Post by robwhite on Aug 10, 2009 6:16:27 GMT -5
For European members:
The amendment will remove a lot of effective herbs that have been used for thousands of years to deal with minor ailments, and will also impose massive restrictions on vitamins and mineral doses that will effectively make them so low-dose they will be completely useless. This will basically put most health shops and herbalists (including Traditional Chinese Medicine suppliers) out of business, and will also remove a lot of effective sports supplements you athletes use.
Unless you want to be completely reliant on toxic pharmaceutical drugs via a GP’s prescription for the rest of your lives, it is important you petition against this amendment, which is little more than another step towards government and Big Pharma ‘totalitarianism’ control over your health.
This amendment is NOT to benefit the public – it is to remove the competition Big Pharma gets from the health supplements industry and therefore get more ‘customers’ as people get sicker, by making people unable to look after themselves and be reliant on their GP’s for everything. I’m sure Big Pharma would have moved into the supplements industry if it could, but you cannot patent naturally occurring compounds, so for them there is no money to be made in it, and therefore they want to destroy it instead. Remember, GP’s are basically peddling the drugs the that the big pharma’s produce (many of them poorly trialed and dangerous), so it is in both Big Pharma’s, and subsequently GP’s, interests to keep you at a sub-optimal level of health so that you will remain ‘loyal customers’ of theirs.
I am not trying to overhype this – this is a serious threat to our freedom of choice as consumers and also as people that want to maintain our health without relying on GPs and toxic drugs.
www.consumersforhealthchoice.com/ Just click on the UK flag on the right to take you to the petition options. I strongly urge you to do BOTH the online petition, and also the letter to the European Commission (a pre-drafted letter is available if you just wanted to print it off, sign it, date it, and send it)
For US members:
If you think US citizens are safe from this draconian control over the health industry, think again! There are amendments in the Central American Free Trade Agreement that mean any Codex Alimentarius the EU imposes could also be used in the US, effectively subjecting you to the same controls.
www.saveoursupplements.org/
The amendment will remove a lot of effective herbs that have been used for thousands of years to deal with minor ailments, and will also impose massive restrictions on vitamins and mineral doses that will effectively make them so low-dose they will be completely useless. This will basically put most health shops and herbalists (including Traditional Chinese Medicine suppliers) out of business, and will also remove a lot of effective sports supplements you athletes use.
Unless you want to be completely reliant on toxic pharmaceutical drugs via a GP’s prescription for the rest of your lives, it is important you petition against this amendment, which is little more than another step towards government and Big Pharma ‘totalitarianism’ control over your health.
This amendment is NOT to benefit the public – it is to remove the competition Big Pharma gets from the health supplements industry and therefore get more ‘customers’ as people get sicker, by making people unable to look after themselves and be reliant on their GP’s for everything. I’m sure Big Pharma would have moved into the supplements industry if it could, but you cannot patent naturally occurring compounds, so for them there is no money to be made in it, and therefore they want to destroy it instead. Remember, GP’s are basically peddling the drugs the that the big pharma’s produce (many of them poorly trialed and dangerous), so it is in both Big Pharma’s, and subsequently GP’s, interests to keep you at a sub-optimal level of health so that you will remain ‘loyal customers’ of theirs.
I am not trying to overhype this – this is a serious threat to our freedom of choice as consumers and also as people that want to maintain our health without relying on GPs and toxic drugs.
www.consumersforhealthchoice.com/ Just click on the UK flag on the right to take you to the petition options. I strongly urge you to do BOTH the online petition, and also the letter to the European Commission (a pre-drafted letter is available if you just wanted to print it off, sign it, date it, and send it)
For US members:
If you think US citizens are safe from this draconian control over the health industry, think again! There are amendments in the Central American Free Trade Agreement that mean any Codex Alimentarius the EU imposes could also be used in the US, effectively subjecting you to the same controls.
www.saveoursupplements.org/
