The FDA outlaws a dangerous food

With all my harping that the FDA doesn’t protect us from harmful additives, carcinogens, hormones and drugs, not to mention genetically altered organisms (GMOs), I have to confess that I have come across an instance where the FDA protects us – unequivocally.  The FDA along with the USCBP, the United States Customs and Border Patrol, a division of the Office of Homeland Security, are ever vigilant and most protective of our best interests here.  The food in question?  Chocolate candy eggs with a toy in the center!  Those babies are dangerous!!!!  Apparently in 1938 when Congress established the FDA a law was passed outlawing the sale of food which contains a non-nutritive item.  (And how, pray tell, has the wily and elusive Cracker Jack escaped notice?) Well the FDA has embraced its responsibilities here and has run with it!  Why, you ask, are the Office of Homeland Security and the CBP involved?  To protect us from ourselves, of course!  Aside from the possibility that the “toy” in the center of this purported candy could possibly be assembled into a ‘weapon of mass destruction’, American children and their parents are potentially subjected to all the dangers accompanying something so vile of its very nature. 

Yes, the FDA bans these products, prohibits possession of the candies, and denies Americans the privilege of buying these dangers and transporting them across the borders of the United States and into this country.   The Italian candy company Ferrero manufactures the candies in various plants throughout the world and incredibly sells them worldwide.  The egg is about the size of a large chicken egg.  It is purchased foil-wrapped.  Upon unwrapping the egg, a chocolate shell is revealed.  When the chocolate shell has been consumed one finds a plastic container with the toy within.  According to reports, the plastic shell with the toy inside is not easily opened.  The toy is sometimes made up of small parts that must be assembled into the actual “prize”, if you will.  Apparently this is way too dangerous for Americans and the FDA is saving us from ourselves…. Except that there is a Chinese-made copycat product which is much more readily available on American store shelves.  Gee, I hope THOSE toys don’t contain lead!

So while giant animal feedlots feed millions of tons of antibiotics to animals that wind up on our tables for consumption, and the big biotechs screw around with the very basic composition of our food down to its genetic make-up, and dairy farmers shoot-up their milk cows with hormones and feed ‘em antibiotics, the FDA outlaws the sale of chocolate eggs.  Would somebody please explain this to me?????   Wait- I've got it!  Ferrero, the chocolate egg manufacturer, isn’t funneling tons of cash into the grimy, greedy hands of Congress and the MonsanFDAto!