Food manufacturers are perfectly free to add meat
ingredients to their "natural" food products without listing meat on the
label at all. This infuriates vegetarians, and now thanks to mad cow
disease, it brings up the possibility that even meat eaters who wish to
avoid cow by-products will have a very difficult time doing so.
But
let me point out something even more alarming to those people who seek
out "natural" or vegetarian foods at the grocery store: the vast
majority of vegetarian prepared foods contain a dangerous nerve toxin
ingredient (an excitotoxin) called MSG or monosodium glutamate. You
probably knew that, but what you didn't know is that MSG is hidden
inside another ingredient: autolyzed yeast extract. In fact, any
ingredient that says "autolyzed" or "hydrolyzed" actually contains some
portion of MSG, and this is how food manufacturers sneak MSG into their
foods without listing it on the label.
For many food companies,
ethics are simply tossed out the window: they're going to put whatever
ingredients they want into these foods, and they're determined to avoid
listing them on the label, regardless of the law. The FDA, once again,
is a no-show on these issues: it is apparently too busy promoting the
profits of prescription drug companies to spend time actually protecting
the public from dangerous ingredients found in foods.
About the author: Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate and award-winning journalist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guides, and books on topics like health and the environment, and he is well known as the creator of popular downloadable preparedness programs on financial collapse, emergency food storage, wilderness survival and home defense skills. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In 2010, Adams launched TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and practices nature photography, Capoeira, martial arts and organic gardening. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
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