What Has Happened To Our Food Supply?
What has happened to the honor and trust that used to be routine, when it came to the purity of our foods, water and drugs? When we ate something we never used to worry about whether we were going to get sick from it, because it was only passed by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) because of political pressure. I don't know how many people out there read the recent article about the sweetener Aspartame, but the stuff that this was derived from was said to have been used in chemical weapons, before it was used in low calorie drinks. The article went on to say that the only reason that this was allowed to be used by the FDA was because so much political pressure was put on the government that it was passed. The Douglass Report states that Aspartame is “one of the most dangerous substances ever added to food”. The report goes on to tell you a fact that most people don't know, it is the bizarre fact that this stuff makes people fatter. Yes fatter when they drink their diet drinks. That is not the only problem however, the report goes on to state that Aspartame can cause cancer and neurological diseases. Guess what food additive product has brought the most complaints to the FDA? According to the report more than half of all complaints to the FDA are on Aspartame. By the way the Douglass Report is from Dr. William Campbell Douglass and can be found on his website at http://douglassreport.com and look up the report on Aspartame. Wait to you see who was behind getting it approved. Can't wait? When Donald Rumsfield got in as Secretary of Defense, a new FDA administsrator was appointed and the very next day Aspartame was approved for human consumption against the recommendations of a scientific panel. Aspartame was made by G.D. Searle and guess who was the outgoing CEO? It was Donald Rumsfeld.
Plastic Water Bottle Back to the plastic bottles. If someone was to ask me, what is one of the worst things that someone can do health wise, I would have to say drink soda, or even water, from a plastic bottle. Most people do this without thinking twice about it. Recent tests have shown that the average American now has increasing amounts of polycarbonates in their blood stream. You will see that the plastics industry and some individuals and companies say that the type of plastic bottles used to store drinks in this country are safe, but are they really? Research has shown that phthalates are present in PET bottles, which is the dominant type of plastic bottle used. “Phthalates leach from the plastic into lower pH products such as soda and vinegar more readily than into bottled water....”. This makes sense doesn't it. The soda is acidic as is the vinegar. It is thought that PET bottles probably leach endocrine disrupting chemicals. That was the original complaint when the plastic bottles first came out. There are just so many food additives that are suspect. You might say, how could this country allow this stuff to get into our food? The answer is simple, each additive either saves a company millions of dollars in producing the product, or it preserves the product giving it a much longer shelf life. As they say, “its all about the money”. Another saying that might apply to this is, “the public be damned”. The American food supply used to be the envy of the world, now we might be better off eating food from somewhere else. Even before the food gets processed, the animals are fed chemicals to make them bigger and fatter, thus bringing more money for them. There are a lot of suspect additives out there and here are some of them: Propyl Gallate- sound yummy doesn't it? This is a food preservative and it is said that it might cause cancer. I could go through a long list of these additives, but why bother? They usually break down to preservatives, sweeteners and additives to make what you eat look nice and smell nice. As I said, all of these things are there to make bucks for the companies. We have all these different dyes in our food to create a pleasing color and the look of freshness. On top of all that we have artery clogging Hydrogenated vegetable oil added to a lot of things that say 0 cholesterol, but the oil is probably worse for you than a little cholesterol. We are not only being fed poison, we are also being fed a lie. The lie is that our food supply is safe and guarded by a government agency that is looking out for our best interests.
Can So let's see what we've got here. We have dangerous food packaged in dangerous food containers. The containers are not only the plastic ones, but the cans also. It turns out that many cans contain BPA, known as Bisphenol A. That is because some cans have a liner made of epoxy and there is no way to know which cans have this and which cans don't. The chemical is a mimic of human estrogen and is linked to breast cancer in women along with early puberty. So how much BPA were in the cans that contained it and what percentage of cans had it? Well the BPA levels were 200 times more than the usual government declared safe level. The amount of cans that contained BPA was over 50%. Did you know that even fresh foods have been ruined by sprays of different kinds? Potatoes are very susceptible to pesticides, so many farmers grow their own personal potatoes that are pesticide free for the consumption of their own family, while selling the rest for consumption by us.
Food Label When people go to Mexico they usually say “do not drink the water”. They may be saying that about our water soon. All sorts of things are now turning up in the drinking water of different communities. All those old drugs that people throw down the toilet, or flush down the sink are finding their way back into the water and no one knows what effect this will eventually have on us, because the effects of these huge mixtures of drugs is unknown. It is time for the people of this country to complain, but the numbers have to be there, after all we would be competing with the food lobby that spends billions. |
