The top ten reasons why organized medicine supports CODEX

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The top ten reasons why organized medicine supports CODEX (the

European Food Supplements Directive)

 

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The top ten reasons why organized medicine supports CODEX (the

European Food Supplements Directive)

 

1. It eliminates access to key nutrients that prevent disease, thereby

creating a population of diseased, malnourished customers who will

inevitably turn to high-profit prescription drugs.

 

2. It focuses people on the debate over the safety of nutritional

supplements, distracting them from the debate over the safety of

prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs.

 

3. It makes nutritional supplements more expensive, putting their

purchase out of reach of more consumers.

 

4. With the loss of vitamin sales, many natural health retailers will

be forced out of business, and this is good for organized medicine.

The fewer health shops exist, the less competition there is for

prescription drugs.

 

5. It establishes a legal precedent of control over not just

supplements, but food. This sets the stage for the future banning of

nutritious foods that prevent disease such as blueberries, broccoli

and garlic.

 

6. It allows for the arrest and incrimination of key proponents of

natural health (vitamin manufacturers, retailers and consumers),

removing them from the public stage so that they no longer have a voice.

 

7. It discredits the entire nutritional supplements industry, creating

fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) in the minds of consumers who aren't

aware of the real motivations behind the law.

 

8. It erects huge barriers to the introduction of new supplements to

the market by forcing manufacturers to spend millions of dollars on

compliance, even for substances that have been safely consumed by

humans as medicine for thousands of years.

 

9. It sets a legal foundation from which other nutrients can be

outlawed. Each year, watch for the ratchet to be tightened as a

growing list of supplements get banned.

 

10. It allows natural health critics to use circular logic to attack

the industry. They'll say, " If these vitamins weren't dangerous, then

they wouldn't have been outlawed, would they? "

 

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