Posted on 06/04/2004 7:39:35 PM PDT by Coleus
Herbal alternatives are under attack. Download and print flyers. The flyers urge consumers to tell their congressmen and senators to attend the JUNE 17th Herbal Alternatives Congressional Briefing to learn the truth about herbs & health.
It is critical that Congress attends this briefing because:
HERBAL ALTERNATIVES ARE UNDER ATTACK. News headlines misinform and mislead decision makers. Products you depend on for your health could soon be banned.
MANY CAPITOL HILL STAFFERS AND POLICY MAKERS DO NOT UNDERSTAND NATURAL HEALTH INDUSTRY ISSUES. Since DSHEA was passed in 1994, about 50% of Congressmen and Senators and 80% of Congressional aides have left. New staffers and policy makers need to be educated on the issues that led to the passage of DSHEA.
CONGRESS NEEDS TO HEAR THE FACTS. Herbs are safe, beneficial and cost-efficient. 158 million Americans benefit from natural health approaches.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP
1. Send a letter to your Senators and Representatives urging them to attend this briefing today! It only takes a minute at www.citizens.org/briefing.
2. Read more at www.citizens.org/briefing. Both sites include a downloadable flyer that you can distribute.
3. Register to vote so you are ready for the upcoming elections. You can register online at www.citizens.org/vote. Tell your friends to register, too.
4. Join the Natural Health Action Network and receive regular updates and important messages on issues you care about. It's free and easy to sign up at www.citizens.org/join.
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Click here and let your Representatives know how it important it is that they attend the Herbal Alternatives briefing!
Click here to download our store flyer and post in it stores, offices of integrative healing professionals, and wellness and community centers in your area!
Anything to take away control from the citizenry. Hillary Care would have decimated alternative health/heral supplement industry. I see they're still trying!
- Reducto ad absurdum.
Someone once accused me of this very "logical fallacy" when I said "wait till they start suing fast food restaurants" in a debate about tobacco company lawsuits.
Quite frankly, I don't believe this is a fallacy. Throwing it out there doesn't negate the argument, which is a simply a the presentation of a logical next step. Heck, our legal system is based on precendent, as are regulations. Many things we used to think were 'absurd' have come to fruition.
Fighting terrorism to prevent a dirty nuke from going off in NYC is also "reductor ad adsurdum"
An important part of self-regulation is not ingesting things whose contents or effects can't be ascertained with reasonable certainty. And we already have plenty of laws prohibiting mislabeling, so we don't need a new law to go after herbal supplement sellers whose labels say they contain a certain substance and/or amount, and whose package contents contain something different.
I will. Tylenol.
Aren't a good number of perscription drugs made out of herbal suppliments? >>
2 come to mind.
Aspirin came from the bark of the white willow tree
Digitalis came from the foxglove plant
Some part of red yeast rice is also in cholesterol meds.
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