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Brendan
03-14-2005, 04:28 PM
Ok everyone, this is our chance to do something about this BULLSHIT- Forget e-mailing and calling your senators and other elected officials becuase they arnt going to do shit except sit on their fat asses and watch the money roll in, The only way that we can do something about this in my opinion is to alert the media about what is happeneng, then hopefully that will cause the other 65% of the non-lifting society to take notice of what is going on then something will have to be done, this whole situation is just way too fucked up, we cannot let this happen!! plus the media will fucking eat this up, this has all the elements of a great story, controversy, corruption, secrecy and all that shit- try to sell that in your e-mail!

Here are the e-mail adresses for some national news outlets:
Good morning america,weekend news, world news tonight are all under the same e-mail adress, which is NETAUDR@abc.com
then in the subject line of your e-mail put the show you wish to reach and some kind of other message stating your purpose, for example
world news tonight- ATTENTION STORY THAT NEEDS TO BE COVERED.

here are the other news outlet e-mails.-no need to include their name in the subject line.
NIGHTLINE= niteline@abc.com
Primetime live= abc.news.magazines@abc.com
2020= 2020@abc.com
world news now= wnn@abcnews.com

NBC and CBS dont let you e-mail their shows individually but If you go on their home website they have a place for feedback, so you can post and send it to them there.

Copy the article below then add a few closing and opening remarks telling who you are and your purpose of this e-mail, then all you have to do is put all of the adresses above and hopefully some from a local news station in your area on the e-mail. then save a draft of the file before you send it- then every time you check your e-mail or are on the computer take the extra 5 seconds to pull the saved draft up and send it again, and again, and again.

This is the article
Your right to choose your vitamin, mineral and other supplements may end in June of this year (2005).

After that, US supplements will be defined and controlled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

It is called the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (food code) and it is setting the supplement standards for all countries in the WTO. CODEX met secretly in November, 2004 and finalized ‘Step 8 (the final stage)’ to begin implementation in June, 2005, severely restricting the use and availability of numerous vitamins, minerals and other supplements.

The US president and congress agreed to the takeover when the WTO treaty was signed, therefore these supplement standards WILL BE ENFORCED BY THE WTO AND WILL OVERRIDE US LAWS. CODEX violations are/will be punished by WTO trade sanctions.

CODEX Includes:

No supplement can be sold for preventive or therapeutic use.
Any potency higher than RDA (recommended daily allowance, aka minimal strength) is a ‘drug’ requiring a prescription and must be produced by drug companies. Over 5000 safe items now in health stores will be banned, terminating health stores as we now know them.
CODEX regulations become binding internationally.
New supplements are banned unless given very expensive CODEX testing and approval.
CODEX now applies to Norway and Germany, among others, where:
Zinc tablets rose from $4 per bottle to $52.
Echinacea (an ancient immune-enhancement herb) rose from $14 to $153.
Both examples above are now allowed by prescription only. They are now ‘drugs’.
Vitamin C above 200mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.
Niacin above 32 mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.
Bitamin B6 above 4 mg? Banned for over-the-counter. Sold as a prescription drug only.
Same for Amino Acids like arginine, lysine, carnitine, etc.
Same for the Omega Essential Fatty Acids and many more supplements including DMEA, DHEA, CoQ10, MSM, beta-carotene, etc.
The CODEX rules are not based on real science. They were made by a few people meeting in secret (see web sites below); not necessarily scientists. In 1993 the FDA and drug companies tried to put all supplements under restriction and prescription, but over 4 million Americans told congress and the president to protect their freedom of choice on health supplements. The DSHEA law was passed in 1994 which does so, but this will be overruled by CODEX and the WTO.

Virtually nothing about it has been in the media. What the drug corporations have failed to do through congress, they have gotten by sneak attachk through CODEX with the help of a silent media.

So…what can be done at this late hour?

Spread the word as much as possible. Inform yourselves fully at www.ahha.org and www.iahf.com and www.illiance-natural-health.org.
Oppose bills S.722 and H.R.3377. These support the CODEX restrictions with US laws, changing the DSHEA law.
Support H.R.1146 which would restore the sovereignty of the US Constitution over CODEX, etc.
Express your wishes ASAP to the president, senators and representatives (they got us into this!).
Contact multi-level health marketing groups that can get their members to inform the government.
Send donations, however small, to the British Alliance for Natural Health (see website above). It has succeeded in challenging the CODEX directives in World Court later this month or next. They need help financially, having carried the fight effectively for everyone.
CODEX claims to wish to protect us the same way the FDA protects us from prescription drugs. To accomplish this, they used a study of prescription drugs (not supplements) by three medical scientists as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 15, 1998-Vol. 279, No. 15, p. 1200, "…Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) was found to be extremely high." Covering 30 years from 1966 to 1996, it was found that in the US, an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year die from ADRs. That’s equivalent to 290 people per day. 2.2 MILLLION need more hospitalization for recovery. And these were FDA approved drugs, properly administered by competent professionals in hospitals…yet none were considered malpractice. ADRs represent the number four cause of death in the US. When combined, they account for 7% of all hospitalized patients. This is equivalent to a 9/11 attach every ten days.

Contrary to pharmaceutical drugs, there are few fatalities from supplements. Can you just imagine the news coverage if vitamins and supplements created the amount of death that drugs do?

There is no need for more FDA control of supplements than is already in place, which is substantial. Instead of drastically restricting supplements, why doesn’t the FDA better control and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs which are now killing us at the rate of a major airline crash per day?

Wallace G. Heath, PhD.

1145 Marine Drive Bellingham, WA 98225

pulseplus@earthlink.net





Ok to make is as easy as possible for people here are some steps to help and here is the page to find your comgress and senator people, remember to get them all.

Steps:

1) http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home

2) Witer your letter based on this info:
There are three actions to take. The most urgent is to support a case brought by the British Alliance for Natural Health to overturn the European Food Supplements Directive. In January 2004, the alliance's attorneys (a firm which has successfully had another European Directive overturned) won the first round in the High Court of Justice in London. The appeal was referred to the European Court of Justice.

(Please visit the alliance's Web site, read about their case and, most importantly, make a donation to support their efforts to protect everyone's supplements, including yours. Even a few dollars will help. A few dollars from each of us will add up. If we can help them overturn this food supplement dictatorship in Europe, it won't ever come here.)

Brendan
03-14-2005, 04:29 PM
The second action I urge you to take is to write, call and e-mail your state's senators and congressmen. Tell your senators to oppose S.722, the Dietary Supplement Safety Act, and tell your congressmen to oppose H.R. 3377, the Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act. These two bills put the wheels in motion for restrictions similar to those outlined in the EU Directive to become U.S. law, which would be even more threatening to us than just an international code of standards.

These extremely dangerous and misnamed proposals would allow the FDA to "roll back" most of the small amount of health care freedom you and I regained with the 1994 "DSHEA" law we all fought so hard for. Even if we're successful in helping the Alliance for Natural Health defeat the European Food Supplements Directive, if these bills are passed into law, our supplement choices will shrink dramatically anyway.

The final step to take is to tell your U.S. senators and congressmen to support U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's H.R. 1146, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act. This accurately named (for once) legislation would make the Constitution of the United States the supreme law of the land again, and restore law-making and judging power to our elected representatives and American courts, respectively. Please don't leave this off your list. In the long run, it's the most important action of the three.

Please make a donation of any size to the Alliance for Natural Health as soon as you can. Then, please write, call, fax, and e-mail your U.S. Senators and Representatives as often as you can, telling them to oppose S. 722 and H.R. 3377, and to support American freedom by voting for H.R. 1146.

For further information on the European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements and on the Codex Alimentarius legislation, contact the American Holistic Health Association (www.ahha.org), the Alliance for Natural Health (www.alliance-natural-health.org), or the International Advocates for Health Freedom (www.iahf.com).


3) Don't forget the CODEX COMITTEE
Even easier to fill out
http://www.healthactioncenter.org/a...ep=2&item=21232

-originally posted by wrangle on ironaddicts.com

lhprop1
03-14-2005, 05:07 PM
Holy cats, someone is worked up!

If I were you, I'd take a step back and look at what CODEX is actually proposing, rather than getting your info from a few erroneous emails.

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

Ryan Rhodes
03-14-2005, 05:36 PM
What's with all the cursing? Is this really the place to air out your spam mail? In the future try thinking about the logic of the information presented before accepting it, let alone posting it on a competitors forum. Keep it professional here.

Eric Johnson
03-14-2005, 08:00 PM
Ben, nice catch, snopes.com is the first place I go when something sounds unbelievable.

Jesse Marunde
03-14-2005, 10:36 PM
my response is simple; who cares! As long as good clean food is legal I'm good to go! VOTE YES FOR GRASS FED BEEF and ORGANIC VEGGIES!

Jesse

Brendan
03-15-2005, 03:53 PM
You're such a bunch of bastards geez. It's not spam mail, i really do think something should be done to stop it from passing, i just read this on another forum and didn't want to take the time to retype the entire thing in my own words. Even if it's not a big deal, it's a step in the wrong direction. :rolleyes:

Michael Nunn-Weinberg
03-15-2005, 04:46 PM
You're such a bunch of bastards geez. It's not spam mail, i really do think something should be done to stop it from passing, i just read this on another forum and didn't want to take the time to retype the entire thing in my own words. Even if it's not a big deal, it's a step in the wrong direction. :rolleyes:

I think you missed the point of lhprop1's post. It is not really happening. It is a hoax. You can get the details if you click on the link in his post.

Here is a short excerpt:

This e-mailed alert began circulating on the Internet in January 2005. Although the call to arms is worded in such a way as to convince those who receive that their right to purchase vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements in the U.S. is about to be lost to them unless they act decisively in defense of it, it is outdated and the facts of what is being considered by American lawmakers and why are radically dissimilar from the red cape being waved.

First of all, this is another case of an issue that is now largely moot due to outdated information. Back in 2003, two versions of a bill that proposed the regulation of dietary supplements (S. 722, the "Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2003," and H.R. 3377, the "Dietary Supplement Access and Awareness Act") were introduced to Congress. Neither of these bills was ever voted upon, much less passed. They both expired with the end of the 108th Congress in 2004 and have not been reintroduced to the currently sitting 109th Congress.

Brendan
03-15-2005, 09:43 PM
I see. Was the original letter pruposely made to be a hoax, to push an unseen political agenda trying to get constituents to oppose a bill who's contents they were truly unaware of? Or is it just an outdated letter?

Brendan
03-15-2005, 09:44 PM
I apologize, I have not done my homework on this one. And on the amount of ECA I'm on until around 10:00pm my brain does not function very well at all :confused: .

Joe Pulcinella
03-16-2005, 08:47 AM
The Codex thing may be a hoax but the EU Food Supplements Directive is not (http://www.independenceuk.org.uk/abc_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=1197). Those trendy European political hacks have run out of do-gooder deeds so they now have plenty of time to ban legitimate, over-the-counter supplements. I'm not talking about prohormones and ephedra. I'm talking about zinc and 300 other supplements commonly found in health food stores.

If my pattern recognition skills are anything close to normal, I can predict that we will soon follow suit on this side of the pond. After all, if I told you ten years ago that fast food would be the number one concern of the Dept of Health, would you have believed me?

I can't find a quicker way to force teenaged boys into the waiting arms of illegal steroid dealers.

AaRoNSnider
03-16-2005, 11:32 AM
I can't find a quicker way to force teenaged boys into the waiting arms of illegal steroid dealers.
Thats what Ive been saying about all of this.I figured that when the prohormones were banned,alot of young guys would think to themselves"this worked ok for me,and I still want it,but its illegal.If Im going to use something illegal,why bother with prohormones,when I can get heavier stuff"

Brendan
03-16-2005, 11:48 AM
If Im going to use something illegal,why bother with prohormones,when I can get heavier stuff"

I don't think this is an entirely bad thing for anyone to switch from ph's to aas. Test probly isn't half as bad for you as m1t and a lot of the others that were once legal. However, if this law would make kids wanna use gear as opposed to zma and creatine, well then that sucks.

Michael Nunn-Weinberg
03-16-2005, 01:50 PM
The Codex thing may be a hoax but the EU Food Supplements Directive is not (http://www.independenceuk.org.uk/abc_news/gen12.php?t=1&id=1197). Those trendy European political hacks have run out of do-gooder deeds so they now have plenty of time to ban legitimate, over-the-counter supplements. I'm not talking about prohormones and ephedra. I'm talking about zinc and 300 other supplements commonly found in health food stores.

If my pattern recognition skills are anything close to normal, I can predict that we will soon follow suit on this side of the pond. After all, if I told you ten years ago that fast food would be the number one concern of the Dept of Health, would you have believed me?

I can't find a quicker way to force teenaged boys into the waiting arms of illegal steroid dealers.

I've done some checking online and all the sites discussing the EU Food Supplements Directive refer to the exact same documents that the CODEX articles were referring to. I've checked the EU website as well and I think that things are being blown out of proportion in both cases. However, I will be keeping my eye on things in case I am wrong.

As for AAS I agree with some of the prior posts that banning pro-hormones was the best thing that could have happened for the steroid dealers.