Eating Cheerios Doesn't Make You Healthy, It Makes General Mills Wealthy

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EATING CHEERIOS DOESN'T MAKE YOU HEALTHIER, IT JUST MAKES GENERAL MILLS WEALTHIER
Global Revolution 1: American Revolution 2: Day 76: Communication 1
IronBoltBruce's Kleptocracy Chronicles for 1 Dec 2011 (g1a2d0076c1)
How many examples of greed and corruption must you see before you act?

Our corporations are lying to us, America. They sell us happiness and health, they deliver anything but, and they're getting away with it. Why? Because in many cases they've paid politicians and "lobbied" bureaucrats to twist the rules to where it is legal to lie - or at least legal to hide the truth. Here is one example from many:

Unless you're one of the few Americans with the wisdom and discipline to throw their TV out the window, you've probably seen commercials like this one wherein GMO cereal king General Mills claims that "Cheerios, made from all grain natural oats, is the only leading cold cereal clinically proven to lower cholesterol."

That claim may be legally true, but it is patently false for the following reasons:

1. Cheerios may be "made from all grain natural oats", but it also "made from" many other ingredients. The Cheerios website assures us that "All Cheerios cereal varieties have at least 8 grams of whole grain per serving", but omits the fact that a "serving" is 28 grams:

http://tinyurl.com/bmzgmbc

And what's in the other 20 grams? This article will give you some idea. Pay special attention to the commentary regarding genetically modified corn starch and trisodium phosphate (TSP), which is a cleaning compound:

http://tinyurl.com/c279cx6

2. As we reported earlier, in the USA "natural" has no regulated meaning with respect to food or food labels. Consequently, General Mills can legally refer to the oats in Cheerios as "natural" regardless of any genetically engineered origin. The truth is that General Mills "...continues to use genetically-modified (GM) ingredients in its cereal products, as well as corn syrup, artificial flavors, and artificial colorings - all of which wreak havoc on health...":

http://tinyurl.com/25ohlnv

3. The part about Cheerios being "the only leading cold cereal clinically proven to lower cholesterol" uses the "leading" adjective to avoid challenges from cereals that might be healthier but not as well known. And the "clinically proven" phrase that provides the claim's sole source of credibility refers to a study "conducted by Provident Clinical Research, a for-profit institute that gets paid by General Mills and other manufacturers to design, implement, and analyze tests that will always shine a bright light on the product in question."

http://tinyurl.com/7govsfn

http://tinyurl.com/crmugt8

Even the FDA found the claims based on that study to be suspect:

http://tinyurl.com/c27v85f

The opening sentence in this General Mills press release (propaganda piece) reads "Research presented today at the Experimental Biology Meeting revealed Cheerios can help lower cholesterol by 10 percent in one month."

http://tinyurl.com/c66cxue

This is another cleverly-worded deception. General Mills doesn't directly claim that "Cheerios can help lower cholesterol", but rather states that was "revealed" by "research", which as we just explained was tainted. The fact that tainted research was presented at some "Experimental Biology Meeting" sounds auspicious but means nothing. And once the lie is unleashed, the distortion of the truth becomes pandemic. They've even got Lance Armstrong lying for them, and the lie goes unretracted even after he knew about the FDA warning letter:

http://tinyurl.com/6qfz6re

http://tinyurl.com/7azlt2p

General Mills doesn't care about your health. General Mills only cares about their wealth.

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gott5

how about if you just like Cherios????????? I like steel cut oats.....YUM

MundusVultDecipi

I think cheerios are on the low end of the spectrum for unhealthiness compared to the cereals that are food dye drenched sugar puffs.

I hear you gott5 it's all about personal choice. I got a rude awakening for complaining to my girlfriend for wanting to spend her giftcard at Walmart on those damn Twilight books. I offered the option of buying them at thrift stores the next morning, since they are jam packed with that crap novel, but she insisted on getting the sequel last night because she just had to know what happens next. After being ripped a new asshole for burning gas to get there we decided to just drop it.

Moral of the story. There may be places we should never shop or companies we don't want to support but somehow find ourselves integrated into it. It takes a lot of effort to remove one's self from the crony capitalist carnival.

whitefeather

We will have to recondition our thought process. We have had decades of conditioning on the need of the material items we just have to have. Spend..... Spend.....Spend. We are good at it.

gott5

But I really mean it.........steel cut oats are delicious!
The idea of Made In American is so over done..........if product X was made in America: the box it was shipped in, the packaging on the product, the truck that delivered it..............something was not from America...so big deal. You want Made in America to matter............how about a State drilling oil and refining it, telling the Fed "screw you" That would be the kind of Made in America that would matter.

1loveAl

Hey I remember when water was good to drink from the tap.

slave

@MundusVultDecipi,
''Moral of the story. There may be places we should never shop or companies we don't want to support but somehow find ourselves integrated into it. It takes a lot of effort to remove one's self from the crony capitalist carnival.'' If you think through it, it is actually IMPOSSIBLE, that is what the word ''system'' means. Even if you buy from a little ma and pa store the money percolates to the bigger capitalists who then use the profit you generated (in this case ''indirectly'' if you will) against you. You also cannot blame the poor shopping at places like Walmart or not buying ''organic'' as they struggle to stay afloat pitting their short-term interests against their long-term interests. Again if you extend this argument you will see that there is a systemic snow-ball effect favoring the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer all based on the exclusive essentially non-egalitarian nature of private ownership itself. For all practical purposes your fate is sealed by the time you are borne. Your ideas (e.g., politics, spirituality, ideology) do not matter as long as you are chained to the profit motive by default - i.e., you do not have an alternative option other than profiting the capitalists, you do not have an option other than enslaving yourself and others more / destroying the environment more or less. You do this by any one of these measures you are forced to do daily to survive: 1) buy or sell of any sort (includes rents, interests, other forms of profit), 2) be employed directly or indirectly, 3) pay taxes. All of these are the mechanisms provide the profit, the value extracted (ultimately from your labor individually or collectively) that fuels the profit.

The only way to avoid your ultimate suicide / homicide / genocide and destruction of the environment and many other species is to establish an alternative economic system that is not based on the dysfunctional parasitical nature of PRIVATE OWNERSHIP.

economicsystem

Whoa, I am shocked to see that this is what people are spending their time with in terms of protest. I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but if you don't like commercials, turn off the TV. There are a million ways to get information on products other than television. There are books, statistics, government and corporate documents, studies, encyclopedias, the list really goes on.

Plus, we're talking about Cheerios here--Cheerios! If you think they're unhealthy, don't buy them. It's not like we're talking about the nutritional value of something that's a staple, like milk or eggs, or meat. This is about Cheerios! Are you kidding me?!

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