Rather than bring this House bill to ban aspartame to a vote in his Health
Committee in the Hawaii House, which is what he said he would do only last
Friday in the prior meeting of his committee, Chairman Josh Green M.D. today,
Wednesday, "deferred at the discretion of the Chair" the bill carried by Rep.
Mele Carroll to ban Aspartame. This shoots that particular bill down for this
session. There still is a Senate Bill, but with more than 3,000 bills to
consider, the Senate Bill to ban aspartame has yet to be scheduled for its
hearing.
So much for consumer protection in Hawaii House. It didn't even come to a
vote in the committee, but a few members spoke seriously of putting together
a Resolution for this session in Honolulu. Resolutions have no legal "teeth"
in them, but they could be strong, as strong as the legislators themselves,
like directly asking the FDA Commissioner to rescind the approval of
Aspartame immediately, or at least to improve the accuracy of the labeling,
and even to ask the Department of Health in Hawaii to take in complaints of
patients and families of those who have actually died from
aspartame/methanol/diketopiperazine poisoning, and then report back to the
Legislature next year.
By then, of course, President Obama will have appointed a new FDA
Commissioner, so those who feel strongly should be writing to him and the
chap from Arizona, Mr.McCain. Consumer protection should be part of the
agenda and choices in the 2008 Presidential Debates.
If the Resolution crafted by the Hawaii Representatives only asks the usual
kind of thing, for the Department of Health to "review the literature," or
some other such pusillanimous mousey feeble intention, this would be a waste
of Legislative time and paper, since the Department of Health Director, Dr.
Fukino, has already indicated that she is completely in accordance with the
phoney FDA approval for aspartame.
Besides, the medical testimony and letters sent to the House Health Committee members include all but tone of the top
medical experts in the world on the subject of aspartame’s neurodegenerative
effects. To me, it seems that the Hawaii DOH is not willing nor capable of
doing much more than pulling down corporate-sponsored aspartame information
from their corporate websites, which will tell you that this deadly poison is
as "harmless as mother's milk" or "just like salt and pepper," the kind of
jive the corporate lobbyists spout to legislators when their boards of
directors begin to get a little worried.
All that will happen really is that
more people in Hawaii will drink or consume aspartame and get migraines,
brain tumors, Multiple Sclerosis, worse cases of diabetes than were ever
imaginable, etc., and Hawaii will just observe an increase the death-by-
aspartame body count; a real resolution would set up a repository for victim
testimony all year round.
So far, only a few legislators in Hawaii or New Mexico or even Washington
D.C. have given these neurotoxic carcinogenic poison manufacturers anything
to worry about at all, since most of the legislators don't seem too worried
about anything either (what's a little neurotoxic carcinogen too worry about,
anyway?) or very ambitious about consumer protection ideals in the first
place.
I had respectful and sincere high hopes for Dr. Green's abilities for
recognizing the medical realities of this neurotoxin's effects, since it is
found in 7000 food products and even in hundreds of children's medications,
despite it turning into methanol and formaldehyde in the child's or the
adult's stomach and liver.
Thus, my faith in his medical degree and the fact that he is the only
physician in the Legislature were perhaps misplaced. We will see what the
Resolution has to say. In the meantime, my advice to Hawaiians: please
protect yourself and your family and quit drinking and consuming products
that contain aspartame, even though the manufacturers in Japan, the Board of
Directors of Ajinomoto (world's largest manufacturer of both Aspartame and
another neurotoxic food additive, MSG), the Coca Cola distributors, the
Wrigley's Gum Board of Directors, and the people poisoning themselves with
more diet sodas, are most certainly very happy and grateful with the work
today by Josh Green, M.D., Chairman of the Hawaii House Health Committee.
Maybe someday this will dawn on him and the rest of the committee, but for
the past, present and near future victims of aspartame poisoning in Hawaii,
it will be too late.
Mahalo for sharing so many victims' stories and physicians' letters with your
readers: Hawaii Reporter is one of the few true outlets for Truth in Hawaii,
and I appreciate your help immensely. It will save lives.
Stephen Fox is the Managing Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News and the Founder of New Millennium Fine Art. He can be reached at mailto:stephen@santafefineart.com
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