Obama makes supplements/alternative health remedies illegal

[LDSNZ]

September 14th, 2010 10:41 pm ET

Right through the back door, while everyone was focused on the gulf oil spill, Barack Obama gave his signature to legislation permitting the U.S. Government to outlaw supplements and alternative health treatments.

That means that the supplements you take and therapies you use to keep your body healthy, can now be made illegal by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Obama quietly gave permission for Codex Alimentarius - the United Nation's worldwide plan for food standards - to take effect in the U.S. via Executive Order 13544 of June 10, 2010. The President's decision
creates the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council, a group of 'experts' that carry out whatever activities Obama deems appropriate.

According to an article at Rense.com, after five years of fighting this bill in Congress and the House, Obama has decided to try to kill the supplement and alternative health industry; all alternative health remedies can be deemed "unscientific" and not provable by the FDA, which can lead to them being banned.

It means that supplements may have to be removed from sale permanently, or have their potency capped at ultra low levels, making them almost worthless. The very same thing happened in Europe just a few years ago.

Ultimately, this legislation, signed by the very man whose claim to fame was "Change we need" and Change we can believe in" has these effects:

1. REMOVES YOUR POWER OF CHOICE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE SUPPLEMENTS AND USE ALTERNATE THERAPIES;

2. STOPS YOU FROM TAKING CARE OF YOUR HEALTH NATURALLY - YOU ARE FORCED TO HAVE TO RELY ON THE MEDICAL / PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES WHO AIM IS MAXIMUM PROFIT AND FOR YOU TO REMAIN SICK SO THEY CAN KEEP YOU HOOKED ON THEIR PRODUCTS;

3. WILL FORCE YOU TO RELY ON LOW-STRENGTH, SYNTHETIC SUPPLEMENTS MADE BY PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES;

4. OR FORCE YOU TO BUY EXPENSIVE, Rx ONLY HI-STRENGTH SYNTHETIC SUPPLEMENTS MADE BY THE $MULTI-BILLION PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES

If you read the executive order it seems quite positive. However, behind the vague words are a wide range of powers to do whatever the United Nations and Obama wants, including the adoption of legislation that bans therapies and supplements.

Did you vote for the president to remove your power of choice? Are you going to sit back and allow this to happen?

[highfive]

How long until it takes effect? I have been worried about this for some time. Maybe we will have to grow herbs.

[chefddr]

Time to rebuild my Homeopathic kit and get several sets of refills!

[sbsion]

don't worry, America will collapse before the get to far

[LDSNZ]

Yes it is scary & it's a NWO global agenda!

[Moss Man]

http://www.naturalnews.com/029840_free_ ... ience.html

Help end criminalization of vitamin, supplement makers in America
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Telling the truth in America is currently illegal... at least as far as food and supplements are concerned. You see, for decades the federal government has suppressed the free speech rights of food and supplement manufacturers, preventing them from telling the truth about how their products improve health and prevent disease -- even when that information is based on peer-reviewed scientific studies published in scientific journals. But right now, three vital pieces of legislation hold the potential to end the era of censorship in America and once again restore freedom of speech to the health industry.

But your help is needed to make this a reality.

The U.S. Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act currently defines anything that cures, treats, mitigates, diagnoses or prevents disease as a drug. This means that making truthful claims about the cancer-preventing properties of green tea, for instance, is illegal because if such claims are true, then green tea is automatically considered an unapproved drug. So farmers, supplement manufacturers and vitamin formulators are forced to remain silent about the health benefits of their products while drug companies are free to run wild making all sorts of bizarre claims about the alleged health benefits of pharmaceuticals.

In 1994, natural health advocates won an important victory when Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), legislation that effectively shut down the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agenda to eliminate access to dietary supplements. The grassroots uprising that led to the passage of DSHEA is considered to be one of the most successful political efforts initiated by the American public to preserve and uphold health freedoms, and it's what allows you to buy vitamins, herbs and superfoods today.

Being able to buy and sell vitamin and herb supplements today is an important thing, but the fact that they can't be truthfully labeled is a crime against the People of America. Manufacturers aren't even allowed to place links on their websites to scientific studies that explain the health benefits of herbs and vitamins. This oppression of scientific knowledge allows the FDA to keep people in the dark about the nutritional benefits of herbs, vitamins and supplements. It keeps America nutritionally illiterate, effectively.

Fortunately, we once again have the opportunity to gain a DSHEA-type victory for free speech in health, but it will take the combined effort of many people just like you to make it a reality.


Three important bills need your help in order to get passed
The Free Speech About Science Act of 2010 (H.R.4913) is one of three bills currently sitting in committee that desperately needs public pressure to keep it moving forward. Introduced by Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and cosponsored by Jared Polis (D-CO), the bipartisan bill will amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to permit the free exchange of legitimate scientific evidence showing that food, herbs and vitamins hold therapeutic, healing power.

Sponsored by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the Freedom of Health Speech Act (H.R.3394) is similar in that it stops the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from being able to freely and arbitrarily prosecute food and supplement manufacturers for making legitimate health claims. The bill will rightly place the burden of proof on the FTC to prove that a claim is false before attacking the company that made it, rather than the other way around. (Currently, vitamin and supplement companies can find themselves accused and tried in "FTC court" even though they've committed no crime and done nothing wrong.)

Then we have H.R.3395, the Health Freedom Act, which will reign in the FDA from abusing its authority through claims of false advertising leveled against food and supplement manufacturers. Like H.R.3394, the Health Freedom Act puts the burden of proof on the FDA to convince a court that a claim is false before being able to pursue a company for making health claims.


Take action NOW and you'll make a lasting difference
These three vital pieces of legislation, if passed, would lead to sweeping changes in the way the federal government treats food and supplement manufacturers. No longer would the truth about the healing power of food and supplements be suppressed by special interests. And as consumers become educated in the truth and change their dietary habits, their reliance on dangerous drugs and expensive surgeries will decline, leading to drastically lower health care costs and improved longevity, productivity and happiness among the population.

But none of this will happen if you don't help us take action now to get these bills out of committee and up for a vote.

Citizens for Health, a non-profit natural health advocacy group, has put together a very useful tool with which you can contact your Congressmen directly about them. You can access the tool here:
http://truehealthclaims.citizens.org

When writing, be sure to ask your Congressmen not only to support the bills, but also to cosponsor them. If they are up for reelection this year, tell them you won't vote for them unless they do.

The time is now to do what it takes to win back freedom of health speech. If you care about the freedom to be informed of the true health benefits of natural products, please help us take action now to take back your rights from the FDA and FTC (which would rather we all just remained ignorant and illiterate about nutrition). Remember, freedom has never been won through passive apathy but through active pursuit.

Members of Congress calculate that every person who bothers to contact them via email represents about 30,000 voters. So by sending one email today, you can effectively speak up for 30,000 people in your state or district. That's power to influence! So speak up today using this link:
http://truehealthclaims.citizens.org

Sources for this story include:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...

You'll notice that this post implies to not just submit to secular authority and it doesn't imply breaking laws (as was discussed on another thread). This is the initial stage in fighting against government mandates.

[Moss Man]

If health supplements do become illegal due to "unsubstantiated" claims, will Mark's and shadow's echinacea become marijuana overnight? This will be the governments version of Jesus' wine miracle as perfectly good herbs become criminal. Will they hurriedly throw all of their supplements away and submit to secular authority?

[Squally]

If health supplements do become illegal due to "unsubstantiated" claims, will Mark's and shadow's echinacea become marijuana overnight? This will be the governments version of Jesus' wine miracle as perfectly good herbs become criminal. Will they hurriedly throw all of their supplements away and submit to secular authority?

I personally feel that shadow would obey throwing out the echinacea supplements because he is an upstanding law abiding citizen.. On the other hand, if they were ever to outlaw his depression medication, you might find him quite the rebel.

[shadow]

If health supplements do become illegal due to "unsubstantiated" claims, will Mark's and shadow's echinacea become marijuana overnight? This will be the governments version of Jesus' wine miracle as perfectly good herbs become criminal. Will they hurriedly throw all of their supplements away and submit to secular authority?

I personally feel that shadow would obey throwing out the echinacea supplements because he is an upstanding law abiding citizen.. On the other hand, if they were ever to outlaw his depression medication, you might find him quite the rebel.

I don't take any depression medications or any medications for that matter. Obviously that doesn't change the fact that Elder Oaks and Elder Scott told missionaries to NOT stop taking their medications. It doesn't change the fact that prophets and apostles have said modern medicine is a blessing/miracle from God. I'm not sure why you're taking jabs at me, it's the prophets and apostles of Jesus Christ that should be the butts of your jokes, it's their words not mine.

[LDSNZ]

For me & my family!

Last week we thru out (& should've done that ages ago!) all my/our prescription drugs!

Primarily coz we don't trust BIG PHARMA (The giant pharmaceutical corporations of the world, who seek to control all access to health, and to limit the use of healing practices that they do not control).

We know they're part of the LDG's!

& we have found healthier alternatives to address our ailments, which of cause includes priesthood blessings!

[LDSNZ]

Coz of his attitude I also changed my doctor.

I think he resented me telling him that I don't trust pharmaceutical companies & as such I wouldn't be & still ain't taking prescriptions drugs!