Come on, nobody look stunned.

I have always been a vocal minority trying to dissuade people from using artificial sweeteners at the rate at which they are consumed in our society. Now I cannot make any claim that I have ate any cancer before, but I would suspect that cancer would taste like a tall refreshing nutrasweet addled soda. Sweetness isn't supposed to have a flavor that makes you taste like you were drinking out of a test tube.

It's amazing to me that if there were proper and extensive studies on these chemicals prior to being shoved down our throats, that now... what about 15 years after it hit the market extensively (since 1983 limited approval) there is continued evidence that it causes cancer in lab animals. Meanwhile a natural noncaloric substitute (the active chemical discovered by modern man in the 30s, likely used by ancient man, and widely used in japan since 1977) has had a hard time being approved for use as a sweetener stateside with much less conclusive evidence accrediting its harmfulness. This is a chemical that tastes a lot better than sucralose, saccharin, and aspartame and also seems to have other medical uses.

I wonder if a certain subset of corporate america might have made it's approval difficult, far be it from me to insinuate that the FDA cares more about the profit of lobbyists rather than the well being of the American public.