Final Testimony of New Mexico Activist to Hawaii House Health Committee on Economic and Medical Reasons Hawaii should ban this terrible neurotoxin and carcinogen, corporate lobbyists be damned....

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TESTIMONY FROM STEPHEN FOX OF NEW MEXICO

RE: HB 2680, to ban aspartame* Room 329, 8:00 a.m., February 8 * House Health Committee

Honorable Josh Green, M.D. Chair

Honorable John Mizuno, Vice Chair

Honorable Karen Leinani Awana

Honorable Della Au Belatti

Honorable Joe Bertram

Honorable Rida Cabinilla

Honorable Karl Rhoads

Honorable Maile Shimaukuro

Honorable James Tokioka

Honorable Gene Ward

Dear Hawaii House Health Committee:

Please give a Do Pass to Rep. Carroll’s bill to ban aspartame. I have arranged for many victims and many important physicians, including the top physician in the world Dr. H.J. Roberts, to write to you in this regard, as well as one (Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino) and soon to be more members of the New Mexico Legislature with direct personal observations about the effects of perfidious corporate lobbyists who came to Santa Fe to destroy a prior bill in two different years, 2006 and 2007. There will be many more testimonial letters for the next committee. I won’t regale you further with the medical harm done by ingesting this poisonous neurotoxin and carcinogen whose approval was forced through the FDA by Donald Rumsfeld as CEO of the patent holder in 1981, G.D. Searle. After watching the DVD Sweet Misery, you know this.

I will only remind you that opposition lobbyists represent industries and corporations that manufacture and add an aspartame that has almost destroyed the Hawaiian agricultural base of growing and refining cane sugar, a profound impact on Hawaii’s economy. Yet these same corporations will be complaining about this bill, and telling you blatant lies about how an aspartame is harmless, and that it has been through 200 (industry paid for) tests.

This bill is not only about protecting the health of all Hawaiians, but on an underlying level, perhaps helping to rebuild a major Hawaii industry, the growing and processing of cane sugar.

I think about you all and the decision you will make every time I use packets of turbinado sugar in my tea, grown on Maui and on Kauai. Please ignore the clamor of the lobbyists and the misguided protests of diabetics, the last people in the world who should be ingesting a chemical metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde. Please give this bill a do pass and let the FDA, the corporations, and the entire world that your committee takes seriously the medical health of all Hawaiians.

I respectfully thank you,

Stephen Fox, Managing Editor, Santa Fe Sun News

Founder, New Millennium Fine Art 217 W. Water St., Santa Fe, NM 87501

Authors Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Authors Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev