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WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA TO BE PASSED! BRIEFLY, HERE’S WHY…

CAFTA stands for Central American Free Trade Agreement. If this “treaty” is signed, the United States (a member of the international World Trade Organization) will be forced to revise our food and nutritional supplement laws according to international standards.

Are these “international standards” beneficial? NO!! Right now, the United States has a fairly liberal law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA. Thanks to the DSHEA, you have available to you a plentiful array and potency of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.

However, if CAFTA is signed, international law will supersede the sovereign law of the United States. It is almost unbelievable that this could occur, but it’s true.

To give you an idea of what this will look like in terms of supplement access: The highest amount of Vitamin C allowed will be 200 mg. (This is not a therapeutic dose.) For higher amounts, you will need a doctor’s prescription -- and pay much more than you do now. Amino acids will not be available, nor will enzymes. You won’t be able to get chromium, either. Only those substances specifically allowed by international law will be available. Significantly, the international law bureaucrats, “guided” by the pharmaceutical industry, have “forgotten” about quite a lot of nutrients that help keep us healthy.

The international standards masquerade as “free trade” and “economic union.” But in reality, CAFTA is designed to also “manage” (a euphemism for control) what a country can manufacture, use, and sell to its own people. Part of what a CAFTA signer will “agree” to is this (from the WTO text): "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."

But the “international standards” are not only for food. They also include vitamins and minerals!

(People who don’t mind slogging through legalese can read more at
http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html

Jenny Hatch

From the Newsmax article...

"The court did insist that procedures for rejecting a product from the approved list must be "consistent with the principles of sound administration and legal certainty."

It said a product should be refused only "on the basis of a full risk assessment, established on the basis of the most reliable scientific data."

And who is it that decides wether scientific data is "reliable" or not??? Pharmaceutical companies control all of the research.....Hmmmmm...

Jenny

"Soma and psychiatry in Huxley

The term "Soma" was used in Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel Brave New World (1932) in which it describes a drug. This is an 'opium of the people' that replaces religion in an oppressive futuristic science-based society. Soma is a pill consumed as an anti-depressant by workers who lead emotionally repressed and regimented lives. The use of the term satirically refers to the revived interest in ancient Aryan culture at the time. Huxley's society is caste based, like that of Brahminical India.

Huxley's soma was taken by the Anti-psychiatry movement in the 1960s as a model for their claim that anti-depressants and other drugs functioned to emotionally control people whose distress and mental illness arose from the oppressive nature of modern society."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma

Jenny

From an ad linked off of Powerline Blog...

http://www.stoptheftaa.org/artman/publish/article_447.shtml

"Loss of independence of U.S. federal, state, and local governments to regulate service professions and businesses to CAFTA’s “Cross-Border Trade in Services” provisions. “Cross-Border Trade in Services … applies to measures adopted or maintained by a Party affecting cross-border trade in services by service suppliers of another Party.

Such measures include measures affecting: (a) the production, distribution, marketing, sale, and delivery of a service;

(b) the purchase or use of, or payment for, a service;

(c) the access to and use of distribution, transport, or telecommunications networks and services in connection with the supply of a service;

(d) the presence in its territory of a service supplier of another Party; and

(e) the provision of a bond or other form of financial security as a condition for the supply of a service….

For purposes of this Chapter, “measures adopted or maintained by a Party” means measures adopted or maintained by:

(a) central, regional, or local governments and authorities; and

(b) non governmental bodies in the exercise of powers delegated by central, regional, or local governments or authorities..."

Jenny