Obama’s war (er, kinetic action) on…Jell-O & Fruit Loops?!!
The busybody hand of Michelle Obama looms large. New target: Jell-O, Fruit Loops, and that evil of evils…Minute Maid Lemonade. Via the NYTimes, meet the war (or rather, kinetic action — h/t chap) on dyed foods:
After staunchly defending the safety of artificial food colorings, the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing whether foods like Jell-O, Lucky Charms cereal and Minute Maid Lemonade should carry warnings that the bright artificial colorings in them worsen behavior problems like hyperactivity in some children.
The Food and Drug Administration concluded long ago that there was no definitive link between the colorings and behavior or health problems, and the agency is unlikely to change its mind any time soon. But on Wednesday and Thursday, the F.D.A. will ask a panel of experts to review the evidence and advise on possible policy changes, which could include warning labels on food.
The hearings signal that the growing list of studies suggesting a link between artificial colorings and behavioral changes in children has at least gotten regulators’ attention — and, for consumer advocates, that in itself is a victory.
In a concluding report, staff scientists from the F.D.A. wrote that while typical children might be unaffected by the dyes, those with behavioral disorders might have their conditions “exacerbated by exposure to a number of substances in food, including, but not limited to, synthetic color additives.”
Renee Shutters, a mother of two from Jamestown, N.Y., said in a telephone interview on Tuesday that two years ago, her son Trenton, then 5, was having serious behavioral problems at school until she eliminated artificial food colorings from his diet. “I know for sure I found the root cause of this one because you can turn it on and off like a switch,” Ms. Shutters said.
But Dr. Lawrence Diller, a behavioral pediatrician in Walnut Creek, Calif., said evidence that diet plays a significant role in most childhood behavioral disorders was minimal to nonexistent. “These are urban legends that won’t die,” Dr. Diller said.
The food police’s regulatory solution: More government-imposed labels, of course.
Can someone please slap a health hazard warning label on junk science queen Michelle Obama?
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Ota Benga said:
Do you realize that the Federal Government mandated the use of MTBE in Gasoline without any proper testing and with held any information on this substance until it was found in City Drinking Water and even now it is thought to cause Canser?
here’s another prime example of how the government wants to control how we eat. i ate jello for most of my childhood and it never caused me to have behavioral issues. michelle obama, just like al gore, is trying to blind us with science.
No such thing. They see what they can include in the suit to get the most money.
In Marin County CA, there was a trust called the Buck Trust. It was for Marin only. Ms. Buck set it up that way. The lawyers sued, supposedly to spread the wealth. But their biggest victory wasn’t in trying to get trust funds freed for other counties. It was when they got the judge (a lawyer!) to agree that the trust would pay all fees for both sides! How long did the case take? Just long enough so the lawyers could make out like bandits.
One wonders what the lawyers would have done had the judge not allowed the fees to be paid from the trust. The media at the time believed the case would have been over in a week.
The main problem is that they create a mentality among people that makes the following statement possible to be said (or written) with a straight face:
Being fed to us? Sounds like what a prison inmate would say about his lunch or cows being raised for the slaughter. I’ve heard this type of whine and I always wonder what these children in adult bodies will do if/when the all knowing, caring welfare state crumbles and they are forced to start acting like a thinking human being.
That struck me too. Simply put: I feed MYSELF.
Again, it’s the FDA..not Michelle Obama. That was Michelle Malkin’s connection that causes everyone to freak out.
By the way, I think Mcdonalds did have a warning label on their coffee at the time that woman burned herself. It just wasn’t big enough or some such garbage.
If you change the Tort laws so that the
Loser Pays All Court Costs
and
Loser Pays Both Sides Attorney Fees-
the amount of nuisance lawsuits will decrease significantly.
Perhaps if you had been on you would have learned that juries in civil trials do not find “guilty” or “innocence.” That is for criminal trials.
Also, you would have learned that in New Mexico, civil trials don’t require unanimity. You would have needed to convince at least 2 others as well.
I don’t know if that is true but given the influx of non-English speakers (and kids raised here that don’t know English) wouldn’t the warning have to be printed in a multitude of languages to protect the drinker from having to think for themselves?
Ok, it’s becoming silly. And that means we’re no longer debating the topic at hand, but rather riffing and wasting time. I’ll play too.
I’m gonna toss at grenade a Bruno Mars’ girlfriend to see if he has the courage of his convictions. Discuss.
If you think that it’s okay to put potentially dangerous ingredients in our products, without warning labels, so we can make an informed decision, I fundamentally disagree. And can’t believe you would hold such a position with a straight face. That’s really all there is to it. I’m so not going to parse out and debate what I mean by “fed”. Common sense is a good virtue.
Michelle ” Spud Butt” Obama and her cronies in the FDA, regulating and telling people whats good for them while eating RibLets and Lobster tail –
Chap, what about jury size in a civil trial as opposed to a criminal trial?
In my state a civil trial jury only requires seven members. Is a civil trial size other than 12 common?
Waaah, effing Waaah!
Potentially Dangerous Ingredients??
I had to read that a couple of times and does that mean there is possibly Thermite or WP in my Little Debbie Snack Cakes I do not know it?
I’m gonna toss a grenade at Bruno Mars’ girlfriend to see if he has the courage of his convictions. Discuss.
Ok, too many typos. I’m out. As usual this was all about debating for debating sake. MM and most of you have no problem with warning labels. You’re just blowing off steam, and throwing stuff out there.
Waiter, theres a fly in my soup.
Don’t worry, he won’t drink much.
Just the gound up remains of the antrax prevention pill.
Yup, they are Mrs. Obama’s cronies at the FDA. They run lock-step in what SHE says. Because she is the almighty First Lady! She most definitely spurred this debate. I stand corrected. You are correct…all you had to do was tell me the FDA is now an Obama outfit filled with their cronies. It all makes sense now!
Paranoia, paranoia, everyone is coming to get you…
antrax = anthrax……sorry
To quote a possible hero of yours, Billy the Willy Clinton, “It depends upon what the definition of the word is is.”
Discuss ‘among’ yourself, Ota.
What did we do before warning labels?
I want Mrs. Malkin to put a warning label on Ilovemycountry’s posts.
Shouldn’t bags of sugar have warning labels? There are millions of diabetics in the USA alone.
In fact, why are bags of sugar even sold?
The ACTUAL possible danger in a bag of sugar is much more severe than the POSSIBLE danger of “worsened behavioral symptoms” lurking in products with “bright artificial colorings”.
The idea that every product should be labeled for every possible effect is ridiculous.
If my child’s behavioral problems were bad enough that I had begun looking for external causes – the artificial coloring cause had better be proven before I’m WARNED about it.
What would the warning say, “WARNING!!! The artificial colorings in this product may or may not worsen behavioral problems. We don’t know yet. But they may.”
We aren’t talking about labeling the INGREDIENTS, we are talking about a WARNING label.
Who will labeling ACTUALLY HELP? Someone whose child has behavioral problems, but has done nothing about it until reading a food label, I suppose. But wait — perhaps not even them, since there is “NO DEFINITIVE LINK”.
If the idea is to inform people, labeling would obviously be a mistake – it would only create confusion.
If they outlaw the food coloring in Kool-Aid, what will the liberals try to force people to drink?
Victory Gin
Until next time, Ota-san.
However, steam is generated by heat, and the heat comes from rage.
I feel rage when I watch a TV commercial where a Mercedes-Benz driver shooting the Wall of Death test-track at 160 knots and a little message at the bottom of the screen tells me that it’s a professional driver (you think?) on a closed track (What? Really?) and that I shouldn’t try this at home (my home doesn’t have a test-track)is REALLY saying:
Y O U. A R E. S T O O P I D.
So, what should we we do when overseas if we don’t know the language or worse yet, there are no warning labels? (GASP! The horror!) Do we just not eat? Or do we bring food with warning labels from the United States so we can make an informed decision about Potentially Dangerous Ingredients every time we eat?
I know, the govt should have translators and food/nutrition experts on call 24/7 that travelers can call to get the info they need. Shouldn’t be more than a few billion dollars and besides, it’s for the children.
Pardon me if this has already been said, but how stupid has this society become if we have to be told coffee is hot? Sadly, it appears that is big government’s goal. Dumb people down to the point of total dependence on frauds like Obama.
kentroyals5 said:
The EPA as well as the FDA are filled with cronies of the Sock Puppet regime.
Without the cronies how do you think money was taken from the Food Stamp Program, 45 million people and counting on that program but IU digress, and given to Spuds for her signature program to end the horror of Fat Kids?
Well I was on a criminal jury and I voted not guilty and the other 11 voted guilty. Given another day it was 12 not guilty. So I would welcome that opportunity and enjoy watching the lawyers when our verdict was announced.
No, the problem is the government FORCING you to use a warning label. Ever wonder why the government itself does not have to follow its OWN standards? Maybe citizenship needs to come with a warning label. “You may be treated as serfs by the government when it suits its purpose. You will have to pay for the education and healthcare of non-citizens and we may at any point take away your property. “
You naturally worded the phrase as “fed to us”, rather than “feed ourselves.” A little red light should have gone off in any independent American’s head.
The thing is, you keep saying that the government is not telling us what to eat, just labeling what we eat…and it’s been delivered as a general statement.
I’m concerned that actually you believe this.
That’s kinda like… Warning! Crossing this street could/might/will be hazardous to busses. If you are ran over (or thrown under one) this may impede them from staying on their appointed schedules.
It’s the busses fault for not looking, just as it’s always someone elses fault for their own stupidity.
In CA, civil cases only require 8 votes out of a jury of 12. In which case, I would find for the respondant and do my best to convince 4 others of the 100% negligence of the plaintiff.
The Supremem Court has ruled that there is no magical significance to the number 12. It could be more, it be less. Whatever a state decides. Just remember, the fewer the number of jurors, the less people you have to sway. Just sayin’.
kentroyals5 said:
Lets play a game, lets play who is:
Michael Taylor
What is he in charge of?
Who appointed him?
Who does he answer too?
What company did he work for?
What company benefitted from the passage of the Food Safety and Modernization Act (SB 510?
I am always amused that the people with this mindset also believe in evolution and natural selection.
It was the lion’s fault that the impala did not look out for the lion.
Perhaps this food dye thing actually deserves some thoughtful consideration for health safety. Do you all realize that the Kool Aid served at Jonestown contained FD&C Red Dye #40? See, there’s something to think about.
Love it! Like MM said earlier “Stealing that”.
Some time back a shrink when asked about Maturity in the U.S responded by saying; “We’re a nation where the children can’t wait to do adult things, drink, s*x, etc. and at the same time, we have all these ‘adults’ that constantly want to relive their childhood! Hang-gliding and base jumping.”
I see that as a big part of the Prog Agenda. Nationalized Healthcare assures they’ll be able to spend ‘their’ money “living the dream”. Risky Recreation OTA! Not their problem.
Oh my gosh…the Obama administration hired people. Who do they think they are!?
AMERICA IS BURNING TO THE GROUND AND “FOOD COLOR” IS WHAT FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS HOLDING “HEARINGS” ON ?????
See that just ain’t right. Every man should have his own test track! You know what’s funny though, of course Hollywood *exempts* themselves from any and all Disclaimers!
Maybe we should make them run subtitles at the bottom of the screen that say: “Tom Cruise really can’t dodge bullets while doing a backflip out of a burning helicopter”?
kentroyals5 said:
Not too smart are you there lad
The FDA is in charge of the Food and Drugs in this country…weird they’d be having hearings on a food issue, I know.
I, too, wish the FDA did more to contain the Libyan forces advancing on the rebels. The FDA head needs to resign!
Hiring people does not mean they automatically become cronies. (Mike Brown..unqualified and in over his head…was a cronie.)
And if you believe the FDA is doing this based off of Michelle Obama’s desire for a better fed and more fit country, your tin foil hat is crooked.
It has been said but needs repeating often as many still don’t hear it or understand it. Their leaders have been telling them they can’t figure that out and need protection. Kind of the John Gotti school of politics. Give me your money and I will protect you from yourself.
The head of the FDA is likely a more qualified Commander in Chief then the one we have.
Sigh, lol. Won’t dignify that. My meaning is clear to “any independent
American’sadult human’s head.”a man sees his wife watching a cooking show and asks, “why are you watching that, you can’t cook?” The wife replies with… “well,.. you watch porn don’t you?”
Kent, I think we’re all aware of what the FDA’s function is supposed to be? That’s not our point. Can’t speak for others but I view virtually everything thru the prism of Financial Extinction.
Given we’re on the -verge- of it, how important is this cr@p right now this minute? Believe me, Libya is the least of our problems right now.
Hey whatever. Had you been following MM’s coverage of Let’s Move you’d realize FLOTUS has every -intention- of growing that budding ‘program’ into a Branch of Gov. all its own.
You have been following that right?
People pick apart my comments like I’m indicting everyone on here. My response about the FDA’s function was in response to AMERICANVETERAN’s comment. He’s acting like the FDA shouldn’t be dealing with food and drug issues because of other things going on in the country. He’s silly and wrong.
Here’s a warning label we should all heed:
WARNING: Re-electing Barack Who’sInsane Obama in 2012 can be hazardous to your health, your wallet, your freedom, and your country.
Yup! I have been following. It’s all qutie silly to be afraid. Time to cling to your guns, bibles, and now twinkies!
Even many on the right think it’s a noble cause and that some are hyperventilating about nothing.
I see “Chicago” and “Obama” and I instantly read Obama cronie. Its the Chicago way. Maybe it’s just me but since Obama lied about his affiliations with Rev Wrights church and their philosophy, I have no inclination to trust him here.
kentroyal5,
This is the utter nonsense many of us object to. Read these concluding remarks. His speculation does not even qualify scientifically as a puff of smoke.
Scientifically, you could add to his might, exposure to excess sunlight, RF energy, MTLB, radioactive fallout, dust mites, latex, and the Loch Ness Monster…….. shall I continue?
kentroyals5 said:
You can curl up in your sock drawer now knowing that you have enlightened the masses with your ever so progressive, no I take that back. So, being the ever tolerant progressive hack, now everyone is not thin, blonde and blue eyed perhaps?and agnostic if not atheist, what are your feeings towards all those people that are not? How bout those cripples in wheel chairs hey, must be a hoot and by god those fatties are a blight on your perverse universe. But hey, we can all rest assured Auntie Mo, Gaias gift to the rubes of America, will all lead us down the path of good eats.
Hmm. Smells of cronyism.
Ah, the banking industry serving public equities. Hmmm.
Well I can’t argue with you if you can’t get beyond your own bias based off of her birth state. Did you read the part where she worked in New York, too? Or any of her other employment? Or did that not fit your narrative based off her birth city?
The key word is ‘might’. Hence, the hearings. They aren’t saying anything conclusively. Relax.
Aww, someone not having a good day? We need Chap to offer some drink suggestions.
There is a sign on the entry door to the Safeway store near my house.
It says that they sell peanuts and peanuts products in their grocery store, and that persons who are allergic or sensitive to peanuts and peanut by-products shoud exercise caution.
The ONLY reason that the stupid sign is posted is to protect SAFEWAY from litigation, or to mitigate the results of litigation.
Is she qualified for her job?
Not sure if that was flippant, but I’m not convinced you have been following. Last Dec. in the 11th hour of the lameduck:
S. 510: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act
111th Congress
It’s no joke. Expanded gov. powers, shuts out smaller producers ( even your local Farmer’s Market ) and was championed by the evil mega corp’s you guys pretend to hate. I hope you’re asking yourself.., how is that a good thing? What about competition? Level playing field? PICK winners & losers much?
Yeah, I did. The rest probably doesn’t fit your narrative. Open your eyes and take a real look around, not just what your public minders feed you. Pun intended.
Warning labels that carry info about immediate hazards make sense: radioactive, corrosive, flammable, etc.
Cigarette warning labels serve no practical purpose other than, for years, they shielded tobacco companies from liability. Now they don’t even do that right. And, while I believe that cigarette smoking can lead to lung diseases, the danger is not immediate. I can’t smoke today and have emphysema tomorrow. Smoking kills the old chronic smoker who hasn’t died of anything else.
Maybe we need a label, let’s say attached to every street sign or highway exit that says: “If you’re going to do something, do it in moderation.”
(This is not a serious suggestion, so those on the Right don’t need to scold about nanny-statism, and those on the Left shouldn’t start planning having a multi-lingual recording attached to each sign for non-English speakers and the visually impaired.)
Can a qualified person be a crony?
kentroyals5 said:
Not at all, just watching a prole unmask him/herself.
Typically, people who are qualified and connected (who they know) get a nice job. But they’re qualified. How did most of us get our jobs? Because we knew someone and had the recommendations and qualifications.
When you get a job soley based off of knowing someone (Mike Brown), you are a cronie.
Good! I’d have suggested a gin and juice (grapefruit). Note that I Haaaaaaaaaate gin, with a capital ‘H’. But that drink is delicious.
I get most of my news from this site, actually! I also read Foxnews and my local news site, komotv.com
My narrative is to not see a person was born in Chicago and assume anything else other than them being stupid Bears fans.
Doug, I ‘hope’ we can all agree on that! Lol. No jive. Making generic warnings based on long term ‘projections’ about say smoking, isn’t quite the same thing as a No-Smoking Sign affixed to a GAS PUMP now is it!
Now see, Moochelle, bho and the administration want American eat healthy just like us (VN the third world country), we always eat fresh (veggies ‘just don’t have arugula’, fruits, meats….) because we don’t have electricity nor the fridge to keep them, we don’t have can foods or Jell-O, Fruit Loops for that matter…. so “we eat (fresh) all we can, and we DRY the rest”.
Our communist Gov takes a good care of its citizens so they can produce or you can call it “labor”.
Ugh, liberals love to lie. He got the job soley because he knew someone? Contrary to the perpetual lies the liberal left and the MSM like to spread, Brown had emergency management experience. I know you can’t believe it because it doesn’t fit your narrative, but he did.
kentroyals5 said:
Now back to Michael Taylor
Who is he, and what is he in charge of and do try to draw a parallel between F.D.A. and the place where Michael Taylor works – that’s a hint ok, I am helping you. As for parallel, being a appointee by you know who, who is in a position to investigate the alleged association between food dyes and behavior problems in children? And Auntie Mo’s hands are all over this.
kentroyals5-Or a potential disaffected Cubs fan.
Marshall_Will – the generic warning label is nothing more than substitute for action. Action that we really don’t want anyone to take, that is. It is just so much hectoring and it adds nothing of value to the marketplace except, as someone stated, liability protection.
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First course:
Cornbread, with honey butter
Lobster salad with asparagus, peas, hot biscuit
A glass of Hermann J. Wiemer Riesling “Semi-Dry” 2008, Finger Lakes, New York
Main course:
Braised Short Ribs, honey-glazed chokes, spring onions and red wine reduction
A glass of Brown Estate “Chaos Theory” 2009, Napa Valley
Dessert:
Chocolate Cake with rhubarb compote, buttermilk sherbert
Sweet Potato Doughnuts with cinnamon and brown sugar
Ridge Geyersville “Essence” 2007, Sonoma County, California
Tree Bark and Grass clippings for the rest of you fly over country rubes -
Not really.
No, really.
Chapoutier- That Brown blurb reminds me of Dwight from the office. “I am the assistant regional manager?”
“No, you are the assistant TO the regional manager”
“Same thing”
“Not really”
“Get out of my office!”
“This is not an office. It says it’s a workspace”
280- sounds over-qualified then if you ask me. *insert Obama qualification joke here*
All right.
The truth hurts sometimes. Liberals don’t like to be confused with the facts.
FIFY
What is the old song about statistics being used by liars? Add science to that as well.
What a shock! Lawyers making out like bandits. Remind again of how many reps in Congress are lawyers?
If the F-FLOTUS is so concerned with diet, might I suggest to her:
SHUT YOUR PIEHOLE, Michelle!
She doesn’t like jello because it reminds her of “that certain part” of her female anatomy. Fruit Loops are out now, because she ate them as a child, and she now knows that it’s true…you are what you eat!
Boy, being first lady of Obamopia is hard business…all that free time, trying to come up with something to jerk the “little people” around with…I wonder what’s next…jerky?
Remind me how many people in government are lawyers.
If they remove food coloring from Kool-Aid, what will Kool-Aid look like? Just wondering.
That too!
I have no idea if that is the truth. Considering you didn’t give me a link to a source, how could I?
But whatever. If you are right, that just kind of makes his whole performance even more pathetic, doesn’t it?
Take your heart meds and a deep breath there. Did you actually bother to read the post? Michelle O hasn’t said a thing about Jello or Froot Loops (let’s spell it right people). That is just a bit of MM’s commentary.
Sulfites in wine could be next….
I guess all non-alcoholic drinks will be labeled next.
I demand to know why the appropriate government agency didn’t warn me I was killing myself with sobriety!
kentroyals5
RSS clearly indicated support for it.
Ever heard of Surgeon General’s warning?
Not that I am aware. Her influence is much greater than anyone holding that position could ever dream of.
Why him and not Eliot Spitzer, Kwame Kilpatrick or Bill Clinton?
They won’t be. Liberals are too addicted to the tax revenue.
Bolshoi…. there is ZERO quantification of “MIGHT.” There is more quantified evidence that Eric Holder obstructed justice, Tim Geithner cheated on his taxes, and Obama is a Kenyan. So which should we hold hearings on first?
George HW Bush MIGHT have flow in an SR-71 to illegally broker a deal with Iran.
I am SICK AND TIRED of Science being trampled on by these political hacks. Everytime I challenge any “champion” of Global Warming to show me the data, the science behind their premise,it’s been a waste of time. My dog will knit a scarf before they ever respond.
ALL SHOW, NO GO. Without some empirical data any “hearing” is unjsutified. Show me the data.
Sorry. I thought I had linked it. Here.
I don’t really buy into the whole Brownie was bad thing. It seemed to me that he got caught up in all the Bush Bashing going on. Hence the Brown has no experience meme. Katrina was used as a political bludgeon by those on the left. The whole Bush hates black people thing. I saw Katrina as a major catastrophe that no one could prepare for. If there were real culprits in that tragedy, it was the local officials from Mayor Nagy to Governor Blanco. I can’t really even blame them. I blame the freakin storm. Natural disasters happen. We prepare but no one can prepare for everything. We have limited resources.
Nagy for all his faults was reelected?? It was all about politics. No one wanted to blame a Democrat and hurt their cause so they found a scapegoat. Bush and Brownie received all the blame, led by the Hollywood crowd, as it was the hip thing to do and helped them politically. Very superficial and callous. I care, but Boosh blew up the levees to wipe out black people. Kanye West, Sean Penn, Wolf Blitzer. Disgusting and all for political gain.
Alcohol, like modern art and 20th century concert music, is best taken in moderation.
And, surprise, it is good for you.
Alcohol is one of the four sources of calories (proteins, carbohydrates, and fats being the other three.) If one chooses to follow the beliefs of the fundamentalist Judeo-Christian-Muslim interfaith conglomerate (and really, except for a few rituals, who can tell the difference?) then you are likely in a high risk group compared to those who enjoy food and drink of all types in moderation.
Don’t be a teetotaller. And, for whatever-deity-you-love’s sake, don’t drink cheap booze, especially to excess. That is just stupid, no matter what your political proclivities.
Waiter, what’s that fly doing in my soup?
The backstroke.
Is beheading the infidel a “ritual”?