Act Now: Rights to Supplements Being Denied
We are SO CLOSE to having at least 75% of our nutritional supplements taken away. There is VERY LITTLE TIME!
YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED.
In the fine print of CAFTA, the US is being signed up to
global regulations that override US supplement laws.
IF YOU WANT CONTINUED ACCESS TO NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, READ THIS PLEASE!!!!
The Congressional vote for or against CAFTA is on July 11, 2005
WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA TO BE PASSED! BRIEFLY, HERE'S WHY.
CAFTA
stands for Central American Free Trade Agreement. If this “treaty” is
signed, the United States (a member of the international World Trade
Organization) will be forced to revise our food and nutritional
supplement laws according to international standards.
Are
these “international standards” beneficial? NO!! Right now, the United
States has a fairly liberal law called the Dietary Supplement Health
and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA. Thanks to the DSHEA, you have
available to you a plentiful array and potency of vitamins, minerals,
amino acids, enzymes, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.
However,
if CAFTA is signed, international law will supersede the sovereign law
of the United States. It is almost unbelievable that this could occur,
but it's true.
To give
you an idea of what this will look like in terms of supplement access:
The highest amount of Vitamin C allowed will be 200 mg. (This is not a
therapeutic dose.) For higher amounts, you will need a doctor's
prescription — and pay much more than you do now. Amino acids will not
be available, nor will enzymes. You won't be able to get chromium,
either. Only those substances specifically allowed by international law
will be available. Significantly, the international law bureaucrats,
“guided” by the pharmaceutical industry, have “forgotten” about quite a
lot of nutrients that help keep us healthy.
The
international standards masquerade as “free trade” and “economic
union.” But in reality, CAFTA is designed to also “manage” (a euphemism
for control) what a country can manufacture, use, and sell to its own
people. Part of what a CAFTA signer will “agree” to is this (from the
WTO text): “To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide
a basis as possible, members shall base their food safety measures on
international standards, guidelines or recommendations.”
But the “international standards” are not only for food. They also include vitamins, minerals and herbs!
CAFTA was passed in the U.S. Senate in a 54-to-45 vote on July 1st, 2005. It will be voted on by the House of Representatives when they reconvene on July 11th, 2005.
This is your final chance to defend your right to choose your own health protocol!
**YOU HAVE ONLY ONE WEEK TO ACT. CONTACT YOUR US REPRESENTATIVE. URGE HIM TO VOTE AGAINST CAFTA NOW. **Or use a prepared form with an existing letter that you can edit if you wish. Click HERE.
YOUR
LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Government officials rate each
email, phone call, fax, and letter that they get as representing 13,000
opinions. (They figure that each person who gives an opinion stands for
12,999 others who don't bother to write or call.) So your opinion
counts tremendously!
The voting in the House will be close. WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION LETTERS.
You can find your U.S. Representative and contact him at http://www.house.gov/writerep/
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Here is a sample letter, which you can cut and paste once you get to the above site:
Subject line: Please vote AGAINST CAFTA
Dear Honorable _____________,
Please
vote AGAINST CAFTA. If the United States signs this treaty, this will
mean disaster for millions of United States citizens such as myself who
value the freedom to choose our own health care in the form of
nutritional supplements. If the U.S. joins CAFTA, access to such a
vital part of my health protocol will no longer be available to me.
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