Considering Monsanto created Aspartame, the government would likely say anything they could to make it look good. I don't know who created Splenda, but my money will stick with Splenda sweetened products, at least for the time being.

If anyone knows anything about Monsanto, you know they're also responsible for the BHT that dairies use to increase milk production (messes with their hormones big-time). This same hormone is now causing our own daughters (especially if they're heavy milk drinkers) to mature at an alarmingly early age.

I know personally of a dairy where they use BHT. They shoot the cows up so frequently with the stuff that after about two years of milking, the cows just lay down and die. It's just sick. A good milk cow will milk for at least 11 years without the hormone. This dairy has been losing its milking herd at a disturbing rate, about where it isn't even profitable to use the BHT.