Dead rats don't lie, says sweetener critic Chris Wheeler: Rich Murray 2008.09.30
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.htm
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1564

Dead rats don't lie, says sweetener critic
Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 2:31 pm
Press Release: Chris Wheeler

Dead rats don't lie, says sweetener critic

"Dead rats don't lie," says food safety campaigner, Chris Wheeler,
over the controversy surrounding the artificial sweetener, aspartame,
used widely in pharmaceuticals and diet products. Before the so-
called `scientist' critics supporting sweetener safety get too
carried away condemning the Italian rat studies demonstrating
aspartame's cancer-causing characteristics, on the basis that they
never got to meet the rats, the public needs to know just who's
kidding who.

Dr B. A. Magnuson, a recent corporate-sponsored visitor, and her ilk, are happy
to use rat studies as a gold standard to `prove' chemical food additive safety
-– when it suits them -– but when a comprehensive series of studies come out
from a prestigious, non-industry aligned research institute like Italy's
Ramazzini Institute showing dangers in aspartame, then these food industry
apologists quibble over whether the rats used in the study were sufficiently
upper class or went to the right school.

Dr. Soffritti, the award-winning scientist heading the Italian rat
studies on aspartame's cancer-causing potential, used the same breed
of rats used widely by the food industry itself to test for toxicity.
The fact that Coca Cola and Wrigley's and the rest of the powerful
international corporates backing aspartame don't like facing is that
the Ramazzini Institute's rats died from cancer in unusually large
numbers when fed steady diets including aspartame, within the human
daily intake range.

Dead rats don't lie. The rats died because they ate aspartame Unlike
Dr Magnuson and Professor John Birkbeck of Massey University -– who,
we would note in passing is the former head of the industry-supported
NZ Nutrition Foundation –- the rats at no stage in their short careers ever
received funding, directly or indirectly, from Coca Cola, Wrigley's or any other
of the international corporates using
aspartame in their products. The sacrifice these rats made in the
cause of human health should not be ignored.

Producing carpetbag scientists out of the woodwork to defend
unnecessary chemical additions to the diet is a sort of crude
witchdoctor ritual used by the food and beverage industry to trick us
natives down in the street into believing junk food is manna from
heaven. This cargo cult type of argument needs to be seen in its true
light. The fact is pretty-well 95 percent of the chemicals added by
industry to our daily diet have nothing to do with human health or
nutrition. They are simply put there to make rubbish "food" and junk
beverages last forever and make it possible for human beings to
consume them without vomiting.

All the best science, coming from independent scientists not paid by
the food industry, demonstrates hazards from nerve and muscle damage
to cancer and significant eye damage from using diet preparations
including aspartame.

New Zealand's Abby Cormack isn't the only victim of aspartame by a
long shot. The problem is that our medical profession have bought
into the NZ Food Safety Authority's specious arguments that aspartame
is safe, based on industry data and the fact that the international
regulatory scene from the US FDA to the United Nation's Codex
Alimentarius is stacked with regulatory scientists who owe their main
sources of income to the additive-supplying industries they regulate.
These days there's no such thing as an `independent' food regulator.
NZ doctors simply fail to factor aspartame in as a possible cause of
the weird symptoms they are increasingly seeing pass through their
consulting rooms. They need to access the more than 200 independent
studies in the international medical press suggesting significant
health problems with aspartame product use.

Unfortunately, the average New Zealand food scientist, toxicologist,
dietician or nutritionist owes their professional career to keeping a favourable
profile with major international corporations like Coca Cola. To imagine that a
New Zealand professional in the human dietary field is going to come out with
significant criticisms of an identified nerve toxin like the synthetic
sweetener, aspartame,
is like expecting Fonterra to properly police a Chinese subsidiary
whose language and culture they clearly don't understand.

New Zealanders are babes in the wood in the hands of major
international corporates and the games they play over food safety.
It's indicative of the problems the New Zealand public have in
believing or trusting our own food regulators, when you realise that
the only data the regulators ever examine comes from the very
industries our regulators are supposed to be policing. Under those
circumstances it's a case of the same problem the computer industry
has always acknowledged –- if the incoming data is garbage, then the
outgoing data will also be garbage. What we have seen with Coca
Cola's recent defense of its use of aspartame in its diet products is
the manner in which so-called "science" can be misused to defend the
indefensible.

The fact is, minority organisations like our own NZ Safe Food
Campaign simply don't have the resources to defend the NZ public
against the consequences of junk science. What we need is a food
safety regulatory environment where the public interest is the first
priority and not the defense of powerful international food corporate
interests.

Fonterra's contaminated milk scandal should be a wake-up call to us
all over how easily food corporate interests take priority over
public safety.

NOTE:
Chris Wheeler is the Auckland representative of the NZ Safe Food
Campaign and former president of the Soil & Health Association of NZ
Inc, New Zealand's oldest lobbying group over health and food safety
issues.

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See www.safefood.org.nz, www.mpwhi.com or contact Safe Food Campaign PO Box 9206
Wellington, ph Alison +64 04 476 8607

Safe Food Campaign contacts in New Zealand +64
Wellington: Alison White 04-476 8607
Auckland: Anni Palmer 09-817 9937 annikaye@... or Chris Wheeler 021 505
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Waiheke Island: Wendy Johnson 09-372 9680
Hamilton: Phil Evans 027-697 0374, glycol.phil@...
Thames: Alia Steward-Finn 07-868 1030, aliasf@...
New Plymouth: Nina Vink 06-758 8174
Hawkes Bay: Odile Balas 06-835 0141
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The Abby Cormack Story

"After recently being diagnosed with aspartame poisoning I sought help from
several American experts to help guide me through the detox process. With all
the controversy about the safety of this toxic drug, they verified the diagnosis
and medically went into detail about the symptoms I suffered."

Abby Cormack abbycormack@...

For more information about Abby's story go to:
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-23/57897.html (article)
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/HealthNews/tabid/191/ArticleID/29322/Default.aspx
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4102374a20475.html (article)
http://www.tv3.co.nz/VideoBrowseAll/VideoAll/tabid/303/articleID/30896/Default.a\
spx?articleID=30896

formal complaint: Bernadene Magnuson, PhD, rudely overrode aspartame victim Abby
Cormack in TV interview in New Zealand: Murray 2008.09.29
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.htm
Monday, September 29, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1562

opportunities re BA Magnuson, GA Burdock et al., Aspartame Safety Evaluation
2007 Sept., Critical Reviews in Toxicology:
Rich Murray 2008.07.11
http://rmforall.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.htm
Friday, July 11, 2008
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aspartameNM/message/1550

http://www.beverageinstitute.org/about_us/index.shtml
http://www.beverageinstitute.org/sweeteners/index.shtml

http://www.beverageinstitute.org/sweeteners/docs/webinar_transcript_magnuson.pdf
18 page
audio slide show talk by Bernadene A. Magnuson, PhD
Coca-Cola, The Beverage Institute for Health & Wellness
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