Loss of our herbal rights

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UNAMAERICAN ACTIVITIES BY PHARMECEUTICAL COS.AND CERTAIN POLITICAL

LEADERS. LETS HOLD THEM RESPONSIBLE, AND RESIST BY WHATEVER MEANS IT TAKES!

 

I have recently become aware of CODEX, which is a move on the part of the UN,

WHO and

FAO to eliminate our access to vitamins and all other natural supplements. This

worries

me and it makes me madder than a wet hen because it is all being funded by the

pharmaceutical companies which stand to lose a great deal of money as more and

more

people realize that use of supplements will erode the market share of big

pharma.

Ron Matthews

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KISS YOUR VITAMINS GOODBYE!

 

The U.S. Delegation to Codex has just issued a formal written statement to the

Codex

Alimentarius Commission that the United States, during the July 4-9, 2005,

meeting in

Rome, will support compulsory rules created by this international organization

directly

overruling U.S. law regarding access to vitamins.

The U.S. law that is about to be vanquished is the Dietary Supplement, Health

and

Education Act of 1994. Codex is a joint venture between the United Nation's

World Health

Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization. (WHO/FAO) The World Trade

Organization (WTO) has already stated that it will enforce Codex " guidelines " as

the world

standard for trade in dietary supplements. This will mean that gradually,

pill-by-pill, our

access to the dietary supplements we depend on will disappear.

 

For those not familiar with the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of

1994, it

was passed because 2.5 million ordinary citizens wanted to make sure dietary

supplements such as herbs, vitamins, minerals and other food-based supplements

could

stay on the over-the-counter market.

Movement to create this law, known as DSHEA,

started when a 1992 FDA task force published a report announcing the FDA's

desire to

remove these products from the shelves as they represented a " disincentive for

patented

drug research " .

Immediately following this announcement, millions of Americans learned about how

famed

vitamin doctor, Jonathan Wright's patient-filled medical office was raided the

same month

by nearly two-dozen gun-toting, flak-jacketed FDA agents in the name of

regulating

supplements. Battering down an unlocked office door, these agents, backed by

burly

sheriff's department deputies, lined up staff and

patients against the wall, pulled IVs from patients arms in middle of

treatments,

confiscated patient records, took the hard drive from the office computer all

because Dr.

Jonathan Wright was using nutritional supplements to heal very sick people who

could not

get help from standard allopathic medical care.

As the story developed, it turned out that this Gestapo-style raid was standard

operating

procedure for the FDA and as the general public became aware of just how many

doctors'

offices, manufacturing companies, distributors and health food stores had been

assaulted

by similar raids, the horror of all this forged a mighty health freedom army

that resulted in

unanimous passage of DSHEA.

 

The idea of the law was two-fold:

1. DSHEA was to make a clear distinction between FOOD, which is considered

generally

safe and did not need to have permission from

the FDA to be allowed on the market and DRUGS, which are generally toxic,

potentially

deadly and in need of lengthy evaluation before they were available to the

public under

prescription from a doctor.

2. DSHEA provides the FDA with plenty of legal authority to remove herbs or

dietary

supplements from the market providing the agency has plenty of REAL evidence of

REAL

harm to the public. The FDA also has the authority to limit the amount of a

supplement to

low levels IF

the agency has plenty of REAL evidence to prove higher levels ARE ACTUALLY

dangerous.

 

The FDA and its Big Pharma backers have never liked DSHEA because these

products and

the related natural healing arts services often related to them are putting the

allopathic

drug/surgical/chemical medical industry to shame.

 

In my book, Death by Modern Medicine, using the allopathic medical industry's

own

official reports, I document how 784,000 people die every year in the American

medical

system while following doctors' orders in a highly-regulated allopathic system.

The proof that dietary supplements and the practitioners who promote them are

safe and

work as expected is evidenced everywhere. Studies conducted all over the world

have

shown that supplements are actually safer than

food and there is simply no hard evidence to show there is ANY risk factor

worthy of

discussion, much less needing universal " risk assessment " .

 

Yet, the U.S. Delegation, along with its Big Pharma backers are bound and

determined

that Codex force " risk analysis assessments " upon the American dietary

supplement

industry so they can bypass the expressed will of the American people.

 

The REAL reason for promotion of " risk assessment " is based on two agendas.

First, to be

able to strip the over-the-counter marketplace of everything but low quality,

low dose-

level products that won't do much to support or improve health. Second, to set

up the

framework to

allow Big Pharma to take over the supplement market as a new form of drugs

where

prices can be jacked up outrageously and doled out by doctors for a fee.

 

UNDERSTAND THIS: If you do not ACT NOW, you and everyone you love, will be

condemned to living under a international law that denies your basic right to

maintain

your health. WITHOUT HEALTH, YOU HAVE NO FREEDOM!

 

ACT NOW! www.friendsoffreedominternational.org

Order at least one year worth of supplements so that you are safe while the

legal war will

go on. Prices can rise endlessly so that we can not afford our supplements any

more and

they may be taken off the market.

 

CODEX ALIMENTARIS ENDS U.S. SUPPLEMENTS IN JUNE 2005

Working stealthily BIG PHARMA has rapidly pushed their legislative program

(Codex

Alimentaris) in Europe that will eliminate the free choice Americans now have to

purchase

vitamins, herbs, minerals,homeopathic remedies, aminoacids and nutritional

supplements.

This elimination of all competition for the pharmaceutical industry will

produce an enormous increase in the already exorbitant profits earned by the

pharmaceutical firms. Of even greater significance the lack of free choice to

stay well by

taking effective nutritional substances will promptly be followed by a sharp

increase in

illnesses that will

only be treated in the future with pharmaceutical drugs.

 

The new Codex Alimentaris adopted in a secret meeting in Europe in November 2004

is

scheduled to take effect in June 2005. Because the United States belongs to the

World

Trade Organization WTO any changes approved in Europe automatically become law

in the

United States superceding our own laws (we are no longer a sovereign nation).

Failure to comply with these changes institutes lawsuits which can not be won as

they are

settled in international courts which care nothing about U.S. laws.

Incidentally, Europe has

been very leery of genetically modified foods because of serious concerns about

their

safety. By this same WTO mechanism Europe will be forced to accept

importation of U.S. GMO foods even if they know they are bad for health.

 

The features of Codex Alimentaris are:

No supplements can be sold for preventative or therapeutic use.

Any potency higher than RDA levels (pathetically low) is a drug that requires a

prescription

and must be produced by drug companies.

Codex regulations are binding internationally

New supplements are banned unless given Codex testing and approval (certain too

expensive and lacking in scientific merit). Norway and Germany are already

operating

under the new Codex regulations.

The price of zinc tablets has gone from $4 to $52. Echinacea has risen from $14

to $153.

Codex regulations are not based on science or research findings.These

regulations were

developed by 11 appointed persons. Guess who appointed them?

Why Haven't I Heard About This?

The controlled press has been instructed to avoid commenting on this issue until

it

becomes a fait accomplis. At that time your congressional legislators will say

they are

sorry but there is nothing they can do to reverse the Codex. The truth is they

were, all but

a few, bought and paid for back when the World Trade Organization was ratified

by the

U.S. Congress.

 

Can Anything Be Done To Stop This Codex?

 

I hope so but the remaining time is miniscule and the enemy has carried out a

brilliant

strategy. There is no reason for any optimism

about the possibility of reversing the Codex regulations. A brilliant English

lawyer

(Anderson), considered to be the top lawyer in that nation, has agreed to fight

the Codex

in court because he thinks he can win. This fight needs money because it is

against the

incredible

financial resources of the pharmaceutical industry. Two other sinister

Directives need to be

reversed in Brussels as well as the implemented Codex Directive. Donations to

the http://

alliance- natural-health.org are vital. These funds will be used to try to

overturn Codex

and hire lobbyists to oppose the other 2 Directives.

 

Contacting your congressman and senator is desirable. If millions of persons get

involved

the legislators may take notice. The New World Order leaders were shocked when

meetings in Seattle in 1999 and Quebec City in 2001 resulted in riots. When the

responsible U.S. citizens that have kept themselves well with intelligent use of

supplements learn that there is nothing available from now on they are likely to

be very

angry.

 

For many persons this may crystallize the realization that they are living in a

police state.

 

And that thereis no longer any power in the hands of private citizens.

 

What Can Concerned Individuals Do To Preserve Good Health?

If our donations do not stop this pharmaceutical juggernaut some planning may

still be

worthwhile. Many large natural health product providers seem to be oblivious to

this

danger. Perhaps they are planning on selling out to BIG PHARMA at the last

minute.

 

Buying a stock of the supplements that have helped you seems wise. Remember the

expiration date on a bottle is simply an educated guess.

Manufacturers want to error on the side of public safety and setting dates

close to the

time of manufacture encourages increased sales volume.

The U.S. military has taken advantage of the probable safety of medicines beyond

their

expiration date by continuing to use expired bottles for many months beyond

their

expiration date. This program has saved the military many millions of dollars in

pharmaceutical costs. To determine safety of products involves expensive testing

for

evidence of oxidation and other deterioration

of products so it is not done very frequently by most companies.