Why Aspartame IS scary!

Eewww. I will stick to splenda. Only use it once a month or so anyway. Stevia is ok. Never liked the taste of aspartame!

:laugh: MFP is funny on Friday the 13th.

See I knew I was gonna need my hat today...and everyone laughed...

Ha, I have mine on. You just can't see it in my profile pic. It helps keep me safe while drinking my Diet Pepsi.

Good! More for me, lol! I also eat bee puke (honey) and cow "secretions" (dairy) and bird embryos (eggs). I am happy being at the top of the food chain and thankful for science.

+1! :drinker:

Aspartame Is Fecal Matter of Genetically Modified E. Coli Bacteria. Want proof? Here you go. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0036258.html

The production process

The patent, which is entitled Process for producing aspartame and is credited to Bahl, Rose, and White, summarizes the process as follows:

"The artificial sweetener aspartame, a dipeptide with the formula Asp-Phe-me, is produced using a cloned micrcorganism [sic]. A DNA which codes for a large stable peptide comprised of the repeating amino acid sequence (Asp-Phe)n is inserted into a cloning vehicle which in turn is introduced into a suitable host microorganism. The host microorganism is cultured and the large peptide containing the repeating Asp-Phe sequence is harvested therefrom. The free carboxyl group of the large peptide is benzylated and then hydrolysed to benzyl Asp-Phe dipeptides. This dipeptide is methylated and then debenzylated to form aspartame."

1.) 'Cloned microorganisms' (which the patent later reveals to be genetically modified E. coli) are cultivated in tanks whose environments are tailored to help them thrive.

2.) The well-fed E. coli cultures defecate the proteins that contain the aspartic acid-phenylalanine amino acid segment needed to make aspartame.

3.) The proteins containing the Asp-Phe segments are 'harvested' (i.e. lab assistants collect the bacteria's feces).

4.) The feces are then treated. This includes a process of methylation (adding an excess of the toxic alcohol, methanol, to the protected dipeptide).

http://www.organicslant.com/0000203-aspartame-is-fecal-matter-of-genetically-modified-ecoli-bacteria.html

That is the European patent for making your beloved and UN"safe" Aspartame. Now who wants to eat some E. Coli poop? Not me!

And alcohol is basically made from "yeast poo" and honey is "bee barf". your point?

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Whatever you want to call it, there's a lot of evidence to support it's relationship to brain tumors.
I think any sweetener made in a chemistry lab is suspect anyways...if I need a sweetener I'll take honey. The calories are as real as the sweetener.

Thanks .. someone pass the Diet Pepsi please. Couldn't care .. more for me. ;-)

Thanks .. someone pass the Diet Pepsi please. Couldn't care .. more for me. ;-)

Oh noes I had my two Diet Cokes today.

Whatever you want to call it, there's a lot of evidence to support it's relationship to brain tumors.
I think any sweetener made in a chemistry lab is suspect anyways...if I need a sweetener I'll take honey. The calories are as real as the sweetener.

I don't think there is actually any evidence of this.

OP out of curiosity how do you think insulin is produced for the treatment of diabetics. How about you look that up and post it here. Ill give you a hint it involves e.coli "pooping" and has saved countless lives.

I know things you aren't familiar with can be scary but honestly man there is absolutely nothing wrong with using e.coli for manufacturing.

I tell my High-school students that alcohol is bacteria piss all the damn time, never seems to stop them from using it though.

Escherichia coli (/ˌɛʃɨˈrɪkiə ˈkoʊlaɪ/;[1] commonly abbreviated E. coli) is a gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium of the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms (endotherms).[2] Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some serotypes can cause serious food poisoning in their hosts, and are occasionally responsible for product recalls due to food contamination.[3][4]

The harmless strains are part of the normal flora of the gut, and can benefit their hosts by producing vitamin K2,[5] and preventing colonization of the intestine with pathogenic bacteria.[6][7]
E. coli and other facultative anaerobes constitute about 0.1% of gut flora,[8] and fecal–oral transmission is the major route through which pathogenic strains of the bacterium cause disease. Cells are able to survive outside the body for a limited amount of time, which makes them ideal indicator organisms to test environmental samples for fecal contamination.[9][10] There is, however, a growing body of research that has examined environmentally persistent E. coli which can survive for extended periods outside of the host.[11]

The bacterium can be grown easily and inexpensively in a laboratory setting, and has been intensively investigated for over 60 years. E. coli is the most widely studied prokaryotic model organism, and an important species in the fields of biotechnology and microbiology, where it has served as the host organism for the majority of work with recombinant DNA. Under favourable conditions it takes only 20 minutes to reproduce.[12]