Ron Paul[R} TX:CAFTA.CODEX.

[dbeach]

Cafta..nafta and the shafta.
codex could put vitamins in the RX {drugstores}

http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst071805.htm

"The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on the Central American Free Trade Agreement in the next two weeks, and one little-known provision of the agreement desperately needs to be exposed to public view. CAFTA, like the World Trade Organization, may serve as a forum for restricting or even banning dietary supplements in the U.S.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission, organized by the United Nations in the 1960s, is charged with “harmonizing” food and supplement rules between all nations of the world. Under Codex rules, even basic vitamins and minerals require a doctor’s prescription. The European Union already has adopted Codex-type regulations, regulations that will be in effect across Europe later this year. This raises concerns that the Europeans will challenge our relatively open market for health supplements in a WTO forum. This is hardly far-fetched, as Congress already has cravenly changed our tax laws to comply with a WTO order.

Like WTO, CAFTA increases the possibility that Codex regulations will be imposed on the American public. Section 6 of CAFTA discusses Codex as a regulatory standard for nations that join the agreement. If CAFTA has nothing to do with dietary supplements, as CAFTA supporters claim, why in the world does it specifically mention Codex?

This is why the drug companies support WTO and CAFTA. They see international trade agreements as a way to do an end run around American law and restrict supplements through international regulations. "

[hansberrym]

1. The CAFTA shafta might explain SCOTUS pick - Judge Roberts

is an expert in international trade agreements.

http://www.law.georgetown.edu/intl/london/documents/GeorgetownSyllabusforInternationalTrade.pdf


Hope they ask him at his confirmation hearings what his opinion is
regarding treaty power -specifically whether the provisions of a treaty supercede the US Constitution.

[seemslikeadream]

2. government to control the dietary supplement industry

The largely government-run health care establishment, including the nominally private pharmaceutical companies, want government to control the dietary supplement industry-- so that only they can manufacture and distribute supplements. If that happens, as it already is happening in Europe, the supplements you now take will be available only by prescription and at a much higher cost-- if they are available at all. This alone is sufficient reason for Congress to oppose the unconstitutional, sovereignty-destroying CAFTA bill.
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst071805.htm



stock up on those yams dbeach

[dbeach]

3. ya got that rt

regulating vitamins..bet the Italians in Providence will hide truck loads of vitamins..and then when big bro outlaws vitamins or makes it necessary to get them only by prescrption..then the shark skin suit guys will sell vitamin C for what $5 /1000 mgs????

I am sand -baggin my stash..