Legislation Designed to Destroy Natural Medicine Industry

The Canadian equivalent of the FDA is rattling their sabers and threatening comprehensive new laws that could potentially criminalize literally all aspects of alternative and natural medicine. Big Pharma is obviously in support of such moves, so you can bet that with their financial and political sway, we may soon face increased challenges to our health freedoms here in the US. Not only does this legislation seek to restrict the sale of herbs, vitamins, and any other substances on the target list, but would also forbid the private use or production of such remedies in an individual's own home.

The days of being able to "doctor" ourselves at home, or more importantly, using natural substances (even foods) to prevent disease, may be limited if governments and other powerful organizations have their way. These attacks on natural health freedoms are a clear and present danger to our welfare. It is important the freedom-loving people everywhere stand up and make their views known to our government representatives while we still have a chance to make a difference. Several years ago, the homeschooling movement banded together to pool their political influence, and the freedom to homeschool has been preserved despite the agenda of some to stamp it out. Perhaps we should learn a lesson from these home-educators and begin to apply similar tactics in order to maintain our natural health freedoms.


Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
by Mike Adams

(NaturalNews) A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.

The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved "therapeutic substances." Learn about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the Stop51.com website: http://www.stopc51.com

New enforcement powers allow Canadian government to seize your home or business.

At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new "enforcement" powers to the enforcement agents who claim to be "protecting" the public from dangerous unapproved "therapeutic agents" like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org website, the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government's enforcement agents to:

-Raid your home or business without a warrant
-Seize your bank accounts
-Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
-Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for the expense involved in storing all the products they stole from you

C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized as a "controlled activity," and anyone caught engaging in such "controlled activities" would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other "controlled activities" include labeling bottles, harvesting plants on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving herbs or supplements would be criminalized...)

There's more, too. C-51 is the Canadian government's "final solution" for the health products industry. It's a desperate effort to destroy this industry that's threatening the profits and viability of conventional medicine.

Natural medicine works so well -- and is becoming so widely used -- that both the Canadian and American governments have decided to "nuke" the industries by passing new laws that effectively criminalize anyone selling such products. They simply cannot tolerate allowing consumers to have continued access to natural products. To do so will ultimately spell the destruction of Big Pharma and the outdated, corrupt and criminally-operated pharmaceutical industry that these criminally-operated governments are trying to protect.

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