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From: [email protected] (Walter F. Lundby)
Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?
As nobody in the food industry has even bothered to address my previous
question "WHY DO YOU NEED TO PUT MSG IN ALMOST EVERY FOOD?" I must assume
that my wife's answer is closer to the truth than I hoped it was.
She believes that MSG is added to food to cause people to eat more of it
and not quit when they shoud be sated. To put it a different way, she
believes that for some people MSG causes them to act toward food like an addict.
(Eat all the chips, chow down on several packages of noodle soup .... you get the
idea! } IF she is right, then the moral and ethical standards of the
food, chemical and regulatory groups need to be addressed!!! Can MSG
be considered a conditioning substance (not addictive but sort of habit
forming) ?
This brings up a side question of mine. I have noticed that cats (my
children's and my parent's) seem to fixate on a particular brand of pet
food. The cat will eat any product within one brand and not any other
brand. I have wondered if this is not a case of preference, but, some
sort of chemical training or addiction. My questions, for the net, are:
Does the FDA regulate the contents of pet food? Is it allowed for pet
food to contain addictive or conditioning substances? Is MSG put in
pet food?
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I speak for myself and not Motorola
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Walter Lundby