Posted on 05/16/2002 10:01:00 PM PDT by Buffalo Bob
Life is such an ugly thing anyway, who needs it?
Well, you sure lost me. What in the world are you talking about??
You?
If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Or the government?
The voters in this country should not be expected to decide which medicines are safe and effective.
-- Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey
Obviously, these people do not know how to handle well the concept of some people looking to alternative medicine as a source for healing. They see that it's working and producing results and so what they seek to do is regulate.
Why try to regulate something that you know is curing people's medical problems? It only makes you out to be part of the problem.
Regards.
ME ! Over here!
THIS ACTION WILL DESTROY THE DEMOCRAT'S (Hitlery's), FEMINIST, "NEW-AGE" and WORLD'S PAGAN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS.
(Our U.S. Constitution 'is' decreed, "Dead" and "Void".)
(The "New-Order-World-of Harry-Potter is NOW under the control of U.N. Psychiatric Care! [belief systems])
Maranatha!!!
Comments?
When dealing with central regulators, you have to be more cynical. For instance:
The group's ultimate goal is to catalog all folk remedies, making sure the plants are saved in botanical gardens and the products patented country by country. It also envisions writing common codes of ethics and training for folk healers.
"Patented" means regulation according to the patent, which means reserving distribution and use by some with restrictions to others. "Common codes of ethics" means legislation, which means punishment for those who go against the legislation, and once the regulations are in place, they can be easily made more narrow and restrictive. "Training for folk healers" means licensing and punishment for those who refuse to get licenses, and once the licensing procedure is in place, the procedures can easily be made more norrow and restrictive, and expensive.
All the above will ultimately be controlled by whom? Why, those with clout and money, of course. And who would you suppose that would be?
I worked mental health for 15 years..(addictions). I attended many many "new age " hocus pocus workshops funded with grant monies..
Easy there, e-s.
Not all's lost; look here...
"Remedies can be fatal. For example, the Chinese ma huang herb, which contains ephedrine and helps breathing problems, caused heart attacks and strokes among some Americans using..."
Whadda ya think those Chinese are up to there with this *herb* anyway, huh?
Hint: The Chinese possess half the world's population.
...a *great* give-a-way at the next Democratic National Convention?
;^)
This work is important, imho, but I don't want to see the FDA, or WHOever, slap controls on anything that is actually found to be efficacious, as I'm 100% positive they will try to do. Thx for the ping.
The U.N. is the hope of the world. </sarc<
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