If CAFTA passes vitamins will be by prescription only.

[Gothic Sponge]

You should be extremely concerned about your right to buy and use Nutritional Supplements!

The UN World Health Organization Codex Guidelines on Supplements were passed on July 4th, in Rome. All countries which class their supplements as foods, like the USA, are expected to get in line.

All the activists following this say: Health freedom has never been so at risk!!

It took 2.5 million people to get the current US DSHEA law passed which allows nutritional medicine to be used in the USA. It's going to take many more if we are to keep it. It's up to you.

CAFTA, the Central American "Free Trade" agreement is up for a vote in the House of Representatives, sometime this wee.

CAFTA contains a clause (Section 6) that will let in Codex to the USA and make it binding under the WTO. It has fine print which can force the US into Codex's new world food rules, which will override and devastate our current laws concerning access to vitamins, supplements and to health freedom and, as a result, destroy thousands of small businesses, home businesses and health practitioners.

CAFTA got through the Senate - however, it faces a razor thin vote in the House of Representatives, and will have more trouble passing the House.

This gives us a unique opportunity in the next few days to get our issue in front of Congress. Many Members of Congress have not heard of Codex. You need to let them know.

They try to pass legislation like this when people are on vacation. Nothing is in the media, the vitamin trade associations have been misled, so it is now up to the consumer. If you want to help Nutritional Medicine fight for its life we urge EVERYONE to call and tell everyone you know to contact your local congressman's office and tell them to: Vote NO to the CAFTA agreement, for all the reasons many have given against it, but also due to a crucial detail in this treaty that is not being mentioned. There is a clause in CAFTA that subjects the US to Codex. This will devastate our current laws concerning access to vitamins, supplements and to health freedom and, as a result, destroy thousands of small businesses, home businesses and health practitioners.

CALL CONGRESS 1-877-762-8762 (you only need to know your zip code) It takes about 1 minute!

GO TO the COALITION FOR HEALTH FREEDOM website at: www.coalitionforhealthfreedom.org
There's a call script with all the points and lots of information.

Watch the short video, sign up for news. There's an easy 1 click email letter. It's all on this site.

Call today! Quality supplement users are a minority, so everyone must call. The vote is EXTREMELY CLOSE. Urge your friends and relatives to call too! Don't leave it to someone else. We need more people than ever before as we're up against new international laws.

We could make the difference. Let your right of access to nutrients be the reason CAFTA fails!

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Kick

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Not so...

This has been debunked.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/vitamins.asp

[damntexdem]

15. Oh, too bad!

I'd love it if CAFTA did this.

[Cha]

18. I hope this is the true

version.

It was really easy to believe the op's article because of what all is happening in the world and the sleaze's determination to own Everything.

[0rganism]

3. aka urban legend

http://www.snopes.com/politics/medical/vitamins.asp

[MsTryska]

4. not just by snopes either.....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3963962

[Eloriel]

5. So hoaxes typically have websites?

Have hoaxes been in the works for decades? (This has been in the works for the better part of 2 decades -- I've been following it off and on for at least since the early 90s.)

Snopes isn't always right (and I suspect this is one of those instances) -- and as a BIG proponent and user of alternative healthcare, this one's too important to let go through.

Further, it wouldn't be in the least outside standard MO for friends of big pharma and other industry to sneak things through in such a way.

[electron_blue]

6. oh yeah, hoaxes definitely have websites

You didn't know that? Can you give us some other information on the threat to our vitamins (does this include Flintstones?)

[Gothic Sponge]

7. I agree

Listen to this Gary Null show for more info.

http://http.surfnet.speedera.net/http.surfnet/010117/Null070805.mp3

[Enraged_Ape]

13. You know, your avatar has cyclamates in it.

Just thought you should know. I was a Goofy Grape fan, but had to swear off.

[K-W]

8. Trusting everything you see on the web is... not wise. EOM

[Cha]

19. That goes with tv, newspapers,

magazines, and the radio.

[comsymp]

9. Don't worry

B'orrin would never let this happen, and he voted Yea. He's been in the pocket of the supplement industry for years... (and check into the # of supplement companies based in Utah, sometime!)

ON EDIT: The US has some of the most lax standards for supplement mfg in the western world. Basically, CODEX, etc., are attempts to have US mfr's follow guidelines similar to the ones the FDA uses to regulate Pharma. (oversimplification, but fairly accurate)

In fact, IIUC, there's only one nutritional supplement company in the US which currently invites the FDA in to inspect their facilities / mfg practices... and that's a strictly voluntary move on that company's part.

[wideopen]

10. I've also followed for years

I don't know if it will happen now or not but this has been in the works for a LONG time.

[jody]

11. Others say it's debunked but see Republican Rep Ron Paul's statement

CAFTA and Dietary Supplements
QUOTE
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.

* * * * * * * * * * *

Pharmaceutical companies have spent billions of dollars trying to get Washington to regulate your dietary supplements like European governments do. So far, that effort has failed in America, in part because of a 1994 law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. Big Pharma and the medical establishment hate this Act, because it allows consumers some measure of freedom to buy the supplements they want. Americans like this freedom, however-- especially the health conscious Baby Boomers.

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.

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.
UNQUOTE

[Eloriel]

16. And he certainly ain't no flake

He's a LIbertarian, but he's not a flake. THANKS.

[medeak]

12. Sen Orrin Hatch will never let it happen

Utah is largest provider of herbal supplements

[damntexdem]

14. Ha ha ha! It'll apply UN rules to the U.S.!

Let it pass, then blame the GOP when Americans don't like the regulation. LOL!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

17. CAFTA passes the BIG PHARMAS get control of generics