Something's Fishy in Your Good Humor Bar (for real)

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/reidhead12212006.html


I Scream! You Scream!! We All Scream at the Ice Cream!!!


Unilever, the British-Dutch global consumer marketing products giant, is the largest producer of ice cream and frozen novelties in the U.S. Unilever's brands sold in the U.S. include Breyer's ice cream, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, Klondike ice cream bars and Popsicle products.

Specifically, Breyer's Light Double-Churned, Extra Creamy Creamy Chocolate ice cream, as well as a Good Humor ice cream novelty bar, contain the genetically-modified fish "antifreeze" proteins.

Unilever's scientists have patented, and the company is using ice cream products sold in the U.S., Australia and New Zealand, containing "antifreeze" protein substances from the blood of the ocean pout (a polar ocean species). That substance is produced through genetically modified (GM) yeast, in large vat batches. Unilever's ice cream products that contain "ice structuring protein" (ISP) contain the material at the level of .01% of finished product volume.

Human "Safety" testing?

Like many other GM materials in our foods, The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) looks like it has been asleep at the switch. Long story short on the human "safety" protocols submitted by Unilever to FDA: human allergy testing was conducted on codfish blood proteins, not on blood proteins from the ocean pout.

Codfish and the ocean pout do not even belong to the same sub-class, in the "Order of Species."
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just what we need - untested modified ice cream

but if it ups the profits for the ice cream barons all's right with their world

[amitten]

1. Ice-cream barons.

:rofl:

[Mojorabbit]

2. Why can't they leave it alone? I am sick of this

Would this affect someone allergic to seafood?

[Double T]

3. I thought I tasted a 'fishy' taste in the Phish Food® Ice Cream.......

and KNOW I'm sure of IT.

[RebelOne]

4. I have Breyer's Light Double-Churned ice cream

in my freezer. Guess I'll pitch it in the garbage. I seem to have lost my appetite for it.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. I was surprised to find fish meal in crackers.

An acquaintance, vegetarian by religious strictures, pointed this out to me.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Unilever owns Good Humor, Breyer's, Ben & Jerry's, Klondike, Popsickle

It seems lately that every product I remember from my youth is now owned by large centralized corporations. And apparently those products are not the ones they used to be even though they retain the old names. I guess I'm anti-progress but I prefer the old days, when the products were made by individual companies without anti-freeze proteins and the ice cream could go bad if it wasn't eaten in time. Kids would eat it anyway, especially if it came from an ice cream truck and you had to eat it out of a small paper cup with one of those flat wooden spoons. That made everything taste good.

[Beaverhausen]

7. So, when Breyers calls their ice cream "all natural" are they lying?

Shouldn't something like this preclude them being able to use that label?

[Javaman]

8. And here I thought Ben & Jerry's was supposted to be all so

evironmentally safe and all natural. Oh well, I can do with less ice cream anyway.

[Skidmore]

9. Thank you for posting this. My little granddaughter just tested

postive to allergies to fish. She is a huge ice cream fan. I just read through this with my daughter, and neither one of us would have known what an ISP was. Thank you much.