Homeopathy in Danger in EU

sreischman · #1 (**permalink**) 12th March 2002, 02:04 PM

This was just posted on Minutus. It should concern all of us, and hopefully the EU members on the board can make some noise.

Subject: Europe is once again standing at the crossroads!

> Planned Europe-wide ban on vitamin therapies
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> Dear Advisers,
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> Europe is once again standing at the crossroads. On 12th March the European Parliament decides whether the people of Europe will continue to have unrestricted access to side- effect free natural therapies or whether the pharmaceutical lobby will succeed in reducing the European Parliament to the role of the pharmaceutical cartel's Strasbourg puppet show.
>
> Never before in history has there been such an intense struggle over the right of the European people to natural, effective and side-effect free
health care. To date over 400 million (!) e-mails have been sent to EU politicians demanding this right and rejecting the unscrupulous EU Directive
providing for a Europe-wide ban on vitamin therapies and whole groups of natural substances, for example natural amino acids.
>
> Only by being aware of the background facts can we understand the aggression with which the pharmaceutical lobby and its political marionettes
are acting. How, otherwise, can we explain that there are still MEPs, particularly those from the pharmaceutical republic of Germany, who are ignoring the 400 million no votes against this
Europe-wide muzzling law; that there are still EU politicians who believe in the pharmaceutical
lobby fairy tale of consumer protection from vitamins and other natural substances, whereas every child now knows that no-one has ever died from taking vitamins, whereas every year hundreds of thousands of people die from the lethal side effects of pharmaceutical drugs (remember Lipobay?); that the planned EU Directive would ban precisely those natural substances which have now proved vital to the breakthrough in the natural fight against cancer: optimum doses of vitamin therapies in conjunction with natural amino acids such as lysine and proline. These are now to be outlawed under this unscrupulous EU Directive because they threaten a billion-pound
market in chemotherapy and other hazardous anti-cancer drugs; that the newly-erupting EU corruption scandal has now revealed that the
pharmaceutical lobby has managed to infiltrate a member of the supervisory board of the second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world, in the person of EU commissar Bolkenstein, into the 'cabinet of Europe' , without this man ever having been elected by anyone.
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> Are you really surprised that the debate about EU corruption seems never-ending, given that the unelected and anonymous pharmaceutical cartel
is sitting in the highest political body in Europe and is now issuing its own laws from there?

In view of these alarming facts, the eyes of millions of Europeans have turned to Strasbourg, where the European Parliament votes on the EU
Directive for the banning of natural therapies on 12th March. EU politicians have the following choice: either to send out a message against corruption of the EU by the pharmaceutical lobby by rejecting this directive, or to vote for it, and in so doing reduce the entire European Parliament in the eyes of the world to a Strasbourg puppet show run by the pharmaceutical cartel. Worse still, any such decision would endanger the health and lives of millions of Europeans.

On 12th March every European politician present will be taking the most important decision of his or her life - and they will have to take responsibility for it.

What you should do before the vote on 12th March:
> - Phone the MEPs from your region, either in their UK or Brussels office and insist on speaking to the MEP personally. As a voter you have that right. Speak up for yourself!
> - Demand a clear no vote from the MEP on the EU Directive on Dietary Supplements on 12th March. No MEP has the right to ignore 400 million votes.
> - Tell the MEPs that if they do not vote against this muzzling law, the debate on EU corruption will grow still louder, because one group and one group alone will profit from the outlawing of natural therapies: the pharmaceutical industry.
> - Point out that the consumer protection argument used by the pharmaceutical lobby to attempt to force this directive through the European Parliament is ridiculous in face of the facts: no person has ever died from taking vitamins, whereas the side effects of pharmaceutical drugs have become the fourth -most common cause of death.
> - Say that it is unacceptable for laws affecting the health of all the people of Europe to be made by a commission for which no-one has voted. Make it clear that it is unacceptable, that members of the supervisory boards of pharmaceutical companies are sitting on the European Commission (e.g., EU commissar Bolkenstein) from where they are writing Europe's laws in the interest of pharmaceutical companies and other economic interest groups. Say to them: that's corruption!
> - Ask them: who voted you into the European Parliament? As EU politicians, was it the voters, the people of Europe to whom you are answerable or the big multinationals?
> - Insist that the MEPs allow a voice for the greatest peoples' movement in Europe and the 400 million votes for natural health on 12th March. Demand that Dr. Rath is not muzzled but is allowed, on behalf of humanity, to speak in the European Parliament and officially inform the MEPs.
> - Vote for the right to free access to natural therapies in Europe. For more information go to the website www.petition450.org. There you can cast your vote by clicking a mouse and send your protest to all the responsible politicians. Vote before March 12th.
> - Speak to friends and acquaintances about the breakthrough by vitamin research and cellular medicine in the fight against cancer. For the first time it is possible to combat the causes of cancer by natural means and with no side effects. For further information go to http://www.stopping-cancer-naturally.org. Also draw their attention to Dr. Rath's lecture series at the end of March (see box below).
> - Tell your acquaintances about the connection between the progress of vitamin research and the pharmaceutical industry's machinations to outlaw this information via new muzzling laws, simply in order to protect their billion-pound markets in pharmaceutical drugs.
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> 12th March 2002 is an important date for the people of Europe. Do your bit to see that the decisions made in the European Parliament on that day serve our health interests rather than the pharmaceutical industry trade in disease. Do it now.

Best wishes

Dr. Matthias Rath

Divina · #2 (**permalink**) 12th March 2002, 03:41 PM

And this is just in time to coincide with that inspiring article on Arsenicum 6x--written to caution the world about the dangers of homeopathic drugs...

Am I alone in thinking it is quite a curious thing that a 10 year old "case" of death by arsenic poisoning should happen to find a reason for publication...in a medical journal...for this month's issue?

Divina

Simone · #3 (**permalink**) 13th March 2002, 04:15 AM

Its funny. I'm either deaf, blind or dumb, but I have not heard anything about this legilsation going through and it gets voted on in another 8 hours.

How is the media are so very silent about it?

Hmmm?

Nigel · #4 (**permalink**) 13th March 2002, 08:45 AM

The news is there, it's just been buried.

From the BBC :-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/wor...00/1867772.stm

From the Independent :-

http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=272795

And while we're at it here's a damning expose of homeopathy from the Observer :-

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Ar...371425,00.html

Snoopy · #5 (**permalink**) 13th March 2002, 12:25 PM

Dear Shirley,

I was going to post this article myself for our European friends but you've saved me the trouble. There's no doubt that we are surrounded by hostile forces! Our remedies cost just a few dollars compared to a $100.00 prescription for
Amoxicillin I was recently given by my dentist--which gave me a stomach ache so I couldn't take it(!) but luckily Nitric Acid 200 was all I needed! I feel so sorry for people who don't know about homeopathy; how they must suffer!

Snoopy

helenaz · #6 (**permalink**) 14th March 2002, 03:35 AM

Nigel,

Thanks for posting the links.

I was just wondering whether such articles appear often or not. I mean the article about "pills that cost too much". And I think I noticed some discrepancies in the language of the author, he seems to have made some research in the topic too...

Hoping to hear someone's opinion,

Helena Z.

sreischman · #7 (**permalink**) 14th March 2002, 03:37 AM

Has anyone heard how the vote went?

Shirley

Simone · #8 (**permalink**) 14th March 2002, 03:49 AM

Sprechen sie Deutsche?

Quote:

(Matthias Rath B.V. - 2002-03-13)

13. März 2002, der Tag an dem die Menschen Europas ihr Parlament lahm legten
Bis heute wurden weltweit 550 Millionen Stimmen abgegeben, die für die Menschen Europas freien Zugang zu Naturheilverfahren fordern. Am Mittwoch früh war die Protest-Lawine so angestiegen, das im Europäischen Parlament das gesamte Email-System lahm gelegt wurde. Der EU-Präsident wurde vom Parlament aufgefordert Maßnahmen zu prüfen, damit die Abgeordneten wieder kommunizieren können.

An diesem historischen Tag drückten die Menschen Europas ihren Willen aus, ein neues Gesundheitswesen aufzubauen, das auf natürlichen, wirksamen und nebenwirkungsfreien Naturheilverfahren aufbaut.

Es mutet geradezu als Farce an, das an diesem Tag das Europäische Parlament über eine "Direktive zu Nahrungsergänzungsstoffen" entschied, die europaweit wirksame Vitamin-Therapien und andere Naturheilverfahren verbieten soll. Etwa zwei Drittel der EU-Abgeordneten beugten sich dem Interesse der Pharmaindustrie und verabschiedeten dieses Gesetz. Ein Drittel der Abgeordneten traten für die Gesundheitsinteressen der Menschen ein und stimmten dagegen. Eine Übergangszeit von 3 Jahren wurde vereinbart für Produkte, die bereits auf dem Markt sind.

Der 13. März 2002 wird in die Geschichte eingehen, als der Tag, an dem sich das Europäische Parlament als "Straßburger Puppenkiste" entpuppte und einen milliardenschweren Markt an nutzlosen Pharma-Präparaten gegen die wachsende Konkurrenz aus der Naturheilmittel-Forschung unterstützen wollte.

Welch bizzare Auswirkungen dieses europaweite Gesetz haben wird, lässt sich anhand der natürlichen Aminosäure Lysin verdeutlichen. Lysin kann vom Körper nicht hergestellt werden und wir sind daher auf eine optimale Zufuhr durch Nahrung und Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln angewiesen. Jetzt stellt sich heraus, das eben jene lebenswichtige Natursubstanz Lysin auch noch der Schlüssel zur Bekämpfung der Volkskrankheit Krebs ist (weitere Informationen unter www.natuerlich-gegen-krebs.de). Dieser medizinische Durchbruch und die damit zusammenhängende Bedrohung des Pharma-Marktes, war wohl der Anlass für den Amoklauf des Pharma-Kartells.

Die lächerliche Abstimmung gegen den freien Zugang zu lebensrettenden Naturheilverfahren verwundert nicht, wenn man weiß, das die Pharma-Industrie europaweit ihre eigenen Gesetze schreibt. So sitzt ein Aufsichtsratsmitglied des zweitgrößten Pharmakonzerns der Welt (Merck, Sharp & Dohme), Frits Bolkenstein, im "Kabinett" des Europäischen Parlaments, der sogenannten Europäischen Kommission. Von dort aus werden im Interesse der Pharmakonzerne Gesetze, wie diese Direktive, gemacht die 380 Millionen Europäern den Zugang zu einer nebenwirkungsfreien Medizin verbauen und dem "Pharmageschäft mit der Krankheit" den Weg ebnen.

In seiner Vortragsreihe "Die Waffen der Natur gegen Krebs" wird Dr. Rath die Hintergründe des wissenschaftlichen Durchbruchs beim Sieg über den Krebstod, sowie den Kampf der Pharmaindustrie für die Fortsetzung des "Milliardengeschäfts mit dem Krebs" beleuchten. Termine und Veranstaltungsorte der Vortragsreihe finden Sie unter www.natuerlich-gegen-krebs.de.
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Simone · #9 (**permalink**) 14th March 2002, 03:51 AM

Rough translation (courtesy of www.google.com) of quote from www.petition450.org:

Quote:

13. March 2002, the day at that humans of Europe their parliament lamely put until today world-wide 550 million voices were delivered, which demand free entrance to nature welfare procedures for humans of Europe. On Wednesday early the protest avalanche had risen in such a way, which was lamely put in the European parliament the entire email system. To examine the European Union president requested by the parliament measures, so that the delegates can communicate again. On this historical day humans of Europe expressed their will to develop a new health service which develops on natural, effective and side effect-free nature welfare procedures. It seems almost as farce, which decided the European parliament on this day on a "directive to food auxiliary materials", which was to forbid European-wide effective Vitamin therapies and other nature welfare procedures. About two thirds of the European Union delegates bent themselves the interest of the Pharmaindustrie and passed this law. A third of the delegates occurred for the interests of health of humans and were correct against it. A transition period of 3 years agreed upon for products, which already are on the market. 13 March 2002 will enter history, as which a day, on which the European parliament wanted to support each other as "Strassburger doll crate" emerged and a billions-worth market at useless Pharma preparations against the increasing competition from the nature cure research. can on the basis the natural amino acid lysin will have what bizzare effects this European-wide law be clarified. Lysin cannot be manufactured by the body and we is dependent therefore on an optimal supply by food and food auxiliary means. Now turns out, which is evenly that vital nature substance lysin also still the key to the fight of the volkskrankheit cancer (further information under www.natuerlich against krebs.de). This medical break-through and the threat of the Pharma market which is connected with it, was probably the cause for the Amoklauf of the Pharma trust. The ridiculous tuning against the free entrance to life-saving nature welfare procedures does not surprise, if one knows, which write the Pharma industry European-wide their own laws. Thus a supervisory board member of the second largest Pharmakonzerns of the world (Merck, Sharp & Dohme) sits, Frits Bolkenstein, in the "cabinet" of the European parliament, the so-called European commission. Made from there in the interest of the Pharmakonzerne of laws, like this directive, the 380 million Europeans the entrance to a side effect-free medicine to block and for the "Pharmageschaeft with the illness" the way smooth. In its course of lectures "the weapons of nature against cancer" will Dr. Rath background the scientific break-through with the victory over cancer death, as well as the fight of the Pharmaindustrie for the continuation of the "billion business with the cancer" to light up. Dates and places of event of the course of lectures find you under www.natuerlich against krebs.de. back... Stretchers you send themselves message away as email into our mailing list...

Bolding is my emphasis.

[ 14 March 2002, 03:52: Message edited by: Simone ]

Simone · #10 (**permalink**) 14th March 2002, 04:07 AM

From the BBC:

Quote:

Stricter rules which it is feared could stop the public buying certain types of vitamins have been approved by the EU.
The European Parliament approved the more stringent controls, but they must still have to be accepted by individual governments.

Under the rules, manufacturers of food supplements containing vitamins and minerals will have to provide full ingredient details within three years.

They will also have to list possible side effects and warnings on intake of capsules and pills on product bottles and packages. Such products will also have to have dosage instructions.

Labels must give them clear information about how to use and how not to use [food supplements]

David Byrne, EU Health Commissioner
Around 300 over-the-counter pills will have to be tested by EU scientists to make sure they meet new safety and health standards, following the ruling.

Manufacturers have criticised the EU. They claim the ruling will restrict the public's access to vitamins and threaten the livelihood of health food shop owners.

They also warn that the more stringent testing will cost them around 400,000 euros (just under £248.000) per product.

David Byrne, EU Health Commissioner, said the aim of the legislation was not to ban food supplements but to provide a wide range of safe products.

"Some people find they need food supplements to compensate for their inadequate intake of essential vitamins and minerals. Labels must give them clear information about how to use and how not to use them," he told the AP press agency.

Popular pills

Increasing numbers of people are taking large quantities of vitamins and minerals, often much more than the recommended daily allowance (RDA).

In the UK, this has been made easy by suppliers being allowed to produce tablets which contain these high concentrations of vitamins or minerals.

There are concerns that taking huge quantities of some vitamins could even be harmful to health.

But the EU's action has been criticised as too heavy-handed.

This is a sledgehammer to crack a nut

Chris Davies, Liberal Democrat MEP
Before the decision was announced, Liberal Democrat MEP Chris Davies said: "These are not dangerous pharmaceutical drugs - they are food supplements which people use to supplement deficiencies in their diets.

"If people want to exercise free will, they should be allowed to do so.

"This is a sledgehammer to crack a nut."

But the pharmaceutical has backed legislation, suggesting it could "liberate" the industry.

Trevor Jones, from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, said: "This comes out of genuine desire to ensure that the products that people buy are safe and effective.

"We support the idea of the legislation being brought in to ensure that the products that will do them some good are understood and rational.

"This list that is being proposed encompasses range of mineral substances that we need to know that the right levels are in the product."

At present, while high-dose vitamins and minerals are readily available in the UK, over-the-counter sales are already outlawed in most EU countries, leading to a "black market" in vitamins with the UK as its source.

A spokesman for the Consumers' Association said: "It's a scandal that food supplements are not properly regulated.

"This directive could give consumers more reassurance that they're buying supplements which are safe, of high quality, and which have comprehensive information on their labels."

From: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/hea...00/1870751.stm

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