SHOCKERS FROM HUFFPO

I love how it's not even shocking that this article only deals with "America's deadliest sweetener"--omitting less deadly but still lethal other ones.

America's Deadliest Sweetener Betrays Millions, Then Hoodwinks You With Name Change by Dr. Joesph Mercola

Aspartame is the most controversial food additive in history, and its approval for use in food was the most contested in FDA history. In the end, the artificial sweetener was approved, not on scientific grounds, but rather because of strong political and financial pressure. After all, aspartame was previously listed by the Pentagon as a biochemical warfare agent!

It's hard to believe such a chemical would be allowed into the food supply, but it was, and it has been wreaking silent havoc with people's health for the past 30 years.

The truth is, it should never have been released onto the market, and allowing it to remain in the food chain is seriously hurting people -- no matter how many times you rebrand it under fancy new names.


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Scientists are BEGGING for a chance to measure the oil spill. But the government and BP are refusing them the funding they need. Funny, didn't the Bush administration frown on science too?


Gulf Oil Spill: Scientists Beg For A Chance To Take Basic Measurements by Dan Froomkin

A group of independent scientists, frustrated and dumbfounded by the continued lack of the most basic data about the 77-day-old BP oil disaster, has put together a crash project intended to definitively measure how much oil has spilled and where and how it is spreading throughout the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

An all-star team of top oceanographers, chemists, engineers and other scientists could be ready to head out to the well site on two fully-equipped research vessels on about a week's notice. But they need to get the go-ahead -- and about $8.4 million -- from BP or the federal government or both. And that does not appear imminent.

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