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Government promoting false claims of ‘danger to the public’

Government moving to make supplements illegal

The US and Canadian governments are attempting to quietly pass legislation (CODEX in the US and Bill C-51/52 in Canada) that is designed to regulate natural supplements and vitamins under the control of ‘Big Pharma’ and the medical profession. Codex and Bill C-51 are proposing the need for this legislation under two claims. First is the ‘need to protect the public from the dangers posed by such supplements’. Secondly, they claim that these supplements are non effective anyway. 

Public safety and product efficacy or profit management?

At first glance, the need to regulate all substances to ensure safety seems like a good idea, at least on the surface. From tainted produce to toxic toys, such items do need to be monitored and regulated for safety. But having to buy your Vitamin C on the black market will hardly make it safe to use. The scientific and anecdotal evidence is clear that, when used with wisdom and balance, natural supplements generally can have profound effects on one’s state of heath.

The CODEX regulations regarding supplements are not based on valid science. Rather, the multi- billion dollar natural health market is being attacked by drug based interests. The recommendations that form the basis of this proposed CODEX and Bill C-51/52 legislation are made by small handfuls of people meeting in secret places with hidden agendas. These decision makers are not necessarily scientists, nor are they objective and unbiased in their evaluations. They are concerned with bottom line finances and controlling the profits of the ‘natural health care’ system.

If there truly is concern for the safety of the general public, why is there such a desire to regulate herbs and vitamins? Instead of drastically restricting natural supplements, why doesn’t the FDA better control and restrict the extremely dangerous pharmaceutical drugs which are now killing us at the rate of a major airline crash per day? Why would we want the government to supervise and determine what is ‘safe’ and best for its people?

290 die daily under government/ pharmaceutical health care

Did you know that a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association studied the “Incidence of Adverse Drug Reactions” (ADR’s)? Covering 30 years (1966 to 1996) it was found that in the U.S. an average of 106,000 hospitalized patients per year (290 per day)! die from ADR’s and 2,200,000 need more hospitalization for recovery. This total does not cover medical mistakes and surgery slip ups. This was only a report of numbers of death due to adverse reactions to the medicines given while in hospital. These were FDA approved drugs, administered by government regulated health care ‘traditional medicine’ professionals in hospitals. Yet none of these cases were considered ‘malpractice’.

This situation, called Iatrogenic death, is the number 3 cause of death in the U.S. This medical based, government supervised, legalized death watch is equivalent in lives lost to a 9-11 attack every ten days.

This legislation that the drug corporations desire to force through Congress is only being strengthened by a sneak attack on the general public with the help of a silent media. Either we continue down the road of killing hundreds daily in order to protect the status quo, or we seek qualified, objective alternatives to our health care dilemma.

That’s not rocket science, its common sense.  But remember, if you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you have always done.

William McCreary, PhD., Doctor of Natural Medicine
Contributing Writer and Instructor

Jama reference:  Incidence of adverse drug reactions; April 15, 1998-Vol. 279, No.15, p. 1200

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