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I spoke with Jim O'Brien, Senior VP and Chief of Staff for @ASU about them NOT using eminent domain on 89 year old, Robert Young's house. I appreciate his honest comment: "This is a David and Goliath story. And this isn’t a political thing, it’s just the way that people view the world. They don’t like it when big entities are perceived to be beating up on elderly retired men." @HarmeetKDhillon
At ninety-eight, Fred Kummerow sued the Food and Drug Administration.
He was a biochemist at the University of Illinois, born in Germany, and he had been trying to get someone to listen for a very long time.
In 1957 he took samples from the arteries of people who had died of heart attacks and identified what was clogging them: trans fat, the artificial kind made by pumping hydrogen through cheap vegetable oil to turn it solid. The margarine and shortening the new dietary advice was busy recommending in place of butter and lard were full of it. He published the finding in Science. He fed the stuff to pigs and watched the lesions form in their arteries too. And he said so, plainly, for decades, while the food pyramid pointed the other way and the money stayed with the cheap solid fat that never went off on a shelf.
The scale of it is worth stating plainly. By the time the ban finally arrived, artificial trans fats were being linked to something on the order of tens of thousands of American deaths a year. Kummerow was heckled by industry men at scientific conferences for daring to say so. Here was one biochemist, armed with a hospital's worth of diseased arteries and a lab full of pigs, up against an entire manufacturing sector whose cheapest and most convenient fat he was trying to condemn, and the sector had the ear of the regulator while he did not.
They did not listen. The oil was profitable and convenient and the story had already been sold. So in 2009, aged ninety-four, he filed a formal petition asking the FDA to act. Three years passed and they did not answer it. So in 2013, a few weeks short of ninety-nine, he took the federal government to court for ignoring him.
Two years later the FDA finally moved to ban artificial trans fats from the American food supply. Kummerow lived to see it. He died in 2017 at the age of a hundred and two, of the arteriosclerosis he had spent sixty years warning the country about.
The fat he identified stayed in the food for another half century after he found it, because taking it out cost money and leaving it in did not.
He was right in 1957. They agreed with him in 2015. Nobody has ever explained the years in between.
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MYSTERY PARASITE OUTBREAK CONTINUES TO GROW
More states are now reporting Cyclospora infections as health officials continue searching for the source behind a growing outbreak that has now spread across 38 states.
Michigan remains the hardest hit with more than 1,500 reported cases, while New York, Ohio, Illinois, and Florida have also reported significant numbers of infections. Despite the growing number of cases, investigators have still not identified the source of the outbreak.
Cyclospora can cause prolonged watery diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea, fatigue, and loss of appetite, with symptoms that can last for weeks without treatment.
👇 Have you been hearing about more stomach illnesses where you live?
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Today, I introduced a resolution to honor the crew of the USS Liberty. 59 years ago, Israel attacked the ship, killing 34 Americans and wounding 174.
The President should declassify and publicly release all files related to Israel’s unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty.