In this day and age where does it say that government must take care of any one? What ever happened to growing up and taking responsibility for your own actions?
Since it is a know fact that humans need Vitamin D what is so hard about making sure you either drink milk or take a Vitamin D substitute? If you are old enough to vote then you are old enough to take care of yourself and your children. Tell the government to take a hike and learn to protect yourself and your family.

When milk goes through the pasturising process it takes all the vitamins out of it, there is nothing good for us in it , now raw milk on the other hand contains all the goodness, and is perfect, and tastes yummy , maybe that’s why they don’t drink milk, it tastes like water, personally I drink goats milk

Don’t what color someones skin color if you have a problem, don’t eat it if it makes you sick. Peanut butter doesn’t agree with me so I don’t eat it, my family likes it except for my son and one daughter, so there doen’t need some puke in Washington to make a rule. Same goes from lactose intolance, don’t drink it. I have never seen so many whining pusified people as we have now all feeling like they need a government sow to feed and take care of them, and tell them what to eat and what weight they should be.

Two wrongs don’t make a right (or dozens of wrongs for that matter). Plenty of food is already adulterated with D (check out orange juices and many cereals, rice/soy/almond “milks”), nevermind vitamins and supplements consumers buy by the truckload. Other foods are loaded with natural D, like egg yolks, fish or irradiated like mushrooms. Those are already FDA sanctioned, please also see D is at the heart of the original FDA purpose (ricketts scare). D council sells the stuff.

Let’s not fall for the old trick to select those with different skin types to punish further. Enough is enough. Everyone, no matter what their skin tone, should do a little research on the internet to find advanced molecular genomics evidence the VDR nuclear receptor–responsible for critical transcription and transrepression “trips and locks” in proper functioning immune processes–is blocked with steroid precursor D supplementation. (Hint, it’s not the nice vitamin marketing execs like the D council or others that buy media would like us to continue thinking it is–25D competes for a critical nuclear binding pocket and prevents us from clearing pathogens).

Any group of wards of the government sure aren’t going to do anything to improve themselves. When the blacks quit taking care of themselves producing their own food as all Americans have, we get lard azzes and laxy f–ks of any color. Time to go back to working in the feilds and producing something besides drug sales and night time pumkin pounding. These nonprofit organizations are nothing but more bs money wasting democrat stooges. The manager is paid big salary and operate a group that pays no taxes, get special breaks that businesses can get and the inner circle of board members are usually the most worthless government f–ks in society, that have always lived off of some agency. These worthless organizations alsoo get massive grants to build business that screw the private companies competing for the same business. What party does these worthless tax cheat organization dsupport and suck a lot of taxpayers money out of your pocket, the marxist/communist democrat party.

They should not make this a racial issue. Knowledge is power. Give Blacks the information they need and just let them adjust their lifestyle and diets accordingly. Besides, the entire nation is having problems getting enough vitamin D.

Large segments of Mediterranean and African populations are lactose intolerant beyond early childhood.
Some Asian populations are as well.
Paradoxically, only northern Europeans remain lactose tolerant during adult hood. They are more the exception among the world’;s populations.
This is not a one size fits all world.

I am dismayed (but not surprised) by the not so subtle racism exhibited by some of the posters here.

Nothing in the article about cod liver oil as a source of vitamin D. Or milk from Pasture raised animals. For the best information about vitamin D and dense nutrient foods, go to http://www.westonaprice.org. Dr. Price studied cattle keeping Africans, like the Massai and the Dinka, and found them to be among the healthiest people around. But their animals were on green growing pasture and the milk was raw and fresh. They also kept goats and drank their milk too.

How about putting V. D in chocolate milk? Duh!

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Please join us to call upon the FDA to mandate and encourage fortifying foods with vitamin D that African Americans are more likely and able to consume.”

What, like Colt 45? How about vitamin D fotified heroin or crack? Maybe infuse vitamin D into bling, do rags and the fancy grills that they get on their teeth. There always seems to be enough money for these things.

If they are angry at blacks not getting enough vitamin D in their diet, they can’t blame it on anyone but themselves for not taking supplements if they can’t be strict enough with their own diets to get the proper amount. The majority of white people don’t get enough without supplements either. They’re constantly told by big companies to stay away from the sun for possibilities of skin cancer. We all need to take responsibility of our own healthy or unhealthy lifestyles and not expect the food makers to add things to our food that are not normal to the food.

The FDA is way off-base with regards to vitamin D to begin with. Their suggested requirement is too low.

This lawsuit is ridiculous! Most Americans don’t have a clue of how to take care of their health to begin with; hence the healthcare problem in this country.

Just another frivilous lawsuit by the people who are always looking for a chance to claim unfairness. DID THEY NEVER HEAR OF VITIMAN D VITAMIMS IN A BOTTLE OVER THE COUNTER?? PLUS OTHER FOODS WITH VITAMIN D?? I cannot use milk so I take daily doses of vitamin D. I am also too fair to spend much time in the sun. The only concern I have with this with the FDA is the threat that they may make all vitamins and natural supplements into an issue that will require prescriptions. The pharmasuetical companies don’t like people having natural remedies and vitamins readily available because people can then keep healthier and avoid the ills that require their expensive medications. So, the pharmasueticals are trying to get control of the vitamin and natural remedy market. The doctors would love that as well because it increases their business and then they can control it all. Doctors get a commission on the perscriptions they write, so if these things become a prescription ordered “med” we are all in trouble.

Ah, our “free” market at work. So a “non-profit” group is interested in the distribution of vitamin D. Is there a “non-profit” group for vitamin A, B, C, E? My guess would be that there are not.

Apparently, the vitamin D manufactures see an untapped market that they can’t figure out a legitimate way to sell to. As with most corporations in this thieves paradise, they want to get the a government agency, the FDA to force food manufacturers to buy more vitamin D from them.

Clearly, they either decided not to try and corrupt the FDA on this issue or their efforts to corrupt the FDA failed. They feel that conning people into supporting their “non-profit” astro-turf group is a more effective approach or perhaps their over their budget on lobbyists.

If blacks don’t drink milk, that is their problem, not ours. What would this group of morons have us do, force vitamin D down the throats of black people?

I hope all who read this understand that putting Calcium and Vit D in milk is useless.

The pastuerization process destroys the Vit. D outright and the Calcium is converted into a form that the body can not absorb.

What a joke. Then allowing milk producers to “claim” we can get our necessary allowance by drinking milk. see http://www.milksucks.com for some additional information.

“Got Milk” shut up!!

There is doubt among scientists that synthetic vitamins used to fortify our food actually work. If we want to know if the govt has helped our food supply with any additions or decisions, just look around. An astounding number of us are overweight and unhealthy. If you want to get healthy and avoid issues, eat real food and get some exercise.

I think that all that needs to happen is to encourage black folks to get out in the sun more. IMO food does not need anything added to it. If something occurs naturally fine but stop adding stuff to foods.