July 13, 2005
Will the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) finally force you to get a doctor's prescription just to buy vitamin C, or E, or other dietary supplements you currently pick up "over the counter" in America? Powerful special interests are banking on it.
Since 1995, Big Medicine has spent billions of dollars trying to get Washington to regulate your dietary supplements just as European governments do. So far, that effort has failed in America. But you may lose the battle for health freedom if CAFTA entangles the U.S. in Europe's infamous Codex Alimentarius (Codex).
And if you think CAFTA -- the bogus "free trade" agreement -- really has nothing to do with limiting the manufacture and distribution of dietary supplements, then why does it specifically mention Codex?
CAFTA, chapter 6, article 6.3.6(d) states: "The Committee [Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Matters] shall provide a forum for consulting on issues, positions, and agendas for meetings of the WTO SPS Committee, the various Codex committees (including the Codex Alimentarius Commission), the International Plant Protection Convention, the International Office of Epizootics, and other international and regional fora and food safety and human, animal, and plant health."
On top of this, CAFTA is being shoved down Congress' throat under unconstitutional "fast track" trade-negotiation authority. That way, Congress isn't allowed to change even one word it. That means Congress must either accept the Codex language, or reject all of CAFTA. The special interests love it -- they are betting Congress doesn't have the courage to dump CAFTA.
You see, CAFTA, like NAFTA, isn't really about free trade. It's about managed trade where government gets to pick the winners and losers. In this case, major pharmaceuticals win, and you, the consumer, lose. The pharmaceutical companies want government to "manage" the dietary supplement industry under Codex in order to drive out competitors so only they can manufacture and distribute vitamin C and other dietary supplements. If that happens, as it already has in Europe, the supplements you now take will be available only by prescription and at a much higher cost -- if they are available at all.
We will fight CAFTA, NAFTA, WTO and the like because they subjugate our national sovereignty to the "rulings" of global institutions and the whims of the unelected bureaucrats-for-life who run them. As this web of global governance grows, our freedom to choose shrinks -- and health freedom is just one example.
You can't afford to stay out of this fight.
Read "Your dietary supplements: Under attack again" by Henry Lamb, and "Controversial EU vitamin ban to go ahead" by Sam Knight.
View the powerful documentary "We Become Silent" narrated by British actress, Dame Judi Dench. This film features Congressman Ron Paul.
Then, call your U.S. representative. Urge him or her to vote against -- to dump -- CAFTA. The U.S. House will likely vote on CAFTA next week.
This vote will be very close. They are keeping score on Capitol Hill and your effort counts.
"Your dietary supplements: Under attack again"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/artic ... E_ID=44713"Controversial EU vitamin ban to go ahead"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 86,00.html"We Become Silent"
http://www.welltv.com/Congressional Directory
http://capwiz.com/liberty/dbq/officials/The U.S. House is likely to vote on CAFTA next week. Please, take action today -- and spread the word.
Kent Snyder
The Liberty Committee
http://www.thelibertycommittee.org...the coercive collectivist State is distinctly uninterested in the cultivation of intelligence and wisdom. This is understandable...for the State has no uses to which persons of intelligence and wisdom can be put.
--Albert Jay Nock.
