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Big Food Is Making Us Fat & Sick \u2013 Tell the FDA to Ban Ultra-Processed Foods<\/p>\n
Big Food Is Making Us Fat & Sick \u2013 Tell the FDA to Ban Ultra-Processed Foods<\/p>\n
Ultraprocessed Food Ingredient of the Week \u2013 The Laxative That\u2019s a Key Ingredient in 3D-Printed Fake Meat<\/p>\n
When we heard that \u201cPerfecta\u201d 3D-printed fake meat from Steakholder Foods would be sold at grocery stores, we figured we should investigate.<\/p>\n
What we found were the typical veggie burger ingredients: lots of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), including canola oil, modified corn starch, soy fiber, soy flour, and soy protein. They\u2019re engineered to tolerate massive amounts of Monsanto (now Bayer)\u2019s carcinogenic glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide and other toxic herbicides like glufosinate, 2,4-D, dicamba, quizalofop, and isoxaflutole.<\/p>\n
But, one ingredient stood out: methylcellulose. If you\u2019ve never heard of it, start looking for it on food packages. It\u2019s the active ingredient in the laxative Citrucel, and in Perfecta \u201cfilet mignon\u201d it\u2019s the third ingredient listed after water and soy flour.<\/p>\n
Methylcellulose is one of the ingredients named in former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler\u2019s petition asking the FDA to stop treating the ingredients in ultraprocessed food as \u201cgenerally recognized as safe\u201d and to make companies prove their use is safe. Kessler proved Big Tobacco was deliberately making cigarettes more addictive and, by consequence, more deadly. Now, he\u2019s making the same case against Big Food.<\/p>\n
Currently, methylcellulose is one of the ingredients the Food and Drug Administration considers \u201cgenerally recognized as safe\u201d (GRAS).<\/p>\n
Kessler filed a petition with the FDA asking it to revoke methylcellulose\u2019s GRAS status and require food companies to prove that their use of methylcellulose\u2014in ultraprocessed food\u2014is actually safe.<\/p>\n
Finish reading: https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/methylcellulose-a-laxative-and-a-key-ingredient-in-3d-printed-fake-meat\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Big Food Is Making Us Fat & Sick \u2013 Tell the FDA to Ban Ultra-Processed Foods Big Food Is Making Us Fat & Sick \u2013 Tell the FDA to Ban Ultra-Processed Foods Ultraprocessed Food Ingredient of the Week \u2013 The Laxative That\u2019s a Key Ingredient in 3D-Printed Fake Meat When we heard that \u201cPerfecta\u201d 3D-printed … <\/p>\n