Along with mercury-grade HFCS and loads of other illness-inducing shit. Keep you overworked, underpaid, and unhealthy.
Just need to be sure insurance cost for all that super-expensive medical care is paid for by the taxpayers — along with the CEOs, lobbyists, and admen.
How, you ask? Aluminum. Processed cheese is loaded with it. So are the pickles on the burgers. So, you're getting mercury-grade HFCS in the bun and ketchup, aluminum in the pickles, and aluminum in the cheese.
Whistleblower retiring from FDA blew the whistle on this.
Obama's war on whistleblowers... coincidence?
nope
Ayden Fisher
Do HFCS contain any mercury in them what so ever?
Because there are tons of other toxic chemicals that are used in all sorts of foods that never actually make it into your foods
Oliver Myers
Buying fast food is the ultimate bluepill.
>Buying fast food when you can buy and make fresher taster food cheaper.
Thomas Hernandez
>Why is the FDA unwilling to study evidence of mercury in high-fructose corn syrup? this is fructose
theres no mercury in it
Oliver Gray
>which are?
All of them.
None have been fully tested with true lifetime studies in both mice and rats — and in human studies.
The closest one is trichlorosucrose ("sucralose") which has recently been linked not only to diabetes (by killing the type of bacteria that is good for insulin response in favor of the bad type which causes weight gain and impaired glucose response) and cancer (mutagenic and linked to bone marrow cancer).
The US government relied mainly on the industry's research instead of independent research. And, many cancer experts came out to say the popular sweetener acesulfame was not tested properly and shows carcinogenic properties. No new research done on that since the 70s, bro. lol
Joseph Gonzalez
the mercury is a contaminant in the physical product
residue from mercury-grade caustic soda
You know when you buy food that has "distributed by" on the label to hide that it's from heavily polluted areas of China it's likely tainted as well — like the protein stuff multiple places have found is loaded with heavy metals and shit
Alexander Powell
stevia's primary metabolite, steviol, is a mutagen
stevia extracts cause DNA to break apart
and yet Coca-Cola is still planting more and bigger stevia plantations in South America
this is why the FDA banned stevia for decades and then fast-tracked it in a very short time (once Coca-Cola and others realized the public needed a "natural" sweetener to replace their shitty artificial ones)
Wikipedia has corporate clowns sitting on the stevia pages to block edits that don't push it, too
These are tons of MSDS for all sorts of chemical properties including human biological interactions and testing.
yea don't tell me these aren't tested because they regularly are.
>the mercury is a contaminant in the physical product theres no mercury in high-fructose corn syrup. Its literally high concentrated fructose in a syrup form.
Chase Perry
>The US government relied mainly on the industry's research instead of independent research.
The same lying industry that claimed trichlorosucrose isn't digested or absorbed by the body.
In reality, 15% is digested and 7-8% is absorbed. And, as with cyclamate, there are likely people who absorb considerably more.
There's a reason why Romney's chief financial advisor made billions pushing supplements.
It's called a crooked FDA
Isaac Richardson
>stevia's primary metabolite, steviol, is a mutagen >stevia extracts cause DNA to break apart This is stevia
This is too big to get inside the nucleus of the cell let alone get through the cell's membrane even via active transport
this has no acidic or any sort of property that produces any kind of degenerative molecule to do that
Liam Nelson
>theres no mercury in high-fructose corn syrup. Its literally high concentrated fructose in a syrup form.
So the mercury in products with HFCS, products made from mercury-grade caustic soda and such — just spontaneously appeared out of thin air?
I suppose you're going to tell me that when Consumer Reports found large amounts of heavy metals and arsenic in protein drinks those just spontaneously appeared, too?
It wouldn't have anything to do with those being sourced from China, a country which even admitted that 25% of its land is heavily polluted (an undertestimation, of course) and which people have taken photos involving farms right next to lead smelting plants...
Jayden Perez
>This is stevia steviol is a mutagen
steviol, not stevia
stevia is the plant
Jayden Baker
>stevia is the plant steviol is what you get when the body metabolizes stevia after ingesting its extracts
the industry tried to claim that stevioside is the extract that yields steviol but rebaudioside-A is nearly identical chemically
Jack Murphy
>So the mercury in products with HFCS, products made from mercury-grade caustic soda and such — just spontaneously appeared out of thin air? No you're confusing biproducts with the actual product that is HFCS
HFCS contains no mercury. You're somehow blaming that somehow mercury laden biproducts from either production or manufacturing biproducts.
I'm saying you're not differentiating between the two and when I go to the store and buy Caro off the shelf in the glass jar there is no mercury in that.
You're fucking retarded
Stevia is the plant and Steviol Glycoside is the name for the molecule dubbed stevia
That molecule I posted IS steviol glycoside you fucking idiot.
Juan Turner
>No you're confusing biproducts with the actual product that is HFCS >HFCS contains no mercury. You're somehow blaming that somehow mercury laden biproducts from either production or manufacturing biproducts. You're wasting my time.
The point has been from the beginning that HFCS, the product, is potentially tainted because the FDA hasn't banned mercury-grade processing for its constituents.
duh
>That molecule I posted IS steviol glycoside Yes, because you're trying to wage a disinformation campaign.
Steviol is the mutagenic compound the body creates when it metabolizes stevia's sweet-tasting extracts
fuck off shill
Isaiah Russell
>Yes, because you're trying to wage a disinformation campaign.
>No its Steviol, not stevia >stevia is the generic name its Steviol Glycoside >yes you're trying to wage a disinfo campaign
You're fucking retarded, that molecule IS Steviol
That steviol is FAR too fucking big and has no protein specific ligands that do anything to cause DNA to somehow degrade. Its a fucking sweetener that appeals to your taste buds' receptors.
You keep saying that steviol and stevia are two different things they fucking aren't.
Its like saying that acetyl-salicylic acid is different than aspirin because its called aspirin on the bottle. ITS THE SAME SHIT WITH A GENERIC NAME.
>Metabolically activated steviol, the aglycone of stevioside, is mutagenic.
>Metabolically activated steviol, the aglycone of stevioside, is mutagenic
>Evaluation of the genotoxicity of steviol using six in vitro and one in vivo mutagenicity assays
"steviol produced dose-related positive responses in some mutagenicity tests"
shall I continue?
James Howard
Lab Tests Point to Problems with Trendy New Stevia Sweetener
>according to a new 26-page report by toxicologists at the University of California, Los Angeles, several, though not all, laboratory tests show that the sweetener causes mutations and DNA damage, which raises the prospect that it causes cancer. In a letter to the Food and Drug Administration, the Center for Science in the Public Interest says the agency should require additional tests, including a key animal study, before accepting rebiana as Generally Regarded as Safe, or GRAS.
>The UCLA toxicologists emphasized the need for more genotoxicity tests, because of the evidence that derivatives of stevia that are closely related to rebiana damage DNA and chromosomes. Their report noted that much of the recent research on rebiana was sponsored by Cargill and urged the FDA to obtain independently conducted tests to ensure that corporate biases don't influence the design, conduct, or results of the tests.
>Two companies—Cargill and Merisant—have told the FDA that rebiana should be considered GRAS, a category given less scrutiny by the FDA than ordinary food additives.
>The whole issue of what gets GRAS status needs to be reviewed by Congress," Jacobson said. "It’s crazy that companies can just hire a few consultants to bless their new ingredients and rush them to market without any opportunity for the FDA and the public to review all the safety evidence."
A third company, Wisdom Natural Brands, has declared that its stevia-based sweetener is GRAS and will market it without giving evidence to, or even notifying, the FDA.
