It's even more poisonous than Apertame, and it will be on your table soon.

[lunadelcorvo]

What Can You Do To Avoid Monsanto's New, Deadlier Neurotoxic Sweetener? Very Little

Read about Monsanto's new aspertame replacement: 'neotame.' It's sweeter, deadlier, and has no labeling requirements at all. None. It can show up in meat (and maybe milk?) as it's fed to cattle, it can show up in both conventional and organic products. About the only place it will never show up is on a label. Bon appetit!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Disgusting and unacceptable. But quite what we've come to expect from Monsanto, the de facto lords of American agribusiness.

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Totally! And no one is standing in their way. Or, at least, no one with the money, power and/or influence to do anything about it....

[jimi45.livejournal.com]

The anonymous comment was mine. I keep getting kicked out of login for some reason.

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

Ah! I wondered. I occasionally get an anon comment, but if it's someone I know, they susually say who they are... No worries, it adds a touch of mystery! ;)

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Thankfully and much to Monsanto's distaste, such products have to be labelled here and any attempt to import will fall under the same restrictions that cover GMO's.

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

I know - I am continually dumbfounded that our government still refuses to even label all these additive and GMOs. Then gain, I probably shouldn't be - the power of the corporate lobbies is really very difficult to overestimate. I'm quite certain they could convince our government to let them market pure cyanide to kindergarten kids and the FDA/USDA would produce a series of cheerful ads and reports about how wonderful it was....

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Sigh :o(

As the late Spike Milligan once said: 'Come on in! The fallout is lovely!'

[toll-booth.livejournal.com]

Oh boy.

I can't get much info on wikipedia. That page, and other pages on additives such as saccharin, have been edited to death by the Big Agri PR people. (And this is coming from someone who generally trusts wikipedia.)

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

The DK article has a number of links to more info (unless you've already gone through those).

Wikipedia is OK for broad overviews, and general stuff. It's just something you are better off reading with a skeptical and somewhat informed eye.....