McCain and Dorgan Continue to Attack Dietary
Supplements
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The recent apparent demise of Senator McCain's bill, S.3002, which was
designed to kill access to high potency supplements, was trumpeted in
the health freedom world as a triumph. We urged caution, saying that
while Senator McCain's abandoning his own bill sounded good, we were
quite certain that the dangerous provisions of the bill would be
incorporated into Senator Harkin's S. 510, a genuine food fascism bill.
Many said, as they usually do, that we were alarmist and had missed the
point of this triumph.
Well, unfortunately, the Natural Solutions Foundation was on target
again. Earlier today a letter was released from Senators McCain and
Dorgan, sponsors of DSSA (that's pronounced "DISS-sa" as in
"disappoints") the so-called "Dietary Supplement Safety Act" S.3002.
This letter to Senators Harkin and Hatch confirmed in writing what had
been rumored for a few days: they were abandoning their ill-considered
bill to gut the law that protects Americans' access to high potency
nutrients, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA).
That law was adopted by a unanimous Congress responding to strong
pressure from the Health Freedom Movement. The McCain/Dorgan bill has
just died due to very powerful PUSH BACK from a more mature and even
more effective Health Freedom Movement, led by over 390,000 emails to
the Senate and decision makers through Health Freedom USA's Action Item.
Sounds like a triumph for the pro health freedom forcers, right?
But this battle for the survival of high potency nutrients is not over
yet. The letter asks Harkin and Hatch to import some of the worst
provisions of S.3002 into another pending fake "safety" bill, S.510...
literally imposing the Codex Alimentarius "approved dietary supplement
list" instead of the consumer's right to choose, protected in current
law. Remember, the United States is the ONLY high potency nutrient
country in the world. The globalizing forces have long had their eyes
set on the destruction of this legally granted freedom to choose high
potency nutrients, each of which cuts into the huge profitability of Big
Pharma products. Each of these dangerous bills is designed to control
more and more of your freedoms around food and supplements and, finally,
control them out of existence.
This battle is between your freedom to control your own body and how you
use it and those who take all such freedom from you. It is, truly, the
"Mother of all Battles" with regard to supplements and other dietary
strategies to be well or get that way.
Read more about this development here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=4805
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