...along with a little NWO UN globalism where the sun don't shine.
Posted on 02/28/2010 4:14:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
At age 72, I have been taking a full range of vitamin and mineral supplements for years. Even I find it amusing to open more than a dozen bottles every morning to extract vitamins A, B, C, D and E, along with zinc, potassium, selenium, and fish oil. On the advice of my physician long ago, I also take a low dose aspirin every day. I also take some herbal supplements.
In early January, I fell and broke my collar bone. A month later, it was completely healed. I don't get the common cold, although I do experience seasonal allergies that are controlled with anti-histamine. In sum, I am as healthy as a person of my age can hope to be.
So why have Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) joined to introduce an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act that would deny freedom of easy access to these vitamins and minerals that are now commonly available in supermarkets, pharmacies and other outlets at affordable prices?
Why would they conspire to make dietary supplements such as purified fish oil seven times more expensive than it is today?
It is irrational, not to say obscene, at a time when a debate is raging over the costs of Medicare and the various illnesses that afflict Americans to introduce a law that would raise the cost of vitamins, minerals and herbal supplements that are among the best forms of preventative medicine available to the general public.
Who, ultimately, will benefit from such a law? The answer is the pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Steven Joyal, M.D., vice president of science and medical affairs of the Life Extension Foundation, says, "This bill aims to further pharmaceutical profits by creating wide-ranging, unprecedented FDA power to reclassify natural nutritional products as drugs"
I am a free market capitalist, but I also know that many companies engage in "rent seeking," a term to describe how they use the ability of Congress to pass laws and regulations that improperly and unfairly increase their profits.
The bill, titled that "Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010" is a classic example of how an ever-expanding federal government continues to get between Americans and the freedoms they have come to take for granted. High on the list is the freedom to maintain one's health; in this case with affordable and easily accessible vitamins and minerals.
The "Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010" has nothing to do with freedom and everything to do with increasing the profits of pharmaceutical companies. It does not enhance safety because vitamins and mineral supplements are already manufactured under some of the most stringent restrictions placed on any products sold anywhere in the world.
My friend, Frank Murray, is the author of nearly 50 books on health and nutrition. He is the former editor of Better Nutrition, GreatLife, and Let's Live magazines. His books have documented how various vitamins and minerals, as well as herbal supplements have preventative and curative affects on a wide range of ailments and afflictions.
His latest book, "Sunshine and Vitamin D" describes the research concerning this vitamin's ability to reduce or ameliorate cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and a host of other ailments. And that is just one common vitamin!
It is astonishing how vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplements can aid the body to resist the many pathogens in our environment, to digest the food we eat, and to enhance many of our mental and physical abilities.
This latest bill in Congress should be defeated. Its two sponsors should be held up to scrutiny to determine how great a role the donations of pharmaceutical companies to their election campaigns played in the drafting and introduction of this bill.
There is not enough scorn that can be heaped upon the bill's sponsors and any member of Congress that votes for it.
I don't want and I don't need a doctor's prescription to purchase the vitamins and minerals I take daily. Neither do you!
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Alan Caruba writes a daily post at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. An author, business and science writer, he is the founder of The National Anxiety Center.
It’s early yet, but I do think that this bill will bring about the end of McCain. Between the mountains of dollars that supplement companies will throw towards Hayworth to the simple fascist, anti-freedom nature of it, McCain is going to wish he waited until after the election to do something like this.
We’re coming for you next, Lindsay.
My dogs and I take our daily fish oil. John McCain wants to send me to a back alley to mash my own fish.
In a word............ McStooge.
And that is the point.
The corporate structure of the declining West can’t squeeze out profits so easily anymore. So, what to do?
Squeeze the little people, more and more. Make them pay more for gas, more for food, and more to stay healthy, because there is no more profit in the wage abitrage in the “free trade” play.
So, be good little serfs and give the CEO’s and the public union goons their money, while you die.
And that is the point.
The corporate structure of the declining West can’t squeeze out profits so easily anymore. So, what to do?
Squeeze the little people, more and more. Make them pay more for gas, more for food, and more to stay healthy, because there is no more profit in the wage abitrage in the “free trade” play.
So, be good little serfs and give the CEO’s and the public union goons their money, while you die.
McLAME at his RINO Best... AGAIN
I have too many friends that take total spectrum vitamins and minerals, and are ALIVE after Doctor said “go home and get your affairs in order”. We know what that means.. get your will updated ..QUICK!!
Many of these friends went thru this upwards of 15 years ago.. And I at 53 Don’t have the energy to keep up with these 70+ year olds.
McLAME how much campaign $$$ you getting from Big PHARMA, or are you looking for a LOBBYING GIG after JD whoops your ***??
We should call such activity "self-medication" and treat offenders as we treat any other drug felon.
It is arrogant of ordinary citizens to believe that they know what is best for themselves.
(Yes, the link leads to all caps.....)
This is Codex Alimentarius.
“DRAMATIC RESTRICTIONS TO OUR HERBS AND VITAMINS VIA CODEX ALIMENTARIUS”
http://www.iahf.com/world/981101a.html
Howdy, CC Ilk. Am I supposed to be giving my dog fish oil? What will it do?
There are freaks that really believe that kind of crap!
Fish oil is good for them the same way it is with people. It also makes a lot better treat than the crap they sell for dogs in the store.
I take it every day, but I never thought of giving it to the dog. My dog is bordering on anorexic anyway though, so he probably wouldn’t eat it if I did. What does it do for them?
Let's hope so!
Arizona freepers, are you spreading this around?
...along with a little NWO UN globalism where the sun don't shine.
lol...nevermind, I see someone else asked first and you answered.
I’ll try and toss the dog a couple of them and see what happens. :) He’ll probably turn his nose up and wait till I’m not looking to eat the cat food instead.
His unconstitutional assault on free speech wasn’t enough, now he wants me to get a prescription for a protein shake after a workout. Arizona, please rid this country of this clown before he wreaks more havoc!
My God please stop the do-goodery in Washington! They are killing this nation under the guise of protecting and fixing. Leave us alone.
What next? Make aspirin and tylenol available only thru prescription?
Our gov't is out of control.
Taking away our rights and putting them in the hands of the FDA and government has sealed McCain's fate once and for all - he's got enough $$$ to last his lifetime and many more lifetimes I'm sure. He needs to fight his need to achieve and conquest and just leave us alone.
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