WI attempt to outlaw speech about nutrition

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Here's info on another attempt, this time in Wisconsin, to stop people from

giving holistic nutrition advice. Yikes. You can take action, and you can also

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Wisconsin is attempting to outlaw speech about nutrition! Send a message to

Wisconsin Legislators to oppose the Wisconsin Dietitian/Nutritionist licensing

bill.

http://www.nationalhealthfreedom.org/nhfa/Alerts/WisconsinAttemptingToOutlawSpee\

ch_090611.htm

Click Here to Take Action

Wisconsin LRB 0253/1 attempts to create licensing of Dietitian/Nutritionists and

would create an occupational monopoly on nutrition information looping all of

nutrition into the domain of dietetics by its exclusive language providing a

privilege to one special interest dietitian group for all nutrition related

practices and services. It mandates licensure for all those who fall within the

broadly defined terms: “dietetic nutrition care servicesâ€, “dietetic

nutrition therapy†and “the nutrition care processâ€. These terms are

extremely and overly broad and include the activities of regular citizens,

nutritionists, and complementary and alternative health care practitioners that

currently have successful businesses in the state of Wisconsin and that would be

banned from practicing if this bill should pass.

Wisconsin LRB 0253/1 fails to provide proper and necessary exemptions for

regular and citizens and unlicensed health practitioners from licensing

requirements and is architecturally and legally flawed. Rather than providing

proper exemptions acknowledging the fundamental right to practice nutrition care

services, the bill attempts to have the dietitians dole out a privilege to

practice including setting behavior parameters for regular citizens and

unregulated practitioners. Not only do they demand practice prohibitions, but

they directly and offensively attempt to define what types of speech citizens

may use regarding nutrition, and taking it upon themselves to define what

non-medical speech is that they think regular citizens can use. This even goes

beyond the federal governments parameters of product speech and even adds more

narrow language regarding practitioners practicing under their religious

tenants.

There is no authority or basis for these broad restrictions. Nutrition and food

are substances that our country has always regarded as “generally regarded as

safe†and consumers have access to these products freely, and the government

has the burden of showing harm before they restrict access to foods and

nutrients, including dietary supplements. Federal product law protects our

access to these substances and information about them

Take Action Here to stop Wisconsin Dietitians from

infringing our personal freedoms regarding nutrition.