Right To Nutritional Freedom Of Choice Is Under Siege

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Right To Nutritional Freedom Of Choice Is Under Siege

 

By Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.

Oct 22, 2004, 17:17

http://www.earthchangestv.com/secure/2004/printer_4562.php

 

What follows is an article written by Dr. Jonathan Wright, one of the

world's foremost experts in the scientific use of nutritional

supplements and other health products, the vast majority of which are

currently available on the shelves of health food stores across the

United States.

 

Dr. Wright has long been an advocate of medical freedom, and in the

past has successfully withstood an all-out assault on him by the FDA,

which ordered a raid of his offices in the early 1990's. Based on the

information the FDA provided them, local law enforcement officials

sent armed officers barging through his doors, guns drawn, because

they were under the impression that he was an international drug

dealer.

 

That's what they'd been told by the FDA. Dr. Wright's crime?

Importing a high-quality type of vitamin B12 from Europe due to its

superior purity value compared to brands of vitamin B12 manufactured

in the U.S. As his all-female staff were forced to lay down on the

floor, their arms behind their backs, Dr. Wright's medical records

and computers were seized, effectively crippling his ability to carry

on his medical practice.

 

But when the local law official who ordered the raid found out the

truth about Dr. Wright's many years of dedicated medical service to

his community, he publicly stated that he would ne/ver cooperate with

the FDA again, because they had lied to him.

 

No charges were ever brought against Dr. Wright, but he was forced to

go to court to secure the return of his property the FDA confiscated.

Thanks to ongoing donations to the le/gal defense fund set up in his

name, he eventually prevailed, but only after great financial cost.

 

Despite the attack against him, Dr.Wright has never wavered in his

dedication to helping others get well using proven, natural healing

methods. Now he is warning us about how our medical freedoms are once

again under assault. Please read what he has to say and take the

actions steps he suggests. Your health could literally depend on you

doing so. Here is his message:

 

You've taken supplements for years. You're out of vitamins C and E.

You go to your natural food store, but you can't find the kind you

want on the shelf. You ask a clerk to find them for you. She says you

can't get your vitamin E as mixed tocopherols (the best natural form)

anymore, and asks if you like your vitamin C in the 100- or 200-

milligram size. The 1,000-milligram size, you say.

 

" Where have you been? " she asks. " Asleep since 2004? Its 2007 now!

The types and sizes of vitamins you just asked for have been declared

illegal by the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade

Organization! "

 

" Wait! " you reply. " This is America! Our president says we're

fighting for American freedom -- and you're telling me that the World

Trade Organization can dictate what size vitamin C I can take, and

forbid me from taking mixed tocopherols? " The sales clerk sighs, and

reaches for a piece of paper. " It's a little complicated, " she

says. " A few years back, the European Commission passed the European

Food Supplements Directive ... "

 

You feel your blood pressure rising. " What do the European Commission

and its directive have to do with me? If Europeans want bureaucrats

to tell them what to do, that's their business. I'm a free citizen of

these United States! "

 

" Now, now, dear, your blood pressure will go up, and you can't get

calcium citrate, magnesium aspartame, CoQ10 or L-arginine or anything

else natural to help regulate it anymore. "

 

" What? This goes beyond the FDA's wildest dreams! "

 

" That's not a 10th of it, dear. While you were distracted by the war

overseas for American freedom, here at home we lost our right to buy

any amino acids at all. No arginine, no carnitine, no tryptophan,

nothing. I can't sell you any essential fatty acids either. No DHA or

EPA. And no beta-carotene, no mixed carotenoids, no MSM, no boron ...

The list goes on and on. "

 

" So what can I buy? " you ask. " Let's see ... those 100- and 200-

milligram vitamin Cs. Vitamin B6 maximum 4.2 milligrams, vitamin B1,

2.4 milligrams.

 

Oh, here's a better one: You can get niacin at 32 milligrams. "

 

" Enough! I'm getting sick! How did this ever happen in these United

States? "

 

" As I was saying, the European Directive .... "

 

" I heard you. But what about America's Congress, America's President? "

 

" Oh, they signed us up for this in the 1990s, when they made us

members of the World Trade Organization. According to the

Congressional Research Service: 'As a member of the World Trade

Organization, the United States does commit to act in accord/ance

with the rules of the multilateral body. The United States is

le/gally obligated to ensure national laws do not conflict with World

Trade Organization rules.' "

 

" Our President and Congress send troops overseas to fight for

freedom, but let the WTO tell us what to do with our vitamins? There

must be something we can do. "

 

" Actually, we did have a chance or two to reverse this in 2004, but

it's going to be incredibly difficult n/o/w. "

 

" But I really need my mixed tocopherols vitamin E. And my mother with

congestive heart failure depends on CoQ10. "

 

" I'm not unsympathetic, especially to your poor mother, dear. " She

looks all around, then lowers her voice. " I can give you some sources

downtown. " She whispers a few names.

 

" But those people deal dangerous drugs! N/o/w they're selling

vitamins, too? "

 

" That's freedom in America in 2007, dear. "

 

Think it can't happen? Think again.