Walnuts are drugs - so says the FDA

[jsgolfman]

FDA Says Walnuts Are Illegal Drugs

This isn't some mom and pop operation, it's Diamond. Just another fine example of the state apparatus in action.

 

[superjoe76]

Another Bureaucratic Oligarchy Strikes again. Ignoring their job and protecting the ones they are supposed to protect us from.

 

[ViperJock]

Walnuts ARE drugs. Have you ever eaten the cinnamon sugar coated ones? Like crack.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I didn't know the FDA could regulate how food was marketed.

That is ridiculous.

 

[RichardR]

??? we've been gathering wild black walnuts for years, I wasn't aware that walnuts were considered "illegal drugs" by the FDA.

These are some very interesting times we're living in.

 

[ATOMonkey]

I didn't read that the FDA considers walnuts to be illegal drugs.

Diamond was marketing walnuts as having health benefits. The FDA said, there are no actual health benefits, so it's illegal to MARKET them as such.

The walnuts aren't illegal, just the marketing.

Let me know if I misread.

 

[jeremy]

WTF!!!

Sounds like another Agency that needs disbanded to me...

 

[level.eleven]

That's what the walnut lobby gets for not dropping enough cash.

The Frito Lay portion of that article should tell you all you need to know.

 

[BigMatt]

I didn't read that the FDA considers walnuts to be illegal drugs.

Diamond was marketing walnuts as having health benefits. The FDA said, there are no actual health benefits, so it's illegal to MARKET them as such.

The walnuts aren't illegal, just the marketing.

Let me know if I misread.

This^^^^^^

 

[ATOMonkey]

I don't like the FDA anymore than the next Patriot, but I think the article is a bit misleading.

 

[jeremy]

I don't like the FDA anymore than the next Patriot, but I think the article is a bit misleading.

Well of course it is...

If it was not it would not be News...

 

[Denny347]

That's what the walnut lobby gets for not dropping enough cash.

The Frito Lay portion of that article should tell you all you need to know.

 

[BarryJaxon]

Nice to know they have so much free time on their hands

 

[Denny347]

I don't like the FDA anymore than the next Patriot, but I think the article is a bit misleading.

Yes, you do have to read it carefully. It is the marketing that the FDA had isues with...not the Walnut itself. What I do not understand is that marketing Walnuts as healthy and the specifics that make it so but they can lable all this junk food as "healthy"...even recommend crappy, sugar-filled cereal as a essential part of every healthy breakfast. Sad and funny at the same time.

 

[Denny347]

If you want to get fat and die young, follow the FDA recommended foods/diet. Bunch of clowns.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Yeah, I don't know how Cheerios can get away with being "heart healthy" but walnuts can't.

It must all be in the wording.

 

[level.eleven]

Yeah, I don't know how Cheerios can get away with being "heart healthy" but walnuts can't.

It must all be in the wording.

You wonder how General Mills and the corn/grain lobby gets approval, but a small nut company doesn't? Really?

 

[2A_Tom]

A couple of years ago the fda made Cheerios change their advertising. Their advertising made more claims than they do now.
Cheerios claims now is that whole grain oats are heart healthy and can reduce colesterol. I am sure that their lawyers backed these claims up to the fda. Probably has something to do with their political contributions too.

 

[2A_Tom]

Sorry

 

[ATOMonkey]

Dude, you need to get that double tap fixed. It only takes one click to reply.