Some mom bloggers (and over 60,000 petitioners) have apparently deemed that Kraft must remove artificial coloring from Macaroni & Cheese because yellow #'s 5 & 6 can potentially increase the chances of getting cancer. While I do champion the push for getting foods back to a point where they're made of primarily natural substances rather than the opposite, the constant tendency of parents to blame these products for everything from migraines and hyperactivity to allergies and asthma is just getting ridiculous. In some cases there are legitimate concerns, but forcing food producers to change their entire product lineup for what is often relatively low numbers of people that exhibit problems related to their products is ludicrous. We don't ask Jiffy to stop producing peanut butter or dairy farmers to stop producing milk even though peanut and dairy allergies are pretty common do we? On the issue of hyperactivity, many parents will blame anyone or anything instead of looking at their own parental failings or the fact that maybe their child really is different and just needs to be handled in a special way. And finally, while organic and all-natural foods are, in many cases, prohibitively more costly at least there are options for those who seek to stop using processed foods.
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