I have a simple question: if you rely upon the same "people" who got you into this mess to get you out of it, doesn't that suggest that you're a bit of a once-you-twice-me fool?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has notified 17 food manufacturers that the labeling for 22 of their food products violates the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act…In an open letter to Industry dated March 3, 2010, Dr. Hamburg underscored the importance of providing nutrition information that consumers could rely on.
Any other options? Here's a novel idea: the FDA was put up for sale, bought, paid for and sold out a long, long time ago. This is just shuffling bullshit. Think they're going to take down Monsanto or Tyson? No, they'll take down a small guy, someone with a few mil at best but mostly cash poor. They'll eventually cave and the FDA will get their "see how we protected you dummies?" presrel. That, or they'll fine the big guys a few mil, which will only come off the money they were going to "donate" anyway.
Another novel idea: find local farms or farmer's markets in your area. Go there. Ask hard questions. Befriend and get to know those who understand that it's quality FOOD first, and well-deserved profit for doing it right comes after.
Repeat.
And one more thing: "...that consumers could rely on." Wild eyed fantasy, folks. You can't even rely on me to know what you ought to eat. You're being scammed by this bullshit and you need to wake up.
And one more revelation: if you eat real food you don't really need fucking labels. And health claims? They're superfluous. Where you do see health claims? On packaged shit. Now go feed it to your kids, like you always do. It'll shut 'em up.
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I couldn’t agree more. This is just posturing so that they give the appearance of doing the right thing and pat themselves on the back and fell all warm inside.
It’s so much easier when the stuff you eat doesn’t have an ingredients list, so you don’t have to worry about this kind of thing anyway.
The FDA is one big incestuous organization, in bed with every entity they are suppose to be protecting us from. It’s too big, too corrut and full of conflicts of interest. What good are they?
Absolutely. They’ll go after the little guys and anyone who cuts into Big Pharma’s profits.
The FDA doesn’t have time to take on Tyson and Monsanto. They’re too busy kicking down the doors of small dairy farmers who dare to sell raw milk.
Oh, good. Your post is in the comments section of this blockhead’s blog. Go get ‘em Richard!
Link, Jeanie?
http://www.foodpolitics.com/2010/03/cheers-to-fda-health-claim-warnings/
Oh, now I see what you meant. Yea, that’s an automatic thing if you have your WP settings accordingly.
Marion Nestle is… ugh, I don’t even have the words. She’s the public figurehead of the “nutrition” profession, she preaches all this “balanced diet”/”healthy grains”/”regulators are our heroes” crap because it’s what her idiot-city-liberal audience wants to hear, and she’s read Taubes and purports to agree with him so we know that SHE FUCKING KNOWS BETTER. And this moron is who Michael Pollan turns to for nutritional guidance. She needs to be run out of this debate once and for all, preferably with tar and feathers.
She’s also a prime example of what an MD friend once pointed out to me: The smart kids are not the ones who go into nutrition or public health, and that’s why all the “science” is crap.
Whoa John. I didn’t bother to look at who the blogger was.
Are you telling me that I have another fuckwad on my hands?
She’s a high profile fuckwad in the Jane Brody vein, you might say. If I had a blog she’d be one of my favorite targets.
I was following her blog for a while, and yes. Yes, you’re right. Lots of little niggling argh things over there. I follow a few other blogs where her name gets mentioned with reverence. It’s difficult for the bruise in the middle of my forehead to fully heal while I’m still following these blogs, but they’re otherwise, for the most part (more or less) good, so. BUT MARION NESTLE AIN’T ALL THAT AND A BAG OF HEARTHEALTHYWHOLEGRAIN CHIPS.
The FDA is not to be trusted. And it’s poised to have even more power over our choices. A bill called “The Dietary Supplement and Safety Act of 2010″, was introduced a few weeks ago by Sens. McCain and Dorgan. It seeks to give the FDA broad power to regulate nutritional supplements. Google it and weep.
Yes, I came to comment about that. Prescription for Vitamin D ? Doctor permission to exceed the RDA ?
Somehow, I think each of the major regulatory agencies of the federal government is striving to be the one that actually brings about the collapse of the United States as a major power.
I was watching “Undercover Bosses” this past week. The boss was the head of White Castle. When he went to work at one of his frozen burger factories, one of his employees responded to his questions about working at the plant. She thought that since the time she had been working there, seven or eight years?, that the quality had gone down on the product, and that the supervisors were less helpful when the going got tough out on the lines. At the end of the show, the boss addresses the less then helpful supervisor, but, NEVER mentions the downturn in quality.
If you click through to the chart, it’s really sad. It seems to me that “no added sugar” is a clear statement of fact, and useful information (if you are buying processed food in the first place.) How can acceptable levels of sugar be set for kids under two? The whole FDA labeling law system is designed to create winners out of the mega corporations, and losers out of consumers.
Marion Nestle is the grand dame of a broken system. Within the context of modern nutrition she speaks more sense than some, but clearly we can’t expect her to change her entire paradigm, no matter what the actual science shows.