Hawaii Aspartame Battle: House Health Committee DecisionFriday

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" Stephen Fox " <stephen

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Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:41:24 -0600

 

 

Hawaii Aspartame Battle: House Health Committee Decision Friday

 

 

The first make-or-break hurdle for the aspartame legislation comes up in

Hawaii on Friday, in a hearing before the House Health Committee, Room 329 at

8 A.M. The identical bill sponsored by Senator Kalani English and by Senator

Chun-Oakland will soon be before the Hawaii Senate, but how it fares in the

House will have a huge affect on what happens in the Hawaii Senate, based on

our experience in New Mexico with similar legislation.

 

I ask this kind favor of your readers, to please use their influence by

writing an email to and calling the House Health Committee members, to ask

for a Do Pass for this vital, urgent, and long overdue legislation.

 

The House Bill # is 2680; the reason that I ask this derives from my

experience in the New Mexico Senate last year and in 2006 when corporate

lobbyists representing Ajinomoto (the Japanese manufacturer and largest in

the world for both aspartame and yet another proven neurotoxic food additive:

MSG) plus lobbyists from Coca Cola, Pepsi, Altria, and others eviscerated and

killed our New Mexico bill, one of the best consumer protection bills in New

Mexico's history. Of course, they will try to do this again in the Hawaii

House Health Committee; they will also in the Senate Health Committee, using

every excuse possible: corporate theories about federal pre-emption, laments

from the Diabetic Association which should know better, given the dreadful

effects aspartame has on diabetics (I speak from very personal experience

within my own immediate family on that one); pathetic perfidies about how

aspartame may have been proved safe by 200

industry-paid-for studies, etc.

 

This is the saddest single truth of all about this neurotoxic and

carcinogenic artificial sweetener: aspartame's approval was originally forced

through the FDA process by Donald Rumsfeld when he was going from CEO of the

patent holder, Searle, to Reagan's Transition Team, by making some kind of

private deal with the FDA commissioner-to be, Arthur Hull Hayes, despite the

FDA having turned down the approval for the prior 15 years! If you want to

read more, just Google " Rumsfeld's Bioweapon Legacy. " You can also Google and

read definitive articles by H.J. Roberts, Internist; Russell Blaylock,

Neurosurgeon, and Betty Martini, Founder of Mission Possible International.

My own favorite is Aspartame Disease: An FDA Approved Epidemic.

 

Remember above all that Hawaii has the obligation to protect the health of

its citizens, regardless of what corporate lobbyists say or how much the FDA

continues to fail all Americans.

 

If you have any questions, please let me know. I will try to answer

personally each and every question.

 

Time is of the essence, and letters on Wednesday have a better chance of

being read than letters to Representatives on Thursday. Thank you.

 

Respectfully,

Stephen Fox

stephen

 

P.S.: The top of the letter must include: for Hearing in Room #329, 8 A.M.,

Friday Feb. 8 ADDRESSED TO HON. JOSH GREEN M.D., VICE CHAIR, JOHN MIZUNO, AND

MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE

Should also say: PLEASE XEROX AS COMMITTEE HANDOUT FOR THIS HEARING.

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HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE:

 

Josh Green, M.D.

6th Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 327

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-9605; fax 808-586-9608

From the Big Island, toll free 974-4000 + 69605

E-mail repgreen

 

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John Mizuno

30th Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 436

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-6050; fax 808-586-6051

E-mail repmizuno

 

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Karen Leinani Awana

44th Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 319

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-8465; fax 808-586-8469

E-mail repawana

 

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Della Au Belatti

 

25th Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 331

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

Phone 808-586-9425; fax 808-586-9431

email repbelatti

 

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Joe Bertram, III

11th Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 311

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-8525; fax 808-586-8529

From Maui, toll free 984-2400 + 68525

e-mail repbertram

 

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Rida T.R. Cabanilla

42nd Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 442

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-6080; fax 808-586-6081

E-mail repcabanilla

 

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Karl Rhoads

28th Representive District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 326

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-6180; fax 808-586-6189

e-mail reprhoads

 

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James Kunane Tokioka

15th Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 322

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-6270; fax 808-586-6271

From Kauai, toll free 274-3141 + 66270

e-mail reptokioka

 

 

 

Gene Ward, Ph.D.

17th Representative District

Hawaii State Capitol, Room 318

415 South Beretania Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

phone 808-586-6420; fax 808-586-6421

E-mail repward

 

 

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