The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1960-08-19
The Poisons In Your Food

DR.. Norman Joliffe of the New York
City Department of Health who SAID
in recent article, although in
america to-day life expectancy al
birth is near the best of any civilized
country in the world at the age
of 40 life expectancy is near the bot
TOM Even declining death rate is,
of course, no adequate proof that the
nations health is improving. 1t was
DR.. Joliffe, who together with DIR.
Paul White, told Congress in 1856
that so far as the incidence of coro-
nary heart disease is concerned the
u. S. is zone of the most unhealthy
countries in the world
AS food becomes chemically trans
formed, consumers no longer know
what they are eating. The author
cites examples of how BURBERRY pam
cake mix is made without blueberries
and processed cheese is "artificially
thickened, stabilized, preserved, fla
vored and colored.n In former days,
strong flavor of butter in cottage
cheese was a sign of quality, but
now. the author says, sit may be moth
ing more than diacetyl, a highly re-
active, acknowledgment chemical that
gives deceptive aroma of butter" A
shot of diacetyl may also be used to
restore flavor to butter that has been
stored long time and to restore the
color after washing Synthetic yell
low dye made of a cancer-causing
may legally be added.
STILBESTROL: A MAN-MADE
Especially interesting is the au-
5hor's discussion of the effects of
a synthetic hormone used
IN fattening poultry and livestock. So
powerful is this drug that it is often
called Geological dynamite. The use
If stilbestrol to caponize poultry
started about 1947 and
while the FDA recently banned this
practice on poultry, it has taken no
action against the use of stilbestrol in
beef or sheep.
That stilbestrol is carcinogen
has been attested |
~ DIR. William G. Hueper of the Ma
ional Cancer Institute and by the |
Union Against Cancer.
'Stilbestrol also is KNOWN" says the
Luthor. ''to be capable of arresting
he growth of children, bringing on
excess of menstrual bleeding, fibroids
# the uterus, premenstrual tension
nd painful breasts. 1t has also caused
impotence and sterility in men,"
Iany experts have urged total ban
n its use in foods, as some countries
ave already done.
Though the Department of Agricul-
ure denied that any trace of still
estrol remained in beef carcasses
nat had been given stilbestrol, the
God and Drug Administration adj
litted finding such residues but dis
Kissed them as "of no significance"
IF. Give Mckay, nutritionist at
ornell University, testified, how
YER, that special, non-meat diets had
, be found for animals used in the
ollege laboratory because it had be-
,me impossible to get meat scraps
zee of stlbestrol and the animals
ID on such meat scraps suffered ssre-
roductive failuse due to stilbestrol."
While the public is still being as
lred that stilbestrol residues in meat
e too slight to matter, the report of
4-man team of doctors led by DIR.
lillian E. Smith stated that contin-
,us exposure to tiny doses is more
armful than the intermittent adj
inistration of very large doses" The
NTH group told the FDA, cit is a
exposure to extremely
mute doses that is to be feared from
g introduction of estrogens into