Reply #5: Another...explanation

[BrklynLiberal]

Dear Folks,

Apparently the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, contains language that would align US law regarding nutritional supplements to "international standards." In other words, it would clear the path for gutting the laws that allow us access to life-supporting supplementation for health and fighting chronic illness, making the restrictive international Codex standards the law.

It turns out that CAFTA is also very damaging to the US economy, guaranteeing the exportation of jobs. Jobs With Justice, an organization organizing to stop the passage of CAFTA, has an excellent point-and-click website to make it easy to send your Representative a message to vote down CAFTA. This week it is crucial to be contacting your representative, as the House will be voting on CAFTA when they return to Washington next week. It would be even better if you could contact your Representative at their local offices in your state, where they will be this week, but at the very least you can send them a message using the Jobs with Justice website:

http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/NoCAFTAhouse

In the standard form letter you could also add the following:

"In addition to the problems that CAFTA would cause with respect to US jobs, the agreement also forces the U.S. to compromise its dietary supplement laws to the lowest common denominator, the regulations of the UN Codex Committee. This would gut the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), thus banning or over-regulating many safe nutritional supplements that have been used by our citizens for many years."

Please do this right away. Our access to nutritional supplements is going to be severely limited if CAFTA passes the House.