{"id":390,"date":"2019-07-26T14:53:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2019-07-26T14:54:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:54:02","slug":"mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/truthinlabeling.org\/blog\/2019\/07\/26\/mr-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. President…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald J. Trump
\nPresident
\nUnited States of America<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. President,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I read in the Wall Street Journal<\/em> that you\u2019ve pledged to reduce end stage kidney disease by 25 percent by 2030. Wonderful! And you did it by Executive Order!<\/p>\n\n\n

So I\u2019m thinking. Would you be willing to fly in the face of Ajinomoto Co., producer of \"\"monosodium glutamate (MSG) in America,\u00a0 and by Executive Order stop the FDA from calling MSG a \u201cGenerally Recognized as Safe\u201d (GRAS) food additive? Science says it\u2019s an excitotoxin \u2013 that when present in quantity (and there\u2019s lots and lots of it in the food we eat) it kills brain cells and from there causes obesity and infertility; while Ajinomoto gets propaganda value out of the claim that the FDA says that it\u2019s GRAS.<\/p>\n\n\n

It wouldn\u2019t cost you or your administration a penny. You might even get thank-you tweets from millions of MSG-sensitive people and their MSG-sensitive children. And if you could see your way to going just a step further, and issue an Executive Order that required that the toxic glutamate in MSG and all of the other ingredients that contain it (like hydrolyzed pea protein, autolyzed yeast, maltodextrin, and natural flavoring) had to be identified on food, drug, infant formula, protein powder, and dietary supplement labels, you could probably balance the national budget on health-care savings alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideas respectfully submitted,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adrienne Samuels
\nDirector
\nThe Truth in Labeling Campaign<\/p>\n\n\n\n

@truthlabeling
questionsaboutMSG@gmail.com<\/p>\n

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Donald J. Trump President United States of America Mr. President, I read in the Wall Street Journal that you\u2019ve pledged to reduce end stage kidney disease by 25 percent by 2030. Wonderful! And you did it by Executive Order! So I\u2019m thinking. Would you be willing to fly in the face of Ajinomoto Co., producer … <\/p>\n

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