Tom Walker wrote: > MSG is > crucial to the food industry. It makes food taste good, no doubt about it. > [...] MSG is generally > regarded as indispensible to the profits of agribusiness corporations. It > makes packaged, prepared food taste better than it otherwise could. Period. > That's important. If it didn't taste so good, you wouldn't buy it. End of > sales. End of profits. End of business. End of story.
Let's not forget that there is another "flavor enhancer" whose deleterious health effects and profits _dwarf_ those of MSG: Refined sugar, the single most harmful substance to public health (from diabetes to cancer to caries). More than a "flavor enhancer" in the most unlikely and unsuitable places (even ketchup and tooth paste!), sugar is also used as a cheap "filler" substance in many foods, for example in "fruit" jams that are often more than 50% sugar. The sugar industry is more powerful than the tobacco and meat industries combined. Chris
