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 When NewsTarget first contacted the Almond board of California on April 4th, we received a letter from the organization that stated, "As is the case with many other foods treated for safety, raw almonds that have been pasteurized do not differ in any significant way from untreated raw almonds, and therefore are still sold as "raw" under Food & Drug Administration (FDA) labeling regulations."
After our story ran, the Almond board changed its response to consumer emails. |
| Notice that there is still no statement whatsoever from the Almond board that says these pasteurized almonds will be accurately labeled as "pasteurized". The organization simply claims the almonds will be labeled, "in line with FDA regulations." Of course, those regulations may or may not be honest.
Why won't the Almond board of California simply announce that pasteurized almonds will be labeled "pasteurized?" Why is this simple truth such a difficult thing for the organization to publicly support? |
| Usually farmers want to find ways to add value to their products, but the Almond board of California intends to actually reduce the value of all California almonds.
We support almond farmers, and we are huge proponents of raw, fresh almonds from nature. But we will not stand by and watch a misguided political organization kill this important food source.
Stay tuned to NewsTarget for updates, and prepare for a boycott announcement later this year. |
| With consumers’ health and safety as its number one priority, the Almond board of California worked with the United States Department of Agriculture to institute the pasteurization program. The purpose of this program is to ensure consumers are provided with safe, wholesome food products free from potentially harmful levels of unsafe bacteria.
You can be assured that pasteurized almonds are as nutritious and delicious as unpasteurized almonds. The almond industry invested in independent nutritional lab analyses of pasteurized versus unpasteurized almonds. |
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| Ultimately, it seems that the Almond board of California is not merely killing the almonds; it's also killing its reputation. The harm to the almond industry from increasing awareness about the false labeling could reach into the tens of millions of dollars in a single year.
No exceptions
Contrary to popular belief, there are no practical exceptions to the pasteurization rule, at least not for consumers. Certain organizations can be granted "Direct Verifiable" exceptions (DV), but only if they later pasteurize the almonds as part of a manufactured food product such as a granola bar. |
| In direct contradiction to this clear definition, the Almond board of California is now insisting that cooked = raw.
Think about that for a minute. Cooked is raw.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is power. (1984 by George Orwell)
And now, in the California almond industry, cooked is raw.
Apparently, the perception of what's in the bag is far more important than what's really in the bag. Ignorance is power, after all.
How the almonds will be cooked
Pasteurization is a heat process that kills microorganisms by exposing them to high temperatures. |
| In statements received by NewsTarget, the Almond board explained that, "raw almonds that have been pasteurized do not differ in any significant way from untreated raw almonds."
Except, of course, for the fact that they are dead. Stating that live, raw almonds are the same as dead, cooked almonds is equivalent to stating that a living human being is the same as a corpse.
Raw foods are widely understood by virtually the entire food community to mean food items kept below 108 degrees (F), beyond which the living enzymes in foods are destroyed. |
| With this recent decision, the Almond board of California has unwittingly joined the conglomeration of uncaring, ignorant agricultural corporate interests who have no real concern for consumers, although they disguise their actions as such. Before long, it seems, all the food sold in the United States will be genetically modified, irradiated, pasteurized, homogenized, hydrolyzed and packaged for a two-year shelf life. And it will all be labeled as "All natural! |
| The reputation of the Almond board of California is also being sterilized. Who can trust an organization that openly and blatantly announces its intention to mislabel cooked almonds as raw almonds? If the almonds were honestly labeled as "pasteurized" or "sterilized," then that would be at least be a defensible position. But to intentionally and deliberately propose that a food product be deceptively labeled is inexcusable in any industry, including the almond industry. |
| Perhaps the Almond board members have pasteurized their own heads and now have no working brain matter remaining to put to a sensible use.
It almost seems silly to have to say this, but there is a difference between life and death. The character of an almond is no more defined by its material matter than the character of a person is defined by the mineral ash of their cremated body. What's contained in a raw nut, seed, root or plant goes beyond mere chemistry, beyond the minerals, vitamins, oils and fiber. |
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| REPPED: Following NewsTarget's original story about the Almond board of California launching plans to falsely label pasteurized almonds as raw, the organization changed its story in emails being sent to consumers, and now claims the rules have nothing to do with the actual labeling of almonds. |
| After our story ran, the Almond board changed its response to consumer emails. The new response is a direct contradiction of their original letter and now states, "We understand there have been questions whether the industry pasteurization program has consumer labeling implications. These new industry regulations do not pertain to consumer labeling. Manufacturers and retailers will continue to determine how to label their products in line with FDA regulations. |
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