Ingredients Banned Everywhere but the U.S.

Seriously?  What the hell is wrong with the FDA?  Protecting the consumer, my a**.  Protecting Big Food and Big Pharma, more likely.  But I'm not here to rant on my soapbox.  I'd rather use my wallet to protest.  Hopefully, this will help you as well as you make your shopping choices.  Read this before you reach for that mac-and-cheese or the gallon of milk or that chicken breast for the kids.  

• http://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/13-banned-foods-still-allowed-us

Milk?

Why I don’t let C drink cow milk. Oh, milk, you had me at cow pus…

• http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/dangers-of-cows-milk/
• http://www.rense.com/general26/milk.htm
• http://www.organichealthandbeauty.com/Dangers-of-Milk_ep_62-1.html

I could keep posting link after link. No doubt, my pediatrician would roll her eyes at me, but I’m cynical enough — and paranoid enough — to believe that the dairy industry has bought off the entire American population, including the American Academy of Pediatrics. Don’t get me wrong, I love me a good slice of pizza as much as anyone else, and I can’t bring myself to ban all diary products from C’s diet (though I probably should, for intellectual consistency’s sake), but I draw the line when it comes to the liquid stuff. Soy’s hardly better, health-wise, so I stick to hazelnut milk (Pacific makes a DELICIOUS version), and at some point, I’m going take the initiative and make my own almond milk.