In the USA, products like asbestos, Thalidomide, leaded gasoline, cigarettes with horrible additives, Vioxx, Celebrex...(the list goes on and on), stay on the market because of the efforts of corporate lobbyists and obstructionist corporate lawyers. The USA only responds when one of two things happens:
1. the bodies of victims pile up
2. the lawsuits from the dead bodies and their heirs pile up.
Otherwise, you will see legislatures and regulatory boards and Governors and lobbyists from Ajinomoto, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Monsanto, Equal, etc., sweep the dead bodies and the maimed and the impaired youth under the rug, until there is so much under the rug, some nation will simply throw out the rug, and the health of that nation's citizens will be the better for it.
Could that Nation ever be the United States? Doubtful, but if enough people communicated to Obama and to Secretary Sebelius and to the next, as yet unappointed FDA Commissioner and Surgeon General, it could very well be the USA that takes aspartame off the market first.
After all, California took a mighty step in that direction just last Friday, regarding aspartame and Proposition 65.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that there is here an equation:
Lung Cancer and Emphysema/Tobacco suits in the 1990's=
Neurodegenerative Illnesses/Aspartame suits in the 2010's!
Respectfully,
Stephen Fox, Editor, New Mexico Sun News, Santa Fe, New Mexico
217 W. Water St., Santa Fe, NM 87501
1. the bodies of victims pile up
2. the lawsuits from the dead bodies and their heirs pile up.
Otherwise, you will see legislatures and regulatory boards and Governors and lobbyists from Ajinomoto, Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola, Monsanto, Equal, etc., sweep the dead bodies and the maimed and the impaired youth under the rug, until there is so much under the rug, some nation will simply throw out the rug, and the health of that nation's citizens will be the better for it.
Could that Nation ever be the United States? Doubtful, but if enough people communicated to Obama and to Secretary Sebelius and to the next, as yet unappointed FDA Commissioner and Surgeon General, it could very well be the USA that takes aspartame off the market first.
After all, California took a mighty step in that direction just last Friday, regarding aspartame and Proposition 65.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that there is here an equation:
Lung Cancer and Emphysema/Tobacco suits in the 1990's=
Neurodegenerative Illnesses/Aspartame suits in the 2010's!
Respectfully,
Stephen Fox, Editor, New Mexico Sun News, Santa Fe, New Mexico
217 W. Water St., Santa Fe, NM 87501
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