Comments on: FDA Gave Glaxo Extra Year to Profit Off Avandia http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/fda-gave-glaxo-extra-year-to-profit-off-avandia/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:21:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sharon http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/fda-gave-glaxo-extra-year-to-profit-off-avandia/#comment-2725 sharon Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:52:51 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/fda-gave-glaxo-extra-year-to-profit-off-avandia/#comment-2725 How in the world did it ever come about that people even began to drink commercially produced beverages of any kind? How did it ever come about that so many of us began to eat commercially produced convenience foods and fast foods? If you think about it, there is absolutely no need to consume any of this stuff. Even on a road trip, it's easy to bring a container of water, tea, or juice from home. On the surface, it seems like it would be quite a bit of trouble to bring snack foods on a car trip--or at least to take snack foods that were not commercially prepared. But the difficult is just an illusion fostered by habit. We could easily snack on apples, oranges, nuts, or raisins. Convenience foods for eating at home are disgusting products that are nearly inedible--besides being overpriced. Wholesome real food could be prepared just as quickly--especially if we were willing to eat simply. Many of the food items we consume are little more than chemical coctails. The quality of packaged foods is almost unbelievably bad, yet people eat these foods anyway. You have to wonder why people don't make a quick dinner of a salad, homemade soup, or rice and stir-fried vegetables--instead of hamburger helper or frozen dinners. It would be far easier to learn to like tabouli--which can be prepared in minutes--than to learn to like hamburger helper. But I guess we have the advertising industry available to help us learn to like convenience foods. And the advertising industry goes to work on our kids, especially, making them view real food as unacceptable. I think many adults would feel embarrassed to carry food and beverages from home, when they are driving. Somehow or other, the advertising industry has taught us to feel ashamed to prepare our own food. The implication is that you would only pass up convenience foods and fast foods if you were desperately poor--that to live without these poor quality, poisoned foods is to be deeply deprived. I guess we could be taught by advertisers to view the contents of our cat box as a luxury and a treat--and to prefer it to actual food. How in the world did it ever come about that people even began to drink commercially produced beverages of any kind? How did it ever come about that so many of us began to eat commercially produced convenience foods and fast foods?

If you think about it, there is absolutely no need to consume any of this stuff. Even on a road trip, it’s easy to bring a container of water, tea, or juice from home.

On the surface, it seems like it would be quite a bit of trouble to bring snack foods on a car trip–or at least to take snack foods that were not commercially prepared. But the difficult is just an illusion fostered by habit. We could easily snack on apples, oranges, nuts, or raisins.

Convenience foods for eating at home are disgusting products that are nearly inedible–besides being overpriced. Wholesome real food could be prepared just as quickly–especially if we were willing to eat simply.

Many of the food items we consume are little more than chemical coctails. The quality of packaged foods is almost unbelievably bad, yet people eat these foods anyway. You have to wonder why people don’t make a quick dinner of a salad, homemade soup, or rice and stir-fried vegetables–instead of hamburger helper or frozen dinners. It would be far easier to learn to like tabouli–which can be prepared in minutes–than to learn to like hamburger helper.

But I guess we have the advertising industry available to help us learn to like convenience foods. And the advertising industry goes to work on our kids, especially, making them view real food as unacceptable.

I think many adults would feel embarrassed to carry food and beverages from home, when they are driving. Somehow or other, the advertising industry has taught us to feel ashamed to prepare our own food. The implication is that you would only pass up convenience foods and fast foods if you were desperately poor–that to live without these poor quality, poisoned foods is to be deeply deprived.

I guess we could be taught by advertisers to view the contents of our cat box as a luxury and a treat–and to prefer it to actual food.

]]> By: Stephen Fox http://dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/fda-gave-glaxo-extra-year-to-profit-off-avandia/#comment-2640 Stephen Fox Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:50:36 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/07/fda-gave-glaxo-extra-year-to-profit-off-avandia/#comment-2640 Great article! Outstanding! Keep it up! You are on the right track, in general, especially if you will investigate further debunking the toop dogs in charge, Andrew Von Eschenbach, M.D., FDA commissioner, and Dr. David Acheson, recently appointed head of Food Safety. Please google my most recent article, RESOLVING THE WORSENING CRISIS AT THE FDA, as well as of our efforts through the NM Legislature to ban aspartame, and also to write the letters that 21 NM Legislators signed and sent to Dr. Von Eschenbach and to President Bush to ask them to rescind the approval for Aspartame/Methanol/Formaldehyde/Diketopiperazine, (just google Von Eschenbach/Aspartame/Ortiz y Pino). The Artificial Sweetener Aspartame will in time be recognized as one of the major scourges of modern health which has given more people brain tumors and neurodegenerative afflictions than just about anything else, yet is still found in 6000 USA food products, even in children's vitamins!!!!! I look forward to answering any replies. Truly Stephen Fox Founder, New Millennium Fine Art Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 983-2002 stephen@santafefineart.com Great article! Outstanding! Keep it up! You are on the right track, in general, especially if you will investigate further debunking the toop dogs in charge, Andrew Von Eschenbach, M.D., FDA commissioner, and Dr. David Acheson, recently appointed head of Food Safety.

Please google my most recent article, RESOLVING THE WORSENING CRISIS AT THE FDA, as well as of our efforts through the NM Legislature to ban aspartame, and also to write the letters that 21 NM Legislators signed and sent to Dr. Von Eschenbach and to President Bush to ask them to rescind the approval for Aspartame/Methanol/Formaldehyde/Diketopiperazine, (just google Von Eschenbach/Aspartame/Ortiz y Pino). The Artificial Sweetener Aspartame will in time be recognized as one of the major scourges of modern health which has given more people brain tumors and neurodegenerative afflictions than just about anything else, yet is still found in 6000 USA food products, even in children’s vitamins!!!!!

I look forward to answering any replies. Truly Stephen Fox
Founder, New Millennium Fine Art
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 (505) 983-2002
stephen@santafefineart.com

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