Editorial
CAFTA - Act Now!
Potato Chip Warning
Avoiding Soya 'May Aid Fertility'
21st Century New Kid On The Block: Leptin
"Big Pharma" Stabs Planet Earth...
Agricultural Antibiotic Use Contributes To 'Super-bugs' In Humans
Sunshine and Calcium Knock Out PMS For Good
Living Without A Gallbladder

CAFTA and CODEX are the buzz words of the month. In fact, very important buzz words. For the last few months I have included articles in this newsletter to help educate all of our Advanced Health and Wellness subscribers. If you have not taken the time to do your part, please read the first article and take appropriate action---immediately. While we always encourage you to pass on this newsletter, I especially ask that you pass this July edition on to everyone in your address book. We are now "down-to-the-wire" so to speak and yes, your letter and actions count tremendously.

I was sad to read in a forum that the snopes site has indicated that the CODEX and CAFTA issues amount to urban legends. This is such a lie and a diversion tactic. CODEX is now a reality that we will need to deal with. All I can say is that if you will take the time to really educate yourself, you will quickly see that we are in very real danger of losing our freedom to purchase supplements in dosages that will help to keep and bring health to the body. The pharmaceutical companies would love to control your right to quality supplements; thereby controling your health.

We are very excited here at OAW as we have many changes that will be announced in the next few months. We are growing by leaps and bounds as we continue to educate and help people to take control and responsibility of their health. Stay tuned...

CAFTA is in political trouble in the House. The Hispanic Caucus recently came out against it, saying that its bad for central America AND for the USA. Its pretty hard for Bush to do spin against the stats from the FAILED NAFTA Agreement- our trade deficit is up to $617 Billion, but beyond that, the jobs that initially went do Mexico have since all gone to even CHEAPER sources of third world labor in China, and elsewhere- and the same thing would happen in Central America.

The Washington Post is calling this "too close to call" and says CAFTA could come down to ONE SINGLE VOTE in the House. So our calls and emails actually MATTER, and it REALLY helps when we get face to face meetings as I did yesterday and as some of you have also been getting with your congressmen. Tomorrow would be your last chance to meet with them in person before they return, and you should make the effort. In any case, please DO take the ACTION recommended below:

Yesterday I drove down to Bellingham WA and attended a Town Mtg run by my congressman, Rick Larsen. He already opposes CAFTA, but I'm hoping he might make a floor statement against it on the House floor which airs our concerns as dietary supplement consumers given the danger posed by the SPS language lurking within it.

All its going to take is one or more Congressmen to air our concern from the House floor to put them ALL on notice that if they vote for CAFTA they'll be touching the THIRD RAIL and committing political SUICIDE by angering millions of vitamin consumers who wield huge impact at the ballot box.

I told Larsen we were working hard to interest congressmen De Fazio and Paul to issue a "Dear Colleague" letter and to make floor statements to insure that members of the House realize that millions of vitamin consumers who flooded congress in '94 during the campaign to pass DSHEA will not tolerate CAFTA or anyone who votes for it.

I made him aware that Section 6 of CAFTA would require the USA to form a Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures Committee for the purpose of insuring that we entered into a constant process of harmonizing our laws under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the WTO.

I told him that Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement requires us to harmonize our food safety laws (read DSHEA) to Codex standards. It states "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." (Codex sets the standards for food safety, including vitamins and minerals.)

I handed him information that I'd previously sent to his aide and concluded by brief conversation after this Town Meeting by urging him to watch Kevin Miller's documentary "We Become Silent" at http://www.welltv.com and by handing him material to read on the plane on his way back to DC.

Several other people on the IAHF list also had meetings with their congressmen during the July 4th recess and some of you may be able to get a meeting tomorrow in your congressman's district office in your home state or you may already have lined one up. If so, I hope this helps.

Its important to realize that when congress reconvenes next monday(July 11th) they might not go straight to the House Floor on CAFTA, Bush could take a few days because he's desperate to line up more votes- but it will probably happen next week sometime. We have to keep calling (via Capital Switchboard 202-225-3121) and have to keep sending the following form letter in, right up til they vote, and please snowball this alert!!

CAFTA BAD FOR DIETARY SUPPLEMENT CONSUMERS- SPS LANGUAGE BURIED IN IT THREATENS HARMONIZATION TO CODEX

Dear Congressman______________________

In 1994 vitamin consumers generated the largest volume of mail to Congress on any issue in the HISTORY of Congress when we passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994.

Today, CAFTA threatens to undo all of our hard work, and to set the USA up for harmonization to an excessively restrictive global trade guideline for vitamins and minerals just finalized on July 4th 2005 at the 28 General Session of the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission.

The seeds of our health freedom destruction are sewn inside Section 6 of CAFTA where members are forced to form a Sanitary-Phytosanitary Measures (SPS) Committee for the purpose of insuring ONGOING HARMONIZATION of our laws under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the WTO Trade Agreement.
See http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html

If you examine Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement you will read the following words: "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."

(Codex sets the international standard for food safety, and they intend to fill in the blanks on allowed potencies at levels even LOWER than RDAs- see http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

Vitamin consumers drove many congressmen out of office who failed to vote for DSHEA in '94.

Any member of Congress who fails to heed our concerns about CAFTA and votes for this unconstitutional trade agreement anyway, despite how it sets us up for harmonization to Codex, and despite its continuing the failed policies of NAFTA which gave us our present $617 Billion trade deficit risks being driven from office. IAHF will be posting a list of any member of Congress who ignores our concerns. We urge you to watch Kevin Miller's excellent documentary on this issue at http://www.welltv.com

Signed____________________
Address____________________________

For Health Freedom,
John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702 USA
http://www.iahf.com
jham@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World

Action Alert – CAFTA Now In The US House
By Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee 7-7-05

Although the U.S. Senate approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) on June 30th, we still have a real chance to defeat this anti-American swindle in the U.S. House next week. The vote is expected to be extremely close. We must effectively use the limited time we have to convince House members to say "no" to CAFTA.

But it won't be easy. The upcoming vote on CAFTA promises a replay of the mafia-style tactics used to coerce votes from reluctant House members on the Medicare prescription-drug bill. Already, arms are being twisted; deals and pork payoffs are being made (with your tax dollars); political threats have been issued -- and that's only the beginning.

When the 15-minute vote on CAFTA finally takes place, expect the House leadership to hold the vote open for hours if necessary. Remember, the vote on the Medicare bill wasn't even begun until 3:00 a.m. on a Saturday morning, and after the usual 15-minute time limit, the House had rejected the Medicare bill! So the leadership held the vote open for nearly three hours more until a few sleep-deprived, bleary-eyed members could be pressured into changing their votes from "no" to "yes."

We saw our elected "public servants" in action during the Medicare battle. We must be prepared for the same ugly tactics during the CAFTA vote.

Every credible source in Washington agrees: CAFTA will be decided by as little as three or four votes -- just like the Medicare bill was. That means every single member's vote counts and now is a good time for you to act. Why? Because your House member is away from the Washington pressure cooker, back home with you in the district for a week-long recess.

Instead of calling your U.S. representative's D.C. office, call his district office. Press him to publicly announce his opposition to the sovereignty-busting, bogus "free trade" agreement, CAFTA. Better yet, attend a function in your congressional district and speak with him in person.

Remember, CAFTA is NAFTA on steroids. We've had over a decade of costly anti-American decisions made by NAFTA tribunals to know what to expect from CAFTA tribunals. CAFTA will create another layer of unaccountable world elites who will tell America what we can and cannot do.

We will issue more alerts/updates in the precious few days we have before the upcoming vote. For now, take advantage of your representative being at home and urge him to commit to a "no" vote on CAFTA. To find the telephone number of your representative's local district office, go to: http://capwiz.com/liberty/dbq/officials/

To re-read our first informative alert on the hidden dangers of CAFTA, go to:
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org/update06.29.05.htm

Remember, what you do matters. Your elected representative wants your vote on election day. Offices keep tallies of "for" and "against" comments from constituents -- even if elected representatives don't fully understand the issue, they count the comments. Make your voice heard!

Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org

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(Reuters) - A California consumer legal group is campaigning to require warning labels on potato chips, saying they contain a chemical known to cause cancer and state law requires the warnings.

The Environmental Law Foundation filed notices with the Golden State's attorney general on Thursday against Lay's potato chip maker PepsiCo Inc., Pringles maker Procter & Gamble Co., Cape Cod potato chip parent Lance Inc. and Kettle Chips maker Kettle Foods Inc.

The notices give the attorney general's office 60 days to take up the case on behalf of all Californians. If the state declines to pursue the matter, the group said in the documents that "it intends to bring suit in the public interest" against the companies.

Under California law, companies are required to warn consumers if their products contain known carcinogens.

The chemical in question, acrylamide, is formed when starchy foods are baked or fried at high temperatures. Acrylamide is listed by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment as a chemical known to cause cancer.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been studying the impact of acrylamide levels in food since 2002. On its Web site, the FDA said that, while the chemical is known to cause cancer in laboratory animals in high doses, it is "not clear whether acrylamide causes cancer in humans at the much lower levels found in food."

"At this point we're still trying to evaluate the effects of acrylamide," said FDA spokesman Mike Herndon.

PepsiCo unit Frito-Lay said in a statement that it has not yet received the notice from the ELF, but said its "food safety standards are very stringent and meet all federal and state regulations."

Pringles spokeswoman Kay Puryear said its products "are as safe as ever" and that Procter & Gamble has been "working to reduce the formation of acrylamide."

A Kettle Foods spokeswoman said the company would not comment on pending litigation.

According to the Oakland, California-based Environmental Law Foundation, tests it commissioned found levels of acrylamide in many of the nation's most popular potato chip brands far exceeded the levels requiring warning labels under California law.

Cape Cod Robust Russet potato chips exceeded the required warning level by 910 times, while Kettle Chips Lightly Salted chips exceeded the level by 505 times, the group said.

Normally, leptin's function is to reduce appetite and induce fat burning (among many other functions). That is what high leptin signaling in a brain would do. Low leptin (in the brain) is an indication to eat more and store more fat (to successfully reproduce and to live long enough to do so).

However, elevated leptin in a fasting blood sample indicates leptin resistance and likely low leptin signaling to some parts of the brain while other parts of the brain get the full high signal. In other words, some of the brain only hears a whisper while other parts (of the brain and periphery) get screamed at.

Low leptin signaling getting through to the appetite center of the brain induces the brain to want to make the rest of your body hungry and will alter physiologic functions so as to make you store more fat. Ultimately, and finally, increasing fat stores should manufacture more leptin to overcome the resistance but, in the meantime, one continues to get fat and often ultimately obese.

This is similar to insulin resistance, when high fasting insulin indicates low activity in some parts of your body and a disruption in insulin signaling that is being compensated for by your pancreas making more insulin. What is lost, however, is your orchestration of insulin levels among various tissues. If your liver is insulin-resistant, it continues to make sugar out of protein, and if your muscles are insulin-resistant, they cannot burn that sugar either.

However, until your fat tissue becomes insulin-resistant, it continues to "hear" the high levels of insulin that are caused by the elevated sugar, and insulin's signals to fat tissue is to take that sugar, make fat out of it, and then store it. The positive side of this is that you're still able to take sugar out of the blood to make fat out of it. This keeps you from becoming diabetic, at least in the short-term.

In this regard, one could say that obesity is the price one pays to keep from becoming diabetic. One continues to gain weight until the adipose tissue ultimately becomes resistant. At this time, your "wastebasket" to store the excess sugar becomes full, sugar accumulates in your blood, and conventional medicine will diagnose you as a diabetic, though the root problem of insulin resistance and perhaps more importantly, leptin resistance, began decades prior (perhaps even before you were born if your mother was feeding you lots of sugar/starches when you were a fetus).

Likewise, when one becomes leptin-resistant, as indicated by high fasting leptin, once again you lose the fine orchestration of hormone levels. As the appetite control centers in your hypothalamus become leptin-resistant and cannot hear the message from leptin to curb hunger and stop storing fat, it believes that you do not have enough fat stores to live through a potential famine and you must eat more and make more fat.

Also lost is the knowledge of where to put that fat, and there is a preponderance stored in your abdomen, including your abdominal organs such as your liver, disrupting your liver's ability to listen to other signals such as those from insulin. This causes your liver to manufacture too much sugar from protein contributing to diabetes, and contributes importantly to the breakdown of your muscle and bone causing weakness and osteoporosis. The communication and knowledge of where to put calcium is also disrupted. Calcium is deposited in your blood vessels instead of your bone, which contributes to osteoporosis while calcifying and hardening your arteries.

However, it appears that the master control center of your sympathetic nervous system in your brain does not become leptin resistant, does not put in earplugs from the years of excess noise and it continues to hear the loud messages of elevated leptin causing over stimulation of your sympathetic nervous system. This can create serious problems to your health, including the following:

Hormonal resistance is bad because of the loss of the intricate orchestration of those signals, and less so because of diminished signals that could be compensated for just by "yelling louder." (I believe that that is a very important concept that needs to be taught to the public and doctors alike.)

To summarize, normally leptin, secreted acutely in response to a meal or chronically in response to increasing fat stores, in a leptin-sensitive individual, will reduce hunger, increase fat burning and reduce fat storage.

However, when one is leptin-resistant -- as indicated by an elevation in fasting serum leptin -- the part of leptin's message that would normally reduce hunger and fat stores and increase fat burning does not get through to the brain (here mimicking low leptin), so one stays hungry and stores more fat, rather than burning it. However, the message to increase sympathetic nervous system activity gets through all too loudly and clearly, so one stays hungry, continues to get fat, and gets elevated sugar, insulin resistance, high blood pressure, heart disease and accelerated aging.

When one becomes more leptin-sensitive after following the program outlined in The Rosedale Diet, as indicated by a lower fasting leptin, all of a sudden your brain is able to hear leptin's messages much more clearly, and the now louder and more accurate message to your appetite control center and other parts of your hypothalamus to reduce hunger and get rid of some (lots of) stored fat gets heard. Now, your brain finally realizes that you have stored far too much fat, it is a danger to your well-being and the brain had better do something about it.

The lower leptin reduces the volume that your sympathetic nervous system hears. The hormone is making less "noise," but instead is allowing the orchestra to play the fine music that was originally written.

"Big Pharma" Stabs Planet Earth...

Opinion by Consumer Advocate Tim Bolen
Friday, July 8th, 2005

My last two broadcasts "Vitamins to be Banned Worldwide...", and ""Big Pharma" Controls US "TV News"... have generated a major response. They seem to have been forwarded everywhere, and I can't keep up with the volume of email questions I'm getting - so I'll answer the questions here...

Yes, it's true that the "Codex Alimentarius" commission in Rome, July 4th,2005, passed restriction of supplement guidelines that would, in effect, destroy the supplement industry in it's entirety - except for that controlled outright by "Big Pharma."

Yes, it's true that the "CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement)" legislation currently being rushed through the US Congress contains, within its language, the mechanism to force "harmonization" of US laws to "Codex" requirements destroying the protection afforded under the1994 DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act) law.

Yes, it's true that "Big Pharma" is behind this move - they have that much power and money.

Yes, it's true that we MIGHT be able to stop CAFTA - but it's unlikely - this time. There is too much at stake - and too little time for us to react - and too much money being spent to buy Congressional votes, by the opposition. We must try, but if we don't succeed at first, we'll have to go at it again, until we get what we need.

We've been "Pearl Harbored..."

The dismantling of the "health" industry, and the surrounding "health freedom" movement, worldwide, by force, has begun. The "German Model" of health care will now be the law of the land - in every land.

We've lost this battle - period.

Be prepared for even more attacks. It is going to get worse. "Big Pharma" is tired of having its will thwarted, and is calling in its markers.

The US FDA, over the last few months, has LITERALLY, with automatic weapons in hand, and body armor in place, massively attacked at least two US practitioners who espouse alternatives to "drugs, drugs, and more drugs," seizing everything in their offices, their bank accounts, the titles to their homes, cars, and personal property - and screaming at them, on the way out "Hire an attorney, asshole, because we're going to put you in jail forever..."

How do you hire an attorney when the FDA has just seized everything you have, shut down your business, and scared the crap out of your patients with their fingers on the triggers of laser-sighted machine guns?

The US television news media, in one of the most obviously bigoted assaults, perhaps in American history, has attacked America's leaders in the fight for changes in health care. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. felt the wrath of "Big Pharma" recently, when he came in out in Rolling Stone magazine exposing the "thimerasol (mercury) in vaccines" issue, and the cover-up. Actor Tom Cruise, after pointing out "Big Pharma's - drugs, drugs, and more drugs" approach to health care - was openly attacked on TV network news.

And, more... even scarier: I make no secret of the fact that I'm an Orange County California Conservative Republican. Frequently, I get asked "How can you be a health activist and support George Bush, seeing how much money he took from "Big Pharma" during his election campaign?" Well, I'll tell you why - and the answer will frighten you more than anything else I've said, or will say, on this newsletter, today. Both presidential candidates, and both major political parties took ungodly sums from "Big Pharma" during the election. If either candidate, Republican or Democrat, had come out against "Big Pharma" during the election, that same "Big Pharma," with their money and power, would have elected our President. For "Big Pharma" controls our TV media. Think about that.

So, now what?

Can we recover from this loss? Yes, but we have to change our thinking. We have to work together, and "no more mister nice guy."

Two things: (1) We have to understand why we lost this battle - and do something about those reasons. (2) we have to put an action plan in place - and execute that plan. Now.

Why did we lose this battle? (1) "Big Pharma" is well organized, ruthless, cares not at all for human life, has lots of money to hire people to get things done, and has been working on their plan for a while (since World War Two, I think). (2) The worldwide health freedom movement was lulled into comfort - thinking that everything was just fine. (3) The worldwide health freedom movement has divided itself into factions, run on egos, that can't agree on tactics, information, and strategies. (4) The worldwide health freedom movement was infiltrated by "fifth columners" who have been using their positions to say "everything is OK - don't worry."

So, what's the action plan? Keep in mind, when I explain this segment, that, professionally, I'm a Crisis Management Consultant - so I tend to think organizationally. I'm a Dwight David Eisenhower type - who plans warfare - just like Eisenhower, and his team, planned the assault in Europe to grind down the Nazi war machine. So. I'm going to explain what needs to be done in terms of solving the REAL problems. First. I'm going to give you a list of each thing that needs to be done. Then I'll explain why we need to accomplish each step.

Privately, within the "Health Freedom Movement" we need to identify friend and foe. The Council For Responsible Nutrition (CRN) is NOT a friend of health freedom - it is an enemy. Its membership is Phizer, Bayer, Monsanto, etc. - manufacturers of some supplement INGREDIENTS, not supplements. Ignore what they say completely.

The National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA), although having a significant membership, is living in lah-lah land. I believe they are getting their legal advice on "Codex" from the attorney firm that ran the Aspartame approval through the FDA. Think about that. So, for now, my recommendation is to ignore what they have to say.

Publicly, primarily to Congress, we need to do several things.

(1) We need to stop CAFTA, and any other attempts to cancel the US Constitution in favor of a big business controlled world government. If we can't stop it in this first go-around, then we'll have to do it the second time, or the third time.

(2) We have to remove "Big Pharma's" right to advertise directly to consumers.

(3) We must criminally prosecute industry executives for the deaths, and damages, of, and to, Americans. Merck, and Vioxx, knowingly killed 55,000 Americans, in the name of profit. Thimerasol in even more insidious. Mercury fillings in teeth have been accepted far too long.

(4) We need to push to get the Bush administration's new "Health Insurance Guidelines" for America into effect. The Bush Administration, recognizing the overburdening of health care costs to American industry and its employees (the cost for health insurance for an American family of four is now $14,700 per year), wants to change the requirements for "Health Insurance Coverage" from "Full Coverage" to allowing Industry to offer "Catastrophic Coverage Plans" - with employees putting tax-free money into "Choice" plans, where they can spend their health dollars wherever they want...

(5) We must ask Congress to pass a bill creating a "Health Czar," for a five year period to investigate, and straighten out, the US Hospital system - the number one annual killer of Americans. This agency must be given the power to criminally prosecute Hospital Administrators, and doctors, responsible for this calamity.

(6) We must ask Congress to put laws in place stopping the revolving door between "Big Pharma" and the US FDA. We need the FDA to do what "we the people" intended it to do - not what "Big Pharma" wants it to do.

(7) We must ask Congress, and the Bush Administration, to investigate, and vigorously prosecute, the "Quackbuster" conspiracy to suppress innovation in health care.

So, why do we need to do ALL of these things?

In essence, we need a Health Care "Nuremberg..." We cannot, as a society, permit what's happened to our health care system to continue, or to be able to resurface any time soon.

(1) So, why not accept CAFTA? Easy answer. Why should we? Why would Americans want to turn over their carefully created set of freedoms to some set of snivelling "New World Order" bureaucrats? As IAHF president John Hammell says

"The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require the U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food laws and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force harmonization of our dietary supplements and regulations to international standards, overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modeled after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are typical bureaucratic monstrosities of "managed" trade that masquerade as free trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America and then the rest of the Americas in an economic "union." True free trade would take a few pages of written text to enact ("eliminate these barriers to trade and these tariffs," etc.); all three of these agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual garbage sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and special-interest benefits.

Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that text at the following website:

http://www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html.

If you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will read the following words: "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." (emphasis added) And as you all know by now, Codex sets the international standards for food safety including vitamins & minerals.

So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives any time after they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by treaty to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put a knife in the back of our health freedoms."

But that's not all. Rima Laibow MD was at the Rome event and had this to say:

It's Official: The Vitamin War Was Declared at CODEX Today!

Today was a bad day here in Rome. The US supported the Vitamin and Mineral Guidelines and betrayed US law and you. But that's not all that happened here in the CODEX ALIMENTARIUS Commission meeting today. No, that's not bad enough. There's a whole lot more. Here is what the United States participated in and helped to happen in just one day (don't let the helpful sounding names fool you):

The dangerously elevated pesticide levels for a variety of poisonous chemicals were ratified. A win for Big Chema!

Hygienic Practices for Meat were ratified (don't let the name fool you). A win for Big Agra.

Code of Practice to Minimize and Contain Antimicrobial Resistance was approved (don't let the name fool you). Another win for Big Agra and one for Big Pharma, too!

Veterinary Drug Maximum Residue Limits Draft approved. Wins for Big Pharma, Big Agra, Big Chema!

Maximum Levels for Cadmium in Wheat Grain; Potato; Stem and Root Vegetables; Leafy Vegetables; and, Other Vegetables was approved.

Code of Practice for the Prevention and Reduction of Aflatoxin in Tree Nuts was adopted (don't let the name fool you).

I could go on, and on, and on. And today was only the first day. But instead of listing all of the really awful standards which were approved or advanced to higher steps in the 8 step ratification process, let me turn your attention to betrayal.

America has, once again, been betrayed by the people who should have been protecting her most precious resource: her people. The US CODEX Office's US CODEX Policy look to me like they have been sold to the highest bidders: Big Pharma, Big Chema, Big Agra, Big Biotechna and Big Medica. These high minded-wounding standards and codes are nothing short of the triumph of corporate greed at your expense and mine.

Let me ask you to think about America on this sad and sorry End-of-Independence Day. Our CODEX Policy is in the process of taking America apart, illness by illness, and selling its sovereignty to the highest bidder."

(2) We have to remove "Big Pharma's" right to advertise directly to consumers. Why? Three reasons: (1) "Big Pharma" is controlling US TV news media. A New York Ad agency tells the TV news media what is acceptable and what isn't. Half of TV news media advertising is from "Big Pharma." (2) In 1999 when "Big Pharma" went to the FDA to get permission to advertise directly to the consumer, the average monthly prescription cost was $30. Now the average price, for the exact same prescription, is $140. (3) "Big Pharma" is using the money from the increased cost to fund their nefarious projects while damaging the American fabric, and economy.

(3) We must criminally prosecute industry executives for the deaths, and damages, etc... This is simple logic. I'm appalled that our TV media spends all day, and night, covering the subway bombings in London, and the deaths of 50 people, and outright ignores the 55,000 deaths caused by Merck's Vioxx, the thimerasol issue, or the mercury amalgam tooth filling issue. We have health atrocities going on, worldwide, that have perpetrators that need punishment. So, lets get to it.

(4) We need to push to get the Bush administration's new "Health Insurance Guidelines" for America into effect. This also is an easy explanation - people who are given CHOICES make them...

(5) We must ask Congress to pass a bill creating a "Health Czar..." Why? Because the broken American Medical System does not, and will not, police itself.

(7) We must ask Congress, and the Bush Administration, to investigate, and vigorously prosecute, the "Quackbuster" conspiracy to suppress innovation in health care. No explanation needed.

Opposition is already gearing up for beginning of the battle. If you are interested in getting in on the first round, the stopping of CAFTA - (click here). If you're writing to Congress give them all seven things. listed above, to think about.

This is a battle between "We the People," and the free world's biggest, and worst, enemy - ever - "Big Pharma," and we're just getting started with the counter-attack.

Tim Bolen - Consumer Advocate