Guest guest Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 This just in from our Natural Health Lobbyist in Washington. Greg Mitchell. Greg is a good guy and a good friend who's on the right page. Any help offered him would be much appreciated and is time and money well spent. This may be the only way we can stop Codex Alimentarius and get some of the insane laws turned around. Yours in Knowledge, Health and Freedom, Doc Dear Natural Health Friends, “The penalty good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.” – Plato This is a CALL TO ARMS to all good people in the Natural Health movement -- become interested and involved in politics and government right now! Join the American Wellness Coalition (http://www.americanwellnesscoalition.com/), a vehicle organized specifically for good people to fight the "men worse than ourselves" (lobbyists for organized medicine and the pharmaceutical companies) who are trying to govern our health. If you don’t, the penalty you will pay will be: these bad guys will succeed in using the coercive power of our own government against us – to take away our ability to purchase and consume the vitamins, herbs and other nutritional supplements we rely on for our health. I know you’ve been hearing for years all the scary talk about how we might lose our freedom to take vitamins, minerals and herbs. And some people dismiss such talk, for the nutritional supplement business keeps growing in the United States. But the threat is bigger and more real today than it ever has been in the past. Our freedom to choose Natural Health remedies is under heavy attack. Consider these facts from http://www.winhs.org/alert.htm: “European Union (EU) legislation is set to undermine many of the food supplements, vitamins, minerals and herbs that we normally take for granted.” “The first of the EU Food Supplement Directives has already been approved and drastically limits the number of currently available vitamins and substances commonly used in (natural) products today. Nearly two-thirds of all available vitamins were banned and will disappear from the shelves in 2009 with few exceptions.” “The European High Court, facing strong legal challenges and recommendations against it from their own Advocate General, still upheld the directive on July 12, 2005." "EU legislators are working on the next phase... which attempts to reclassify food-based vitamin substances as medicines and drugs. This is a real boon for Pharmaceutical companies who can proceed to patent synthetic, chemical versions of vitamins and legally eliminate natural products.” “Worse yet, the United Nations, through the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CODEX), is seeking to adopt this restrictive European legislation and apply it worldwide in their campaign for ‘Trade Harmonization.’” “The World Trade Organization (WTO) will then act as the enforcement branch for all member nations ensuring that no member nation will have a trade advantage over another. Although that might appear reasonable from a world economic perspective, what it really means is that the U.S. and other nations will no longer be able to hold onto their ‘haven’ status for available natural health remedies. No, the fact is that they will have to conform to stringent EU and UN guidelines as regards the short list of approved vitamins, their drastically lowered allowable dosages, what they can say or advertise concerning physiological and mental benefits and more…” The U.S. Government is already following the direction of the European legislation and CODEX, with language that appears in our free trade agreements such as NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) and the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas). It’s time for all good people to GET INVOLVED in political efforts to fight this attempt by lobbyists of organized medicine and drug companies -- "men worse than ourselves" -- to govern our health. It's time to join the American Wellness Coalition (http://www.americanwellnesscoalition.com/). What the Coalition brings to the table: Experts (http://www.themitchellfirm.com) in the Art of Political War -- professionals who have a proven track record of winning political campaigns, successfully fighting off the attacks of powerful interests and passing bipartisan legislation through Congress. It's important to note that the Coalition is SUPPLEMENTING the efforts of existing Natural Health organizations. Its sole focus is to take our voices -- the knowledge, expertise and research of existing organizations -- to Capitol Hill and work with our elected leaders to defend our health, to counter and defeat the lobbying campaign to undermine and ban many of the vitamins, minerals and herbs we take for granted. TAKE THESE ACTIONS NOW Become a Founding Member of the Coalition – click to: http://americanwellnesscoalition.onefireplace.org/ Then Forward this to your family and friends, and encourage them to do the same. Together we will defeat the bad guys and their efforts to use our own government against us! It’ll be an honor to represent you in Washington. To our health! Greg Mitchell Founder & President The Mitchell Firm http://www.themitchellfirm.com Representing the American Wellness Coalition in Washington, D.C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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