Post by Lux on May 3, 2008 10:43:03 GMT 12
Subject: Big Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
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Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big
Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
by Mike Adams (see all articles by this author)
(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: 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
thugs 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 ((http://
educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would allow the
Canadian government's thugs 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.
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
www.naturalnews.com/023121.html
Canada's C-51 Law May Outlaw 60% of Natural Health Products; Big
Pharma Pushing to Criminalize Supplements
by Mike Adams (see all articles by this author)
(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: 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
thugs 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 ((http://
educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would allow the
Canadian government's thugs 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.