By George McGrath
Summary: Two articles reprinted from 1958 editions of the National Police Gazette. While the national mainstream media of magazines, newspapers, radio, and TV parroted government proclamations that Americans were the best fed people on Earth, it was often left to the fringe media and publications to expose the most overlooked and underreported story of the twentieth century: the destruction of the food supply and health of the American people and civilized world. The Police Gazette, published from 1845 to 1982, was viewed as a sensational, tabloid-like monthly, but sometimes—between the police stories of murder and outlaws—the paper gave journalists a chance to publish important stories that were being ignored by the "respectable" press. Challenging conventional glorification of modern medicine and the American food supply, these two articles report on suppressed studies of man-made carcinogens routinely added to foods for the convenience of the manufacturer, including artificial colors, dyes, surfactants, humectants, anti-foaming agents, emulsifiers, dispersants, preservatives, paraffin waxes and petrolatum-like materials, chemicals added to smoked meats, plastic sausage-casings, and so on. (Also mentioned are toxic containers and linings used in canning and packaging as well as particularly dangerous estrogen-related hormones added to animal feeds that years later would be irrefutably linked to cancer in humans.) For many Americans, this was the first news that such substances were being added to their food, and the authors blast the FDA for failing to stop such practices in spite of decades of scientific warning. These two articles are historical documentation of how this land "of milk and honey" became a country of doctors, hospitals, drugs, and disease care. Reprint 18-C, 1958.
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