FDA allowing aspartame in milk?!?

[Tallabred]

I just received this information and thought that I would pass it on. I get massive migraines from aspartame. It worries me on what is not on the label.

http://www.naturalnews.com/039244_mi..._petition.html

[Cygnet]

Oh, good grief. I have the same problem. Massive blinding headache. It also screws with my blood sugar. Fortunately, the taste is fairly unmistakable for me -- but they really need to LABEL it for people who can't detect it. (It tastes like chemicals to me.)

[julieq]

Saw that and shared it on FB a couple of days ago. It really is insane! We know of it causing MS type symptoms in a couple of people we know, who were fortunately fine when they got off of it.

Prompts us to get the herd built up quickly so we have enough does fresh to provide ALL of our own dairy products, not just raw milk.

[PrettyPaisley]

While I'm not her biggest fan, this blogger says that there is "no way" the FDA will allow aspartame in milk without a label based on their guidelines.

http://dairycarrie.com/2013/02/26/th...k-controversy/

I think what is more sad is that this is even being considered. Too me, real milk is sweet-very sweet and very tasty. Just another example of taking perfectly good food and ruining it.

[Sherry in Iowa]

I too get migraines and numbness. I can usually taste it..to me, like Cygnet, it tastes like a chemical. This is one of the culprits that lead me down the path of knowing what's in my food. I don't like messin' with stuff that does not need messin' with.

[KrisD]

I don't know, they allow GMOs with no labeling and we don't even know all things GMOs do yet. I sure hope she's right but I will be modifying my herd so I have milk year round just to be safe. I am worried for the people who are allergic to Aspartame.

Funny that most of us can't sell raw milk but they can sell adulterated milk. Yep that makes sense ~sarcasm~

[Cygnet]

I just actually read the article. It's got a lot of sensationalism in it, which makes me skeptical of the claims in general. Is there some truth in it? Probably. Are they telling the whole truth or giving a balanced, reasoned story based on reality and faced? Nope.

To give an example of the kind of thing I see online -- I see fairly regular (and highly critical) blogs and "news stories" about the organic Shamrock dairy farm, one of the largest in the nation. It's up the road from me -- I drive by it several times a month. Whenever I drive by, there's no "feed lot" odor even from the road, I DO see the cows out grazing (one of the criticisms is that they don't graze the cows enough), and the it looks like a very clean operation. That there's no stink and the cows have room to move around says a lot to me. It's possible they don't graze the cows as much as is technically required by regulation, but this is Arizona. It's the only dairy in the state that has ANY grazing. Their fields are watered by sprinklers, and require a lot of effort to maintain. It's hard to grow a lawn in this part of the state, nevermind a pasture. The pasture usually looks like it's a bit grazed down but in reasonably good shape.

It may not be perfect, but those cows live much better lives than most factory farm cows. That's good enough for me to pay a premium for their milk.

And the milk is sold locally and is not much more expensive than regular milk.

To hear the claims online, you'd think they were as bad as the worst feed lot ever.

There are a number of other feed lots and dairies in the area. I should take pictures of some of them -- it's calving season and the feedlot pens are jammed so full of baby calves that the calves can barely move. Some of the dairies are just gross and can be smelled miles away, literally. It turns my stomach to think of drinking milk from a factory dairy that can be smelled seven miles away ...

[Josie]

Same here, I can taste it...leaves a nasty chemical aftertaste. I hope they don't allow that thru. Just goes to show you never really know what is in something unless you make it from start to finish yourself.

[haypoint]

The sky is falling, the sky is falling......
naturalnews is not a reliable source of information, IMHO.
There may or may not be a request for FDA to do something. But it isn't going to happen.
At one time I would sort through the myths on naturalnews, but it is just a waste of time. The author must get a kick out of all the stuff he can stir up and get people to believe.

[Tallabred]

The FDA has approved flour to be bleached with substances that are also used to induce diabetes in rats(I can't think of the name right now). I found this out when my daughter became sick upon eating at college(lots of bread and pasta) - once she went to organic or unbleached flour she was fine. Bottom line they will approve anything if it is politically motivated. I no longer purchase ANY bleached flour or sugar - my research just grossed me out.

[julieq]

Originally Posted by haypoint

The sky is falling, the sky is falling......
naturalnews is not a reliable source of information, IMHO.

I agree about some of the stuff I've read on Natural News. But here's a Huffington Post article also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...p_ref=business

[Sherry in Iowa]

Originally Posted by Tallabred

The FDA has approved flour to be bleached with substances that are also used to induce diabetes in rats(I can't think of the name right now). I found this out when my daughter became sick upon eating at college(lots of bread and pasta) - once she went to organic or unbleached flour she was fine. Bottom line they will approve anything if it is politically motivated. I no longer purchase ANY bleached flour or sugar - my research just grossed me out.

Is it something like "bromide"? My girl friend, who has been battling breast cancer with alternative methods, was told NOT to eat bread with bromide..she makes all her own and uses organic flour.

[Tallabred]

no it is not bromide - I will have to ask my daughter - blond moment But this is what has made me favor organic products.

Even the FDA posting says that if it is marked low calorie not as many people will drink it - so keeping it off of the label is "for our health"

[Sherry in Iowa]

LOL..I'm a gum chewer from Waaaaay back. Never a problem from chewing my beloved gum .. UNTIL..they switched to aspartame and started throwing a bunch of other chemicals in it that I can't spell..much less say. I could not figure out why I was getting headaches and an off stomach all the time..hello?!

So, I started looking and GLEE gum is made the old fashioned way. Does it blow your mouth off your face with flavor..heck no..and I'm glad it doesn't. It's just like the gum I chewed when I was a kid. Been chewing it for 6 years or better and as long as they don't change their recipe..I think it's a keeper.

[lordoftheweeds]

Come on people, requiring labels that list what actually is in products would place an undue burden and hundreds of millions in extra costs to producers, and besides listing ingredients would only confuse us poor rubes anyway because we don't know what we want. Better to leave it up to the Govt and big producers that know whats best for us.

[Sherry in Iowa]

Cathy..is this it?


Then there’s azodicarbonamide (ADA). It’s a pesticide from China that’s added to flour to speed up the bleaching process.

http://www.healthiertalk.com/more-ba...out-bread-3354

[PrettyPaisley]

The issue with "well it's on the label" is that the unassuming mama picks up a gallon of milk thinking its just milk. Sadly the masses haven't come to realize yet that nothing is what it seems. Even as much of a label reader as I am I still fall for it. I've had to return both coconut milk (canned) and balsamic vinegar from Trader Joe's because I didn't read the label. Both had additives we avoid but foolishly I didn't bother to read the labels.

Pretty pathetic we live in a time when, one-fake sweeteners are even being considered an additive and two-you can't go to the store and buy a gallon of milk without having to read a label.

[haypoint]

Originally Posted by julieq

I agree about some of the stuff I've read on Natural News. But here's a Huffington Post article also:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...p_ref=business

That article,( written by Bonnie Kavoussi is an economics reporter at The Huffington Post. She has written for the Boston Globe, the New York Observer, and the San Antonio Express-News. She is a graduate of Harvard University, where she studied history and economics. She is based in New York.) tells a different story.
It says the milk industry can only add things to milk that have nutrition. Seems reasonable, except when you see a population that shys away from buying a jug of chocolate milk because of all the calories. The Milk Industry is simply asking to be able to ad a non-nutritive, low-calorie sugar and still call it milk.
As current regulations require, a low calorie Chocolate Milk can't be marketed using the word Milk. The ingredients will still be listed. But they still want to call it milk.

A few years back, processed turkey was being offered in different ways. The producers of turkey products wanted to market bacon and ham. Well, as you might imagine the pork producers threw a fit. Bacon and ham could only be a pork product. But in the end, we got turkey bacon, turkey ham. The word turkey has to be there.

[Oat Bucket Farm]

This is yet another reason I am so thankful my girls are coming back to me. As a family of seven, we go through a lot of milk. Or rather we did. When the goats left last summer, our milk consumption dropped dramatically because my older boys refused to drink milk from the store and whereas I cook with it, I can't hardly drink it.

I am really looking forward to having my goat milk back and the kids are also anxiously awaiting the return of the girls.

[julieq]

Originally Posted by Oat Bucket Farm

This is yet another reason I am so thankful my girls are coming back to me. As a family of seven, we go through a lot of milk. Or rather we did. When the goats left last summer, our milk consumption dropped dramatically because my older boys refused to drink milk from the store and whereas I cook with it, I can't hardly drink it.

I am really looking forward to having my goat milk back and the kids are also anxiously awaiting the return of the girls.

We buy regular store bought milk to supplement our bottle kids (so we can use more of the raw goat milk quicker ourselves) and I hate opening the bottle to pour it! Man it stinks!

But the kids do fine on it, so we're stuck with it for now. Wish we could find a local supplier of raw cow milk when we need it, you know...that stuff that doesn't smell bad, but is outlawed in so many states?