A Taste of Things to Come
First they came for the B6……
(NaturalNews) The FDA has effectively banned a naturally-occurring form of vitamin B6 called pyridoxamine by declaring it to be a drug, reports the American Association for Health Freedom. Responding to a petition filed by a drug company, the FDA declared pyridoxamine to be “a new drug.” Pyridoxamine occurs naturally in fish, chicken and other foods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_B6), putting the FDA in the strange position of banning a substance from dietary supplements even though it is already present in the food supply.
So will this ruling on pyridoxamine affect nutritional supplements? Yes, any supplements containing this form of vitamin B6 can now be declared “adulterated” by the FDA. Manufacturers of such supplements can be arrested and shut down for engaging in “illegal drug trafficking.” Such is the nature of the FDA’s agenda to criminalize nutritional supplement companies and limit consumers’ access to Mother Nature’s remedies.
The pyridoxamine “drug,” by the way (which is just pyridoxamine), is designed to prevent the progression of diabetic nephrothapy (kidney disease). Most likely, the FDA will eventually approve the “drug” for that condition, even while claiming vitamin B6 supplements containing the very same chemical are useless and insert.
This is another classic oppression tactic of the FDA: Ban the herb, but promote the drug using the same chemicals.
Now McCain calls it a “no brainer” to come after all other supplements as well. I happen to agree. You have to have “no brains” to think this is a good idea.
The hypocritical contrast between the regulation of drugs that can kill and the proposed hyper-regulation for food products — vitamins, minerals, herbs — is as plain as the nose on everyone’s face. A Pandora’s box of intended and unintended legal complications and government harassment of nutritional supplement manufacturers and sellers could very well be unleashed if this bill is passed. There are already existing laws on the books that protect consumers from misbranded, fraudulent, or contaminated products. Granting the FDA additional regulatory authority over nutritional supplements seems a bit suspicious, especially considering the influence the enormous pharmaceutical industry has wielded over the research, development, and approval process inside the FDA. Let’s face it, the FDA has been no friend and often has been positively antagonistic toward the nutritional supplement industry. Therefore one wouldn’t set the wolf to guarding the sheep without dire consequences.
In this perverted overly-regulated country, food is now toxic, and drugs and chemicals are safe for ingestion, no matter the harm that results. This inversion should remind us that those who best have the consumers health and safety interests at heart are the consumers themselves. It is big government that has a proven track record of not protecting the public. And it is big government that is seeking to take away yet another individual freedom, the right to choose one’s own treatment. (Where is the pro-choice crowd on this one; the ones that claim, “my body, my choice?”)
Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains
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Combine this with genetically modified foods and you have a health recipe for disaster.
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we are VERY fast approaching the point where:
- Everything NOT forbidden is mandatory
- Everything NOT mandatory is forbidden
That applies to food…actions…and, of course, speech!
Brave New World, 1984 and Solyent Green…all rolled into one!
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I don’t know if anyone hear remembers Metabolife, which the FDA eventually shut down. I heard that guys story a while back and was totally diguisted (I’d like to say shocked, but…) when I heard some of the info. Metabolife was attacked viciously by the media. In the mean time, first the IRS went after the company for tax evasion, but found nothing after 5 years. Then the FDA stepped in and declared the main ingredient a harmful drug, prompting lawsuit after lawsuit from every ill person that ever took the stuff. Then they shut them down, but big pharma sells the exact same ingredient at 3 times the dose as a presciption weight loss pill. Sound familiar??
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For regulation, surely there must have been mass casualties from vitamins, right?
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#3 I forgot about that!
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Some of the Metabolife story is here, along with info for his book, “The rape of Cinderella”
http://www.metabolifebook.com/
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This reminds me of gun bans. Swimming pools kill more children each year than guns do, yet where are the swimming pool bans? How many legislators who are against guns have homes with pools?
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putting the FDA in the strange position of banning a substance from dietary supplements even though it is already present in the food supply.
Like banning co-2.
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Killer whales can be hazardous to your health. Maybe we should ban them.
I know one in Florida that should be lamp oil by now.
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Well of course the average person is too stupid to make these choices themselves….
The radical left must apply government force to take that choice away from us – “for our own good” of course!
Gee boss, thanks for being so good to us!
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#9 Get with the program Kulak!
Animals have rights! They can live in absolute freedom!
People dont have any – unless you count the ones that Tom Harkin and the rest of the Democrats are kid enough to “create” for us!
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Harkin is a joke and a fraud.
But this is America.
And.
Ain’t America great?
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I do feel sorry for the gal at Sea World…but damn, the Killer Whale’s defense is simple: “Your Honor, I’m a KILLER whale…what part of that didn’t they understand??” Case dismissed.
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#13 Yes, the whale would be found not guilty based on his inalienable right to consider any other lifeform smaller then him food…..
Harkin is a total authoritrian lunatic……case study number 1 in how the regressive philosohpy threatens our freedom and rights!
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#7 JM – so can I get back onto the feature poster roster any time soon?
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Yes, I need to make your email in to a post right quick, and I’ll put it up.
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#16 Ok, cool and thanks!
I am sorry I havent written more original material lately……its just that myself and the family have this “addiction” to eating on a regular basis, sleeping in doors, and paying our taxes so Obama doesnt seize our property….just alot of work lately…..
I am hoping we can finally put CrappyCare to the sword for good real soon…..
I want to write more articles about core conservative principles (which I see as personal freedom, equal protection of Individual Rights, Free Markets, Constitutional/limited government, and Federalism), what should be a practical conservative political platform and what would be an ideal one, and some stuff on the leftist/statist mindset that leads to unchecked government intervention and loss of liberty….
We need to go on the offensive after defeating CrappyCaree to educate more people and win converts to the conservative cause!
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“Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, rejected reports Thursday that President Obama has a so-called Plan B for health-care reform.
“I don’t think there is a Plan B as far as I know, and I’m pretty involved in all these conversations,” Sebelius said in an interview before the start of Obama’s bipartisan health care summit. The secretary was addressing reports Thursday morning that Obama, depending on the summit outcome, is weighing alternative, more modest approaches to reform.
“No doubt that along the way as every draft is put together there’s lots of different options,” Sebelius said. “The president has made it absolutely clear that he supports comprehensive reform, and he urges the final step to be done in the House and the Senate, who have both passed comprehensive reform bills. That’s what today’s meeting is about. That’s what the future is about. I don’t think he’s interested in what other issues are out there. He wants comprehensive reform that deals with cost, deals with coverage, deals with changing the insurance rules once and for all.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0210/33509.html
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“Here in Britain we look at the continuing battle as to whether Obama is a socialist or not as a rather odd American quibble. In Britain we have no problem defining people as socialists, nor do people on the left have a problem calling themselves socialists. It is not that those of us on the conservative right do not believe that socialism is a bad doctrine. We do, and we see evidence of its continual destruction of the country on a day-to-day basis, but we have always had socialism living quite openly amongst us. We are therefore able to see and recognize it quite calmly as a day-to-day occurrence in politics, just as one recognizes the flu. We wish it didn’t exist, but it does, and so we get on with our lives, trying to avoid catching it in the process.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/obamas_socialism.html
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#19 I wonder what the color of the sky is in Biden’s world…..green? no wait, purple? Nah, gotta be Red!
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I just snagged the comment to add to it for a post. Found the best tie in…..
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“All these verbal gymnastics that are used to avoid stating the obvious may be rather humorous for someone watching from over the Atlantic, but for Americans, such delusion is a very serious matter. It is important, not just for the American right, but for the American people as a whole, to realise just exactly who it is they have elected to office. With the approval numbers dropping almost daily for the president, it appears that it is sinking in for the generally center-right American public. However, when people on the right start being “concerned” about describing Obama as what he clearly is, in part due to the hysteria that both sides of the political spectrum exhibit when the word “socialist” is used, then it damages the effectiveness of opposition to him. Instead of being able to define what Obama’s aims are in his presidency, those on the left and on the right keep pushing Obama into a slightly left-of-center, non-ideological fog. Such a political move is deceitful, and it does not allow the American public to get a clear perception of just what they have voted into the White House”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/obamas_socialism.html
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This is the B6 police! Open your medicine cabinet!
As I thought, 2 counts of vitamin abuse and 1 count of no Somna in the home. Take them away!
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/02/americas_health_care_options.html
“Taxation for the failure to purchase health insurance is also a bust. The federal government simply does not have the power to dictate that people buy a product.
The current bill also seeks to dictate the terms of insurance contracts. It might come as a surprise to some people, but the United States of America is not a dictatorship. Congress might regulate how contracts are enacted and fulfilled, but the ability to dictate terms of contract is not one of its enumerated powers. Moreover, no regulation applied to the insurance system could possibly lower costs. If such regulations followed the common pattern, then the likely outcome would be an increase in costs.
All of the insurance reforms contained within the current bill are obvious duds”
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“From the standpoint of an entitlement system, it is apparent that we are not currently in a “health care crisis,” but in a health care surplus: More people are receiving government-paid health care than the system can handle.
A third-party payment system may influence costs, but the federal government does not have any means for imposing a solution through the payment system, which invalidates the entire rationale of the current bill. Congress must restart from scratch.”
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My bad: only been about 7 months now not a year:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584392,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/16/world/main6212550.shtml
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I love the comment from the “retired journalist 1980-2004″… as if that was really relevant.
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23- Yeah wtf with his stupid vitamin crap, I’m not even going to ask why McCain is even bothering to get involved. wtfo? Err… hmm seems to me the nations got some bigger concerns to deal with at the moment.