YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED: WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OV

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National Health Federation Urgent Alert - CAFTA

Sat, 2 Jul 2005 16:16:12 -0500

 

NATIONAL

 

HEALTH

 

FEDERATION

 

A NOT-FOR-PROFIT HEALTH ORGANIZATION

 

 

 

 

 

July 2, 2005

 

 

 

URGENT ALERT

ACT NOW

YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED

 

CAFTA VOTE - 1 WEEK AWAY

 

WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA AND CODEX TO OVERRIDE DSHEA

 

 

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require

the U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food

laws and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force

harmonization of our dietary supplements and regulations to

international standards, overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.

 

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader

Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modelled after

the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are

typical bureaucratic monstrosities of " managed " trade that masquerade

as free trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America

and then the rest of the Americas in an economic " union. " True free

trade would take a few pages of written text to enact ( " eliminate

these barriers to trade and these tariffs, " etc.); all three of these

agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual

garbage sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and

special-interest benefits.

 

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all

its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS)

committee for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the

terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You

can find that text at the following website:

 

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Sectio\

n_Index.html.

 

 

If you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will

read the following words: " To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary

measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food

safety measures on international standards, guidelines or

recommendations. " (emphasis added) And as you all know by now, Codex

sets the international standards for food safety including vitamins &

minerals.

 

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives

when they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which

health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and

Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by

treaty to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex

vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and

we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put a

knife in the back of our health freedoms.

 

 

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~CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st, 2005.

~Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.

~IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill

1307 (click here to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on

without going to committee. It is on the House calendar and may be

brought up at any time.

 

 

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ONLY ONE WEEK TO ACT. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO

VOTE AGAINST CAFTA NOW.

 

YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THE VOTING IN THE HOUSE WILL BE

CLOSE. WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION

LETTERS.

 

PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

 

 

Contact any member of the House of Representatives via

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

 

Click here for Petition Opposition Letter.

/config/login?/CAFTA%20NHF%20Letter.pdf

 

 

 

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