{"id":2735,"date":"2023-09-26T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=2735"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:30:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:30:41","slug":"msg-on-60-minutes-got-people-riled-up-30-years-ago-could-it-do-the-same-thing-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/msg-on-60-minutes-got-people-riled-up-30-years-ago-could-it-do-the-same-thing-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MSG on 60 Minutes got people riled up 30 years ago. Could it do the same thing today?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thirty years ago this&nbsp;<em>60 Minutes<\/em>&nbsp;program (video below) on MSG was the second most-watched show of the year. Despite that, the show\u2019s creator Don Hewitt caved to glutamate-industry pressure and refused to air it a second time.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then the Glutes have kept a tight wrap on information about the toxic effects of MSG, filling the Internet, newspapers and TV with cleverly crafted propaganda that carries the falsehood MSG is a harmless ingredient. Advertising studies have been rigged to conclude that nothing was found to suggest that MSG is anything other than safe, diverting funding from research that might concluded that MSG is harmful, enlisting the support of celebrities and professionals who vouch for the safety of their excitotoxic \u2013 brain damaging \u2013 product and keeping any mention of possible MSG-toxicity out of FDA files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it\u2019s a new day. And as much as we may disagree about our politics and even what truth is, no one will disagree with the notion that it\u2019s wrong to poison people, most especially our children. And so, through a Citizen Petition addressed to FDA Commissioner Hahn, I have asked the people at the FDA (who have kept the myth of the safety of MSG alive no matter what) to weed out the lies that the FDA is telling at the behest of the glutamate industry and officially stop calling the excitotoxic manufactured glutamic acid and the MSG that contains it generally recognized as safe \u2014 GRAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To comment on and support that petition, simply&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/document?D=FDA-2021-P-0035-0001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">go here<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and then click the blue \u201ccomment now\u201d button at the top of the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And be sure to share this message with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MSG on 60mintues (1991)\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bwBfpWT1PU?start=45&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago this&nbsp;60 Minutes&nbsp;program (video below) on MSG was the second most-watched show of the year. Despite that, the show\u2019s creator Don Hewitt caved to glutamate-industry pressure and refused to air it a second time. Since then the Glutes have kept a tight wrap on information about the toxic effects of MSG, filling the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2023\/09\/26\/msg-on-60-minutes-got-people-riled-up-30-years-ago-could-it-do-the-same-thing-today-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MSG on 60 Minutes got people riled up 30 years ago. 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