Editor,
Aspartame is a proven neurotoxic artificial sweetener whose approval was forced in 1981 by the then-CEO of Searle - none other than Donald Rumsfeld. He made $12 million to $15 million on that deal alone.
Efforts proceed in Hawaii and New Mexico to ban it. Presently, the Hawaii Senate is considering a resolution written by me and sponsored by Sen. Suzanne Chun-Oakland to request the FDA rescind its approval. Resolution SCR191 was signed by 11 committee chairpersons and vice chairpersons, 44 percent of the Hawaii senate.
There are a few true consumer protectionists in the New Mexico Legislature. If we haven't yet got the FDA to rescind its approval by 2009, legislators such as
Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino and Rep. Gail Chasey could introduce a very similar resolution, which, when it passes, would have a powerful effect even on the corporate-serving FDA Commissioner Andrew Von Eschenbach, who has responded to letters from 21 New Mexico legislators with corporate gobbledygook and boilerplate non sequiturs.
Legislators respond when constituents such as your readers ask them to proceed with such a resolution. With the FDA wallowing in corporate-induced stupidity and indifference to extremely dangerous chemical additives it approved in 1981, drastic solutions are in order to protect the rapidly failing health of America.
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Anyway, what is so drastic about protecting your health?
Stephen Fox
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