[The_Virginian]

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpie ... ckness.htm

"What is CODEX? (34) In short it is an annual World Health Organisation (WHO) sponsored gathering of delegates in Europe, many of them trans-national pharmaceutical corporations who are primarily focused on increasing their market share, by pushing their desired and arbitrary regulatory “standards” into a global standard and forcing it onto the smaller local supplement industry, all in the name of “international regulatory excellence”. The Codex Committee is also bound by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) treaties."

In short folks, they want to restrict how much vitamins/supplements you can take. It's as simple as that.

If we don't stand up and shout it down, we wil end up captive of the UBER-medical model...the one where long term studies are not done by and large.

The same model that FOOLS people with false stories like Vitamin C hurts DNA, when the opposite is true. (Vitamin C in it's "L-Side" form is an Anti-oxydent, whie in it's "d-side" it is an oxydent....D-side can be found in 3 day OLD Orange Juice -like the kind w/ donald duck on it pushed as "healthy." All suplements sold that I know of are the GOOD side L-ascorbate. So while the story was true, it was actualy misleading and therefore FALSE. It also points out why you are NOT ABLE to get enough Vitamin C form a typical Western Diet).

[lorenzo]

Well, if they find out that certain "supplements" are bad for your health, they may decide to make them illegal.

It's not because you, as an American, can be ordered to swallow anything (be it fantasy stories about WMD or fake pharmaceuticals), and it's not because your nation thrives on commercial nonsense, - that the rest of the world should be that dumb too.

It's in your own interest that you are being protected against yourself. It's like telling children not to jump off a cliff, no matter how bad they want it. And if the kid shouts "but it's my Freedom", even then, we must protect it against its own stupidity.

The 21st century will be the century in which we, the world, collectively, treat immature nations with paternal care.

[RonMN]

you can get vitamin C from pine tree needles...kinda hard to illegalize that!

[Raxozanne]

Big business wins again....
Goodbye local independents....

[The_Virginian]

Lorenzo wrote:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ell, if they find out that certain "supplements" are bad for your health, they may decide to make them illegal.

[The_Virginian]

Ron NM wrote:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'y')ou can get vitamin C from pine tree needles...kinda hard to illegalize that!