IAHF Goes to Washington---STOP CAFTA/CODEX

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IAHF Goes to Washington---STOP CAFTA/CODEX

 

 

 

 

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To defend against CODEX HARM-ONIZATION I am flying to Washington DC on

Tuesday

June 7th in an effort to kill CAFTA (The Central American Free Trade

Agreement)

which is expected to have a MARKUP VOTE in the Senate on June 14th &

STILL NEED

EMERGENCY DONATIONS for this urgent lobbying trip!!

 

See paypal button at http://www.iahf.com (on top of scrollbar inside

site) or

please send your donation to: IAHF 556 Boundary Bay Rd., Point

Roberts, WA 98281

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO & WHY YOUR HELP IS URGENTLY NEEDED:

 

URGENT ALERT: ACT WEEK OF JUNE 6th AND WEEK of JUNE 13th

 

Vitamin consumers: Two Important Legislative Actions You Must Take

This Week

and Next to Defend Your Access to Dietary Supplements !!

 

1. H J Res 27 which gets us out of the WTO will go to the House Floor on

Tuesday, June 6th. Congressman Paul urges vitamin consumer's support

for this bill.

The form letter below explains why. Please call your congressman via

the US

Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121 and ask to be connected to your

congressman's

office. If you aren't sure of his or her name, give the operator your

zipcode

and they'll tell you, then connect you.

 

When you are connected, urge your congressman to COSPONSOR House Joint

Resolution 27 which would get us out of the WTO. Also tell them to

oppose CAFTA and

the FTAA

 

Tell them you're concerned about the threat the WTO, and CAFTA pose to US

sovereignty, to the worsening trade deficit, and to your access to dietary

supplements. Ask for your congressman's fax number or email address

and fax or email the

form letter (SEE BELOW) in to them. Add your own comments if you want. For

additional information, please read the article below the form letter.

 

2. A " Markup " Hearing will be held on CAFTA (Central American Free Trade

Agreement) in the Senate Finance Committee http://finance.senate.gov/

on June 14th.

CAFTA & the Free Trade Area of the Americas threaten our sovereignty,

including

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act which provides us

access to

dietary supplements. CAFTA + FTAA threaten harmonization of DSHEA to

restrictive

international Codex regulations.

 

First a bill is voted on in committee, then if it passes in committee,

it goes

to the floor of the Senate (or House). A bill must pass both the

senate and

house before it goes to the President to be signed into law (or

vetoed). Bush is

" testing the waters " on CAFTA on June 14th in this markup vote. Its very

important we sent Congress a strong message in defense of our

sovereignty and against

CAFTA/FTAA.

 

Each member of the Senate Finance Committee has a website via which

you can

send email.

Please email the form letter to them via these sites: and also lob

your message

in by calling them via the Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121

 

If you are from their state, be especially sure to tell them that and

please

alert your friends and family!!

 

REPUBLICANS

Senator Grassley, Iowa, Chair of Committee

http://www.senate.gov/%7Egrassley/

Senator Hatch, Utah http://hatch.senate.gov/

Senator Lott, Mississippi http://lott.senate.gov/

Senator Snowe, Maine http://snowe.senate.gov/

Senator Kyl, Arizona http://kyl.senate.gov/

Senator Thomas, Wyoming http://www.senate.gov/%7Ethomas/

Senator Santorum, Pennsylvania http://santorum.senate.gov/public/

Senator Frist, Tennessee http://frist.senate.gov/

Senator Smith, Oregon http://www.senate.gov/%7Egsmith/

Senator Bunning, Kentucky http://bunning.senate.gov/

Senator Crapo, Idaho http://www.senate.gov/%7Ecrapo/

 

DEMOCRATS

Senator Baucus, Montana http://www.senate.gov/~baucus/

Senator Rockefeller, W.Virginia http://www.senate.gov/~rockefeller/

Senator Conrad, N.Dakota http://www.senate.gov/~conrad/

Senator Jeffords, Vermont http://www.senate.gov/~jeffords/

Senator Bingaman, New Mexico http://bingaman.senate.gov/

Senator Kerry, Massachusetts http://kerry.senate.gov/

Senator Lincoln, Arkansas http://lincoln.senate.gov/

Senator Wyden, Oregon http://wyden.senate.gov/

Senator Schumer, New York http://www.senate.gov/%7Eschumer/

 

 

 

NO TO CAFTA/FTAA/WTO!!­YES to H J Res 27

US Dietary Supplement Laws Threatened By Globalization!!

 

Senators____________________________

And Congressman ______________________________

 

The WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA and FTAA trade agreements all contain the SPS

(Sanitary

Phytosanitary Measures) agreement. Article 3 of SPS 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. "

 

This makes the supposedly " voluntary " Codex Alimentarius

standard for

vitamins and minerals MANDATORY for all WTO member nations.

 

Passage of CAFTA and FTAA would broaden and deepen the scope

of the

SPS agreement, forcing harmonization of not only our dietary

supplement laws to

mindless international standards, but it would lead to the creation of a

supranational body similar to the EU in our hemisphere, and we oppose

this clear

threat to US sovereignty.

 

When the draft text of CAFTA was first made available on January

28th, 2004 the Governors of all 50 States discovered that they were

bound by the

2,400 page agreement- being specifically listed in chapter 9. A third

have since

rescinded their support of CAFTA.

 

Last fall, a WTO tribunal outlawed Utah's ban on gambling,

opening

the door to millions of dollars in penalties against all states with

anti-gambling restrictions. Antigua had charged that Utah's ban on

gambling violated

America's obligation not to discriminate against foreigners providing

" recreational

services. "

 

CAFTA includes hundreds of pages of grants of vague authority to

foreign tribunals. It wouldn't take long for an activist foreign judge

to read his

own interpretation into language such as the SPS agreement and force

changes to

US laws including the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.

 

In addition to these concerns, NAFTA never lived up to the

numerous

promises made about it, and our Trade Deficit is worse now than ever,

contributing

to the weakening of the dollar. There is no reason to expect CAFTA or

FTAA do

anything more than to FURTHER this negative trend, and lead to the

destruction

of our nation, and our economy.

 

WTO tribunals have ruled against the USA in 42 out of 48

cases, many

of which were very costly to our economy. I therefore ask you to vote

NO on

CAFTA and on FTAA, and YES on H J Res 27 which removes the US from the

WTO.

 

Signed________________________________

Address__

City_________________________________State____Zip____________

 

 

 

 

SAVE OUR SUPPLEMENTS!! NO TO CAFTA/FTAA!!

US Dietary Supplement Laws Threatened By Globalization!!

By John C. Hammell, President

International Advocates for Health Freedom

 

 

I remember when NAFTA was rammed at high speed through Congress in

1993. The

Hill was crawling with multinational corporate lobbyists who covered

it like ants

devouring a lump of sugar. They poured out of chauffer driven limos

wearing

their Gucci shoes, Rolex watches and Brooks Brothers Suits and were

ushered

directly in to the inner sanctum of Senator's offices. Simultaneously,

lobbyists

representing the grass roots (myself included) had to wait a half hour

just to get

5 minutes with a congressional aide whose job is to be polite and to

pretend to

care about what WE want.

 

At the time numerous press reports documented deals -- many unrelated

to NAFTA

-- that the Clinton Administration had made with individual Members of

Congress

and groups of Members to obtain their votes to pass NAFTA.

 

The legacy of broken promises on NAFTA performance: NAFTA threatened

the safety

of the nation's food supply, undermined the nation's environmental

regulations,

and subverted American democracy while it cost the U.S. good jobs.

 

Twelve years after passage of NAFTA, the world's ruling elite are

attempting to

pull ANOTHER FAST ONE ON US as they seek to expand NAFTA to Central

American

via CAFTA, and throughout our whole hemisphere via FTAA (Free Trade

Area of the

Americas.)

 

 

 

VITAMIN/HERB CONSUMERS MUST HELP STOP CAFTA & FTAA---HERE IS WHY

 

 

CAFTA will have a FAST TRACK vote in either May or June of this year.

It is

ESSENTIAL that vitamin consumers take the action recommended in the

form letter at

the end of this article, and to get copies of both to every health

food store

in your area so that more people can take action!

 

NAFTA contains language called the SPS (Sanitary Phytosanitary Measures)

Agreement. This agreement is found verbatim in both the WTO trade

agreement and in

NAFTA, which CAFTA and FTAA threaten to expand hemisphere wide, thus

broadening

and deepening its scope.

 

Through the SPS agreement, every nation on earth is required to

" harm-onize "

its dietary supplement laws to the mindlessly restrictive

international trade

standard which (barring a miracle) will be ratified between July 4-9th

at the 28th

General Session of the UN's Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome.

 

(Harmony is a beautiful thing when it comes to music, but its NOT a

good thing

to make all the laws the same all over the world and to have these

laws made by

unelected bureaucrats who are accountable to no one except the

multinational

corporations that control them.)

 

WHY YOU HAVEN'T HEARD ABOUT THIS THREAT

 

 

IN YOUR LOCAL HEALTH FOOD STORE

 

 

Many of you are probably stunned to read this article. Many remember

the drive

to pass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 when

we flooded

Congress with the largest volume of mail in the HISTORY of Congress to

protect

our access to dietary supplements, and to allow health claims to be

made about

them, so I'm sure you must wonder why the health food stores aren't

telling you

to spring into action again. The reason why is that they belong to a trade

association (NNFA) which has actively pulled the wool over their eyes

on this issue

by telling them what they want to hear (that it's a non issue, and

don't worry,

" we're handling it. " )

 

 

 

LED TO THE CLIFF FROM WITHIN

 

 

All of the vitamin trade associations worldwide are being controlled

from the

top-down by pharmaceutical interests, including NNFA. The larger

companies are

dominating the trade associations, and all they care about is grabbing

increased

market share (even if this comes at the expense of consumers because

they have

to water down what they're allowed to sell.)

 

These companies take the view that they're big enough to weather any

storm, and

they don't care what they're allowed to sell, as long as they drive their

smaller competitors under in order to please investors.

 

Through a slick disinformation campaign, they've been conning their

members

into believing that Codex " only threatens to impact our international

sales, not

US (or Canadian) domestic law. "

 

They would have their member companies and health food stores totally

ignore

the awful reality of globalization as is undeniably occurring via the

effort to

ram CAFTA and the FTAA down our throats.

 

What they want is " approved once, approved everywhere " so that they

don't have

to manufacture different products to suit different countries regulatory

requirements. They want to have one product line with one set of

labels that can be

sold in any country on earth (even if this severely limits what

consumers are

allowed to buy.)

 

CRN (Council for Responsible Nutrition) is a vitamin trade association

that has

numerous pharmaceutical members including Monsanto, Bayer, BASF,

Pfizer, Wyeth,

and Cargill (among others). Numerous network marketing vitamin companies

including Mannatech, Shaklee, Herbalife, GNLD, and Nuskin are also

members. How these

vitamin companies in CRN could not consider it to be a gross conflict of

interest that these multinational drug companies belong to their trade

association is

almost beyond belief.

 

CRN would have its members believe that a great " victory " was won at Codex

because a move to base allowable potency levels at RDA's was scrapped

in favor of

(so called) " scientific risk assessment. " While this sounds great on the

surface, the devil is in the details. CRN members are being told that

the " end point "

of this " risk assessment " are numbers called " safe upper levels " which

don't

look much different from currently allowable potency levels in the USA.

 

What they're not telling us is that these " SULs " are only a STARTING

POINT for

the full risk assessment, and once they subtract junk science derived

" nutrient

risk factors " , and junk science derived numbers from some mythical

" average

diet " they arrive at a set of numbers which in some cases are even

LOWER than

RDAs. Only the German Federal Institute of Risk Assessment has done

the full math

required in the fine print:

http://www.alliance-natural-health.org/_docs/ANHWebsiteDoc_145.doc

 

As you can see, Codex is moving in the direction of the following

allowable

" Maximum Safe Permitted Levels " B-1: 1.3 mg, B-2: 4.5 mg, B-6: 5.4 mg,

Vitamin E:

15 mg, B-3 (Niacin) 17 mg, Vitamin C: 250 mg. This is ALL we'll be

allowed to

have access to unless we DEFEND AMERICA by STOPPING CAFTA & FTAA.

 

 

 

 

WHAT HAPPENED IN THE UK WILL HAPPEN IN THE US…

UNLESS WE FIGHT BACK!!

 

In the UK, when over a million vitamin consumers signed petitions

opposing the

harmonization of their liberal vitamin laws to a mindlessly

restrictive EU Food

Supplement Directive, the ruling Labor Party told them to " get lost. "

Their

attitude was that the UK is a member of the EU, and they were bound

and determined

to harmonize to EU law REGARDLESS of what anyone wanted (!!!)

 

Currently a pitched battle is waging on the European health freedom

front as

the Alliance for Natural Health http://www.alliance-natural-health.org

awaits the

outcome of a lawsuit that could set things right for consumers in the

EU if the

European Court of Justice's decision goes their way in June.

 

Meanwhile, CODEX looms large…IN JULY… and what happens in the EU could

determine the future course of things at Codex which has an

intentionally incremental

agenda that's designed to be very challenging to stop because its

being phased

in very gradually in the hope of not provoking a public backlash…

 

 

 

IAHF FIRST TO ALERT THE WORLD TO THIS THREAT IN 1996

 

 

I first called the Codex vitamin issue to global attention in 1996 via an

article in Life Extension Magazine. From the word go, the FDA and the

pharma

dominated vitamin trade associations have been doing massive spin

against my message,

and now, against the message of all of our allies in the hope of

sneaking their

genocide agenda past sleeping people.

 

Sadly, unless far more people spring into action, they will succeed,

but I am

optimistic that we CAN KILL CAFTA and FTAA and protect our access to

dietary

supplements!!

 

PLEASE: Take the simple action called for in the attached INFO SHEET,

and pass

it on!

For additional information please see the following article and call

it to the

attention of your local health food stores along with this one:

 

WHO SAYS WHATEVER HAPPENS AT CODEX DOES NOT AFFECT US LAW AND WHY DO

THEY SAY

IT? http://www.thelawloft.com/Freedom/050125_us_law.htm

 

 

CAFTA is in political trouble. It CAN be killed, and the FTAA along

with it.

Killing CAFTA and the FTAA is the best way to stop US dietary

supplement laws

from being harmonized to international Codex standards. We MUST kill

CAFTA/FTAA to

protect the USA from being forced in to a global totalitarian state run by

collectivists who think they have the right to dictate what we can and

cannot

ingest into OUR BODIES!!

 

Along with sending the form letter below, please also urge congressional

support for

H J Res 27 which would get us out of the WTO. Call your members of

congress on

both issues via the US Capital Switchboard at 202-225-3121.

 

PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT & DONATE TO IAHF TO HELP WITH OUR LOBBYING

EFFORT!!

---address below---

 

 

 

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

800-333-2553 N.America

360-945-0352 World