Why Hawaii Must Ban Aspartame: Economic and Medical Reasons: Testimonial by Stephen Fox

PR Log (Press Release) – Feb 08, 2008 – TESTIMONY FROM STEPHEN FOX OF NEW MEXICO
RE: HB 2680, to ban aspartame* Room 329, 8:00 a.m., February 8 *  
House Health Committee

Honorable Josh Green, M.D. Chair
Honorable John Mizuno, Vice Chair
Honorable Karen Leinani Awana
Honorable Della Au Belatti
Honorable Joe Bertram
Honorable Rida Cabinilla
Honorable Karl Rhoads
Honorable Maile Shimaukuro
Honorable James Tokioka
Honorable Gene Ward

Dear Hawaii House Health Committee:
Please give a Do Pass to Rep. Carroll’s bill to ban aspartame. I have arranged for many victims and many important physicians, including the top physician in the world Dr. H.J. Roberts, to write to you in this regard, as well as one (Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pino) and soon to be more members of the New Mexico Legislature with direct personal observations about the effects of perfidious corporate lobbyists who came to Santa Fe to destroy a prior bill in two different years, 2006 and 2007. There will be many more testimonial letters for the next committee. I

won’t  regale you further with the medical harm done by ingesting this poisonous neurotoxin and carcinogen whose approval was forced through the FDA by Donald Rumsfeld as CEO of the patent holder in 1981, G.D. Searle. After  watching  the DVD Sweet Misery, you know this.

I will only remind you that opposition lobbyists represent industries and corporations that manufacture and add an aspartame that has almost destroyed the Hawaiian agricultural base of growing and refining cane sugar, a profound impact on Hawaii’s economy. Yet these same corporations will be complaining about this bill,  and telling  you blatant lies about how an aspartame is harmless, and that it has been through 200 (industry paid for) tests.

This bill is not only about protecting the health of all Hawaiians, but on an underlying level, perhaps helping to rebuild a major Hawaii industry, the growing and processing of cane sugar.

I think about you all and the decision you will make every time I use packets of turbinado sugar in my tea, grown on Maui and on Kauai. Please ignore the clamor of the lobbyists and the misguided protests of diabetics, the last people in the world who should be ingesting a chemical metabolized as methanol and formaldehyde. Please give this bill a do pass and let the FDA, the corporations, and the entire world that your committee takes seriously the medical health of all Hawaiians.

I respectfully thank you,

Stephen Fox, Managing Editor, Santa Fe Sun News
Founder, New Millennium Fine Art  217 W. Water St., Santa Fe, NM 87501