Walnuts Are Drugs, Says FDA

[dannno]

Hopefully they don't catch onto banana peels anytime soon.

Not to mention the thin coverings between the peanut and the shell.

 

[dannno]

Funnier:

 

[dannno]

bump

 

[Fox McCloud]

This isn't isolated. The FDA sent similar letters to General Mills last year for claiming Cheerios can help reduce cholesterol which, according to the FDA, means they're advertising it as a drug which they need to regulate.


... I wonder if the FDA would prosecute a food producer if they slapped a label on their product warning the food may increase cholesterol.

Really? This is getting ridiculous.

What next, citrus producers from saying "helps prevent scurvy" or something as patently ridiculous?

"The FDA has not fully tested or analyzed these statements--as such, these statements are indicative as a drug--if you wish to continue making these claims, please fill out the necessary forms and paperwork and be sure to submit potential samples for testing, along with double-blind trial results, technical and chemical analysis, along with a test group sample for if this really is effective against scurvy or not---failure to comply will result in a daily $10,000 fine for each product under the "citrus" family sold by your company, "Fruit for Pirates, Inc" continues to carry the label "helps prevent scurvy"....thank you for your time------signed: FDA"

 

[DamianTV]

Well, if you cant Patent a Fruit, is it possible to slap a Patent on a GM Fruit? The only thing these shitheads care about is their money, not the Health and Wellbeing of the people.

 

[dannno]

Well, if you cant Patent a Fruit, is it possible to slap a Patent on a GM Fruit? The only thing these shitheads care about is their money, not the Health and Wellbeing of the people.

Patenting GM agriculture was the camel's nose under the tent to patenting all sorts of natural fruit and vegetable seeds.. According to The Future of Food, the patents exist for all these items. I think they just don't enforce them because they would get held up in court.