What should you do? What can you do? You can speak to family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Offer them information from the pages of this Web site that may improve their health and their lives. Over 30,000 people read this Web page every month. If every person who read this Web page helped one other person understand the toxic potential of MSG and where it is hidden in food, consumer demand would force the FDA to label MSG.
If you're into politics, you might contact your state and federal legislators and your local health department. Make no mistake. Refusal to identify MSG in food is a political matter. Just remember that it is votes that put our legislators in office. Remember, also, that your vote counts, and threat of losing your vote counts, too.
If you want to do more without going out of your way, start talking to grocers, farmers at your farmers' markets, and the people from whom you buy wine. Ask for produce, processed food, and wine without processed free glutamic acid (MSG) in it or on it. Ask once. Ask again. Bring these people lists of the names of ingredients that contain MSG. You many not think it worth while, but let me assure you that people will begin to think about what they are selling when they hear over and over again that even a few of the people they sell to don't want food that contains MSG.
Contact the people whose poisons and lies give you and/or other MSG-sensitive people grief. Let them know what damage they have done to you and your family. Ask them to be sure to file your comments with the FDA or EPA as they are required to do when someone reports getting sick from one of their products.
Introduce others to the Truth in Labeling Campaign. Talk to them. Share information with them. Copy relevant information from our Web page and pass it out to others.
We're not short of ideas. Anyone who learns the truth about the toxic potential of MSG may become a valuable resource. Think about talking to, writing, or calling some of the following:
Your grocer(s)Let your thoughts about use and abuse of MSG be heard.
Your health food store(s)
Community groups: libraries, churches, public schools, hospitals, housing for the elderly, community centers for the elderly......
Religious organizations that you belong to
Your local health department
Paramedics
Emergency room physicians
Your personal physician(s), chiropractors, acupuncturists, kinesiologists, NAET practitioners, school or office nurse(s) and other health care professionals
Your local medical association
Your two senators and one member of congress.
The three federal agencies charged with protecting consumers: FDA, USDA, and EPA
Your state legislators
Write and call manufacturers who use MSG in food. Protest its use. Write and call manufacturers who claim "No MSG" or "No added MSG" on labels of products and ask for copies of test results that show there is no free glutamic acid in their products. Write and call the FDA to report manufacturers who claim "No MSG" or "No added MSG" without supplying proof that their product(s) contain no free glutamic acid.
Write and call manufacturers of plant "growth enhancers," fertilizers, and fungicides that contain MSG. Ask where in your state, and where in states your produce comes from, their product is being used commercially and where it is being tested. If appropriate, tell them straight out that you don't want to take a chance of coming into contact with their product. If you have had an MSG reaction following ingestion of unprocessed produce, call Emerald BioAgriculture (formerly Auxein Corporation) to register the incident. Send copies of your incident report to the FDA and EPA.
Ask the magazines, newspapers, and journals to which you subscribe to carry lists of hidden sources of MSG. Ask your local newspapers, radio stations, and TV stations to carry information about MSG. Ask schools, hospitals, church groups, social clubs, girl scouts, and boy scouts to distribute material about the toxic effects of MSG and where it is hidden in food. Ask candidates for political office to oppose hiding MSG. Ask them to go on record -- for or against hiding MSG.
Identify MSG-sensitive lawyers interested in suing those who produce and/or sell food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and agricultural products, that contain MSG. Collect information that might help others who would like to avoid MSG and share it with others by sending it to the Truth in Labeling Campaign. Information about the effects of glutamic acid, products that contain little or no MSG, products that are mislabeled, false advertising, and names of legislators, lawyers, physicians, manufacturers and others who understand the needs of people who want to avoid MSG, would be examples of potentially useful information.
Expose the lies of the glutamate industry and the complicity of the FDA, EPA and our elected officials.
Boycott manufacturers who make false claims about the MSG in their products and/or the hidden sources of MSG. Don't use products that contain hidden sources of MSG.
Download information from the web page of the Truth in Labeling Campaign and distribute it. Make up business cards with names of some of the ingredients that contain hidden MSG and pass them out as you shop or travel.
About the Truth in Labeling Campaign
The Truth in Labeling Campaign -- a totally volunteer organizationAbout consumer advocacyThe Formal Objection of the Truth in Labeling Campaign was filed on August 16, 2001 with the EPA.
The Truth in Labeling Campaign has responded to the proposed Australia/New Zealand declaration of monosodium glutamate in restaurant food
Thinking of suing?There are other individual consumers and consumer groups that are concerned with the use of neurotoxic amino acids in food.
The following are selected Web sites that contain valuable information. There may be others.
In a Nutshell
Holistic Healing
Battling the "MSG Myth"
Say No to Aspartame
Aspartame Consumption is Never Safe
Nutrition for Optimal Health Association
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