{"id":1764,"date":"2021-08-30T19:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2021-08-30T19:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:33:54","slug":"the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2021\/08\/30\/the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What do you think it took to get Aaron Hutcherson, a Washington Post<\/em> food writer of good reputation, to take a propaganda piece advertising a brain-damaging food additive, disguise it as a foodie article and submit it to the Post<\/em>?\u00a0\u00a0 And worse yet, have the Post<\/em> print it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the Post<\/em> has hosted glutamate-industry propaganda.\u00a0 Caitlin Dewey authored Why Americans still avoid MSG, even though its \u2018health effects\u2019 have been debunked<\/em><\/a> on March 20, 2018, and Becky Krystal, a staff reporter for Voraciously covering topics related to food did Embrace umami and learn to add its savory goodness to your foods<\/em><\/a> on February 17, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aaron Hutcherson\u2019s article includes much of the standard glutamate-industry propaganda, starting with the statement that Chinese restaurant syndrome is blamed for MSG\u2019s bad reputation.   Predictably, that ignores the fact that after MSG and its free glutamate component were reinvented in 1957, people began having reactions after eating MSG and talking to each other about them.  Kwok (the doctor who wrote the Chinese restaurant syndrome letter printed in The New England Journal of Medicine<\/em>) wasn\u2019t the only person who reacted to MSG, but the reactions of others weren\u2019t published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Hutcherson article there\u2019s also the fiction that to react to MSG you have to consume more than 3 grams MSG without food (a fabrication based on the fact that once<\/strong>, in one<\/strong> study, subjects reacted to 3 grams of MSG without food). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, in studies with subjects said to be MSG-sensitive where they were given MSG or a placebo, the claim is made that scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was guaranteed by giving subjects \u201cplacebos\u201d that contained amino acids that caused reactions identical to those caused by the glutamic acid in the MSG test material. In other words, the \u201cplacebos\u201d weren\u2019t really placebos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s the bit about \u201cThe glutamate in MSG is chemically indistinguishable from glutamate present in food proteins. Our bodies ultimately metabolize both sources of glutamate in the same way.\u201d That statement simply ignores the fact that the glutamate in MSG, being manufactured, comes with unwanted by-products of production which inevitably include D-glutamic acid and pyroglutamic acid along with other impurities depending on the materials used to feed the bacteria that produced the MSG and the extent of the processing.  The glutamate present on food proteins has none of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And of course, there is the brainwashing component of the article, where celebrity chefs applaud MSG\u2019s use, and feel-good words and images are paired with \u201cdelicious\u201d MSG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Hutcherson also does something just a tad different.\u00a0 Most propaganda pieces say something about the so-called \u201calleged\u201d dangers of MSG, but Hutcherson doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 So, I\u2019d like to introduce you to the series of blogs that the Truth in Labeling Campaign is doing titled \u201cThere are seven lines of evidence leading to the conclusion that the manufactured free glutamate (MfG) in monosodium glutamate is toxic.\u201d The \u201cOverview\u201d was posted on August 24 and \u201cLine 1\u201d was posted on August 26.\u00a0 You can read them at https:\/\/bit.ly\/3DqyS51<\/a> and https:\/\/bit.ly\/3sUty5g<\/a> respectively.\u00a0 And there will be more to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think there\u2019s a chance that the Washington Post would even mention those articles?\u00a0 Not since the 1991 60 Minutes<\/em> program on toxic MSG has any major media in the U.S. even suggested that MSG might be anything other than a harmless food additive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


If you have questions or comments, we\u2019d love to hear from you. If you have hints for others on how to avoid exposure to MfG, send them along, too, and we\u2019ll put them up on\u00a0<\/em>Facebook<\/em><\/a>. Or you can reach us at questionsaboutmsg@gmail.com and follow us on\u00a0<\/em>Twitter @truthlabeling<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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What do you think it took to get Aaron Hutcherson, a Washington Post food writer of good reputation, to take a propaganda piece advertising a brain-damaging food additive, disguise it as a foodie article and submit it to the Post?\u00a0\u00a0 And worse yet, have the Post print it. This isn\u2019t the first time the Post … <\/p>\n

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