FDA Claims Walnuts to be Illegal Drugs | Government Lunacy at its Best
Mike Barrett
NaturalSociety
January 3, 2012
Well the Food and Drug Administration has really made a name for themselves this time. In response to claims by a company named Diamond Foods that walnuts possess health benefits, the FDA sent the company a letter informing them of their wrongdoing. What did Diamond Foods do wrong? According to the FDA, claims made by Diamond Foods that omega-3′s found in walnuts produce health benefits make their walnuts “drugs”. As far as the FDA is concerned, these “drugs” can not be legally marketed in the United States without an approved new drug application.
FDA Actions Portray Government Lunacy at its Best
It seems bureaucratic tyranny is really taking shape in America. Despite 35 peer-reviewed published papers showing that walnuts improve vascular health and promote heart function being held in the US National Library of Medicine database, the FDA refuses to allow Diamond Foods to make such claims. The evidence revolving around the benefits of walnuts evidently must be authorized by the FDA before those benefits can even be marketed. A letter sent to the company from the FDA states:
“We have determined that your walnut products are promoted for conditions that cause them to be drugs because these products are intended for use in the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of disease.”
The FDA goes on to say that the products are also “misbranded” because they “are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners; therefore, adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely for their intended purposes.”
All the while, the FDA is more than happy to allow marketing of chemical-laden, diabetes-inducing foods such as Apple Jacks or Fruit Loops, often targeted at young children. Not only that, but they would much rather the population ‘treat’ their problems with harmful pharmaceuticals rather than with a healthy diet. The government’s actions against natural solutions are sickening to say the least, and saying that walnuts or pomegranates are drugs is an outright false claim. But why are they even making these crazy statements?
The truth is that the pharmaceutical industry, multi-national corporations, and government officials all have both indiscrete and blatant financial ties. Junk food manufacturers heavily lobby the federal government for favorable treatment in order to vacuum in greater profits. In response to the ingestion of massive amounts of junk foods, your body responds so negatively that various health-complications surface, causing you to search for a solution. It just so happens that the pharmaceutical industry has been pushing ‘solutions’ on you for years through mass advertising, making drug ingestion and medical devices the norm instead of healthy alternatives. As far as the government is concerned, there is absolutely no reason for you to live a healthy lifestyle, since many of the government officials would be losing out on a great sum of money.
The FDA simply does not have your best interest at heart. This kind of action truly reflects government lunacy at its best.
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COMPANIES PAYING THE POLLIES
Sorry guys – normally I’m on your side but you are misunderstanding this. I am no fan of the FDA, but as I work in the pharmaceutical industry, I know what the issue is here. This is a labeling claim problem. If you state as fact that a natural product like a nut or an herb has properties that treat specific diseases, then you are making it a drug by definition. Although it may not appear so, the FDA actually does have our interests here. Think snake oil. Any unproven (i.e. no clinical studies) claim will result in misbranding, and if you want to market the product on such a specific claim, you need to go through the same process as any drug manufacturer. What if Diamond said walnuts cure cancer and they didn’t? Get the picture? Walnuts are fine, and selling them is fine, and even saying they have omega-3′s is fine. But it has to stop there.
This reminds me of the Stevita when they couldn’t market their products as sweeteners. Although the “reasons” were different it still portraits how stupid this FDA cartel is.
So, is the FDA denying there is omega 3 in walnuts? If they aren’t outright denying that omega 3′s are present, how can their claim hold water? And if it does hold water, they have just shot themselves in the foot by admitting Diamond foods is right – there are omega 3′s in walnuts (not to mention fish, chia seeds, purslane, and tons of other foods as a naturally occurring substance. We all need to get the FDA to make a ruling and have a clear and concise definition of the word “natural”. Up til now, they’ve been avoiding do that because that way they don’t have to actually define anything.
People are far more aware than the FDA gives them credit, when it comes to food and health issues. They want people to remain stupid and dumbed down, but slowly – ever so slowly – people are getting the messages about real, nutrient-dense nutrition and what it means to and for our bodies.
For me, every time the FDA says something is not good, I use it faithfully. The FDA is a bunch of morons wrapped up in a bunch of ignoramuses. Their record for the past decade speaks loudly for itself.
Population control?!
Cheney – Halliburton
Monsanto – ?
FDA – oops
So the next question.
Which company will be the Halliburton of the food business. &&& which present government official will be the Dick ‘Cheatiny’ screwing the citizens up against the wall.?.
And, if they get Senate Bill S-510 passed, it will be illegal to grow, sell, or trade your own produce! Already in some states you cannot “divert water” from going down stream by collecting rain water that falls onto your own roof! Big Brother…if you are watching…I will give up gardening when you pry my hoe from my cold, dead fingers!
The FDA are a bunch of idiots! When they say that some product is bad, then I consume it with no concern.
At Its WORST! NUTS!!
Is that the same FDA who allows food packaging to contain gender-bending fertility-reducing BPA and pollutes the water supply with neurotoxic Fluoride?