Toddler’s Formula
Food Chain Radio Show #1258
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
TODDLER’S SUGAR FORMULA
Guest: Eva Greenthal, Policy AssociateCenter for Science in the Public Interest
This from Michael Moore’s book Here Comes Trouble:
“They convinced our mothers that if a food item came in a bottle — or a can or a box or a cellophane bag — then it was somehow better for you than when it came to you free of charge via Mother Nature. An entire generation of us were introduced in our very first week to the concept that phony was better than real, that something manufactured was better than something that was right there in the room.”
There are those who reject the idea that “phony is better that real.”
One of the organizations doing the rejecting is the Weston A. Price Foundation. If you were to attend one of the Foundation’s conventions, you would see nursing mothers everywhere you look. And you would see contented babies, and knowing smiles, as if all the mothers and their babies were in on a very sweet conspiracy.
If you are in the business of selling baby formula to mothers, you probably will not be attending a Weston A. Price Foundation convention. You will probably be heading off to Washington D.C. with a wad of cash in your pocket.
The baby formula business is a multi-billion dollar a year industry in the U.S. And an industry that big needs to be protected from organizations like the Center For Science In The Public Interest, or CSPI.
The problem with babies is that they grow into toddlers, and when they do, the baby formula industry loses a customer. To compensate for their loss, the industry has taken to manufacturing a new formula they call, “toddler milk.”
This is where CSPI comes in the door: Whereas the ingredients in baby formula are tightly regulated by the Food and Drug Administration, those in toddler milks are not. The toddler milks contain up to 15 grams of sugar per serving, and do not contain any essential nutrients that can’t be otherwise obtained from real food.
CSPI objects to this “phony is better than real” food, and is petitioning the FDA to regulate the toddler milks. And so we ask:
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