Almond Board of California To Falsely Label Pasteurized Almonds As Raw

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Food Scam: Almond Board of California to falsely label pasteurized almonds as "raw" News Target article by Mike Adams The Almond Board of California, which oversees virtually 100 percent of thealmonds grown and consumed in the United States and Canada, is nowimplementing plans to pasteurize all almonds at temperatures up to 158degrees (F) and yet have them intentionally and falsely labeled as "raw."The decision was made following the 2001 and 2004 outbreaks of salmonella inalmonds, and is based on the intention of the Almond Board of California toprovide a "safe, nutritious product to consumers" but not, it seems, anaccurately labeled food product to consumers.Although it seems unthinkable to anyone familiar with the fundamentals ofnutrition, the Almond Board fails to recognize any distinction between rawalmonds and cooked almonds. In statements received by NewsTarget, the AlmondBoard explained that, "raw almonds that have been pasteurized do not differin any significant way from untreated raw almonds."Except, of course, for the fact that they are dead. Stating that live, rawalmonds are the same as dead, cooked almonds is equivalent to stating that aliving human being is the same as a corpse.Raw foods are widely understood by virtually the entire food community tomean food items kept below 108 degrees (F), beyond which the living enzymesin foods are destroyed. Pasteurization, in contrast, exposes foods totemperatures of up to 158 degrees for durations up to 30 minutes. (Faster"flash" pasteurization can involve much higher temperatures for shorterdurations: 280 degrees (F) for two seconds, for example.) NewsTarget doesnot know the precise temperature that will be used for pasteurizing almonds,but it will without question be a temperature higher than 108 degrees (F),which means the almonds can no longer be considered raw by any reasonableperson familiar with the definition of raw.Outcry from the raw foods communityThe raw foods community, not surprisingly, is alarmed at the new rules,which openly condone the false labeling of a food product. Dr. GabrielCousens, author of several top-selling books on raw foods and founder of theTree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona, told NewsTarget, "Thismandatory almond pasteurization is an effort by the powers that be to limitaccess to healthy food. It is a serious attack on people's ability to eatwhat they want and support their health. In this important way, it deprivesus of our basic rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It isa serious incursion of rights for a trivial and preventable reason, thisbeing that the [past] contamination of the almonds was from a singlesource."For the full article, :http://www.newstarget.com/021776.html See what's free at AOL.com.