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Article: Persistent lobby despite lack of evidence: aspartame as the root of all evil; "We need to tell the world that the NutraSweet Company is guilty of murder," the website aspartame.com tells its viewers. "We need to prosecute them, just as they did with Nazi war criminals.".(INGREDIENTS)
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- Food Engineering & Ingredients
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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It is an extreme example, but there are tens of thousands of websites like aspartame.com. Although fortunately not all of them associate food companies with the horrors of the holocaust, they all proclaim the same message: "Aspartame kills." "Aspartame is a toxin." "Companies like NutraSweet, the first producer of aspartame, or Ajinomoto, this moment's main producer, are poisoning the world." And so on.
Dozens of references to scientific articles, reports, quotes from researchers and activists, and personal anecdotes should convince the visitor. Anyone who has doubts, the websites claim, just does not want to know the truth.
The anti-aspartame lobby ...