Putting a stop to Aspartame

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

What steps does one need to take to get this awful product banned from the food shelves? It's creeping its way into so many more foods. Even some brands of jello (That don't even say sugar free, just normal kinds) show aspartame in the list of ingredients.

 

[dannno]

Stop buying it. Educate everyone of it's dangers. Stop the government from subsidizing it. Stop the FDA from saying it is safe.

 

[Mini-Me]

Stop buying it. Educate everyone of it's dangers. Stop the government from subsidizing it. Stop the FDA from saying it is safe.

To me, your post reads like a list of difficulty settings in video games, listed in ascending order from easy to nightmarishly difficult.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

Stop buying it. Educate everyone of it's dangers. Stop the government from subsidizing it. Stop the FDA from saying it is safe.

I don't buy products with aspartame in them, but I can't say that for the rest of my family (I'll just refuse to eat it) But it increasingly gets difficult to avoid it when it keeps slipping into more and more products, unannounced. People need to realize watching what they eat costs a lot less in the long run than horrendous hospital bills because they got cancer from eating the cheap one dollar foods

 

[akihabro]

Education helps. I think people still don't get it that saving a few dollars on dinner just cost them a few less days of life.

 

[slothman]

Ignoring the fact that I don't think it is bad, I don't want it to be banned either.
I would say just to stop buying it, talk to family, et al, and write letters.

 

[Working Poor]

I am allergic to aspartame and it scares me how much more foods have it in it. I write to companies I used to trust ;wriggley's gum, arm and hammer, dannon ect...I have gotten back letters telling me about the stats that say it is safe for most of the population I mean why do they put the stuff in tooth paste?

I just read all the lables but, it is my understanding that pretty soon it will not even have to be listed as an ingredient because the FDA says it is so safe it won't be necessary to disclose it.

 

[slothman]

I just read all the lables but, it is my understanding that pretty soon it will not even have to be listed as an ingredient because the FDA says it is so safe it won't be necessary to disclose it.

Water is safe but that is listed.
I doubt that that is going to happen.

 

[Ninja Homer]

It will probably happen. They are already doing it for things like trans fat. As long as it's under a certain amount per serving, they can say zero trans fat.

 

[ScoutsHonor]

These days, "they" will do anything.

 

[bg1654]

There ought to be a law!

 

[jsu718]

I dig aspartame. It makes my Diet Coke taste delicious. Say what you want about what enters your house and fridge and makes it to your table, but don't step on my rights to buy what I want. Thx

 

[ScoutsHonor]

^^

 

[Rael]

I dig aspartame. It makes my Diet Coke taste delicious. Say what you want about what enters your house and fridge and makes it to your table, but don't step on my rights to buy what I want. Thx

Yeah I drink diet coke and pepsi too. I think aspartame is bad but I think sugar is even worse than aspartame. I use stevia when possible.

 

[Working Poor]

Pretty soon it will be unsafe for people like me to go into a grocery store. If I even touch it it makes me start having chest pain. If I eat it I could have to go to the hospital. I wonder how many people drop dead from eating it and they call it a heart attack...

 

[jsu718]

Yeah I drink diet coke and pepsi too. I think aspartame is bad but I think sugar is even worse than aspartame. I use stevia when possible.

If only they used sugar and not high fructose corn syrup... but yes, either way it is no good.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Yeah I drink diet coke and pepsi too. I think aspartame is bad but I think sugar is even worse than aspartame. I use stevia when possible.

I doubt it. Old-timey sodas used sugar and people didn't have the kind of obesity and chemical allergy problems they do now, to my knowledge.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Pretty soon it will be unsafe for people like me to go into a grocery store. If I even touch it it makes me start having chest pain. If I eat it I could have to go to the hospital. I wonder how many people drop dead from eating it and they call it a heart attack...

Stick to Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, and other organic stuff, and you should be okay.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Stop buying it. Educate everyone of it's dangers. Stop the government from subsidizing it. Stop the FDA from saying it is safe.

Thread winner! ^^

 

[kpitcher]

Maybe a simple push to get aspartame listed like how peanuts are for nut allergies. The UK requires this warning according to wikipedia. - In 1997, The UK government introduced a new regulation obliging food makers who use sweeteners to state clearly next to the name of their product the phrase "with sweeteners". Since this is common sense I doubt the US will get to requiring the same anytime soon.