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liveonearthPretty interesting overview of the newest attack here on Natural News: FDA's scheme to outlaw nearly all nutritional supplements created after 1994 would destroy millions of jobs and devastate economy. In the new proposed rules synthetic nutrients are exempted. The target of administrative control appears to be animal and plant-derived supplements. Botanicals. There are many health practitioners who prefer to use natural products as opposed to chemically synthesized ones. But the FDA wants to put us under. It's too dangerous to eat plants and animals; the content is not standardizable. We don't really know what's in there.
More here. You can make noise there too by signing the petition if you care.
And I did not know this, but the FDA has already banned the P5P form of vitamin B6---which some people cannot manufacture on their own and must get from their diet. They're basically trying to trap us into purchasing pharmaceuticals when relatively inexpensive natural alternatives exist. Because some people need to take top quality B6 for life (because of inherited metabolic handicaps), they see a market, just like any drug they can get you to buy for life. It's much more profitable for pharmaceutical corporations to make drugs that you need forever more.
It's time to start gardening, folks. They can't keep us from eating the weeds that grow by our house.
More here. You can make noise there too by signing the petition if you care.
And I did not know this, but the FDA has already banned the P5P form of vitamin B6---which some people cannot manufacture on their own and must get from their diet. They're basically trying to trap us into purchasing pharmaceuticals when relatively inexpensive natural alternatives exist. Because some people need to take top quality B6 for life (because of inherited metabolic handicaps), they see a market, just like any drug they can get you to buy for life. It's much more profitable for pharmaceutical corporations to make drugs that you need forever more.
It's time to start gardening, folks. They can't keep us from eating the weeds that grow by our house.
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Date: 2011-07-08 04:47 am (UTC)This is why I oppose "protections" most of the time. Any time an agency is created to "protect" a "vulnerable" group, power is being handed to the corruptible. That power *will* be abused. In most cases, it will, remarkably quickly, be used to benefit those that were supposed to be "villains" and to destroy those that it was intended to "protect".
In most respects we were better off in the days of "carters little liver pills" than we are having applied the pastiche of the federal legitimacy to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_SwD7RveNE