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Jonathan Emond -- Europe Enters a Nutrition Science Dark Age

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EUROPE
ENTERS A NUTRITION SCIENCE DARK AGE
By
Attorney Jonathan Emord

December 14, 2009

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- As
  the clock strikes 12:01AM on January 1, 2010, Europe will enter a nutrition
  science Dark Age.
- The stultifying effects of that backward movement
  will hit food and dietary supplement companies hard all around the world.
- The movement toward replacing private choice with government fiat proceeds
  apace internationally.
- Europe’s condemnation of food supplements
  and claims about them is among the latest examples of that movement.
- The
  nations of Europe gave up considerable national sovereignty to the European
  Union a number of years ago.
- The members states have repeatedly reaped
  the bitter fruit of that decision. One of those bitter fruits is about
  to fall from the EU tree.
- The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA),
  established to preside over food supplements and claims for food supplements
  by the European Commission, has determined that only a small percentage
  of food supplements is sufficiently safe and bioavailable to remain
  on the European market.
- Under European Commission regulations no food
  supplement may be lawfully sold anywhere in Europe unless EFSA scientists
  opine that the food supplement is both safe and bioavailable as “substantiated
  by generally accepted scientific evidence.”
- EFSA makes that determination
  in response to dossiers submitted from the regulated companies. If no
  dossier is submitted for a nutrient either because the science required
  cannot be obtained affordably or because no one has the resources to
  pursue the claim, EFSA condemns the nutrient, deeming it inappropriate
  for market.
- Thus
  far out of over 40,000 dossiers submitted, EFSA has limited its authorizations
  to certain vitamins and minerals and has rejected wholesale all other
  vitamins, minerals, herbs and botanicals of various kinds.
- Moreover,
  it has refused to allow claims of health benefit for a whole host of
  products.
- These are the very same products that have been legally sold
  in Europe for decades without any significant injury to the population.
- In short, EFSA is achieving a massive constriction in the product and
  information offerings in the European marketplace to the great detriment
  of European consumers.
- Fully informed consumer choice is being wiped
  out. EFSA is dumbing down the European marketplace, ridding it of substances
  that have improved the lives of Europeans and of emerging science necessary
  to comprehend the potential health benefits of food supplements.
- This
  draconian system of prior restraint over products and scientific speech
  deprives European consumers of the right to determine for themselves
  what food elements to ingest and what credence to give emerging science
  concerning food supplements.
- Those decisions are now being made by EFSA
  bureaucrats intolerant of dissent from their new state orthodoxy on
  nutrition science.
- EFSA
  is the nanny state writ large.
- Its scientists presume to know better
  than all private scientists, all food supplement manufacturers, and
  all consumers what is in the best interests of those consumers.
- Science, including nutrition science,
  is evolutionary and open to debate. Scientists rarely agree on the extent
  to which a proposition backed by studies is proven.
- Consequently, almost
  all of the emerging science on which consumers depend to exercise informed
  choice is based on credible, but inconclusive evidence.
- That should
  not surprise us because almost all medical science upon which physicians
  make life and death decisions every day is likewise in a realm of relative
  scientific uncertainty (lacking conclusive proof to establish its efficacy).
- In steps, EFSA with its own brand of state certainty substitutes its
  condemnatory judgment for free market exchanges, ridding the market
  of nutrients and censoring from the market information indispensable
  to the exercise of informed consumer choice.
- The
  environment is one not of enlightenment or respect for individual rights.
- It is not far from the mind set that preceded the Renaissance, a time
  when Copernicus waxed bold by declaring that he thought the earth orbited
  the sun, not the other way around.
- The church of old, like EFSA, views
  such claims of emerging science with considerable skepticism and so
  censors them, depriving citizens of a chance to judge for themselves
  the credibility of the claims.
- When
  EFSA’s opinions become law through adoption by the European Commission,
  European consumers are locked out of nutrition science debate. They
  are deprived of emerging science and the right to exercise their own
  judgment as to the relative worth of nutrition science speech offerings.
- Instead, state censors keep the vast majority of science out of the
  market and permit here and there dribs and drabs to enter, skewing the
  information marketplace in ways they favor.
- Thus, an elitist guard possesses
  a monopoly on information access and deigns paternalistically to provide
  the public a small sampling it thinks “safe” for European
  consumption.
- This gross example of censorship offends the very notion
  of individual liberty. Europeans are thus enslaved anew by an anti-Enlightenment
  philosophy that regards government as the end all be all in the universe
  of food and nutrition science.
- Depriving
  European consumers of emerging science leads to decisions in the market
  that either presume health benefits to be greater than they likely are
  or conversely to be non-existent.
- When science is kept from the point
  of sale, consumers tend to base decisions on non-scientific factors,
  such as taste or superstition.
- We
  should not think this matter limited to Europe.
- Not only do we depend
  mightily on access to European markets for our food stuffs but we also
  depend on European food stuffs here that may disappear as a result of
  EFSA’s new draconian limitations.
- At
  a time of recession when we can scarce afford new significant limits
  to markets, Europe is eliminating a significant sector of its food supplement
  marketplace.
- American dietary supplements will be blocked from import
  and enjoined from selling dietary supplements all across Europe.
- There
  will be resultant lost profits here and unemployment. Likewise, import
  markets in the United States dependent on European food supplements
  are going to be awakened rudely to the fact that products legally sold
  before New Year’s are no longer lawfully saleable.
- Certain
  ranking members of Congress and leading political managers at the Food
  and Drug Administration are infatuated with the European example.
- They
  would like nothing better than to replicate it here through harmonization
  of American laws with those of the European Union.
- The
  world of food regulation, like so much of the world, is now marching
  steadily in the direction of state control and away from individual
  liberty.
- Access to products with health enhancing features will be far
  more difficult in Europe and in the United States in the months and
  years to come.
- Nutrition science will remain locked out of the marketplace
  to the grave detriment of consumers, causing only an information elite
  to benefit from knowledge of how certain nutrients can extend longevity
  and reduce the incidence of disease.
- This
  process of bureaucratic expansion and assumption of jurisdictional control
  over matters previously governed by individual private decision making
  is an insidious encroachment that replaces freedom with servility.
- If
  we can neither be allowed to choose for consumption foods and food elements
  freely nor be allowed access at the point of sale to information concerning
  the potential of those substances to extend longevity and reduce disease
  risk, we can hardly call ourselves free.
- Europe’s
  move back into a Dark Age in the field of nutrition science should alarm
  us.
- Although we cannot but feel the adverse impact of the European restrictions,
  we can only hope that the full brunt of the new Dark Age enveloping
  Europe is confined to that continent, not welcomed here courtesy of
  sympathetic agents in our Food and Drug Administration.
- © 2009 Jonathan W. Emord - All Rights
  Reserved
- Jonathan
  W. Emord is an attorney who practices constitutional and administrative
  law before the federal courts and agencies. Congressman Ron Paul calls
  Jonathan “a hero of the health freedom revolution.” He has
  defeated the FDA in federal court a remarkable six times, four times on
  First Amendment grounds. He is the author of The
  Rise of Tyranny.
  
  E-Mail: Not
  Available

26 Jul 08

Codex Alimentarius & The French Revolution (July 25, 2008)

Codex Alimentarius & The French Revolution
Educate-Yourself

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- http://educate-yourself.org/lte/codexandfrenchrevolution25jul08.shtml
  
  July 25, 2008
- ----- Original Message -----
  
  From: Holly
  
  To: Ken Adachi, Editor
  
  Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008
  
  Subject: Codex
- Ken,
  
  I have just started researching Codex Alimentarius. It is
  horrifying. I found a site that calls for a petition signature,
  however I'm afraid of what list my name may be put on if I do sign.
  Regardless, the reason I am writing is to reply to your reply about
  growing nutritious foods at home. The reason Codex is so scary is that
  
  they will essentially outlaw growing without a permit. Not only will
  you not be able to obtain and pay for nutrients, you will not be able
  to grow them either!
  
  ~Holly.
- ***
  
  Hi Holly,
- Anything's possible, but I don't think that would fly, nor be possible to enforce anyway. No one would obey such lunacy.
- As it is, much of the pressure to become a NWO slave will begin to blowback on the NWO manipulators as more and more people realize just how serious and evil the NWO is and will begin to organize to resist.
- We wouldn't have to go through such turmoil and pain if we simply realized that most members of congress are NWO sell-outs and need to be kicked out of office and replaced by legislators loyal to the People and the Constitution.
- I don't care how young, dumb or unknown the candidate is, if he's truly loyal to the Constitution and understands the NWO takeover game and is willing to fight back, then we need to vote him in, and see to it that the current crop of traitors are voted out.
- It's not that hard to do if ENOUGH PEOPLE realized what's taking place in this country and stop listening to mainstream propaganda news and started organizing on the grass roots level like the Green Party did recently in putting up Cynthia McKinney and Rosa (somebody) for President and VP from the Green Party.
- Now I don't for a second believe that Cynthia McKinney has the brains, savoir faire, skill, experience, strength, or intestinal fortitude to be a competent President of the United States, and I know that Rosa is a joke, but I would rather vote for two jack-dumb loyal constitutionalists willing to fight rather than a slick, smooth talking sell-out Illuminati puppet like Obama or McCain any day of the week.
- The American colonists completely shut down King George's Stamp Act imposition by simply going after everyone who attempted to collect the unjust taxes.
- They ran them out of town, looted their homes and burned their houses down.
- The Stamp Act and all the tyranny that it represented collapsed overnight because the colonists had no intention of sitting still for such blatant injustice.
- We need to start putting names on a list and target these people for removal from office. Nancy Pelosi would be an excellent start, but everyone who signed the recent FISA act needs to be kicked out of office.
- It's much easier to vote them out while you still have the opportunity. The alternative is called the French Revolution, and that's not going to be so much fun.
- After you forsake the opportunity to vote them out, you will be left with no other choice other than to fight in the street or to submit to Nazi style slavery or extermination.

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