Posted on 07/23/2005 6:26:34 AM PDT by disclaimer
Defeat CAFTA and save your supplements. You must ACT NOW!
ACT NOW to preserve your access to nutrients, effective vitamins and minerals, and nutritional medicine! We have leverage - it's very close, perhaps within 1 vote!
Listen to Len & Joe (Ask the Pharmacist Group) discuss why this is an important issue for all of us!
CAFTA - BAD for jobs, small businesses, health stores, health freedom
In the fine print the US is being signed up to global regulations that override US supplement laws.
The outcome for CAFTA is up for grabs, as the vote is very close in the House of Representatives.
This is a unique opportunity to get our issue before Members of Congress who have not heard of Codex. The more people who call, the better.
A much larger number of calls are needed to delay CAFTA.
Contact Congress today
Recommened Action:
Call your Representatives' office
Call 1-202-224-3121 weekdays or call your representatives' local district office. If possible, take the time to visit their local district office in person.
or
Email your Representative. We've provided a link to a letter that you can edit to make it easy for you.
It's close! You can influence the decision.
Please ask your Representative to make arrangements with staff to remain vigilant. The treaty could be introduced to the House in the middle of the night or in the early morning.
It will take a lot of pressure, and many more calls and letters to raise this issue of the international threat to supplements. Many in Congress have not yet heard of Codex.
If opposition succeeds in delaying CAFTA, it could still come back for a vote later.
Calls need to number in the millions if we are to make this a 'third rail' issue. It is going to take sustained involvement by the public over a long time, to achieve adequate status for natural medicine.
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I'm on it unfortunately my congressman is leaning towards CAFTA.
Oh sure drop everything.
we can do many things at the same time!
Speak for yourself. For some of us, supplements are what's keeping us alive.
I do, just like the war on terror, it's about our freedom, sovreignty, and the right to live our way of life without foreign restriction. Why should a trade agreement subject us to the restrictions other countries impose on their citizenry?
Slimy Republicans endanger Americans' access to health supplements...
Yeah, freedom's a bitch, ain't it?
Are you able to complete your thought, or are we to guess what your point is.
is there a freeper poll on this and/or some fairly balanced information?
i've never had time to research the whole cafta issue but there is an ad playing on local tv asking me to call my rep (by name) and beg him not to get on board.
Our sovereignty is being given away by GATT, WTO, NAFTA, and CAFTA.
It is like when the formed the European Union. It went from a trade block to what is now planned as a new country.
These agreements are the first steps to political merger. So long Bill of Rights, we hardly knew ye.
CAFTA won't pass the house without the help of the Republican leadership, which is apparently ready and willing to bribe, twist arms, etc. to get CAFTA passed. If Codex is adopted in this country as a result of CAFTA, you access to health supplements will be restricted to prescriptions. Hence, Slimy Republicans endanger Americans' access to health supplements.
I am glad you mentioned this. I had no idea. I think if that slipped through and people realized that their supplements were not freely available there might be riots in the streets. There are still a few things in America that will light a fire under peoples butts.
CAFTA aside, I've come to believe that the supplements business is dominated by cons and scam artists.
Examples: Body Solutions, CortiSlim. Both made megamillions, both have been shown to have made totally unsupportable claims for weight loss. The first shut down a few years ago, the second is well on its way. Both co-opted and duped a few celebrities, ponied up some incomplete and shoddy "studies," and made their mint. Both sets of owners are, I am quite sure, filthy rich for having provided nothing of value even after having been shut down, or being near it.
Another example: St. John's Wort. Touted as an energy and memory enhancer as I recall. Comprehensive studies proved it worthless.
The unregulated supplements business gives crafty scam artists who can fool a few famous people the ability to dupe consumers, provide no benefit, and become rich through immoral means. I'd rather have no regulation, but no regulation, which is where the supplements industry has been for about 12 years, hasn't worked. I'm sure there are good supplements out there, but at this point they are all being tarred because of the snake-oilers.
If CAFTA effectively puts supplements back under FDA, I would have to reluctantly say that's a good thing.
Next, we can have a discussion about what level of proof the FDA should consider acceptable. Yes, their standards are in some cases too high, and their reluctance to make treatments and perhaps certain supplements available should be addressed.
I'm also going to suggest that if you are affiliated with the folks at the external link, you have a financial interest in the outcome and shouldn't be posting under News & Activism. I say that because I blog on items that are REAL news and can't convince the Admin Mod to classify my real news items as News.
Nonsense. For all the heavy-duty advertisers, there are dozens if not hundreds of honest herb and vitamin makers. I'm talking about honest, good companies like Shiff, Twinlab, Avita, and Oy-Ex. Anything that promises "effortless" weight loss (especially) should be eyed with suspicion.
And, for the record, St. Johns Wort has been helpful to some. However, someone with a major case of depression should (a) have a physical done to see if there's a physical cause, and (b) seek psychological counseling. I don't think throwing something in pill-form at the problem without the rest will do a very good job.
Let's do try to remember, too, that many of the products sold (also with mass advertising) by pharmaceutical companies have proven to be worthless at best, and life-threatening at worst. Just because it's prescribed doesn't mean it's safe, or that it's effective.
I'd suggest that you research CAFTA by reading evaluations of the agreement by organizations that you trust. Personally, I don't believe in 'balanced' information. I don't care to know how this agreement stacks up to liberal values, so I don't need that distorted information for evaluation.
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I disagree. Fools will always be easily separated from their money. But there are 1000's of reputable manufacturers and distributors who provide quality assayed supplements without any nanny statist regulations.
If CAFTA effectively puts supplements back under FDA, I would have to reluctantly say that's a good thing.
More governmental restrictions on the marketplace is not a good idea. The consumers are responsible for making their own educated choices.
I blog on items that are REAL news and can't convince the Admin Mod to classify my real news items as News.
The mods are very astute about such things.
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