It would take research to finally prove it however I believe it would reveal the massive number of chemicals in our food would show it hinders a humans ability to think critically.
This alone is reason to ban most if not all chemicals/substances not found in whole foods.
Glad to see this happening. Perhaps having an accredited 3rd party review GRAS materials would relieve the burden on FDA to get the job done. (Somewhat like the Organic Materials Review Institute, OMRI, as the gold standard for materials used in USDA certified-organic agriculture).
Moreover, as a veterinarian, I hope that pets and livestock are also addressed by MAHA since our lives are so interwoven with our pets and livestock.
By the way, the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA CVM) keeps its own GRAS listing, which began around 2012 and reflects many substances which are definitely not "traditional" food/feed ingredients.. You can see the entire list here with hyperlinks to FDA respond see to each ingredient:
Unfortunately, innocent entries like traditional berberine (derived from the plant Berberis vulgaris or Hydrastis canadensis) was raked over the coals by FDA CVM and withdrawn, whereas other novel foods/feeds that are clearly shown to be from genetically engineered materials got a "no objection" letter from FDA CVM. What???
The original 1958 list that showed plants and plant-derivatives (essential oils, spices, seasonings) ought to be incorporated into the FDA CVM GRAS list for animals. Doing so would also help natural substances be used on livestock without penalty by FDA inspectors on organic farms. Unfortunately many natural substances found and used on USDA certified-organic Grade A dairy farms are penalized on standard FDA inspection. This needs to change for MAHA friendly agriculture to flourish.
I love what RFK Jr. is doing for our food. YES. Thank you! I have a pressing request: Beloved RFK Jr. you give me much hope. PLEASE is there anything you can do to STOP the toxic spraying of our skies. Not only have they completely coopted our weather. WE NEED RAIN west of the rocky mountains. However, We need CLEAN RAIN. The poisons that are daily in the air we breath and the what little water that falls from the skies is killing us and the plants and the insects, etc. I have a small but beautiful fruit tree orchard. This year: NO fruit set and all the tree leaves are curled up in a manner I have never seen before. PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO REVERSE THIS DEADLY PRACTICE OF SPRAYING TOXINS INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I CAMPAIGNED FOR YOU FOR THE DURATION OF YOUR CAMPAIGN AND I VOTED FOR YOU. Marianna Hartsong Ph.D.
I voted the way RFKJr. asked his supporters to vote for him, not as a write-in: for Trump. Believe me, I would have been much happier to vote for him as an Independent, but when he made the shift to ride in with Trump, I knew he was likely right that that was the only way he'd get to make his life's work visible and functional for the people of the USA.
Thank you Tee for that reference. I am aware that part of the food for the kids and the hospitals involves cleaning up the pesticide use.
I am even more concerned about the 'chem trails' that have been being sprayed on the people of the US since at least the mid 1990's when I first moved to AZ and could see them in the skies. Back East the moisture in the air makes them far more difficult to see. Here, I've been tracking this for years. Weather report is there will be say rain on Thursday; invariably, Tuesday and Wednesday are heavy chem trails days. There are days when one can actually see gunk falling from the skies.
This practice is genocide and needs to be stopped. Bobby has the legal experience and the skill to do this; G-d knows, with everything else he IS doing, if he has time and energy to do it.
It is time that it be acknowledged and stopped. The extinctions have already begun.
Thanks for your response. We are definitely in agreement about pesticides/chemtrails needing to be cleaned up AND the fact that RFKjr has a marathon job accomplishing much just this past year.
Both topics are NOT ones I've taken a deep dive into; however a quick DuckDuckGo search tonight revealed much on the topic especially a lot of 'conspiracy theories' & 'debunking any weather manipulation/chemtrails period'. You're probably already aware of the EPA's stance on things . . . https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/Contrails.
This really underscores how “safe” has often meant assumed rather than rigorously proven. If anything, it reinforces that real food with fewer inputs is still the most reliable standard while policy catches up.
A complex system to put right, hats off to HHS for the effort.
Meanwhile we consumers can pull our own share of the weight by helping rebuild local and regional food systems. Somewhere out in the future all that is really needed are S.O.U.L. foods: seasonal, organic, unprocessed, local. With no additives at all.
Also, the creepy Apeel is not the only chemical being sprayed on produce during shipment & marketing. There are others we don't even know the names of yet.
Something important to think about once these ingredients are removed from the food supply is many of these companies know the dangers of these products and put them in food anyway. All for a bigger profit margin. They deserve to be held accountable.
As an example, moms have been giving their toddlers Cheerios for probably decades and to know that it is all poison is a betrayal, I wonder how much harm has been done to those children? These companies are only interested in the bottom line. The lobbying of the government need s to stop, that is a major problem across many areas food, drugs etc. these money grabbing corporations should not be able to loophole their way through regulations and how long it takes should not be the measure, how safe it is should be the only guide. Things that are safe in small doses and poison in larger doses should never be used in food, for the simple reason it’s not just used in one product it’s used in every product, so what we thought was safe is most likely a huge contributor to our poor health. I am not a big processed food eater , but using bread as an example , it takes months for it to get moldy? That is not normal, milk takes a month or more to sour ? WTH how can that be ok. We need to get corporate concern out of farming and do as the rest of the developed world does not allow these substances in our foods. Money is truly the root of all evil and that is what supplies our supermarkets, money obsessed millionaires
The FDA my helped Rx Oxycontin get to the pharmacy in 1996. When will cannabis medicine come to the pharmacy by way of the FDA and HHS? Everyday you wait, thousands are dying from fentanyl or other Opiates. Cannabis Cured My Oxycontin Addiction. Not everyone is Patient Zero John Prinz
In CA patients have Compassion Use Act allowing patients the right to GROW our own medicine. No money... to the black market or the State legal market. Patients need to take care of ourselves until it comes to the pharmacy. Standardize medicine.... never support others for your medicine. Many States don't allow the patients the right to GROW. Only buy. I use cannabis medicine for a replacement drug to the Opiates I once used for pain control. Cannabis medicine now control's my pain.
So far I have not had luck using cannabis for pain. I understand that there are different strains that work differently but I have moved to a new state and don't know where to go here.
I make a strong cannabis medicine I drink in Mgs. Olive oil formula. It is a long active medicine. If you been in a license store, look at the Mgs. 1 tbsp equals 195 mgs of THCA and 130 mgs of THC. I use four tbsp two times a day, and smoke it's short active. It's all about the Mgs. I once was on 1125 Mgs of opiate's a day. Now I use only cannabis medicine in many forms. Eat it in popcorn, with my olive oil formula. Anything you can add or cook with olive oil. Cannabis medicine is in it.
The "general safety" of synthetic food additives is based upon the assumption that the great majority of what the person eats is free of the additive, but that has now been reversed. 70% of the diet of many Americans is full of synthetic additives, and it is the naturally occuring living-enzyme systems in fresh plants which are missing from our diets.
We are getting little doses of poisons, and no fresh plants.
The dread Scurvy was cured & prevented by eating half a lemon per day at sea...
Nice to see this finally having the attention it's needed for decades, but you know what?! The healthy ingredients without all the garbage in them are not going to be healthy anyways UNTIL Robert Kennedy and whoever else gets the chemtrails now mixed with synthetic and real Morgellon parasites from being dropped on food crops and residential areas and wherever, it's evident they're trying to slow kill us, and it's happening in other countries too, we need to get this stopped somehow asap! There's groups on Facebook that are seriously scared because nobody is stopping it. Obviously it's the WEF (World Economic Forum) & Gates are involved and Robert Kennedy knows about it, he said he looked into it and was told DARPA is involved, but it's obvious when other countries are reporting this that it's the WEF!!
I don't mean to rant on here, just wasn't sure if you've been aware of this? We as citizens are facing another bioweapon and it's a criminal act on humanity, therefore it's against the law! There's several "Chemtrails" and "Geo-Enginering" groups on Facebook that you can join and read the comments. We need help stopping this, personally I'm looking into seeing if there's any "Environmental Attorneys" that can help. We are going to have a serious crisis in our nation & worldwide if not stopped, it's part of the WEF & Gates depopulation plan, they couldn't kill enough with the Covid shots so they're trying to pull this crap on us!
Yes he does, let's see what happens after this trial against him and others in Amsterdam, the next hearing is April 9 and it goes to trial in November.
I'm not sure you have given the best example of dodgy additives.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid is GABA and found in some foods. It is also an important neurotransmitter, though eating it - the jury is out on that one.
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis M-63 is a probiotic particularly useful for infants.
Docosahexaenoic Acid is DHA (Omega 3). Algal oil is similar to fish oil. There are limitations on how much to eat like fish oil.
For these 3, the question should be is it useful to add them to foods, not if they are outright toxic. If any of these 3 are in any whole foods considered healthy - you got your answer.
The Dietary Supplement and Health Eduction Act (DSHEA) allows supplements in foods, which these likely are - if they do not make curative/treatment claims. They simply need to stay in the structure and function claims, like supports "brain health" or supports digestion, etc. This is contrasted by GRAS substances, which for the most part are snuck into foods to stabilize them, preserve them for long shelf life, etc.
At least people can choose what food to eat. The federal government allows the chemical industry to determine which ingredients are safe to breath - with even less intervention - and we're all stuck breathing the poisons that everyone around us uses. MAHA won't touch it.
It would take research to finally prove it however I believe it would reveal the massive number of chemicals in our food would show it hinders a humans ability to think critically.
This alone is reason to ban most if not all chemicals/substances not found in whole foods.
Glad to see this happening. Perhaps having an accredited 3rd party review GRAS materials would relieve the burden on FDA to get the job done. (Somewhat like the Organic Materials Review Institute, OMRI, as the gold standard for materials used in USDA certified-organic agriculture).
Moreover, as a veterinarian, I hope that pets and livestock are also addressed by MAHA since our lives are so interwoven with our pets and livestock.
By the way, the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA CVM) keeps its own GRAS listing, which began around 2012 and reflects many substances which are definitely not "traditional" food/feed ingredients.. You can see the entire list here with hyperlinks to FDA respond see to each ingredient:
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/generally-recognized-safe-gras-notification-program/current-animal-food-gras-notices-inventory
Unfortunately, innocent entries like traditional berberine (derived from the plant Berberis vulgaris or Hydrastis canadensis) was raked over the coals by FDA CVM and withdrawn, whereas other novel foods/feeds that are clearly shown to be from genetically engineered materials got a "no objection" letter from FDA CVM. What???
The original 1958 list that showed plants and plant-derivatives (essential oils, spices, seasonings) ought to be incorporated into the FDA CVM GRAS list for animals. Doing so would also help natural substances be used on livestock without penalty by FDA inspectors on organic farms. Unfortunately many natural substances found and used on USDA certified-organic Grade A dairy farms are penalized on standard FDA inspection. This needs to change for MAHA friendly agriculture to flourish.
I love what RFK Jr. is doing for our food. YES. Thank you! I have a pressing request: Beloved RFK Jr. you give me much hope. PLEASE is there anything you can do to STOP the toxic spraying of our skies. Not only have they completely coopted our weather. WE NEED RAIN west of the rocky mountains. However, We need CLEAN RAIN. The poisons that are daily in the air we breath and the what little water that falls from the skies is killing us and the plants and the insects, etc. I have a small but beautiful fruit tree orchard. This year: NO fruit set and all the tree leaves are curled up in a manner I have never seen before. PLEASE DO SOMETHING TO REVERSE THIS DEADLY PRACTICE OF SPRAYING TOXINS INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I CAMPAIGNED FOR YOU FOR THE DURATION OF YOUR CAMPAIGN AND I VOTED FOR YOU. Marianna Hartsong Ph.D.
No, you didn't. Bobby wasn't on any Arizona ballots in 2024 (or ever).
I voted the way RFKJr. asked his supporters to vote for him, not as a write-in: for Trump. Believe me, I would have been much happier to vote for him as an Independent, but when he made the shift to ride in with Trump, I knew he was likely right that that was the only way he'd get to make his life's work visible and functional for the people of the USA.
https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/event/feeding-america-safely-practical-path-forward-pesticides
https://www.mahaaction.org/contact
Thank you Tee for that reference. I am aware that part of the food for the kids and the hospitals involves cleaning up the pesticide use.
I am even more concerned about the 'chem trails' that have been being sprayed on the people of the US since at least the mid 1990's when I first moved to AZ and could see them in the skies. Back East the moisture in the air makes them far more difficult to see. Here, I've been tracking this for years. Weather report is there will be say rain on Thursday; invariably, Tuesday and Wednesday are heavy chem trails days. There are days when one can actually see gunk falling from the skies.
This practice is genocide and needs to be stopped. Bobby has the legal experience and the skill to do this; G-d knows, with everything else he IS doing, if he has time and energy to do it.
It is time that it be acknowledged and stopped. The extinctions have already begun.
Hello Marianna,
Thanks for your response. We are definitely in agreement about pesticides/chemtrails needing to be cleaned up AND the fact that RFKjr has a marathon job accomplishing much just this past year.
Both topics are NOT ones I've taken a deep dive into; however a quick DuckDuckGo search tonight revealed much on the topic especially a lot of 'conspiracy theories' & 'debunking any weather manipulation/chemtrails period'. You're probably already aware of the EPA's stance on things . . . https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines/Contrails.
Are you also aware of this movement . . . https://forum.policiesforpeople.com/t/ban-geoengineering-chemtrails-stratospheric-injection-weaponization-of-weather/15586 . . . seems interest died down in early '25, but you might find some value in it/link minded people.
This really underscores how “safe” has often meant assumed rather than rigorously proven. If anything, it reinforces that real food with fewer inputs is still the most reliable standard while policy catches up.
Thank you for your writings and movement on this important topic.
We can always improve our food safety programs. Unfortunately, RFK Jr., is doing so much harm any positive net effects will be wiped out.
You are sadly misinformed, Joshua.
How so? What’s your expertise??
A complex system to put right, hats off to HHS for the effort.
Meanwhile we consumers can pull our own share of the weight by helping rebuild local and regional food systems. Somewhere out in the future all that is really needed are S.O.U.L. foods: seasonal, organic, unprocessed, local. With no additives at all.
Please restack your comment
They need to clearly label what’s been sprayed with glyphosate and what’s been treated with APEEL
Same for GMOs and bioengineered.
Also, the creepy Apeel is not the only chemical being sprayed on produce during shipment & marketing. There are others we don't even know the names of yet.
Something important to think about once these ingredients are removed from the food supply is many of these companies know the dangers of these products and put them in food anyway. All for a bigger profit margin. They deserve to be held accountable.
As an example, moms have been giving their toddlers Cheerios for probably decades and to know that it is all poison is a betrayal, I wonder how much harm has been done to those children? These companies are only interested in the bottom line. The lobbying of the government need s to stop, that is a major problem across many areas food, drugs etc. these money grabbing corporations should not be able to loophole their way through regulations and how long it takes should not be the measure, how safe it is should be the only guide. Things that are safe in small doses and poison in larger doses should never be used in food, for the simple reason it’s not just used in one product it’s used in every product, so what we thought was safe is most likely a huge contributor to our poor health. I am not a big processed food eater , but using bread as an example , it takes months for it to get moldy? That is not normal, milk takes a month or more to sour ? WTH how can that be ok. We need to get corporate concern out of farming and do as the rest of the developed world does not allow these substances in our foods. Money is truly the root of all evil and that is what supplies our supermarkets, money obsessed millionaires
The FDA my helped Rx Oxycontin get to the pharmacy in 1996. When will cannabis medicine come to the pharmacy by way of the FDA and HHS? Everyday you wait, thousands are dying from fentanyl or other Opiates. Cannabis Cured My Oxycontin Addiction. Not everyone is Patient Zero John Prinz
As a former cannabis user it dismays me greatly to know that you must be cautious using it now as it is more than likely adulterated.
In CA patients have Compassion Use Act allowing patients the right to GROW our own medicine. No money... to the black market or the State legal market. Patients need to take care of ourselves until it comes to the pharmacy. Standardize medicine.... never support others for your medicine. Many States don't allow the patients the right to GROW. Only buy. I use cannabis medicine for a replacement drug to the Opiates I once used for pain control. Cannabis medicine now control's my pain.
So far I have not had luck using cannabis for pain. I understand that there are different strains that work differently but I have moved to a new state and don't know where to go here.
I make a strong cannabis medicine I drink in Mgs. Olive oil formula. It is a long active medicine. If you been in a license store, look at the Mgs. 1 tbsp equals 195 mgs of THCA and 130 mgs of THC. I use four tbsp two times a day, and smoke it's short active. It's all about the Mgs. I once was on 1125 Mgs of opiate's a day. Now I use only cannabis medicine in many forms. Eat it in popcorn, with my olive oil formula. Anything you can add or cook with olive oil. Cannabis medicine is in it.
The "general safety" of synthetic food additives is based upon the assumption that the great majority of what the person eats is free of the additive, but that has now been reversed. 70% of the diet of many Americans is full of synthetic additives, and it is the naturally occuring living-enzyme systems in fresh plants which are missing from our diets.
We are getting little doses of poisons, and no fresh plants.
The dread Scurvy was cured & prevented by eating half a lemon per day at sea...
What are we doing?
Nice to see this finally having the attention it's needed for decades, but you know what?! The healthy ingredients without all the garbage in them are not going to be healthy anyways UNTIL Robert Kennedy and whoever else gets the chemtrails now mixed with synthetic and real Morgellon parasites from being dropped on food crops and residential areas and wherever, it's evident they're trying to slow kill us, and it's happening in other countries too, we need to get this stopped somehow asap! There's groups on Facebook that are seriously scared because nobody is stopping it. Obviously it's the WEF (World Economic Forum) & Gates are involved and Robert Kennedy knows about it, he said he looked into it and was told DARPA is involved, but it's obvious when other countries are reporting this that it's the WEF!!
I don't mean to rant on here, just wasn't sure if you've been aware of this? We as citizens are facing another bioweapon and it's a criminal act on humanity, therefore it's against the law! There's several "Chemtrails" and "Geo-Enginering" groups on Facebook that you can join and read the comments. We need help stopping this, personally I'm looking into seeing if there's any "Environmental Attorneys" that can help. We are going to have a serious crisis in our nation & worldwide if not stopped, it's part of the WEF & Gates depopulation plan, they couldn't kill enough with the Covid shots so they're trying to pull this crap on us!
Gates MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.
Yes he does, let's see what happens after this trial against him and others in Amsterdam, the next hearing is April 9 and it goes to trial in November.
https://substack.com/@karenbriody/note/c-230568032?r=315zq2
I'm not sure you have given the best example of dodgy additives.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid is GABA and found in some foods. It is also an important neurotransmitter, though eating it - the jury is out on that one.
Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis M-63 is a probiotic particularly useful for infants.
Docosahexaenoic Acid is DHA (Omega 3). Algal oil is similar to fish oil. There are limitations on how much to eat like fish oil.
For these 3, the question should be is it useful to add them to foods, not if they are outright toxic. If any of these 3 are in any whole foods considered healthy - you got your answer.
The Dietary Supplement and Health Eduction Act (DSHEA) allows supplements in foods, which these likely are - if they do not make curative/treatment claims. They simply need to stay in the structure and function claims, like supports "brain health" or supports digestion, etc. This is contrasted by GRAS substances, which for the most part are snuck into foods to stabilize them, preserve them for long shelf life, etc.
Our food supply has geen killing us for decades. Why do you think we have an obesity issue, ramped mental illness, huge hormonal problems, etc.
Not doing a good job if it's taking decades
At least people can choose what food to eat. The federal government allows the chemical industry to determine which ingredients are safe to breath - with even less intervention - and we're all stuck breathing the poisons that everyone around us uses. MAHA won't touch it.
https://www.heritage.org/government-regulation/event/feeding-america-safely-practical-path-forward-pesticides