Health Freedoms Under Fire
OAW Encourages You to Take Action Today!
"Unless we put medical freeom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship... To restrictthe art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic and have no place in a republic... The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
--Dr. Benjamin Rush -signer of the Declaration of Independence
URGENT! No Cloned Meat for Dinner!
So far, almost 40,000 consumers activists like you have written in to the FDA. Now, responding to serious concern about its views on cloned milk and meat, FDA has given the public an extra 30 days to voice their opinions on whether milk and meat from cloned animals should be allowed into our food, and if they should be labeled. FDA does not think labels should be required. Tell them what you think!
Your efforts have made a difference!
Thanks to your help, a strong bill was just introduced last Monday in the US House of Representatives that would fix our broken drug safety system and give the FDA more authority over drug companies. Let’s keep up the momentum and make sure this important bill becomes law! Right now, drug company lobbyists are working hard to defeat this bill. Show lawmakers in Congress that your voice is stronger than any special interest. Tell your House member to stand up for patient safety and support this bill!
Emergency Legislative Alert – Protect Your Access to Dietary Supplements
S1082 effectively turns the FDA into a drug company and relaxes drug safety. At the same time it includes broad new regulatory power for the FDA to attack dietary supplements. This is a serious threat for consumer access to nutritional supplements.
Be Wary of the 'Instant Experts'
Bills to Support, Bills to Oppose, Other Bills, and information on the long-awaited Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and the FDA's new acting commissioner.
Up-To-Date Codex Information
"Citizens for Health" and "Natural Solutions Foundation" are controlled opposition groups on the Codex issue. We believe the true purpose of these groups is to assist the pharma dominated vitamin trade associations by recommending grass roots actions which appear plausible on the surface to the poorly informed, but which upon close inspection fail to hold up to careful scrutiny.
Protect your health freedom: Put an end to Codex and support the Health Freedom Protection Act
Concerning nutritional supplements, the US has come to a verdict. The first choice is to continue participating in the Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex), which could be perilous to public health by setting restrictions on supplements, and the second choice is to pass the Health Freedom Protection Act (HFPA), which could transform the health supplement industry and greatly help public health by no longer letting the FDA forbid disease treatment claims for foods and supplements.
Codex Allows Seven Deadly Pesticides Banned by Stockholm Convention and US Law
The Codex Alimentarius Commission now allows seven of the 12 deadliest compounds on earth to be used on food even though they say that the focus was on consumer protection. These particular seven deadly pesticides are banned by US law and the Stockholm Convention, which the US and every member of Codex signed.
Stop Factory Farm Dairy Feedlots from Labeling Their Products as "USDA Organic"
Under force from big agribusiness, the USDA is intentionally refusing to take action in opposition to factory farms who are wrongly selling their products as "organic."
Senate Bill 1873: Prescription for Tyranny
The country's largest and oldest consumer-led vaccine safety organization, The National Vaccine Information Center, has delivered a "Code Red Alert" against S 1873, the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005" which is a newly presented congressional bill that would encourage rapid development of certain drugs and vaccines, at the same time, protecting the manufacturers from liability, even if their products turn out to be lethal or dangerous.
Congress Set To Pass Law Eliminating Liability For Vaccine Injuries
The "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005" (S.1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced is being called "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare” by The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC)
Global Vitamin Guidelines One Step Closer To Restricting Consumer Health Freedom
An International Committee is setting out to establish vitamin safety and health claims at the risk of using flawed science according to experts.
Senate Poised to Pass Bill Taking Away Your Right to Know What's in Your Food
The House of Representatives has passed a controversial "national food uniformity" labeling law that would take away local government and states' power to require food safety food labels such as those required in California and other states on foods or beverages that are likely to cause cancer, birth defects, allergic reactions, or mercury poisoning.
Action Alert! HR 4282, the Health Freedom Protection Act Needs You!
As evidence that some representatives in Congress still believe in freedom, there is a new bill challenging the pharmaceutical control of the U.S. population. My favorite congressional representative, Ron Paul (I have dubbed him our unofficial ambassador to the U.S. Constitution) has introduced the Health Freedom Protection Act, HR 4282...
Current Health Legislation That Needs Your Attention
Bills to Support, Bills to Oppose, Other Bills, and information on the long-awaited Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and the FDA's new acting commissioner.
Can you imagine life without bio-identical (natural) hormone replacement therapy?
As you may have heard recently, a manufacturer of synthetic hormones, Wyeth, is trying to limit your access to bioidentical, or natural, hormones. In a recent filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Wyeth makes unsubstantiated and negative claims about bioidentical hormones and calls on the federal government to enact regulations that would make it harder for you to take bioidentical hormones.
