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One of the primary obstacles facing any new initiative is the daunting “how-to” questions from those trying to implement a new idea. The Campaign has identified pilot programs across the country to work with and replicate, and will then publish successful children’s food and environmental health initiatives to educate others on how to do the same—stories like the initiative in Olympia, WA, where five elementary schools have provided organic food and paid for it by removing deserts from the menus, or like the Los Angeles School District that has successfully banned sugar-filled products from their vending machines.
That's all well and good, but nowhere have I seen that any agency is going to start regulating herbs. Indeed, from what I've seen, the only thing that's going to get regulated is the ridiculous marketing done using said herbs, roots and -- for all we know -- bat guano.
There's no doubt in my mind that some herbs in their organic state have some beneficial properties. That's just common sense. What bends my crank is when specific herbs are touted as remedying a laundry list of common ailments that normally go away over time anyway. And I have precisely the same reaction to the overmedication of people that's hyped by pharmaceutical companies day-in and day-out in TV, radio and magazine advertisements. Those agencies are restricted from making ridiculous claims about the health benefits of their products. Why should herbalists get a free pass?