3,361,596 members
12,339,752 petition signatures
$17,571,785,510 diverted from Big Pharma
Goverment to Abolish Freedom of Access to Nutritional Supplements
Health Freedom Alliance has been working for years to educate our readers about the benefits of vitamins and natural supplements and just when traditional medicine is starting to recognize the positive healthy effects the government just might take them away.
If Arizona Senator John McCain has his way, many of the supplements you rely on for good health will disappear. And the cost of the few you can still get will explode in price.
Earlier this month, Sen. McCain introduced a bill falsely labeled the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010” (S. 3002). Sounds good, right? Nothing to worry about .McCain says: “Legitimate dietary supplement companies should have nothing to fear from this legislation. The purpose of the bill is not to create a sweeping regulatory structure, but instead a targeted structure that provides for openness, transparency and safety.”
Well, here’s what McCain didn’t say.
This bill would require every person involved with supplements – all the way down to mom-and-pop health food stores and multi-level-marketing distributors — to register with the FDA. Next, every “dietary supplement facility” must turn over a complete list of the products and ingredients they sell or handle.
It gets worse. Should this bill become law, the state will determine if an ingredient can be sold. You see, under DSHEA passed in 1994, any ingredient sold before the bill passed could be sold legally forever. Well, no more.
Under this bill, the FDA will assume any ingredient “adulterated” unless “there is a history of use or other evidence of safety.” Manufacturers and distributors must provide the FDA “with information, including any citation to published articles, which is the basis on which the manufacturer or distributor has concluded that a dietary supplement containing such dietary ingredient will reasonably be expected to be safe.”
And guess who is the ultimate judge and jury? The FDA!
Please help us fight for your health freedom and forward this email to your friends and loved ones.
To call your Senator’s office in Washington, follow this link:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
This article could anger many people…..it is just another government (lobbyists) attempt to control the health supplement market because that is where people are turning for information and products to try to recapture their lost health via drugs and chemically processed foods. A one last stand for the pharmaceutical and corporate food industry. If this happens…..well, I guess it will just hasten all of us going back to individual sustainable farms for fresh, healthy food and working together in our local communities instead of relying on big corporations/government to provide for us. Hey–what is so bad about that? Is McCain really that stupid?
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danny Reply:
February 26th, 2010 at 3:17 am
As much as we would like to unconcern ourselves with seemingly defensible politics, this new bill would place the sale of unregistered supplements in an analogous position with scheduled drugs.
If the FDA merely provided a mechanism for warning the public of potentially harmful substances, and certifications for substances which are not toxic in the amounts which are suggested to consume, then this bill would be incredibly helpful for the general public. Alas, the FDA is a vehicle for prohibition, because the government can’t trust its own citizens to decide what is best for them.
If you are tired of people deciding what you can and cannot consume, which route of medical treatments you can take, and how you can treat your OWN children, then it is YOUR responsibility to find a representative (ie., a person who represents YOU) that will provide these abilities according to, and only according to, their voting history. Please do not vote for the person you think will win, or the person who is the most physically attractive, or the person who satisfies whichever petty social bias we all have.
These people are called representatives for a reason. How do you wish to be represented?
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Maureen Reply:
February 27th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
If this had the least little bit of true concern for safety, then why does congress not address the thousands, if not tens of thousands killed in association with prescription drugs each year?
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danny Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:08 pm
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
This bill merely exists under the guise of safety. Prohibition is never the answer. They neither have the right to tell us that we cannot take prescription drugs, nor do they have the right to tell us that we cannot take nutritional supplements. We are beings of free will and educated decisions.
Call your senator now and let them know how disgusted you are with the current state of affairs!
sarah Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 2:24 am
I cannot agree with you more-
“If this had the least little bit of true concern for safety, then why does congress not address the thousands, if not tens of thousands killed in association with prescription drugs each year?”
Mary Reply:
March 5th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
I can’t believe herbal remedies are considered dangerous. The side effects of just about all, if not all, prescription drugs is nothing less than terrifying!!!
Chris Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:12 am
Laurie:
You are missing the truth — at the same time they are trying to take our supplements away, they are doing their best to force the small farmers OUT OF BUSINESS. They want us to ONLY have access to factory farm products complete with all the toxins and lack of nutrition!! They want total control of all business in this country. “These elite” have a major goal that is to depopulate the world by 80-90%, and the way they will do this is to take our nutrition away and force feed us GMO food!!
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Suzie Q Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Thank you for finally getting to the point. I know this is true, but most Americans don’t and won’t accept it because they believe they are still living in “the American dream” where we all are “free” and the belief that “they wouldn’t do that to us”. I know because I have alienated most of my friends and family trying to tell them what is goin on. They don’t believe it and that is what the progressives are banking on.
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Patrick Kluesner Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Yeah, McCain REALLY IS that stupid.
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Jean Ludwig Reply:
March 7th, 2010 at 10:46 am
Actually he’s not so stupid. It was planned this way. It began with the dumbing down of America. Most people are so brain-washed and lacking of energy and thinking capacity that he knows they haven’t a clue about this and even if so, what to do about it.
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Donald Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 9:15 am
Well this is stupid of congress tring to control what people can do.People are turning back to nature to cure them selves of disease that are out there.also the goverment wants to control what we take for supplements. it is also to make the drug companies richer.I think the FDA is not working for the people it is working for the drug company.The FDA hasn’t protected the american people like it is suppose to.It was found to protect the people from drugs that can kill you not to make the company richer from people using there drugs that don’t work most of the time. The people of the USA need to start making congress work for them and not the other way around. We need to watch what they are doing in congress and hold them responisble for the action they take.We the people need to do what they can so congress notices use and pays attention to what we want.If not let then no there time in congress will be short and they can be replaced with somebody else.
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Interesting timing isn’t it? With all of the talk of “Health” Care reform. Why would McCain introduce this legislation now unless he is being instructed by the pharmacutical industrial complex? It is so obvious and obviously meant to limit our access to health freedom. Shame on you John McCain!!
SHAME!
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I am totally against any government control on our natural products. We as a country need to reduce the amount of drugs we are taking. The side affects can kill us. We need to learn that if we feed our bodies the nutrients that it needs it can heal properly. Let;s look at the causes not the masking medicines first. Let;s get educated as a people.
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This is the final straw! Humanity stand up, wake up, enlighten…and dispel these dark agendas. When our own bodies belong to Big Brother we either hang our heads in the sand and surrender ourselves into terminal slavery, or we stand together as One and say NO!
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Irene Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 10:56 pm
I agree…what we need is to send thousands of letters to John McCain and let him know just how stupid this is, especially when this whole health care bill is on the stage and needs to be delt with.
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Mickey Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:31 pm
Well said my friend. If we don’t stand up agasinst this kind of nonsense we will live to regret our irresponsibility.
Mickey
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How ironic is it that most Republicans claim that they are for “smaller government” and “less regulation”…and McCain comes up with this concept!!
Hippocrasy in action!
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Globalists have been trying to push Codex through for years and informed people know how it fits into the big pic of the NWO …
Apathy and ignorance of the masses is what they are counting on to enslave and control the masses .
PEOPLE POWER
by Boldarn , June 2008
For the past 15 years the population
Has been overrun with legislation
Now we have mass brain sedation
By mandatory fluoridation
What’s your next step in your plan for mankind
What else do you give us you don’t want us to find
In your disguised , gradual genocide
It is time to stand up as a people unite
To support life and claim our birthright
We must question ALL products on offer to us
Grow food in our soil, not kill the grass
Feed real food to our children instead of plastic
Not let legal toxins turn our bodies to acid
The earths future has a right to be
Self sustainable, pure and free
Its our responsibility to discern and sustain
So souls can learn in bodies tomorrow again
We can’t have a functional society
Without high levels of courtesy
We must abide by universal law
All other laws will lead to war
Accountable we’ll be held at the end of the day
For the flowers we wilted for pleasure and play
It’s time to turn our planet into a garden
To refuse Big Brother as our prison warden
Self empowerment through substance for every man
So mankind can rise to peace and freedom again
To raise our collective consciousness
It’s our eternal inheritance
For what it’s worth
As we all walk this earth
TOGETHER WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL
And that really does mean us all
The answer is clear on this fundamental decision
If we want a planet we must all listen
The voice of our mother screams beneath our feet
No longer can we afford to support Multi National Greed
We don’t have the right to poison the planet
In the name of progress and material asset
Or not one can live here any more
Our children’s screams silenced by Big Brothers war
Refuse to accept a destructive society
And demand freedom with equal responsibility !
This is a possible goal and we must do what has to be done !
Quote: SOMETIMES A GENERATION IS CALLED UPON TO BE GREAT
YOU CAN BE THAT GREAT GENERATION
By Nelson Mandela
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How come Sen. McCain does not rail against the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA who have permitted Avandia …a drug that has killed so many and Vioxx and other drugs that have maimed or killed so many people? The FDA and the Drug companies are allowed to put drugs on the market without insufficient testing..because the testing takes time and THAT cost them money..so obvious between their lobbyists and the I’ll look the other way FDA..they are releasing soo many dangerous drugs onto the market. I have been a nutritional consultant for many years and have YET to hear of anyone dying of a supplement they researched, took and as a result improved their health!!We should look very seriously at these Senators..both sides of the aisle, check their records,( I wish we could check their bank accounts) and let’s vote these money-hungry so called representatives of the public OUT…and vote some of the fair-minded, educated and willing to “know the facts” not “how much money is in it for ME” back into our Senate and House so we can truly be “represented” in our best interest!!
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Dear Friends: I am appalled that the government can have the power to come in and do this horrible thing to the public. They think we are so stupid that they have to “protect” us from natural products and supplements that are helping to keep us whole. Why don’t they show the public how the food industry keeps trying to fool us by changing the names of the ingredients in our foods, when there are chemicals and additives that can kill us in some things, and they don’t want us to know this. More control and more money for medications instead of encouraging us to fight for our health through learning the truth about nutrition and God’s way of healing. There should be a mighty outcry from people about this. I do not want to be enslaved to medications the rest of my life and seeing the side effects of those medicines and “cures” — they are using Americans as guinie pigs –we WANT OUR FREEDOM TO CHOOSE. I am ashamed of John McCain!
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“Their” time is ripe, with the global healthcare in place now. Hillary Clinton wanted to make herbal teas and other nutrients available only via prescription years ago. Thank God that didn’t go through..YET!…We have to keep letting our voices be heard even though this administration basically doesn’t care what American citizens want and expect. Reid tells us “stop crying” ? It’s all part of the NWO agenda of control. I believe adult Americans should be able to choose for themselves how to care for their own bodies, don’t you? I’m going to get a petition up on my facebook so I can send that to the White House and to various media. Look for me on FB Patricia Mackey to join up, ok?
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Wanda Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:57 am
Please let me know how to access your petition.Enough is enough and “We the people” need to stand up for ourselves.I would hate to be standing in the shoes of these polititions when they finally die and meet their maker,all the blood stains on their hands,may they rot in hell.
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This would be the icing on the cake for the pharmaceutical companies to have their disciples (the fda)to control the natural health industry.Sickness means dollars to them!!
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The simplicity is that governments only do a couple things with any efficiency. The first is stop people from having or doing those things they want. The second is tax anything and everything that will provide the politician with a standard of living he/she finds suitable. This last thing is usually what brings on revolution for few nations can support an ARISTOCRATIC group that produces nothing of any real value. While I do not agree with the violence in a revolution I wonder what alternative can be used by some future generation. Dealing with the degree of dishonesty rampant among those that demand they be referred to as “honorable” is a sad joke. Status has once again become vastly more important than the truth.
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I do not take drugs and I do take natural
supplaments. That is my choice and it should stay my choice. I have been taking
natural supplaments most of my life and i am
healthy. I think the FDA should be abolished
and people who care about people should be
put in charge if you can find anyone who cares anymore. I also think sen Mccain, the
Fda and the goverment should be ashamed of
theirselves
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We should have the freedome to choose what we put in our bodies.In this day and age we can easily check out dangers for ourselves. The FDA has already taken our fresh almonds away and the pasturised ones taste terrible . Supplements saved my mother after she had a stroke and she lived another 34 years as she took them. I have taken them for years, too, and everyone says I look much younger than I do.
Personally I think our congress is working against the people and for the drug companys who would like to get our major vitamins and minerals classed as dangerous drugs. Wake up America and get the right people in there who want to work for us and not BIG BUISENESS. Thanks for listening.
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Wow! I am currently on a program to get off of medication for type 2 Diabetes. With help from natural supplements. My adrenal gland was “fried” with Atenolal. Was prescribed that for HBP. Went from borderline to full fledged type 2 Diabetes in 1 year. Dr. was considering putting me on insullin. My glucose #’s and blood pressure are much better now. Hope to be off all meds by June of this year,, take that Mc Cain!!
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So is the government going to tell me when I can breath too? I’m so sick and tired of the EPA and the Drug companys making us not be able to have a choice in how we want to live. Are we in The USSR now?
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Take action now or lose another piece of our freedoms.
Copy and paste the link (http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm), contact your senator, TODAY. Note the name of the bill (Sen. McCain introduced a bill falsely labeled the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010” (S. 3002), and be concise, clear, rational and reasonable in your opinion.
For example, “I am absolutely opposed to Sen. McCain’s bill, S. 3002. His bill is designed to take away free enterprise and my ability to freely choose how I will maintain my own personal wellness. The regulations proposed are biased against free market economy and un-democratic. I am spreading the word. Please vote against this bill. Thank you.”
Timing is critical.
Every voice is important.
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Pamela Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 12:51 pm
Thanks for the information and for providing your little write-up. It is helpful for very busy people. Boxer, Feinstein and McCain have been duly notified. And I’m spreading the word.
P.
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As far as I am concerned, limiting our access to nutritional suppliments would be an act of war! This is not what the general public of the United States wants, – - IT IS WHAT CORPORATIONS WANT. If our representatives want to side with the corporations, I will see their actions as being treasonous (PERIOD)
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I agree that it would be an act of war against the people of this country if the government succeeds is taking over the supplement industry. I don’t need some government idiot telling me what I can take or not take. I have been taking supplements for years and have
bothered to educate myself on the use of supplements. It is as if the government from
top to bottom has dedicated itself to the destruction of the American people.
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Shame on you John McCain and all others involved, this is wrong!
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Larry Albritton Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 9:50 am
Mr.John McCain,
You have just exposed yourself as a right wing liberal!!! WHY are you doing this? When prescription drugs has KILLS thousands every year, yet you say nothing to the pharmaceutical companies. This just shows who you work for. You are just another SORRY politician!!! Who has you in their back pocket???
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This is such a bad idea! John McCain and all people involved is this don’t know what they are doing….So very, very wrong!
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Denise Reply:
March 2nd, 2010 at 11:05 am
I’m abolutely furious that they are doing this to us. For years the FDA has been trying to get a corner on the market of vitamin supplements. I pray this does not go forward. We all know that FDA approved “anything” is detrimental to our well being. Their chemical compounds, genetically engineered seeds and flu shots are designed exclusively for profit and to bring harm and destruction to our physiology.
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If there were true concern about safety, why is the pharmaceutical industry creating so many drugs that have not been fully tested, and often taken off the market AFTER many thousands of people have died? Their ads admit that certain drugs can cause hostility, anger, depression, thoughts of suicide, and even death! What condition could be worse than death? If more people took the time to research and follow through on the benefits of supplements instead of drugs, a lot of money could be saved in any health care plan and this would be a healthier country. Don’t take away our freedom to choose. How much does McCain know about supplements? We have a right to choose what is good for us, and are not harming anyone else by our choice for ourselves. The same is true for chemical additives and coloring to our food. Please do not approve Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (S. 3002). It would be a disaster.
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McCain supposedly represents all of the people of Arizona, is he being supported by the Native and Hispanic communities in this farce—or is he racist and doesn’t care what these cultures have known and practiced for generations before McCain politics!
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We need to protect and safeguard our right to purchase and use nutritional vitamins and supplements. This is as important as our right to purchase nutritional food products.
Governmental regulation of pharmaceuticals is understandably justified. Governmental regulation of nutritional supplements is not justified.
At a time when health care reform is at its zenith, it should be remembered how important it is for people to do everything we can to protect health and prevent disease.
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Please do not approve Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010 (S.3002)There are too many people being kept healthy by taking supplements and it will cost this country
billions for pharaceuticals, surgeries, dental care, Medical Doctors, hospitals,
you name it. If you want to keep down costs of medical care keep your hands off Dietary Suppliments. If we want freedom in the land
this is one way you can keep it that will be beneficial to all.
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Don’t take away my option to take supplemental vitamins!! Doesn’t the government have enough control over our daily lives? Why won’t politicians understand that Americans can make informed choices without government interference.
I have no stomach. I need supplemental vitamins because of malabsorption in my body. I cannot afford to buy prescription vitamins – Potassium alone would cost me over 100 dollars per month! Please!! Don’t do this!! I don’t want to die because politicians think they know what’s best for me and the rest of the country. You haven’t a clue what the average American goes through trying to live day to day with poor or non-existent health care. The government fatcats will never want for health care but we will. Leave our supplemental vitamins alone!!
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“John McCain and all people involved is this don’t know what they are doing”
Dear People
If we are EVER going to be free we have to start with the truth. These sellouts KNOW EXACTLY what they are doing. They are selling out the health and lives of the people they purportedly serve. Take a little time to look at CODEX. This plan has been ongoing since the end of WWII, about the same time the PTB decided there were too many people on this good earth.
ALL the laws in the health field MUST comport to CODEX. Sure McLame is being payed off but he is but a cog in the machine that is slowly killing us.
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Supplements saved my life 5 years ago. They reversed inflammatory arthritis in my hands, they corrected IBS, they eliminated painful fibroids on my ovaries and many other wonderful things. The doctors did not know how to treat these things. Isn’t that crazy? I got well on my own, choosing and eating a better diet and taking specific supplements for inflammation of the digestive tract which was the cause of everything else. We can all do this. Contact me at http://www.ayurveda-bliss.com for more information about how. We don’t need drugs or the current Western type doctors who only know drugs and taking body parts out. Educate yourselves and be prepared for Codex. Get yourself a nice garden and friends to help and cooperate with. How can the government realistically enforce such a stupid law? We CAN still grow herbs and food!
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The government would like to think they can put us away if we don’t follow the newly thought up ways of control. Well, there’s just to many of us and what war! Watch hell come out of the wood works now.
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Unbelievable. Doesn’t John McCain have anything better to do. I wish we could fire them all.
More money into the pockets of the drug lords. “Let me give you a prescription… it will make you feel better, and destroy your ability to think. Shame on you John McCain.
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I can’t believe that John McCain has done this! No wonder I didn’t vote for him! Doesn’t Congress have any feelings for the people anymore? Obviously not. I personally think we should fire all of them and start all over again with a new government.
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Don’t these issues ever get settled? It seems that the price of freedom is STILL constant vigilance. Next election I am voting against every incumbent. I say, THROW THE BASTARDS OUT.
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My husband is living a NORMAL life – COPD FREE, due to NATURAL, healthy, organic, safe products. He is not on steroids, because we detoxed, lost weight and he is a HEALTHY 65 year old man – does not look his age.
My parents 93 & 91 are healthy from eating off the NON-POLLUTED land (farmers)and in later years taking nutritional supplements!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I agree with all the comments! It is amazing the ignorance of government it is appalling. We are here to own our lives and make INFORMED decisions for our health and the truth that are life giving not have some greedy power hungry ignorant asses attempt to throw their dispicable lowly selves thwarting and blocking our HEALTH! and CHOICES! Get rid of these idiots.
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Mccain is not stupid, the congress is not stupid. They want more power over your every move, more control over everything you do, and this bill is one more way to gain that power and control.
The stupid ones are the voters that vote for name recognition or good looks rather than on the results of researching the candidates. Stupid voters are the ones to blame as they are ones who have gotten us into this mess.
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John McCain; Something is wrong with that guy’s thinking,look at what pharmaceuticals did to his wife.
Spending too much time in the hallway’s rubbing elbows with the Lobbyists.
Thing’s are getting totally out of hand.
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Oh boy! Here we go AGAIN! A similar law was proposed quite a few years back where the FDA wanted to take control of natural supplements (especially herbal supplements) and make them only available through pharmaceutical companies. Big surprise there! When are Americans going to wake up and realize that the majority of people in government AREN’T working for the people; they’re working for themselves to line their own pockets and keep the rest of us down. This is just another example of all the corruption and conspiracies that exist in our government. A bunch of old white rich men are running our country and who do you think pays their bills? MORE old white rich men. Surprise surprise surprise! Haha! You have to laugh if it wasn’t so sad.
I’m just wondering when this country is going to wake up and revolt against the government that is calling the shots for the rest of us with lies and deceit. Enough is enough! So sad.
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I have a question. Would this bill stop GMO’s from being put into food? Genitically Modified Organisims … they are actually changing the DNA in the food we are eating with the bare minimum of testing.
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It is becoming increasingly difficult to “trust” any of our food sources. The government has allowed genetically engineered produce to filter into the markets without any warning to consumers. The use of pesticides,hormones, fish farms etc. has put a whole nation of people at risk. Up until now, we have been able to rely on suppliments to help provide the nutrition that has been eradicated from our “natural” food sources. Let the “natural food sources” govern themselves!
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John Mc Cain had a sterling reputation as a POW; for 5 years, he had exemplary behavior and loyalty to the USA. He became a Senator with intent to protect its’ citizens, What happened? You certainly don’t need the money to be in BIG CORPORATIONS back pocket; your wife earns plenty to keep the homefires burning even if you don’t earn anything. WAKE UP and smell the roses, withdraw this petition ASAP. It’s FRAUD!
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We as people of the USA require the right to make our own choices on Health care. We do not want or needGovernment regulations On health stores and certainly cannot accept registration or regulation from through or by the FDA or any other Government agency. We will choose our own health programs without Government involvement.This bill is fraudulant, and totally unacceptable….
Victor Arney
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Apparently John feels he needs extra money to win the primary for reelection to the Senate from here in AZ against a truly conservative and honest opponent–J D Hayworth. The information given above is accurate about the perfidy of the FDA and the drug cartel!
Can you imagine having to get a prescription for Vitamin C and then only for 250 mg or less?
Sara Reynolds MD
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just another takeover and mccain of all people he will be the next one out of a job back stabbing sob idiot. i rely on my vitamins and herbs and organic foods to stay healthy so i don’t have to go to the doctors as much what is wrong with this effed up government stay out of our lives or pay the price idiotic government ran b.s.
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THE U.S. OLYMPIC COMMITTEEE WANTS TO BAN YOUR VITAMIMS
Yes, they have asked McCain to push this issue. They are incredibly wary of damaging their brand. We should attack all the sports organisations that support this proposal.
Quote from his speech at the Senate:
…. Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, National Hockey League, U.S. Olympic Committee, American College of Sports Medicine, American Swimming Coaches Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association, PGA Tour, U.S. Lacrosse, U.S. Tennis Association, U.S.A. Cycling, U.S.A. Gymnastics, U.S.A. Swimming, U.S.A. Track and Field, and U.S.A. Triathlon. ….
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressOffice.FloorStatements&ContentRecord_id=f7c32a83-95c4-8994-4337-84116d678997&Region_id=&Issue_id=
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I can’t believe this guy. Our national unemployment rate is terribly high, and he wants to introduce a bill that will close thousands of small businesses, putting even more out of work. At the same time time, taking away every Americans freedom to keep themselves healthy. What’s next, Oxygen?
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Unfortunately, the FDA is controlled these days by the drug industry, which means it cannot be trusted to decide what should be available to the American people. As bad as supplements may be (in that they are not very well self regulated and may contain less or more than they claim), they are still better than taking drugs, all of which have many severe side effects. People just don’t want to take them unless they are quite sick. Unfortunately, for this reason, it would not be helpful for the FDA to take over regulating food supplements.
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I received this reply from senator Feinstein
I received your letter expressing your concerns about the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act.” I appreciate the time you took to write and apologize for the delay in my response.
As you may know, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates dietary supplements differently than it does conventional foods and prescription or over-the-counter drugs. Under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, the manufacturer of the dietary supplement is responsible for ensuring the safety of the product before marketing it to the public. Dietary supplements do not need FDA approval before being marketed, however the FDA is responsible for taking action against an unsafe product once it has been introduced into the marketplace.
On February 4, 2010, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduced the “Dietary Supplement Safety Act” (S. 3002), which would require manufacturers of dietary supplements to register with the FDA and disclose the ingredients used in their products. It would also give the agency mandatory recall authority if a product is found to be unsafe or harmful to consumer health. This bill has been referred to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.
Although I am not a member of this Committee, please be assured that I have noted your opposition to this bill and will be sure to keep your comments in mind should it come before the full Senate.
Once again, thank you for writing. If you have any further questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841. Best regards.
Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator
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Please vote against this bill. Big Pharma is lobbying for this for monetary gain only.
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If the FDA is so concerned about supplements and public health, why don’t they address and ban the worst additive to be introduced into the public food supply….High Fructose Corn Syrup is ruining the health of our population. We have an epidemic of obesity which is more harmful to a person’s health than SMOKING, but try to find food that don’t contain this deadly additive…it’s even in our bread…you know, the “staff of life”. Before the FDA attacks the supplements, it should clean up or food….but then, what’s in it for the FDA to do that?
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