Fight against CAFTA

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Here is something to note: If you have not contacted your

congressman about defeating CAFTA because of article 6, CODEX, PLEASE do it

NOW!

MD pledges cancer patient " die in " if

CAFTA passes, limits vitamin supplements, USA

20 Jul 2005

From http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=27722

, MD, a pioneering practitioner of leading edge nutritional

medicine in the United

States, has taken a strong stand on the

CAFTA bill currently being considered in the House of Representatives. He

promises that, if CAFTA passes, is signed into law, and winds up limiting the

ability of Americans to get high dose nutritional supplements, many of his

cancer patients will sit in at their Congressmen's offices " until they

die. "

In his private practice in New York

City, treats patients, most of them with

cancer, exclusively with nutrition, supplements, and detoxification, avoiding

conventional therapies and so-called integrative approaches that attempt to

combine orthodox treatments with complementary adjuncts. In 1999, after

publishing a pilot study in a medical journal on the success of his treatment

on advanced pancreatic cancer patients, received an unprecedented $1.4

million grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a prospective

clinical trial of his therapy. That trial is still underway.

On July 15, 2005, wrote letters to his Congressman, Rep. Carolyn

Maloney (D-NY), and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert

(R-IL). The subject was ' vehement opposition to H.R. 3045 CAFTA, the

Central American Free Trade Agreement which is scheduled to be voted on by the

House before the end of the month. CAFTA has already passed the U.S. Senate by

a close vote.

provided me with copies of his letters and gave me permission to

publish and comment on them.

critiques CAFTA and its potential to limit Americans' freedom to

access nutritional supplements. In addition, he informs the two members of

Congress that if CAFTA passes the House, is signed into law, and results in

supplement freedom being curtailed, his patients will sit in at their

Congressmen's offices " until they die. " In the letter to Hastert,

adds, " That will include your office, incidentally, since they

perceive you as being in charge of the House. "

CAFTA, along with NAFTA, GATT, activities of the United Nations' (UN) WHO

(World Health Organization), FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), and

CODEX, is one of an alphabet soup of policies, programs, and highly

bureaucratized and unresponsive international agencies that, in the context of

an increasingly globalized one world economy, are coming together to change the

way of life and impact personal freedom in individual nations, including the

United States. As has become clear only recently, CAFTA represents a

potentially serious threat to Americans' (that is, residents of the United States')

ability to purchase nutritional supplements, especially at therapeutic (high)

dose levels.

For almost a decade, a relatively small number of analysts, medical

professionals, journalists, consumer organizations, and activists has been

monitoring developments re: CODEX and how CODEX might affect freedom to buy and

use a range of nutritional supplements in the U.S. and other countries. The CODEX

issue has been particularly difficult to unravel and to educate and mobilize

consumers around - very much unlike earlier struggles regarding nutritional

supplements, which always involved a single piece of legislation in the U.S.

Congress that was identified as either bad or good by proponents of nutritional

medicine and freedom of medical choice.

This summer, a number of developments, involving CODEX, CAFTA, a decision by a

court of the European Union (EU) on regulating supplements in the EU member

countries, etc., are accelerating the recognition that limitations on nutritional

supplement freedom in the US

are fast approaching. Previously, that dire scenario may have seemed unlikely

to come to pass, but in fact, as contends, It can happen here.

Bruce Guilmette, Ph.D.

Survive Cancer Foundation, Inc.

http://www.survivecancer.net