THIS IS NOT A DRILL !
If you take vitamin supplements, drink vegetable juice, eat
organic products or medicinal foods it is imperative that you review this
information NOW !
The hand puppet of Big Pharma, namely the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has unveiled its plan to utterly destroy Alternative and
Complementary Medicine as we know it.
In a document titled; “Guidance for industry: Complementary and
Alternative Medicine Products and Their Regulation by the Food and Drug
Administration” the plan to regulate and subsequently abolish natural medicine
is outlined.
This move by the FDA is designed to once and for all destroy
the 1994 DSHEA law that has made supplements "legal" while
eliminating nutritional supplements and natural medicine from the United
States, ensuring monopoly profits and control by drug companies and the FDA. It
is the latest action item by the FDA / Big Pharma conspiracy that will not stop
until health freedom has been abolished, drug companies rule the nation, and
every citizen is diagnosed with a fictitious disease and drugged up on
monopoly-priced pharmaceuticals.
Based on the explanations in the FDA document the following
things are likely to occur:
Even vegetable juices will be classified as drugs and will
disappear from supermarket shelves and become available by prescription
only.
If you think this is a joke or that it will never happen in
the United States, just take a look at the UK and other nations around the
world that now must have a prescription to purchase vitamins and dietary
supplements that most people take every day.
If the FDA is successful in abridging the 1994 DSHEA law BIG Pharma will
have total control over your personal health care by eliminating your
options. You will have no choice but to
submit to conventional medical practices.
The FDA is accepting public comments on the docket
until April 30th. They tried to sneak this under the radar, but word got out
and now the natural health community is up in arms over this rule. If you wish
to protect your access to nutritional supplements, herbs, essential oils,
homeopathic medicine or any other "complementary" or
"alternative" modality, it is crucial that you take action to post
your comments with the FDA right now and write your representatives in
Washington to put a stop to this outrageous effort to destroy natural medicine.
(And be sure to really write them. Just sending an email has virtually no
impact compared to writing a physical letter in your own words.)
The answer to this question is quite simple. Weather
you want to hear it or not The Plain Truth is it is all about MONEY! The
big boys on the block (the major pharmaceutical companies) are doing everything
and anything they can to protect their turf. For the purpose of this
discussion "their turf" is a monopoly on anything that might be seen
as medicinal or remedial in terms of health care. BIG Pharma is in BIG
Trouble because many Americans, as well as people around the world, are choosing
non-conventional remedies to cure their ill's.
Recently released studies show that women, for example, are turning to natural
remedies to relieve stress. Women’s
choice to go natural is consistent with new findings from the US Centers for
Disease Control; showing natural remedies are becoming more mainstream. The
increasing popularity of natural medicine is driven in part by real and
perceived risks of other conventional medicine. For instance, the US Food and
Drug Administration recently warned of dangerous and bizarre side effects from
prescription sleep aids, such as sleep driving and sleep eating.
The bottom line is that people are taking control of their own personal health
care. They are moving towards Natural and or Complementary Medicine
because they see that the western (Conventional) medical system does not
work. Have you ever wondered why, in this age of modern technology, with
all of the medical advancements and miracle drugs available to consumer’s
people are sicker than ever? Have you ever questioned why, with all of
the dietary products and exercise equipment available that Americans are more
overweight than ever?
Again the answer is simple and logical; IT'S ALL ABOUT MONEY! Id like you
to think about this for a moment. Set aside all of your preconceived
notions and opinions, open your mind, and see the logic here.
All of the major pharmaceutical companies are publicly held companies.
This means that the company is owned by the general public (shareholders) and
that these shares of stock are publicly traded. Theoretically the control
of the company is divided between two bodies; the shareholders and the board of
directors. There is a legal relationship established between these two
parties called a fiduciary duty. The board of directors (the fiduciary)
is obligated, by law, "to discharge faithfully a responsibility of trust
towards another" namely the shareholders. This legal relationship
between the fiduciary or trustee and the principal or shareholder or
beneficiary is arguably the most important concept within the portion of the
legal system known as equity.
This relationship establishes two very important points. First and
foremost that the primary duty of the trustee is to protect the interest of the
principal. In this case the principal has made a monetary investment in
the company, through the purchase of stock, with the intention of making a
profit on their investment. This means that ,by law, the primary duty of
the trustee is to see that the principal/shareholder realizes a profit on their
investment.
Secondly this relationship means that the obligation of the trustee is to the
shareholder NOT TO THE CONSUMER! Think about that for a moment. The
pharmaceutical companies, theoretically, have no obligation to the
consumer. The only true legal obligation in this relationship is to make
money for the shareholders.
Having
said this let us look at a hypothetical situation and put this theory of
fiduciary duty to the test. Keep in
mind that for the first time in history, in 2006, global spending on
pharmaceutical drugs toped $600 billion ($252 billion in the US).
Let’s say
that a research scientist at a major pharmaceutical company, while doing
research and development (R&D) on a new drug to treat cancer, discovers the
cure for cancer. What is the fiduciary
duty of the board of directors of that company? To protect the financial interest of the shareholders
correct? Here is where this all begins
to make sense.
At 4:23
pm, this very afternoon, the cure for cancer is discovered. The scientist brings this discovery to his
department head with great enthusiasm.
The department head brings this to the attention of the board of
directors. It is the legal duty of the
board of directors to suppress this information if it will hurt corporate
profits and subsequently the dividends received by the shareholders. Think about it!
Further
more I believe that the reason there has been no cure for cancer is because no
one is looking for one. If a company
who earns revenue by manufacturing drugs to treat cancer was to actually look
for a cure for cancer it would theoretically create a conflict of interest in
that over a period of time there would be no further need for cancer
drugs. Think about what the eradication
of cancer would mean to the stockholders, the drug companies and the stock
market in general in terms of economics.
It would be an economic disaster!
This
opinion might sound absurd to you however if you conceder the following it may
not be as crazy as it seems. Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, the director of the
National Cancer Institute said; “Cancer will become a chronic disease that we
will manage much the same way we manage high blood pressure or diabetes.
Dr. Harold Varmus, president of the Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, warns against setting strict
timetables that would create ''false expectations.'' But he agreed that it was
now a ''reasonable goal to dramatically reduce death from cancer, making it a
chronic disease.''
Look at the words of the leading scientists in the field
of cancer research. Cancer will become
“manageable”. It will become a “chronic
disease”. I don’t see anything about “cured
or eradicated”. The plan is obviously
to keep people alive, but still ill, in order to sell more drugs. Again, I know
this sounds insane but here are some more facts about cancer drugs that might
change your mind.
The cost of a cancer drug prescription rose nearly 16% last
year, compared with 3% for other prescriptions, says a June report by Express
Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager. The average cost of a 30-day prescription
for cancer drugs is now nearly $1,600. The report does not include drugs given
at a doctor's office, such as Avastin.
Barbara Brenner of Breast Cancer Action says she is
especially troubled by the cost of Avastin, a newer drug used to treat
colorectal cancer that now sells for about $50,000 a year. That price could
jump to $100,000 if Avastin is approved to treat breast and lung cancers,
because those tumors are treated with higher doses of the medication.
"It's really exploiting the desperation of people with
a life-threatening illness," says Marcia Angell, former editor of The
New England Journal of Medicine.
That being said, getting back to the original question as
to why the FDA is trying to take natural remedies and therapies away from the
consumer, it is safe to state that it is strictly a matter of economics. Pharmaceutical companies can’t patent a herb
or a mineral or a vitamin. These
alternative treatments have been used for thousands of years and have proven to
have little to no side effects and offer a great deal of therapeutic
value. In addition they are FAR less expensive
than their pharmaceutical counterparts.
Yes there are some potential dangers associated with
natural medicine. If not used correctly
they can cause harm just as pharmaceutical drugs do. However the logical remedy is to educate the consumer about the
use of these natural products not to take them off of the shelves. I have been taking a variety of natural
supplements for years and have NEVER had any adverse side effects from them.
All of this adds up to one thing. The FDA is determined to take away your
right to choose the method of personal health care you wish to use. It is just another case of our civil liberty’s
being taken from us by the government.
