Posted on 07/21/2011 2:35:09 PM PDT by nralife
Seen any walnuts in your medicine cabinet lately? According to the Food and Drug Administration, that is precisely where you should find them. Because Diamond Foods made truthful claims about the health benefits of consuming walnuts that the FDA didnt approve, it sent the company a letter declaring, Your walnut products are drugs and new drugs at that and, therefore, they may not legally be marketed in the United States without an approved new drug application. The agency even threatened Diamond with seizure if it failed to comply.
Diamonds transgression was to make financial investments to educate the public and supply them with walnuts, as William Faloon of Life Extension magazine put it. On its website and packaging, the company stated that the omega-3 fatty acids found in walnuts have been shown to have certain health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and some types of cancer. These claims, Faloon notes, are well supported by scientific research: Life Extension has published 57 articles that describe the health benefits of walnuts; and The US National Library of Medicine database contains no fewer than 35 peer-reviewed published papers supporting a claim that ingesting walnuts improves vascular health and may reduce heart attack risk.
Forgot to add that you are right - the Diamond Walnut people just need to change the wording on their packages.
People may not like the interference of the FDA, but they went after Cheerios & Quaker Oats several yrs ago before Obama even ran for president. So, to try to connect this latest action to Obama in some grand conspiracy is hysterical & stupid.
I’ve been buying my walnuts out of the back of van for years in preperation for this moment ... Walnuts are very good for you by the way ...
Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat. ;)
>>> when nuts are criminalized, only criminals will have nuts <<<
Well, except for the GOP boys in Congress.
Interesting!
I’m glad Sam’s Club sells walnuts by the bag ... hope that continues.
There might be a bit of “big pharma” / government cooperation (fascism) on this,
but mostly, it’s the commies in government that are wanting ABSOLUTE CONTROL over your life that are doing things like this.
There’s gonna be a conflict. Just make sure that no one disarms you. That simply cannot be allowed, and should be the trigger point for violently fighting back, just as when the British attempted to seize the arsenal was the start of the Revolution.
What reports? The FDA has tried many times to pull that off, but in December with the backroom middle of the night scam that passed HR2749/S.510/HR2751 they were given control of "food safety" on a huge scale. Congress was scared into passing this by the threat of "food terrorism" by our enemies. It was a total takeover of the control of food production in the U.S. There were guarantees of exemption of small producers (not processors) but that is a hollow victory by those who value freedom. And yes, it is a terrible weapon against the freedom of a people to "control" distribution of food. Life or death at the whim of a bureaucrat. That is a sobering thought.
It would seem that walnuts aren’t really the nuts which are a drug on the market.
What we are experiencing under the Marxist Muslim’s administration with respect to Federal Agencies, demonstrates the great danger of having a lot of these in place in the first place. AFT, DEA, Homeland Security come to mind. We need a FDA, but it needs VERY close monitoring.
Be sure to repackage into smaller units and FREEZE them. They don’t last long other wise. Ditto for other nuts.
Raw Almonds are good for you too.
Yet they approve drugs like Lyrica...nasty, nasty drug side effects.
War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Walnuts are Drugs
Orwell lives.......
They government can take my nuts bullets first.
” There were guarantees of exemption of small producers “
Not an ‘exemption’ - a ‘waiver’, which can be rescinded unilaterally by the FDA, under any pretext.....
There is a difference....
I missed that. Should have noted, I did much study on the bill. Hate it and all the stuff that lead up to it.
The FDA has a SWAT team on staff. They “visited” some raw milk products farms a few months back.
They can have my nuts when they remove them from my ....wait a minute. LOL
I’ll dig in.
I just heard a funny story. A cop stops a woman driver, ends up doing a car search. He finds a Glock in the trunk, a Colt 45 in the glove compartment, and a 38 Police Special under the front seat. All with proper papers. “Boy, you must really be afraid,” he says. “No officer, I’m not afraid of anything!” she responds.
I think it’s time for me to admit that I have a problem. I passed out last night with a box of raisins in my hand. Right there on the side label is the clear warning “... for better health.” And no I don’t have a legitimate Rx for them.
If you are willing to let the government make the decision for you who can and cannot treat your health conditions then there is only one thing left to say to you...
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
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