Where would we be without Skittles and Fruit Loops?
Posted on 11/23/2024 9:06:37 AM PST by TigerClaws
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the nation’s top health post, has vowed to “get the chemicals out” of America’s food amid mounting concerns over the health effects of additives.
These chemical ingredients - designed to enhance the flavors, textures, colors and shelf life of ultra-processed foods - are in many of the foods that Americans eat. But who determines whether they are safe?
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In many cases, it’s not the Food and Drug Administration that decides if chemical additives are safe to use in food. Instead, it’s the companies that make and sell the products that contain them.
Research shows that a regulatory loophole has allowed for America’s food to be saturated in largely unapproved additives. The health consequences can be dire. In one case two years ago, a toxic food additive known as tara flour that was allowed into the food supply through this loophole was blamed for sickening hundreds of people and sending at least 130 to the hospital.
Now, a growing number of politicians and lawmakers are demanding changes. Kennedy has pledged to overhaul federal food regulations as part of his “Make America Healthy Again” plan. (A spokesperson for Kennedy did not respond to a request for comment.) And several states, including New York and Illinois, are considering new rules that would more strictly regulate the additives used by food companies.
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Need to ban drug cos from spending $18 BILLION on advertising. They prop up the dying MSM.
That is an issue for the marketplace and local state governance to work out.
The feds have NO constitutional authority to meddle in food or health. They always do more harm than good.
NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL FEDERAL INTERFERENCE WITH FOOD AND HEALTHCARE!!!
Some say the artificial colors are the culprit for our kid’s mental problems. The world can do without day-glo colored Skittles.
Federal food and drug safety regulation dates back over a hundred years. The federal constitutional authority to do so comes squarely from the commerce clause. Leaving the matter to the marketplace and state and local regulation is impractical as it would create a nightmarish patchwork of conflicting requirements that would make a unified national market for safe food and drugs virtually impossible.
My wife cooks fresh food daily and we almost never eat anything pre processed, everything is God Created and natural. Funny how the eating habits we had in the 60’s don’t make you FAT or DIABETIC, but the Imitation, Fake, and Pre Processed foods today MAKE YOU FAT and DIABETIC as well as a number of health problems.
Where would we be without Skittles and Fruit Loops?
That's freakin' reverse logic !!
Test it for adverse reactions, and then after testing, if satisfactory reaction,
implement it
Any of the Additives need to be constantly monitored
Answer : healthier -->but with sugar and salt cravings !
I grew up wondering if Wonder Bread was bread.
You can buy Fruit Loops in Canada. No red 40 or any of that stuff
More winning.
Anything that crosses a State line is fair game, especially if it’s made by a corporation.
Unlike the Left's broad gov't-empowering perversion of the Constitution, the commence clause (CC) does not give the feds authority to command and control our food and health.
The CC intent was to remove hindrances to commerce between the states, not give the feds unlimited command and control power over our food and health.
Again, the FDA is unconstitutional and does more harm than good.
a nightmarish patchwork of conflicting requirements
Again, unlike the Leftist description of America's constitutionally-protected individual freedom, decentralized governance and the free marketplace is what Adam Smith called, "The Wealth of Nations" as exemplified by America's free society in the 1800's with gov't spending around 5% of the GDP. That individual freedom, which you call "nightmarish", turned a bunch of rag-tag colonies from the 1700's into the 1900's as the most wealth and most powerful nation on earth.
Freedom works. Tyranny is the "Road to Serfdom" (Hayek).
Unlike the Left’s broad gov’t-empowering perversion of the Constitution, the commence clause (CC) does not give the feds authority to command and control our food and health.
The CC intent was to remove hindrances to commerce between the states, not give the feds unlimited command and control power over our food and health.
Again, the FDA is unconstitutional and does more harm than good.
1) Never buy any food product in a package without first reading (And understanding all of the ingredients).
2)Avoid all commercially produced meat, fish and eggs. Eat only locally produced free range eggs and meat chicken. All other meat and fish are wild caught or harvested locally. We do not buy any meat, poultry, fish or eggs at the store.
NOTE: I live on an island in Alaska. Commercial fishing is the main industry and hunting is the most popular recreation. YMMV
Problem: All "Fresh" produce has to be shipped in. No telling what's been done to the broccoli or how long it's been since it was harvested or what's been done to keep it fresh looking on the shelf.
There are natural versions of synthetic food colors. Like beet juice for red color.
I was watching the pilot of Moonlighting with commercials the other day and was struck by the lack of drug commercials.
It was rather nice.
“a toxic food additive known as tara flour that was allowed into the food supply through this loophole was blamed for sickening hundreds of people and sending at least 130 to the hospital.”
The FDA banned tara flour in May 2024 but it took them two years to figure it out after the outbreak.
https://www.cspinet.org/cspi-news/fda-declares-tara-flour-unsafe-two-years-after-outbreak
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