those who still consume dairy

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The dairy industry adds animal products (sheep skin)

to every carton of milk (in the form of vitamin D-3),

and may soon be adding processed raw fish organs to

their version of nature's perfect food. This decision

will make an unhealthy product even unhealthier.

 

Dairy processors are about to get approval to add

fish oil to cheese, yogurt, milk, and ice cream.

 

Thanks to a new FDA regulation, Americans may

soon be eating fish oil in baked goods, cereals,

peanut butter, snack foods, puddings, pastas,

candy, processed fruit juice, granulated sugar,

jams and jelly.

 

They will call the fish product " OMEGA 3 "

but in reality, it's menhaden.

 

The menhaden is a member of the herring family.

These are bony/oily fish, and are unfit for human

consumption. Mehnaden have been traditionally

harvested for use as fish meal, bait, and

fertilizer.

 

More than 380 years ago, the Waumpanoag Indians

showed grateful pilgrims how to plant one

seed of corn with one menhaden to produce

well-fertilized plants that would yield

bountiful harvests.

 

If you have a comment, FDA welcomes your

EMAIL, letters, and phone calls.

 

You must include the following docket

number so that your letter becomes a part

of their file:

 

67-FR-8744

 

CONTACT:

http://www.fda.gov/dockets/ecomments

 

Lawrence Lin

Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

Food and Drug Administration

5100 Paint Branch Parkway

College Park, MD 20740-3835

 

202-418-3103

 

The FDA is proposing a new rule that will

allow food products to contain up to 5%

menhaden oil.

 

Why? Because fish oil contains essential

fats such as Omega 3.

 

Government regulators (FDA, USDA, NIH)

warn consumers that consumption of fish can be

dangerous, and should be limited. That's because

big fish eat little fish who eat tiny fish, and

concentrated pesticides (including DDT), heavy

metals, dioxins, and other dangerous chemicals

concentrate in their flesh and fat. The higher

up one is on the food chain, the greater are

the amounts of carcinogenic substances in their

bodies. The portion of fish oil you eat today

may contain thousands of doses of those same

toxins that we are warned to avoid.

 

American consumers have a right to know what

they are eating. Fish oil can be dangerous.

Omega-3 can be healthy. To label fish oil

as " Omega-3 " can be misleading.

 

Please let FDA know how you feel.