Fwd: U.S. Senate passes CAFTA July 1st restricting vitamins and minerals

[Guest guest]

anyone else KNOW about this? r we living in a communist country?

or is the prohibition?

most of my treatments are alternative and i have cancer......................

"heard" it was passed in Rome................

i would think every movie star and vitamin company would be marching on the White House by now.............

we can't go backwards.............. done that already, burning witch's at the stake..................

help!!!!!!!!!!!

j

Normally, political issues are not typically forwarded to our email list.

However, the impending restrictions on our natural vitamins and supplements by this action appear so severe, that we felt compelled to make certain everyone knew about the threat of having to get a prescription for most of your nutritional supplements you now take over the counter.

Freedom to choose what supplements we take and control our nutritional support we believe is critical, so we here at Soul Expressions ask for your understanding in forwarding this email to you.

Thank you.

Subject: FW: URGENT! Contact state rep regarding CAFTA - VOTE AGAINST!!!

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URGENT! Contact state rep regarding CAFTA- VOTE AGAINST

Please follow the link and find out who your representative is then cut and paste the sample letter. (Note: a sample letter from an energy worker is at the very bottom. Even if you have already expressed your opinion, do it again now. Time is of the essence!) It's simple and takes just a few minutes of your time. Thank you

YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM IS BEING THREATENED

IF YOU WANT CONTINUED ACCESS TO

NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS, READ THIS PLEASE!!!!

The Congressional vote for or against CAFTA is on July 9, 2005

WE MUST NOT ALLOW CAFTA TO BE PASSED! BRIEFLY, HERE’S WHY…

CAFTA stands for Central American Free Trade Agreement. If this “treaty” is signed, the United States (a member of the international World Trade Organization) will be forced to revise our food and nutritional supplement laws according to international standards.

Are these “international standards” beneficial? NO!! Right now, the United States has a fairly liberal law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, or DSHEA. Thanks to the DSHEA, you have available to you a plentiful array and potency of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, herbs, and other nutritional supplements.

However, if CAFTA is signed, international law will supersede the sovereign law of the United States. It is almost unbelievable that this could occur, but it’s true.

To give you an idea of what this will look like in terms of supplement access: The highest amount of Vitamin C allowed will be 200 mg. (This is not a therapeutic dose.) For higher amounts, you will need a doctor’s prescription -- and pay much more than you do now. Amino acids will not be available, nor will enzymes. You won’t be able to get chromium, either. Only those substances specifically allowed by international law will be available. Significantly, the international law bureaucrats, “guided” by the pharmaceutical industry, have “forgotten” about quite a lot of nutrients that help keep us healthy.

The international standards masquerade as “free trade” and “economic union.” But in reality, CAFTA is designed to also “manage” (a euphemism for control) what a country can manufacture, use, and sell to its own people. Part of what a CAFTA signer will “agree” to is this (from the WTO text): " To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations. "

But the “international standards” are not only for food. They also include vitamins and minerals!

(People who don’t mind slogging through legalese can read more at http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html For more information, also see http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/viamins%20to%20be%20banned%20worldwide....htm ).

CAFTA was passed the Senate in a 54-to-45 vote on July 1st, 2005. It will be voted on by the House of Representatives when they reconvene on July 11th, 2005.

This is your final chance to defend your right to choose your own health protocol!

YOU HAVE ONLY ONE WEEK TO ACT. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. URGE THEM TO VOTE AGAINST CAFTA NOW.

YOUR LETTERS WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Government officials rate each email, phone call, fax, and letter that they get as representing 13,000 opinions. (They figure that each person who gives an opinion stands for 12,999 others who don’t bother to write or call.) So your opinion counts tremendously!

The voting in the House will be close. WE HAVE ONE WEEK TO FLOOD THEIR OFFICES WITH CAFTA OPPOSITION LETTERS.

You can find out who your representative is, and contact him or her, at http://www.house.gov/writerep/

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Here is a sample letter, which you can cut and paste once you get to the above site:

Re: Please vote AGAINST CAFTA

Dear Honorable _____________,

Please vote AGAINST CAFTA. If the United States signs this treaty, this will mean disaster for millions of United States citizens such as myself who value the freedom to choose our own health care in the form of nutritional supplements. If the U.S. joins CAFTA, access to such a vital part of my health protocol will no longer be available to me.

I value your sincere fight for real freedom.

Thanking you,

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Re: Please vote AGAINST CAFTA

Dear Honorable -----------,

Please vote AGAINST CAFTA. If the United States signs this treaty, this will mean disaster for millions of United States citizens such as myself who value the freedom to choose our own health care in the form of nutritional supplements. If the U.S. joins CAFTA, access to such a vital part of my health protocol will no longer be available to me. I cannot imagine having to get a prescription from my doctor for vitamin C if I intend to take more than 200 mg. That is absurd!

Also, it is my understanding that many alternative healing modalities will be severely curtailed or stopped completely. If CAFTA passes, the way that many people such as myself, a healing facilitator and therapist, will be outlawed!

Please THINK through this completely before you cast your vote. Many, many constituents will be literally put out of work. What about the companies that produce vitamins and the health food stores that supply us with them? They will virtually all be put out of business. This could not possibly be good for the US economy.

It is NOT in our best interest to go along with this. I value my freedom and this is another way for it to be taken away.

I value your sincere fight for real freedom.

Thank you,

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