War on Vitamins
In response to a petition filed by a drug company, the American Association for Health Freedom reports that the US Food and Drug Administration has banned a naturally occurring form of Vitamin B6, pyridoxamine, deeming it a "new drug." This gives the FDA the authority to raid businesses and seize any products or supplements containing the now illegal pyridoxamine -- unless, of course, you are talking about fish, chicken, whole grain foods, nuts, or any of the other natural sources that produce this "drug." Any nutritional supplement that contains pyridoxamine is now considered "adulterated", and manufacturers are legally responsible for ceasing production at the risk of being arrested and shut down for drug trafficking.
This is not the first time the FDA has resorted to such actions. Ephedra, a well known herb used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, was labeled "dangerous at any dose" in its natural form yet pharmaceutical companies were allowed, and still are, to push over-the-counter cold medicines containing the same active chemical, ephedrine. A similar situation occurred with red yeast rice (and its lovastatin molecules) that are used to treat high cholesterol.
According to Natural News, "the bottom line is this: FDA approvals and bans have nothing to do with science and everything to do with protecting drug companies profits. If a drug company can make money selling a vitamin as a drug, the FDA will gladly ban the vitamin and protect the drug. If a drug company can rip off molecules from Mother Nature and patent them, the FDA will ban those same molecules found in nature."
Natural News will be posting a petition in the near future demanding FDA reform, so be sure to stay tuned in to their website for updates.
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No way do I support the ban, but
Why vitamin b6? If they really wanted to make a profit, wouldn't they be better off claiming something with more established benefits, like glucosamine or acetyl-l-carnitine?
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It would have been nice if
It would have been nice if the story had contained some details about why the commonly available vitamin was suddenly classed as a drug. From the Wikipedia article:
"Pyridoxamine is used as a dietary supplement, often as the hydrochloride salt, pyridoxamine dihydrochloride. However, in the United States, the FDA ruled in January 2009 that pyridoxamine must be regulated as a pharmaceutical drug because it is the active ingredient in Pyridorin, a drug designed to prevent the progression of diabetic nephropathy."
.. and from naturalnews.com:
"The latest attack against vitamins comes from an FDA petition filed by Medicure Pharma, Inc."
I would guess
I haven't done so yet, but in advance of personal research on this interesting observation, I'd guess that it would devolve on either issues of patent or issues of limitation to proprietary patents on one hand; or a pretext for permitting investigation of any OTC product that might contain such and so limit them or drive them out of business so as to profit the 'bigs'.
This, in turn, can lead us to examine any legal reprentation for the 'bigs' and the placement of 'friends' in any so-called 'regulatory' agency such as the FDA.
The FDA, the FCC, the FAA and the ATF should be scrutinized by the Public with an intelligent and rightly jaded eye as being susceptible to being rife with 'placements' of highly interested parties who regard the Constitution and the ideal of living 'under law' or a system of 'equity' as impediments to BUSINESS or special profits for 'selects'. A 'select' for dirty business is deemed by dirty business as 'elect'.
That is an issue current common facts accessible by anyone who pays attention to the news that shouldn't be deemed any 'surprise'.
We all have been informed about this diabolical principle for the last eight years with the very Vice President being personally profited by the very war he helped to instigate. Yet by public awareness, nothing has come of it in terms of legal strictures or punishments.
We allow by saying nothing. Demanding nothing for wrongs.
For such 'privileged' people, the commonplace expression of: 'it's not WHAT one knows, but WHO one knows, that matters' comprises under various cycles of political positioning an opportunity to RE-WRITE realities, and 'dumb-down' people by a flood of wrongs with no substantive objection forthcoming. Yea for evil? Is that it? Right?
Carp here, do nothing out there?
In terms of the idealism of the LIVING DOCUMENT of the Constitution: it is only ALIVE as long as living and aware PEOPLE who see evils being done impress on REPRESENTATIVES that they, their electors OBJECT.
And say: 'NO'. We must say "NO", or we, by silence say, resoundingly in our silence: "YES!"
Yea for all wrong!
And for a 'NO' to have any meaning at all, outside mere 'voting periods' with either keeping or replacement, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY WRITE OR TELEPHONE OUR REPS AND TELL THEM ABOUT OUR OBJECTIONS or OUR SENSE OF REPUGNANCE to what is going on under our recognisance and in their 'tenure'.
Marching out in the streets and carrying 'placards' or doing 'street theatre' is all well and good because it is part of our 'rights'. But it seems to me that such is just an apology for not doing what is really powerful and our responsibility: speaking directly to the seats of power and keeping a record of the responses from these.
The written record is the most powerful in terms of so-called 'meaningful periods' or 'election cycles'.
And the essentials of 'leverage' over reps has to do with JUSTICE AND JUDGEMENT.
So we have to also inform ourselves by actual research as to what is going on so that when we speak to Reps, we know whereof we speak. There is probably nothing more satisfying in terms of public contribution than to put a person of 'power' to shame for being ignorant of issues of the very PEOPLE he or she is 'supposed' to represent.
Instead, the commonality is neglected in favor of 'hot button' fanatics who take advantage of the neglect of the 'faithful' and 'neglectful' populaces.
'Politic' is 'game', and Representation is left to 'gamers'. Plyers of advantage to particular and non-representative interests. And the accumulation of such results in a highly skewed and perverted matrix that finally impinges on just people.
For what you writ here, and informing us here, you are due a debt of gratitude. For which I cannot thank you enough.
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Not just keeping a record but . . .
we must also PUBLISH, by verfiable means, the responses or lack of responses, to our objections. And so inform the whole and so expose the facts so as to inform all: such and so are faithful and sincere or not.
This requires more than just an 'email' record. An ACTUAL LETTER written TO a REP and their REPLY with an ACTUAL SIGNATURE should be required and as IS required by LAW to be probative in any case.
keep copy of all communications, and a record of any responses of lack thereof.
Faxes, emails, and stuff like that can all be faked.
Voice recordings of telephone calls can be tested for ligitimacy, but the written word and signed documents can be used as foundations for pure measure and issues to confine any speaker of any word to follow-through with what is said.
As JFK said in his book "Profiles in Courage", to paraphrase, reps are terrified by 'letter writers'.
I don't care that people question the authorship of this book. Jefferson didn't explore the West, either, but no one doubts that Lewis and Clark made it to the mouth of the Mighty Oregon River (Columbia) under the direction of Thomas Jefferson. Same with Kennedy and the "Profiles of Courage". (In case anyone wanted to be picayune about any example used here).
If one has any 'spiritual impulse' towards respect towards all for 'equality' or a principle of kindness and justice and fairness and even just honesty, it still takes more than just 'feeling' such a 'wish' or 'willing' such to be. It takes some definite action. Some outward doing. Even if it were only so as to affect the nearest one hundred yards from where one lives.
Otherwise, be prepared to seeing one's heaven reduced to the space of a postage stamp. And then . . . by inaction . . . nothing.
If nothing else, even just writing to a blog here or there, SOMETHING is being let out, pressed forth. Engage, learn, affect and maybe even just little by little: aid in effecting something good.
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Codex Alimentarius
The Codex law is real and
intersting thing about Vitamin B6!
vitamin B6 can increase the chemical known as meletonin in your brain, which does promote better memory regarding dreams. but, if you want to remember your dreams more, take meletonin supplements. theyre sold at basically every store, in the vitamin section. its natural, and has B6 in the pills, to help the meletonin get absorbed more. it makes you sleepy, but you dream more vividly, and remember way more dreams. id definitely suggest using it a couple nights.