URGENT!!! Please contact your Congressperson immediately re: access to nutritional supplements

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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 11, 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/Sectio\

n_Index.html

For more information, also see

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpieces/viamins%20to%20be%20banned%20worldwid\

e....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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