A question for anyone that cares to make a comment ?

January 18, 2002

BlankWhat do you people out there think about all this activity from the

organisations trying to stop the use of natural herbs and medicines. I believe

the pharmaceuticals are involved in this, and one of the organisations is

,called Codex.

Are any of you writing to your ministers in your government. Over in England

the eec are trying to bring what they call Harmonization to the supplement

industry.

But in the event what they want to do is to reduce the dosage of all supplements

to what they call the RDA levels which are ridiculously low. SO do any of you

feel strongly about this? Are you worried, or do you think that good will win

over evil?

Interested in your views.

Anne from England

January 19, 2002

Dear Anne from England

Good can, in principle, win over evil, but not, if we fail to make an effort

equal to the task; and stopping Codex Alimentarius is a very formidable

task.

There are billions of extra dollars to be made, if the pharmaceutical houses

and other interests, can substantially reduce the availability of vitamins,

nutritional supplements, herbs, etc.

Codex has money, power and, best of all, public apathy on its side; in spite

of hundreds of millions of letters of protest which the Codex people have

received, against their plan. Unfortunately, there are many millions more,

of people (i.e. potential customers) that, eventually, will let Codex slide

through. Relatively few people know about Codex, so that, in spite of the

strong opposition to it, that a minority of the international community

feel, I'm afraid, it will remain just that, a minority. Only a handful

stand to gain richly from Codex, and most other people don't care enough to

stop this nonsense, even if we could reach them with information about our

concerns.

I'm not suggesting that we give up the fight, I'm just not very optimistic

that we can prevail, with anything less than the strongest reaction and

protest. The drug merchants and the politicians they can buy, may not be

able to withstand the bad PR they'd face, if we could create a big enough

uproar.

best wishes