[Re. Pepsi dropping aspartame from diet Pepsi]

This is what the biotech industry recently did in attacking Doctor Oz, trying to intimidate and silence him with a smear campaign that spectacularly backfired. Ultimately, Doctor Oz gained a wave of positive exposure while the astroturfing front group of the biotech industry -- the American Council on Science and Health -- was exposed as a quackpot science front group run by a doctor with a felony criminal record of defrauding the government (and doing time in federal prison).

Perhaps in seeing how miserably the attacks on Oz failed, PepsiCo decided not to do battle with public perception and just make its products less toxic instead.

Thanks to people like Doctor Oz (and websites like Natural News), informed consumers are increasingly learning how to stop poisoning themselves with aspartame, glyphosate, MSG and GMO.