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I'm throwing out my Red Vines....!

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Only two months ago, the NYT published a negative piece on RFK junior mention this topic. « Mr. Kennedy has singled out Froot Loops as an example of a product with too many ingredients. In an interview with MSNBC on Nov. 6, he questioned the overall ingredient count: “Why do we have Froot Loops in this country that have 18 or 19 ingredients and you go to Canada and it has two or three?” Mr. Kennedy asked.

He was wrong on the ingredient count, they are roughly the same. But the Canadian version does have 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 lab-made chemical that is used “for freshness,” according to the ingredient label. »

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Rosiglitazone is an hypoglycemic drug appoved by the FDA for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and ten years later it was shown that it produces an increase in heart attacks and in Europe it was banned by the Health Authorities. But in the USA the company was sued by 13.000 patients and their families. And the FDA made a new study that " demonstrated " the drug was safe and authorized to be marketed in the USA . And guess who financed the "study " . The FDA has also approved other drugs that have followed the same way. There's an obvious need in the Drug Companies to sell drugs and making the larger profit no matter what happens to the people, to the sick people. Like the song of the movie Easy Rider called The Pusher the guy who sell you illegal drugs and the lyrics say : but the pusher don't care if you live or if you died.

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