The evils of Natural Flavor

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Have you ever looked at the ingredients on a food that you're buying, and seen the term, "natural flavor" on it? If you look at loads of foods that you get, even moreso if they have any kind of flavor to them, like, "BBQ Chicken Potato Chips", you're going to see Natural Flavor on the ingredients. What does it mean? Well, the US regulations calls it (in short form); "The essential oil, extract, or distillate, or any product of roasting or heating, which contains the flavor derived from a spice, fruit, vegetable, yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products, whose primary function in food is flavoring rather then nutritional" That means, if you're having a granola bar that says, "Natural Flavor" on the ingredients, it could be something as wild as, melted cow brains, or shaved chicken feet, or, one of the worst, MSG from yeast extract or seaweed. I found out about this after I found myself allergic to MSG products, and I learned about the name "Natural Flavor" meaning that it can easily have MSG as part of it. This is really horrible stuff for our bodies, and we should not be eating it, but, the companies keep putting it in under this cheap, evil title. What can we do to stop companies from using it so often? How much do you eat things with these Natural Flavors?