So this is my question: Why is MSG (glutamic acid) in vaccines?

Remember, we've always been told that MSG is a harmless substance that just makes food taste better. Nothing to see here, folks. Please move along.

But vaccines are injected, most of them. We don't taste them, so it doesn't really matter whether their flavor has been improved.

So again, I ask the question: Why is MSG in vaccines? If it were simply a "flavor enhancer," as we've been told, there would be no reason to add it to vaccines.

Here for your reading pleasure is the latest from the Centers for Disease Control, the United States government agency in charge of protecting our health. (No, not really. In charge of protecting the investments of drug companies.) It's a listing of ingredients in vaccines commonly used in this country (and our level of shooting drugs into innocent children, and even adults, is vastly higher than that in other countries, but more on that in a later post). As you'll see if you do a Ctrl+F search, there's glutamate aplenty. (And mercury in the form of thimerosal, as if we didn't have enough to worry about.)

Check it out. Thinking of a flu vaccine this winter? Think twice.

http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf