouse. But the nuts seemed to be best by some sort of borer worm. Just used the husks for dye.
...goes to the store to hoard walnuts..... =.=
[ Concur - it’s an abuse but it all revolves around how they label the product. If they claim it does something that falls under the definition of a medical device or a drug then prior to the marketing it must be approved by the FDA. If I woul them I’d do a quick recall of all the newly marked packages and repackage without the claim - it would be a lot easier and would eliminate the FDAs requirement that they get drug approval. Again I don’t agree they should be but that is how they regs have been interpreted for years. sigh.... ]
No, they should simply apply for review as an over the counter drug. I think all food companies should FLOOD the FDA with useless requests and drown those busybodies with paperwork.
All I need to give them a big thumbs down (among SO many others) is that they ok aspartame, but nix stevia. That’s all I need to know to realize they are useless at best.
I thought this was going to be about “Paulie Walnuts”
Darn.....
Back in ‘the day’, I was a non cooperative student in a PG ASAP class, (I blew .30 and they figured I should have been ‘dead’) and the Instructor was talking about addictions.
‘Smart Ass’ me said,
“You can become addicted to water”.
Naturally the ‘expert’ berated me and said that was a foolish statement etc, and I said
“Think about it, every morning you get up, go to the refrigerator and get a cold drink of water. You do it everyday and one day you go and there is no water available. You are miserable for the next couple of hours, till you get your cold water. That, my friend is the basic definition of addiction - you can’t function normally without it”.
How long before some of these companies say: “Great! Come on out and execute your “seizure”. We’ll make sure to have multiple media outlets recording the event. “
Don’t believe the FDA at all.
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