(NaturalNews) You probably already know that the FDA has declared war on raw milk and even helped fund and coordinate
armed government raids against raw milk farmers and distributors.
Yes, it's insane. This brand of tyranny is unique to the USA and isn't
even conducted in China, North Kora or Cuba. Only in the USA are raw
milk farmers treated like terrorists.
But now the situation is
getting even more insane than you could have imagined: the International
Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers
Federation (NMPF) have
filed a petition with the FDA asking the FDA to alter the definition of "milk" to secretly include chemical sweeteners such as aspartame and sucralose.
Importantly,
none of these additives need to be listed on the label. They will
simply be swept under the definition of "milk," so that when a company
lists "milk" on the label, it automatically includes aspartame or
sucralose. And if you're trying to
avoid aspartame, you'll have no way of doing so because it won't be listed on the label.
This
isn't only for milk, either: It's also for yogurt, cream, sour cream,
eggnog, whipping cream and a total of 17 products, all of which are
listed in the petition at FDA.gov.
As the petition states:
IDFA
and NMPF request their proposed amendments to the milk standard of
identity to allow optional characterizing flavoring ingredients used in
milk (e.g., chocolate flavoring added to milk) to be sweetened with any safe and suitable sweetener -- including non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame.This is all being done to "save the children," we're told, because the use of aspartame in milk products would reduce calories.
Milk industry specifically asks to HIDE aspartame from consumers
Astonishingly, the dairy industry is engaged in extreme doublespeak logic and actually arguing that
aspartame should be hidden from consumers by not listing it on the label. Here's what the petition says:
IDFA
and NMPF argue that nutrient content claims such as "reduced calorie"
are not attractive to children, and maintain that consumers can more
easily identify the overall nutritional value of milk products that are
flavored with non-nutritive sweeteners if the labels do not include such
claims. Further, the petitioners assert that consumers do not recognize
milk -- including flavored milk -- as necessarily containing sugar.
Accordingly, the petitioners state that milk flavored with non-nutritive
sweeteners should be labeled as milk without further claims so that
consumers can "more easily identify its overall nutritional value."In other words,
hiding aspartame from consumers by not including it on the label actually
helps consumers, according to the IDFA and NMPF!
Yep,
consumers are best served by keeping them ignorant. If this logic
smacks of the same kind of twisted deception practiced by Monsanto,
that's because it's identical: the less consumers know, the more they
are helped, according to
industry. And it's for the children, too, because children are also best served by keeping them poisoned with aspartame.
Consumers
have always been kept in the dark about pink slime, meat glue, rBGH and
GMOs in their food. And now, if the IDFA gets its way, you'll be able
to drink hormone-contaminated milk from an antibiotics-inundated cow fed
genetically modified crops and producing milk containing
hidden aspartame. And you won't have the right to know about any of this!
The
FDA confirms this "secret" status of aspartame, stating, "If the
standard of identity for milk is amended as requested by petitioners,
milk manufacturers could use non-nutritive sweeteners in flavored milk
without a nutrient content claim in its labeling."
FDA requests comments
The FDA is requesting comments on this petition. You have until May 21st, 2013 to submit your comments.
Click here for instructions.
This is a clue to stop drinking processed milk and milk products altogether
There's
a bigger story here than just the industry hoping to get FDA approval
to secretly put aspartame in milk products while not listing aspartame
on the label.
The bigger question is this: If an industry is pushing to hide aspartame in its products,
what else is it already hiding?How about the
pus content of its dairy products?
How about its inhumane treatment of animals who are subjected to
torture conditions and pumped full of genetically engineered hormones?
How about the fact that homogenization and pasteurization turn a whole
food into a dietary nightmare that promotes obesity, autoimmune
disorders and cardiovascular disease?
There are lots of dirty little secrets in the
dairy industry of course, and that doesn't even get into the secret closed-door conversations to encourage the FDA to
destroy the competition of raw milk.
The only rational answer to all this is to
stop buying and consuming processed dairy products, period!
I
gave up ALL milk products many years ago and have never looked back. I
drink almond milk, not pus-filled pasteurized cow's milk. (
Click here for a recipe to make your own almond milk at home.) I don't eat yogurt. If I want probiotics, I get them from tasty chewable probiotics supplements such as
Sunbiotics.
I parted ways with processed dairy products many years ago, and as a
result, my cardiovascular health, skin health, digestive health and
stamina have all remained in outstanding shape.
There's also a philosophical issue here:
Don't buy products from an industry that habitually LIES about everything.
The dairy industry is like a mafia. They actively seek to destroy the
competition, keep consumers ignorant and monopolize the market. They run
highly deceptive ads with ridiculous claims like, "drinking milk helps
you lose weight" and other nonsense.
The U.S. dairy industry is steeped in deception at every level, and now they want you and your children to
unknowingly drink aspartame that's secretly blended into the product.
The dairy industry is to food as Lance Armstrong is to sports. It's all a big lie, laced with secret chemicals and false claims.
Stop drinking milk. Stop financially supporting the food mafia.
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http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=3340FCCC93B2C17EEFA43C7E6296728DSources for this article:This
petition was originally brought to our attention by a reader who says
it was covered on Activist Post. I haven't yet read that article but may
update this article with a link to that article once I identify the
URL.
FDA petition page:
http://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/02/20/2013-03835/flavore...
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