If Cheerios is, Quaker Oats must also be

If the Federal Drug Administration warned Cheerios about using cholesterol lowering claims in their packaging, then we must also consider that Quaker Oats must be too. Right?

So far, the FDA hasn’t made any formal announcement about the old man with white hair in a funny hat but it doesn’t take a Cheerios devouring child to figure out that the same cholesterol-lowering claims appear on the packaging of Quaker Oats.

Double standard? Perhaps. Oversight? Hell yea!

Remember, this is the same agency that has approved tons dangerous drugs that have caused millions of dollars in death-related claims and lawsuits.

This is the agency that puts the skull stamp of approval on products that have so many serious side effects that still make me wonder why in the hell they end up in shelves and people take them in the first place.

This is the agency that has allowed foods full of dangerous pathogens to end up in consumers mouths causing outbreaks of salmonella, killing up to 5.000 US consumers each year, according to the CDC.

Now, show me how many have died eating Cheerios. Or for that matter, Quaker Oats.

If Cheerios is a drug so does Quaker Oats. No doubt about it. At least by FDA’s [double] standars.

I’m not such a lover of Cheerios but do I like Quaker Oats. Tomorrow morning I’ll OD on a nice bowl of microwave-coocked, cinnamon-sprinkled oats. Anyone wants some?