Call Congress to Keep Food Supplements Access – Vote “NO� on CAFTA Section 6

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CAFTA Section 6 (Senate Bill 1307)

July 12, 2005 11:36 a.m. PDT

 

This is a special ALERT - TIME-SENSITIVE public service message.

In 1994, I and millions of other Americans lobbied Congress to oppose

the legislation which would have given the US Food and Drug Authority

(FDA) power over our vitamins, minerals, and other food supplements.

In the last days before the final vote, I organized a group of

concerned people for a protest rally in front of the FDA in Seattle to

expose the fact that the bill opposing the FDA control of our food

supplements was being locked up “in committee†by the chairman of the

House of Representatives committee, who just happened to be the second

largest receiver of pharmaceutical industry PAC funds in the entire

Congress!

 

With a week to go, I called the Seattle television stations for NBC,

ABC, and CBS. NBC and ABC news offices in Seattle said they wanted to

cover the issue of Americans losing their rights to freely purchase

food supplements, but that they had not had a news event to cover

regarding the issue. I told them we would be staging a protest one

morning during the next week in time for them to film it and get it

sent out to the national news desks for possible evening news coverage

nationally.

 

Once I had ABC and NBC in Seattle committed, and I completed the

actions to get the demonstration permit, etc., I then called the

member of the House of Representative, who was holding the bill

“against FDA control†by keeping it off his committee’s agenda, and

told his assistant that this House member’s name and his huge

pharmaceutical industry contributions would be the main topic of my

remarks to the NBC and ABC reporters and film crews when we

demonstrated in front of the FDA in Seattle! I told them we were

doing our demonstration EARLY in the day so we could get the national

evening news television shows to cover our demonstration!

 

Within 36 hours, the bill opposing FDA control of our food supplements

was voted out of committee and then passed by the House just hours

before the House adjourned. We WON that fight and we can win this

fight too!

 

Americans must LOUDLY DEMAND that Congress SAY “NO†to the foreign

influences that are now using a new, devious method to TAKE AWAY our

access to food supplements, vitamins, and minerals!

 

The following overview explains “how†this new effort is being done.

As you may know, the European Union has imposed the “Codex†which

restricts Europeans access to vitamins, minerals, and food

supplements. The entire scheme is backed by huge, multi-national

pharmaceutical corporations who are trying to take away our ability to

have access to vitamins, minerals, and food supplements in our health

food stores and other places, and to FORCE us to get a medical

doctor’s prescription for vitamins, minerals, and food supplements!

It is GREED and control that are behind the entire scheme!

 

Remember, pharmaceutical companies only make money if YOU are SICK!

They do not make money from healthy people.

 

This time, the pharmaceutical industry is using “trading treaties†and

trade organizations to push forward their devious scheme. There is a

treaty called “CAFTA†which has been approved by the US Senate, in a

vote 54 for and 45 against on July 1, 2005. Now the House of

Representatives must vote on “CAFTAâ€.

 

In the CAFTA bill, Section 6, is a provision which requires 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). Article 3 of

the WTO's SPS Agreement basically requires that the European Union’s

CODEX be accepted by all members of the WTO.

 

Using “trading organizations†and requirements of these trading

organizations and treaties, is HOW the enemies of freedom are trying

to FORCE Americans to LOSE their personal choices and freedoms in

utilizing the God-given benefits of vitamins, minerals, and food

supplements. We do NOT need nor do we want to have to get a

prescription for vitamins, minerals, and food supplements from a

medical doctor who has received less than 20 hours of education on

vitamins, minerals, and food supplements in their entire eight years

of college education! Most medical doctors are brainwashed to use

pharmaceutical drugs by hundreds of hours of college education

focusing on prescription drugs and hundreds of pharmaceutical

corporation advertisements, sales people, free samples, and seminars –

all designed to SELL DRUGS!

 

It cannot be over-emphasized how deceitful and Machiavellian these

actions are to FORCE Americans and the world’s people to USE

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, and LOSE the ability to freely access vitamins,

minerals, and food supplements!

 

Every American should be calling and writing their Representatives in

the US House of Representatives and LOUDLY demanding that these

requirements to “harmonize with the CODEX†be forbidden from any

legislation the US Congress approves. Every American should be

demanding their rights to freely access what has been given to us from

nature: vitamins, minerals, and food supplements. NO ONE has the

right to take away our right to have free access to these natural

substances!

 

You may find the US Representative who represents you by clicking on

http://www.house.gov/ - in the top middle enter your zip code and

find your House Representative. Also on the left side you will see

“Representatives Offices†and to the right of that there is a

“drop-down†menu which you click to see the list of Representatives

and their locations; when you click on your Representative’s name in

the drop down menu, it gives you their website and all their offices

and phone numbers. I suggest you call them at their Washington, D.C.

office TODAY if possible. You may also send them an email through

www.house.gov/writerep .

 

I remind you, in 1994 through the BIGGEST lobbying effort by Americans

ever in the history of the USA, even bigger than the anti-Vietnam war

efforts, we WON Americans the right to continue to freely access

vitamins, minerals, and food supplements.

 

I urge each of you to DO YOUR PART – tell your House Representative to

vote “NO†on the CAFTA requirement which would impose the terrible

CODEX restrictions on Americans!

 

If you know the name of your US Congressperson, you may call the

Congressional switchboard number at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be

connected to your House Representative’s office. Then tell the staff

person you are requesting the Representative vote “NO†on the CAFTA

provision which TAKES AWAY from Americans the freedom to freely

access food supplements by imposing CODEX on Americans.

 

In the meantime, YOU can do something useful by getting in the habit

of demanding your rights. We Americans have sat back and let Congress

pass some terrible laws. It’s OUR FAULT America is doing the wrong

things and Congress is listening to the wrong people. We all need to

TAKE ACTION and demand our rights. We need to make a habit of

demanding our rights!

 

When I called my own House Representative today, his staff person said

that the CAFTA bill is in the “Ways and Means Committee†currently.

You might contact the committee members as well if you wish to do

more, and demand the Codex link be removed from the bill. The House

of Representatives is expected to vote on this bill “sometime in the

next few weeks†per my Representative’s office.

 

When I called US Representative Ron Paul’s office, his staff person

said it is predicted that the House of Representatives vote on this

CAFTA bill will be VERY CLOSE – possibly 3 to 5 votes (out of 435

votes) will make the difference! WE all need to CALL or email our

Representatives and demand a big “NO†to this CAFTA effort to TAKE

AWAY our food supplements freedom by the Machiavellian, devious CODEX

connection.

 

Although not spelled out in the CAFTA bill, the FDA would be the

“implementing authority†of taking away our food supplements!

Remember, get a permit from the local city or police to do your

demonstration – this is NOT hard to obtain and when you tell them what

is happening, they will probably become behind-the-scenes allies.

That was what I experienced when I called the television news people

and the sheriff over the area of the FDA office in Seattle.

 

Most Americans have NO IDEA that their ability to buy Vitamin C and

other food supplements WILL BE TAKEN AWAY by this devious CAFTA bill.

CODEX goes into effect NEXT MONTH - August 2005 - in the European

Union! It will be going into effect in the USA unless we STOP it NOW!

 

DO your demonstrations – contact the local stations carrying ABC, NBC,

and CBS and tell them you will be doing demonstrations – when, where,

what time - so they can show up to film and interview you. Let’s get this

issue

on television and radio news – Americans need to WAKE UP to what their

Congress is doing!

 

Stand UP for yourself! Call the Congressional switchboard number at

(202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your House Representative’s

office now!

 

and internationally.

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http://ahha.org/NHFPressRelease705.htm

 

July 2, 2005 Press Release

 

National Health Federation (a not-for-profit health organization)

 

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 modeled 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:

www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Ind

ex.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. " 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.

 

* 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.

 

PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES.

Contact any member of the House of Representatives via

www.house.gov/writerep

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http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2005/cr071105.htm

 

HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS [speech]

BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

July 11, 2005

 

Henry Lamb- A Great Freedom Fighter Documents how your Dietary

Supplements are Under Attack

 

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to read " Your dietary supplements:

Under attack again " by Henry Lamb, which I am inserting into the

record. Mr. Lamb explains the threat to American consumers of dietary

supplements and American sovereignty by the Codex Alimentarius

commission, commonly referred to simply as Codex. The United Nations

created Codex to establish international standards for foods and

medicines. Just last week, representatives of the United States

government agreed to a final version of Codex's standards on dietary

supplements which, if implemented in the United States, could

drastically reduce Americans' ability to obtain the supplements of

their choice. Members of the American bureaucracy may be hope to

achieve via international fiat what they cannot achieve through the

domestic law-making process--the power to restrict consumers' access

to dietary supplements. American bureaucrats may gain this power if

the World Trade Organization, which considers Codex " guidelines " the

standard by which all other regulations are judged, decides that our

failure to " harmonize " our regulations of dietary supplements to meet

Codex's recommendations violates international trading standards!

This could occur despite the fact that American consumers do not want

to be subjected to the restrictive regulations common in other parts

of the world, such as the European Union.

 

This article is typical of Henry Lamb's work. For almost twenty years,

beginning at an age when most Americans are contemplating retirement,

Mr. Lamb has worked to expose and stop threats to American liberty,

sovereignty, and prosperity. Mr. Lamb became involved in the battle

for liberty when, as the CEO of a Tennessee construction company, he

founded a state association of contractors to work against excessive

regulations. In 1988, Henry Lamb founded the Environmental

Conservation Organization to defend true environmentalism, which is

rooted in the truth that there is no better steward of the environment

than a private property owner, from those who used the environment as

a cover for their radical statist agendas. Since 1992, Mr. Lamb and

ECO have focused on the threat to economic liberty and self-government

posed by the radical global environmental agenda.

 

Henry Lamb works to further the cause of liberty by giving speeches

around the country, editing an on-line magazine, making numerous

television and radio appearances, and writing a weekly column to

inform his fellow Americans of the latest scheme to undermine their

freedoms. Mr. Lamb is the model of a citizen-activist, and all who

wish to become involved in the battle for freedom can learn from his

example. In conclusion, I once again urge my colleagues to read Mr.

Lamb's article to learn about the need to protect American consumers

from Codex, and I thank Mr. Lamb for his tireless devotion to the

cause of freedom.

 

YOUR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: UNDER ATTACK AGAIN (from WorldNetDaily,

June 11, 2005)

(By Henry Lamb)

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission sounds like one of those shadowy,

sinister organizations conjured up by one-world-government nuts to

scare people.

 

Truth: It is!

 

The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health

Organization created this commission in the early 1960s to set

standards for food safety and to ``harmonize'' the laws of member

nations. The commission was endorsed by U.N. Resolution 39/248, which

says:

``When formulating national policies and plans with regard to food,

governments should take into account the need of all consumers for

food security and should support and, as far as possible, adopt

standards from the ..... Codex Alimentarius. .....''

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission consists of delegates from 163

member nations representing 97 percent of the world's population. It

meets every two years, either in Rome or Geneva. Between meetings, the

commission is governed by an executive committee that directs the

activities of its many committees.

 

Of immediate concern is the ongoing effort to bring dietary

supplements in America under the control of standards set by this

commission. Dietary supplements generate a $17 billion industry in the

United States, which affects more than 150 million consumers,

according to Congressional findings (H.R. 2485). Proposed procedures

and standards could virtually destroy this market and deprive millions

of Americans of the supplements they want to use.

 

The European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements, which becomes law

in August, severely restricts the types and quantities of supplements

that may be legally sold. Most forms of vitamins C and E, for example,

are not available, or are available only in extremely small doses. If

current plans proceed on course, American consumers are in for a

shock.

 

How can this little-known international commission control what

consumers buy in the United States?

 

An even less-known agency, deep within the bowels of the U.S.

Department of Agriculture is responsible for U.S. participation in the

Codex Commission and designates delegates to each of the commission's

committees. Barbara O. Schneeman is the delegate to the Codex

Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses.

 

The effort to regulate dietary supplements has been under way for more

than a decade. In 1994, Congress adopted the Dietary Supplement Health

and Education Act, which kept supplements beyond the reach of the drug

police. In the past, Codex recommendations have been non-binding. Now,

however, the Codex Alimentarius Commission is teaming up with the

World Trade Organization to bring international enforcement to the

dietary-supplement battle.

 

Ironically, it was primarily the U.S. that brought the WTO into

existence in 1994, as the successor to GATT, the General Agreement on

Tarriffs and Trade. The WTO agreement specifically requires that the

member nations--including the U.S.--conform its laws to meet the

requirements of WTO decisions. Failure to conform results in stiff

financial penalties. The Codex Commission and the European Union want

the WTO to enforce Codex standards, which fly directly in the face of

the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.

 

Pascal Lamy of France was just selected as director general of the

WTO. Lamy served as a member of the French Socialist Party's steering

committee and was chief of staff and representative of the European

Commission for President Jacques Delors. Since 1995, he has served as

a member of the Central Office of the Mouvement Européen (France) and

as a member of the European Commission, responsible for trade.

 

The Codex Commission will be meeting in Rome July 4-9 to adopt the

final rules on dietary supplement use. Dr. Carolyn Dean, president of

Friends of Freedom International, will attend this meeting and return

to the U.S. just in time to present her report to the Sixth Annual

Freedom 21 Conference in Reno, July 14-16.

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission's reach is much broader than dietary

supplements. Its committees are also working on standards for

pesticide residue, labeling of all kinds of foods, food additives and

nutrients, veterinary medicine and drugs, as well as standards and

methods for analysis. The function of this organization is to

establish standards for all food worldwide and to enforce those

standards through the power of the World Trade Organization.

 

Few people know that there is such a thing as the Codex Alimentarius

Commission. It was created to promote food safety in international

trade. It is on the brink of becoming an Orwellian bureaucracy--far

worse than the worst fantasies of the one-world conspiracy theories.

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission is neither fantasy nor theory; it is

real.