DORway.com opened Searle's Pandora's book of facts on aspartame during September, of 1996. For over four years Monsanto (who bought Searle in 1985), their many PR and law firms, visited DORway.com many thousands of times. The FDA, CDC and other entities visited as well. The highly litigious Monsanto was unable to find anything to use against the site in an effort to close it down and relieve the growing pressures on its dying aspartame cash-cow. They cannot say they "we don't know anything about it"! Obviously, they cannot argue with the documentation, either (the most damning of which comes from the FDA and sworn testimony)!

How many visits to DORway?
Who FDA Server Monsanto servers	ID defender.fda.gov gatekeeperx.monsanto.com	Number Visits ~ 7000 for 1999 ~ 2500 for 1999

While two (1996) anti-aspartame web sites grew to tens of thousands (www.google.com lists over 80,000 sites as of November, 2001), and while their 28 million pounds of aspartame sold during 1996 slipped to only 20 million pounds during 1998, Monsanto sought to counter the truth with more pro-aspartame WEB sites.

When the "Nancy Markle" Email appeared during December, 1998, Monsanto and friends panicked. Monsanto, FDA, ADA, IFIC, MSFacts, TIME, CNN, LA Times, and a lot more who stand to LOSE if aspartame is recalled ALL JOINED HANDS to call our information and the facts... an "Internet hoax". Want a hint at the whole truth? Simply compare their messages... and then look for the $$$ connection. FDA? Just think future industry jobs and the fact that they are culpable of approving this cumulative toxic poison.

During mid February, 1999, when the many PRO aspartame articles seemed to be failing to turn the tide, Monsanto seems to have made a momentous decision and they stopped visiting DORway until after July. In April they sold their Phenylalanine facilities (half of aspartame) to Great Lakes Chemical (GLC) for 125 million dollars. (A year later, GLC sued Monsanto for the 71 MILLION dollar shortfall in expected sales.) On the first of July, 1999, Monsanto put the Nutrasweet Co. on the auction block with TWO other companies... the THREE of which had "combined sales of a billion dollars". So much for "good growth". It took another ten months for Monsanto to find an investment firm that would relieve them of their growing burden.

Dr. Friedman, who quit the FDA when Jane Henney was selected to become the permanent FDA commissioner (1999), quit the FDA to sign on with G. D. Searle as a senior vice president at a purported cushy $500,000 a year.

Going to work for someone whom you were supposed to REGULATE AND for someone who he helped to DEFEND (60 Minutes, Dec. 1996, along with Monsanto's Dr. Welden) seems very WRONG! Could this new job be his reward for ignoring citizen complaints and defending aspartame and rbGH?

Perhaps more importantly, does the US have a congress that cares? Is there a justice department really interested in prosecuting fraud and genocide for huge profits? So far... the answers have all been NO!

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