The latest out-of-control federal government agency that has succumbed to excessive moonbattery is the Food And Drug Administration. In an attempt to crack down on health claims made by food manufacturers, Obama's FDA is targeting…are you ready for this???
CHEERIOS.
I wish I was making this up, but I'm not. Because a box of Cheerios has a statement on it that says eating Cheerios can help lower cholesterol (which oat bran does do), The FDA is in a tizzy. This is from a letter the FDA sent to General Mills:
"Based on claims made on your product's label, we have determined (Cheerios) is promoted for conditions that cause it to be a drug because the product is intended for use in the prevention, mitigation and treatment of disease."
So, the FDA says Cheerios is a drug now. That's just great. Thanks for cluing me in to Cheerios' grave and gathering threat to America, Big Brother. Don't know what I'd do without y'all. On the bright side, Cheerios was NOT declared to be an enemy combatant, so liberals are not demanding civil rights be granted to Cheerios.
I'm sure glad I bought a box of Cheerios at the grocery store this morning before the FDA crackdown forces me to get a prescription from my doctor to buy it. I wonder how long it's going to take the FDA to realize that every single thing we put in our bodies has some type of drug-like effect. Once the food Nazis make that realization, they can regulate EVERYTHING. Oh wait, they already DO regulate everything. Well, they can regulate it more.
And to think, I thought it was silly when the FDA banned cherry flavored nicotine products last week, while still leaving nicotine legal. That's like banning lime-flavored vodka while still leaving vodka legal. It has NO effect. For those of you out there who may be thinking, 'but, but, CHILDREN like cherry flavored stuff. They are doing it FOR THE CHILDREN.' Please keep in mind that children cannot buy nicotine products, so banning cherry-flavored nicotine is meaningless (but it does make Big Brother look like he's taking action. That's the important thing).
An addendum to the flavored nicotine product ban – The FDA made an exception for MENTHOL flavored cigarettes, because, you know, lots of people actually SMOKE THOSE, and the government needs the tax revenue from cigarettes. It's nuanced, not to mention laughably hypocritical. Statistics show that the biggest menthol smokers are women and black people. I guess those misogynistic and racist liberals running the FDA now don't care if those groups die off (that's the argument liberals would be making if conservatives were doing this, so I thought I'd throw it in).
If the government wants to start going after food manufacturers in it's continuing war on the private sector, why would they start with Cheerios, anyway ? Cheerios is a pretty health product. Why don't the food Nazis go after, say, Ho-Ho's ??? According to recent estimates from the Rubberat Ministry Of Truth, a Ho-Ho can sit on the grocery shelf for about 235 years and not spoil. Nobody knows for sure how long a Ho-Ho will last, because the Ho-Ho's outlast the scientists conducting the research. The scientists all die of old age, but the Ho-Ho's go on forever. I don't even think Ho-Ho's are food, technically. They are probably polymer plastic of some sort.
As long as Cheerios is being considered a drug, and if doctors will soon be controlling the supply of those dangerous O-shaped opiates, I think General Mills should go ahead and develop cherry-flavored nicotine Cheerios. That way, we'll only have to fill one prescription to get our recommended daily allowance of both items.
I also want to cast my vote for making brussel sprouts illegal. They smell, and they look like alien space pods. If there's a food conspiracy afoot, brussel sprouts is in the middle of it. Notify the Truthers.
FREE CHEERIOS !!! No justice, no peace.
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I believe menthol cigarettes are ACORN's biggest selling point during election season, as well.
Sorry King but anyone that doesnt understand the harm that Cheerios causes NEEDS Big Brother to manage his life. When will you figure out that your life will be so much better if you just turn your life over to our leader and his wise ways?
I bet the makers of Lipator and or statin drugs are relieved by this ruling…….I wonder how much bribe money this cost them.
Big Pharma vs. Agribusiness……the next Saturday night raw
Don’t forget that “big tobacco” is THRILLED about the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Wait, why would the major players in an industry want more givernment regulation and oversight? Because niche products like flavored tobacco (i.e Clove) are now illegal, so only big tobacco’s monopoly on regular and menthol is allowed. Plus all new products are subject to FDA approval, which is a lengthy and costly process which few makers can absorb.
Thank you Government for smoking out Phillip Morris’ competition!
One more thing in that last point is interesting. New tobacco products must be reviewed and approved by the FDA (to ensure they don’t contain “flavor”). So does that mean cigarettes are now FDA Approved?
In summary: Cheerios are not approved by the FDA. Cigarettes are approved by the FDA.
Excellent points one and all, dd20.
I guess my idea for cherry-flavored nicotine Cheerios is doomed.
I wonder how much more of this nonsense America is going to put up with.
A lot, apparently.
now that Big Pharma has kicked General Mills out of the cholesterol lowering business will my lipitor cost less?
LOL
The title of this thread should be……"The FDA Rules In Favor of Big Business…About Time Big Pharma Gets a Break"
what exactly are you whining about?
Walter, may I direct your question about whining back at you? What are you whining about?
roybot………who's whining?
this dispute was between Big Pharma and General Mills. Contrary to what King infers, the best interest of the consumer was never taken into account.
Just pointing that out.
According to King and commenters, business should be able to do anything they want to do when it comes to advertising. Part of our capitalist enemies plan to defraud us without any limitations, I suppose.
The argument with the Cheerios thing is part of a truth-in-advertsing creep problem that has been building for awhile. To my knowledge, no studies have shown that eating Cheerios lowers choresterol. It's phony advertising to dupe the public into buying their product.
It's the Republican marketing plan that Cheerios is using…..just make stuff up and insist it's true.
walter says, "Contrary to what King infers, the best interest of the consumer was never taken into account."
I have no idea what you think I inferred, but I'm assuming you have some type of reading comprehension problem. You actually think my post was ANTI-consumer ??? Duh.
Rev,
I'll mark you down as being in the 'anti-free speech, evil Cheerios must be stopped' camp. Yessiree. That's not crazy or anything.
And Rev, as much as I hate to insert any facts into your political hogwash, oats DO help lower cholesterol, just as Cheerios claims.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-7654909.html
King……what you have inferred is that somehow the consumer is in the mix here…….the people in the mix here is simply Big Pharma and General Mills.
Eat all the Cheerios you want……….they're garbage
walter, thanks for telling me what I think, but…..
I don't know what "you have inferred that somehow the consumer is in the mix" is even supposed to mean. I was only expressing my distaste for the government's overreaching anti-freedom policies.
Vegan, eh ?
King……this settlement reached by the FDA in a dispute between Big Pharma and General Mills has absolutely nothing to do with your freedom.
Every infringement on the private sector by the government has something to do with my freedom.
I was way ahead of this one.
I have been milk-boarding them for sometime.
King, tell that to Big Pharma