(2013/06/03) Part 1: What's in our food (Food)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 3 June 2013
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Edition #723
Part 1: What's in our food
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Dairy Industry Petitioning to Hide Aspartame in Milk - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-17-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Pullin' punches - Arkells
Ch. 4: Act 2: All-Natural Food Preservative Causes All-Natural Cancer - The Onion
Ch. 5: Song 2: All Natural - Natural Vibrations
Ch. 6: Act 3: Ground Turkey Contaminated with Feces?? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 05-04-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Turkey in the straw - Fiddle Fiddle Fiddle
Ch. 8: Act 4: Ingredients In Processed Food To Avoid - Citizen Radio - Air Date 5-10-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Eat for two - 10,000 Maniacs
Ch. 10: Act 5: The Food Standards Agency is dropping the ball - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-07-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Trust in me - Etta James
Ch. 12: Act 6: Go Vegan, Save The Planet - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 01-17-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Sick as a dog - Brad Sucks
Ch. 14: Act 7: In battling corporate greed, tenacity matters - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 2-28-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Stick a little label on it - Wizz Jones
Ch. 16: Act 8: General Mills Pulls Nitroglycerin Chex From Store Shelves - The Onion
Ch. 17: Song 8: Cereal - The Verve Pipe
Ch. 18: Act 9: How Food Giants Are Hooking People - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-06-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard
Ch. 20: Act 10: How Corporations Create Animal Cruelty - Lee Camp - Air Date: 04-10-13
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.3 | the membership tab at bestablef.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups today from the |
| 0:12.0 | David Pakman show, the onion radio news, the young Turks, citizen radio, the Tom Hartman |
| 0:16.6 | program, Jim Hightower and comedian Lee Camp, and a note to our more sensitive listeners |
| 0:21.0 | that is not recommended for you to listen to this episode within 24 hours of eating a meal. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's talk about this petition. |
| 0:31.3 | A bunch of people have sent this to me. |
| 0:32.7 | The US dairy industry is petitioning the FDA to approve Aspartame as a hidden, unlabeled |
| 0:39.0 | additive in milk, yogurt, eggnog, and cream. |
| 0:42.6 | So this is the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Milk Producers Federation. |
| 0:48.1 | They filed a petition with the FDA saying, let's change the definition of milk to include |
| 0:54.0 | chemical sweeteners like Aspartame and sucralose without having to list them on the label. |
| 1:01.0 | They can just be swept under the definition of what milk is so that a company could say |
| 1:06.5 | on the label, this is milk and it could include Aspartame or sucralose without saying contains |
| 1:12.8 | artificial sweeteners, without listing them so on and so forth. |
| 1:16.7 | If you're trying to avoid Aspartame, you would of course have no way of doing so because |
| 1:21.6 | it's not listed on the label unless presumably there will be some watch.group that will test. |
| 1:26.2 | Yeah, now I just want to get something clear because it's not clear to me and it's probably |
| 1:29.5 | not clear to some of our audience members. |
| 1:31.6 | So is this that it's not going to be labeled even in the ingredients or is this only |
| 1:37.3 | that they're lobbying so that they can say milk on the front but then still on the back |
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