Typical Boilerplate Response From Pro-NutraSweet Factions


                            My Original Message

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:00:55 +0500
To: info@natrataste.com
From: Dave Rietz 
Subject: Aspartame

   Otherwise known as NutraPoison.  http://www.natrataste.com/natra/faq.html

   You sell a strong Pandora's box of future problems.  It took 15 years
for Equal to almost do me in... and I'm pissed.  Enough to spend some of
that money I no longer need for expensive doctors to obtain prescriptions
for exotic and expensive drugs to attempt to mask the damage done by
aspartame!

   Now four years into prostate cancer... with no history of it in my
family and since I was the last stage "D" at the age of 55, I tend to
believe aspartame triggered this cancer.

   My biggest goal in life is to see this crud reclassified from "food
additive" to "toxic drug", and driven off the shelves and out of the over
9000 products now using it.

   A national disgrace caused by a greedy Dr. Hayes of the FDA... and now
the subject of a massive coverup by all.

   When John Q. Public finally gets wise, those who pushed this poison on
them won't be looked upon with any favor!

   If you were unaware... please avail yourself of a wealth of
information... from many sources... and growing.

   Regards...



              Typical Lockstep NutraPoison Industry Response

To: Dave Rietz 
From: "Consumer Affairs Department, Stadt Corp." 
Subject: Re: Aspartame

Dear Mr. Rietz:

Aspartame was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in 1981 for several food categories.  Recently, the FDA granted
approval for aspartame's use in all food categories.  As a condition for
approval, the FDA required the manufacturer of aspartame, the NutraSweet
Company, to monitor the consumption of aspartame.  Since that time, health
complaints allegedly associated with the consumption of aspartame were
investigated by the FDA and the Center for Disease Control.  These health
organizations concluded that there is no association between the consumption
of aspartame and any adverse effects.  This finding in in line with the
results of animal studies and clinical trials sponsored by aspartame's
manufacturer.

Aspartame was also approved for use in several countries, including Canada,
prior to its approval in the U.S.  Its safety has been affirmed be leading
health organizations such as the World Health Organization, the American
Dietetic Assocation and the American Diabetes Association.

Sincerely,

Consumer Affairs Department
NatraTaste Division

STADT CORP.


   (P.S. I believe these folks are so afraid to stray from the "approved"
    dialogue that all of their responses are worded identically.  Not an
    original bone in their bodies!  Certainly not an honest one!)



                      My Typical Response to that Bull!

Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 15:34:21 +0500
To: "Consumer Affairs Department, Stadt Corp." 
From: Dave Rietz 
Subject: Re: Aspartame
Cc: bettym19@mindspring.com, webmaster@dorway.com, Mission Possible

At 10:06 AM 11/14/96 -0500, you wrote:
Dear Mr. Rietz:

Aspartame was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in 1981 for several food categories.  Recently, the FDA granted
approval for aspartame's use in all food categories.

   Yes, oh nameless one, I am all to familiar with the deceit, subterfuge,
bogus tests, fraud... not to mention the players switching sides to work
for Monsanto or friends/law representatives.

  Those bogus test results do not negate the truth.  To your dogma-bound
dismay you will, sooner than later, have this national disgrace shown in
the total light of day, and  those lies will not hold up.  I suspect that
you and your henchmen won't, either!  I believe you are well on your way
to finding out how it feels to be despised.  Despised in the same manner
as those who were prosecuted for war crimes after World War II.  People
despised for their crimes against humanity.  Mass international poisoning
makes those crimes pale in comparison!

  I believe you grossly underestimate the power of several million angry
consumers!  Hang on to your lies... we are coming for justice!

Consumer Affairs Department
NatraTaste Division

STADT CORP.

   Isn't it "comforting" to hide behind a big name?  Sort of like being
invincible.  NO ONE can determine who you are or what you do for a living.
Impersonal and impervious.  In short, not accountable!

   Regards...