2 Responses to Banish Fake News!

1. resolute says:

   November 19, 2024 at 1:41 am

   I will spend all hours defending our freedom of speech before I would waste one second worrying about the veracity of some random news report.

   As has been said; Truth is like a great Lion. No need to defend it. Just set it free and it will defend itself.

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2. Reflection says:

   November 19, 2024 at 1:11 pm

   Sometimes you have to be astute enough not to give them worms.

   RFK Jr. fed the media in an arena where he needs to prove his credibility. He made a significant error and it was preventable. He may have a rough road ahead.

   In an interview on MSNBC, earlier this month, Kennedy suggested the second Trump administration could eliminate entire departments within the FDA: “In some categories, their entire departments, like the nutrition department in the FDA, they have to go. They’re not doing their job. They’re not protecting our kids. Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients, and you go to Canada, and it’s got two or three?”

   “Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many artificial ingredients, questioning why the Canadian version has fewer than the U.S. version,” the Times’ report read. “But he was wrong. The ingredient list is roughly the same, although Canada’s has natural colorings made from blueberries and carrots while the U.S. product contains red dye 40, yellow 5 and blue 1 as well as Butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, a chemical that is used ‘for freshness,’ according to the ingredient label.”

   BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene) is a lab-made chemical that is added to foods as a preservative. (Antioxidenr) People also use it as medicine. (Anti-viral, but It’s not approved for that use). BHT is used to treat genital herpes and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Some people apply BHT directly to the skin for cold sores.
   It is linked to cancer concerns with overexposure, so many companies have stopped using it.

   American Fruit Loops:
   Ingredients: Corn flour blend (whole grain yellow corn flour, degerminated yellow corn flour), sugar, wheat flour, whole grain oat flour. modified food starch,
   contains 2% or less of vegetable oil (hydrogenated coconut, soybean and/or cottonseed). oat fiber, maltodextrin, salt, soluble corn fiber, natural flavor, red 40, yellow 5,
   blue 1, yellow 6, Vitamins and Minerals: Vitamin C (ascorbic acid), reduced iron, niacinamide, vitamin B6 (pyridoxine hydrochloride), vitamin B2 (riboflavin), vitamin B1, (thiamin hydrochloride) folic acid vitamin D3 vitamin B12

   Contains a Bioengineered food ingredient. (Likely to be corn.) Total of vitamins and minerals, roughly standardized to 10% DV with the exception of Vitamin D, at only 4%. Added synthetic vitamins conceal the low nutrient levels in the processed product.

   The reality is that the Canadian version is only marginally better; and it’s higher in sugars.

   Canadian Fruit Loops:
   Ingredients: Sugars (sugar, maltodextrin), whole grain corn flour, wheat flour, whole grain oat flour, degerminated corn flour, corn bran, oat hull fibre, hydrogenated coconut and vegetable oil, salt, concentrated carrot juice (for colour), anthocyanin, annatto, turmeric, natural flavour, concentrated watermelon juice (for colour), concentrated blueberry juice (for colour), concentrated huitojuice (for colour), stevia leaf extract, Vitamins and minerals: Iron, niacinamide, zinc oxide, thiamine
   hydrochloride, D-calcium pantothenate, cholecalciferol (vitamin D), pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid. CONTAINS: Wheat, oats.

   This, however is the UK ingredient list.
   INGREDIENTS: Cereal flours (79%) (wheat, oat, maize), sugar, glucose syrup, salt, fruit and vegetable concentrates (carrot, cherry), natural citrus flavouring with other natural flavourings, colour (carotenes).

   Kellogg had pledged back in 2015 to remove artificial dyes from its foods by 2018. But that hasn’t happened, despite the company making changes to its formulas in other countries, such as Canada and the UK, where artificial colors are more tightly regulated.

   Californian did some research on artificial dyes. Here is a link to those reports.
   https://oehha.ca.gov/risk-assessment/report/health-effects-assessment-potential-neurobehavioral-effects-synthetic-food

   No excuses. His statement was incorrect. It’s advisable to be more general, unless you are absolutely sure of your specifics. He’s not wrong about other countries regulating food differently, nor the deceitfulness within the industry. But, he dulled his point due to inaccuracy.

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