Food Politics

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The Center for Science in the Public Interest ? Those are the very same folks who successfully campaigned against stable, traditional fats that have never been shown to be unhealthy and actually *increased* the supply of dangerous-at-any-dose trans fats in the diet of the American people.

CSPI doesn’t need to have money or staff to influence government policy. They’ve proven that all they have to do is go on a public witch hunt in the commercial sector, harrassing businesses that serve things they that don’t fit CSPI’s unproven and unscientific ideas of what is healthy (& what is healthy about trans fats?).

CSPI has done enough damage already, TYVM. I’ll go back to my corner now .

Anna The actual quotes were from 1988 CSPI Nutrition Action Healthletter: “All told, the charges against trans fat just don’t stand up. And by extension, hydrogenated oils seem relatively innocent.” And in a second article in 1990, CSPI’s Director of Nutrition Bonnie Leibman wrote, “The Bottom Line … Trans, shmans.”

Exactly, Russ. CSPI may be well-intentioned (but I question even that), but they clearly didn’t have a good understanding of the role of modern fat I (even though they finally started to understand the trans fat problem they helped to explode). CSPI has no business trying to influence government, public health, or food business policies. Trans fats have been known to be dangerous for far longer than most people realize, but CSPI ignored that because they are so blinded by their saturated fat and anit-animal products hysteria.

The worst part is that CSPI (& others) can’t rationally review the science (and the history) and see saturated fats as they really are (a natural componant of the diet that formed humans), only as they want to see them. So to avoid trans fats, food chemists will come to the “rescue” with more franken-fats to feed us, their human guinea pigs. No thanks. I’ll stick to real fats, like lard, butter, and coconut oil.

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Wasn’t it CSPI who originally campaigned for the switch to partially hydrogenated fats (trans fats) many years ago, claiming they would be better than saturated fats?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat

And now CSPI wants salt removed from the GRAS list! Dietary salt is benign; excessive insulin is the cause of high serum sodium and high blood pressure. Furthermore, salt serves as a food preservative. If food manufacturers are pressured to reduce salt, they are going to replace it with other preservative chemicals that truly ARE toxic. This is an exact replay of the saturated fat vs. trans fat nightmare for which CSPI is in great part responsible. Make a normal, healthy food that humanity has consumed for millennia look like a villain, and then evade responsibility for the consequences. When will Michael Jacobson learn?

He-he, Michael Jacobson won’t change. He’s on a mission, perhaps even a crusade, and doesn’t want to be confused by facts, nature, biology, and human evolution. Could his brain is deranged by not enough good, naturally saturated fat?

Think I’ll try to forget about Michael Jacobson and go make a nice BLT salad with those ripe tomatoes my husband just found growing under the banana trees (darn compost deeds!), with some added sea SALT!

Michael Jacobson is a criminal and a fruit loop. CSPI truly is a Rockefeller depopulation front.