Bloody Buggering Hell

[neadods]

Aspartame has been renamed "AminoSweet" and now will be marketed as a "natural sweetener." I doubt that the bodies of all the people it makes sick (including me) will be fooled.

Fuck.

Here, have Watson wielding the tiny plastic sword of justice.

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[shezan.livejournal.com]

He is SUCH a lovely cat!!!

[neadods.livejournal.com]

She is. She is also quite the little hellion; for reasons known only to her, that plastic knife was the sum total of her heart's desire - for about 15 minutes. Now she ignores it.

[lagilman]

It's gotten to the point where if it doesn't say "sugar" I won't eat it...

[neadods.livejournal.com]

You are wise. This is only giving me more impetus to make all my own food from scratch as much as possible.

[signeh.livejournal.com]

Hate that. Hate living in a society where marketing reigns supreme.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

DITTO! Nevermind health concerns about it, the bottom line is dropping!

Blargh.

[stlscape.livejournal.com]

Rrrrrrrr! Grrrrrrr! Seriously, WTF?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Because when people hate your additive, the cure is to rename it, not reformulate it.

And what's even nastier? When looking up "aspartame" to verify the first article I read, I mostly found discussions of how they're trying to get it into milk. MILK! Because it's "healthy." Kids will drink more milk if it's got sweeteners in it!

*retch*

[stlscape.livejournal.com]

O.M.G. In *MILK*?????? Geez. Way to kill off your population. ::massive eyeroll::

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

How the heck does aspartame qualify as a 'natural sweetener'?

It will still *taste* disgusting, so do they really think they're fooling anyone?

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Amino acids are natural, apparently. No matter how they're created.

[redpanda13.livejournal.com]

Just read an article about caffeine being added to everything from candy to waffles (!). I already had to learn which brands of root beer and orange soda to avoid if I don't want gut cramps etc. and was fooled by a granola-type bar-- now I know that "energy" on the label means caffeine.

As if looking for non-vegetarian content wasn't enough. Even a brand of fruit juice used to use all-natural coloring made from beetles (cochineal or carmine).

On the other hand, my dear friend Michael, who once worked in advertising, laughed when he saw me reading a label. "You don't think they print the truth on those things, do you?"

A cuddle to Watson and all your other furry kids, even Gytha.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

They'll approve of the cuddle.

Additives are getting ridiculous. It's getting to the point where the only way to know for sure what's going in your body is to cook everything from scratch, and that's exhausting.

[themis1.livejournal.com]

What fabulous eyes that cat has! (The rest is pretty cool too :-))

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Watson and her sister Sherlock have the deepest golden eyes. Not yellow - gold. They're very striking. (And Gytha's are a milky blue. All my cats are unusual in the good way.)

[msp-hacker.livejournal.com]

UGH.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I KNOW!

lovely girl

[lrodell.livejournal.com]

She will smite all the silly human beans for Mama^^