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The FDA and walnuts.

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"Seen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately? According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that the FDA didn’t approve, it sent the company a letter declaring, “Your walnut products are drugs” — and “new drugs” at that — and, therefore, “they may not legally be marketed … in the United States without an approved new drug application.” The agency even threatened Diamond with “seizure” if it failed to comply."
 
you can still buy walnuts just fine though. fighting this seems like it's just going to be helping out diamond foods, which is most likely yet another massive environmentally destructive food company. i dont really think that it is the best use of time to fight for some corporation's right to advertise more.
 
Ljosalfar said:
That's totally nuts.

bahahahah i get it :lol:

in all seriousness though, that is completely ridiculous. I work at a health food store and we constantly have to worry about what new bans the gov't will try to enforce next. Absolutely ridiculous.
 
It is nuts.
It is ridiculous.
It is insane.
It is disturbing.
And it runs deep - this seems to me similar to what Jonathan Ott calls the "pharmacratic inquisition" - it is the expression of state power at its most pernicious and paranoid; it is an attempt to control peoples' birthright to self-determination of healthcare/food/right livelihood. Walnuts, apparently, are the latest foil by which US "drug" policy enforcers are attempting to dictate the very language and free discourse concerning our fundamental relationships to health and consumption. Bastards.
 
YESSS!! Time to turn up the Simon and Garfunkel!! TRANSDERMAL WALNUT PARTY!!!!

Next time I drink Ayahuasca, I will pray for the FDA.

If you want to do something delicious, mix some chocolate powder (cacao if you've got it ;) ), walnuts, and dates in the food processor. Criminal brownies!

There is an entire mindset here that must sink. And it will. Eventually. Making nourishment illegal will eventually kill us all. I am convinced these people who fear plants and make such desperate grasps for power by, uh, banning harmless things like walnuts--this is their swan song.
 
market protection at its best


as far as i know, in most countries of the world you are not allowed to give any health indications on foods, regardless of scientific studies that indicate real measurable health benefits. Otherwise you get a slap from the black hands that controls the very profitable pharma and food business.


Ok regardless of the bullshit.

...“The makers of pomegranate juice,...

pomegranate juice is amazing!
 
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You guys are great, many smiles and laughs... and I'm blending up a walnut/cacao/date smoothie real soon.
Best,
L
 
Some Indian tribes in the Amazon believe that plants reveal their benefits to us, sometimes as easily as looking like the human organ that it helps/supports.

Walnuts=Brain Food!
 
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