The FDA should STFU
 

It's ok to put trans fats in foods and say there are none. It's ok to sell foods loaded with sugar and fat without a warning label to say how unhealthy they are. It's ok to let ecoli infected cow s**t from corn fed cattle spread to our vegetables from over crowded meat farms. But if a company selling natural basic foods says it's good for you then the FDA has to step in and tell them they are breaking the law. The FDA is a lot worse than this at depriving us of our freedom of choice. But this should be obvious to everyone that the FDA is misguided and oppressing our right to information. Who in the f**k but the FDA thinks buying walnuts is buying a drug if someone says it's good for your health.

http://www.fda.gov/iceci/enforcement.../ucm202825.htm

Oh, yeah, they've been doing this crap for a while. They snuck it through a couple of months ago, my mom was furious when she found out.

The FDA is an overly oppressive agency that is stealing away our freedoms in a way that the average person can't relate to. However, this particular case seems to demonstrate how wrong they are in a way that anyone should see.

If you're tl;dr...

In a nutshell, the FDA is telling Diamond nuts that they can't tell people that the omega 3 fats in their nuts are good for your body in the ways that omega 3 fatty acids are commonly stated to be good for you. If they do, then the walnuts are classified as a drug.

Here are the things that a walnut company can't tell you....

The only logical explanation for targeting things like organic foods and alternative/holistic medicine is because of pressure from the food and pharma lobbies. The FDA uses a thinly veiled "truth in advertising" vindication to censure industries in competition with those that line politicians' pockets. It is disgusting and should be criminal.