Here is the story which gives more details on the harrowing attempt by the State of California to impose the will of the cancer industry on a young man who does not have cancer. The story was blogged on October 3, 2007, before a court hearing on the case but has just surfaced today.
It was originally posted by angryscientist in Bad Science, Whistleblower Corner.
An unholy alliance of California Child Protective Services (CPS) with a hostile doctor and judge is attempting to railroad Laurie Jessop, framed as a threat to her son and the establishment for finding a way to cure him of malignant melanoma. She is now on trial, under a gag order, since she had gone to the press. When she was arrested, she was put in maximum security, solitary confinement, in the Orange County, CA jail. They claim that everything about. her says anti-Establishment, so she was told, as she was considered a threat in starting a riot.
On the morning of Sept. 12, Gary Null read on KPFK, a Pacifica station in Los Angeles, an e-mail from Ron Miller, who had met Ms. Jessop at the Cancer Control Society annual convention during the Labor Day weekend. They had discussed this persecution by Big Brother in the guise of saving her son from this evil mother who has failed to protect him! She disobeyed doctor’s orders and found a natural way to cure her son. These forces arrayed against her and insisted he must have the cancer removed surgically and attacked with the standard chemical fare. The cancer is gone, but nobody in authority will accept that because her doctor doesn’t believe that’s possible.
The initial biopsy of the mole was done in February. Their regular doctor was on leave when test results came in. A nurse informed them of the bad news. On May 8, Chad Jessop had a follow up appointment with a medical group doctor, by the name of Dr. Masciana, who insisted he needed surgery to excise the site within a week, or he could die any day now! This doctor is a general practitioner, not an oncologist or qualified to do cancer diagnosis or surgery. Chad and his mom decided to pursue holistic treatment for him. Incensed, the doctor reported her to Child Protective Services on the grounds of gross negligent child endangerment. She yelled at Laurie “all of you Jehovah’s Witnesses are all the same,” never mind Laurie and Chad are not Jehovah’s witnesses. Dr. Masciana also told Laurie, with her son present, that his death was imminent. At the close of the appointment, Dr. Masciana informed Laurie that she was referring the case to Social Services. In further investigation, Child Protective Social Services is a misnamed government agency whose employees get paid bonuses every time they take children away from their parents.
That evening Laurie called an attorney who advised her that she had 48 hours or less before Social Services showed up. If she could not prove she was following doctor’s orders, they’d take her son. Since Dr. Masciana had created such a traumatic experience for Chad, he feared the doctors and threatened to run away. In honoring Chad’s wishes for continued holistic care, Laurie took her son to San Diego to continue holistic care using a number of various alternative treatments such as: ozone, hyperbaric oxygen chamber, hydrogen peroxide, energy work, Rife, nutritional supplements, and deep emotional work. Laurie also used “black salve” that she purchased from Canada to remove the mole tissue. Black salve was developed by Native American Indians more than 200 years ago, and used in the treatment of skin lesions, cancers, warts, and moles. Figures our FDA banned it, because it works.
When Chad insisted on hitting the road to continue alternative therapies and getting further diagnostics, that left a question as to where Laurie’s daughter Crystal would go. A close friend of the family and Crystal’s best friend agreed, and this felt like a perfect fit under the circumstances, so Laurie legally signed Crystal over to the family and gave them all the necessary medical insurance information. On May 22, the local sheriff and CPS had taken her daughter out of class, interrogating her mercilessly, telling her lies about her mother, trying to force her to reveal where Laurie and Chad had gone, and then forced her to go on a police joy ride and show them where they reside. All of this was done against her will and carried on for six hours!
They applied “Black Salve” directly to the area in question, thus giving Chad a holistic version of a large border excision. It took about two and a half weeks for the wound to heal. When it was healed Laurie took Chad to a Del Mar dermatologist for a biopsy. The test results were negative of any signs of melanoma! The next two weeks were concentrated on once again healing the tissue to get another biopsy. Upon the wound site being healed, a melanoma specialist did a punch biopsy and a complete lab analysis on Friday, June 15. Again, no sign of cancer could be found in the biopsy and the blood work was in healthy ranges with no distinguishing markers that would otherwise be present in a patient that would have advanced stage four melanoma, as had been previously reported! Was it a miracle, or an activated immune system in a healthy young man, with some useful help, that healed the melanoma?
The following Monday, June 18th, Laurie and Chad turned themselves in to the San Diego Social Services office, with all of their documentation. They were detained for 4 hours, then told that arrest warrants for Laurie and Chad were issued from Orange County. Chad was locked up at the Palenskie Center in San Diego for one night. He had 2 guards watching him around the clock, since he was considered a flight risk. When Laurie went to visit Chad they could not have any privacy, as both guards listened to every word that was said. Laurie spent over nine thousand bucks in San Diego for the treatments done over the five week period of time, and has all the receipts as proof. A new social worker, David Harper, was put on the case. He picked Chad up in San Diego transporting him to Orangewood Children’s Home in Orange County for the next two weeks, where he got fed spaghetti and meat balls, food not fitting one healing from cancer. One aspect of Chad’s treatment was a healthy diet of living foods, but Ms. Jessop’s requests of this social worker that Chad get proper food fell on deaf ears. He did tell her she was allowed to see her daughter graduate from Junior High School. She told him nobody could keep her away without a court order, and that she would be there! The social worker informed Laurie that he completed the paper work to lift the warrant order on her.
After her daughter’s graduation, on June 21st Laurie went to make academic arrangements for her son, having missed five weeks of school. Laurie showed the documentation to the principal and vice principal. The Vice Principal knew Chad well, as Chad did his Eagle Scout project for him at the high school. Chad is now an advanced Eagle Scout. No matter, the VP called police to arrest Laurie at the school and haul her off to the county jail. The arresting deputy harassed her. When Laurie protested, the officer told her she didn’t have to like her or be nice to her. After arriving at the county jail, her first telephone call had been to the social worker, David Harper, although he did nothing to get her out of jail, nor was he willing to help correct the record. Laurie was physically abused, they spread her legs twisting her knee, when she complained they called out “Resisting…Resisting” then they pushed her violently to a cell wall (behind the cameras) causing her to twist her neck, shoulder and arm. After being worked over, they took away her jacket, shoes, socks, and toilet paper, and locked her up. Her holding cell was extremely cold and she was deliberately denied toilet paper. She asked for toilet paper, only to be answered it must have been taken for good reason and she was not getting any. She was denied toilet paper from approximately 3:30pm until 11:00pm. One has to wonder, what was she going to do with the toilet paper, hang herself? By 11:00 pm Laurie got taken to be assessed. She asked “is this a madhouse run by animals, who is running this place?” Laurie told this officer her story for half an hour. He let her talk, then said he sees all kinds of characters, his job is to ascertain threats. He told her she has the fire, the spirit and the power to overturn the system and create a riot. He informed her she’d be put in solitary confinement, but she might get a roommate, probably a drug offender. She was forced to take a chest X-ray against her will, without any explanation and ridicule from the officers. Laurie and her two children have never been in any type of trouble with the law, but were treated like hardened criminals. She was shocked to learn women taking showers have no privacy, that male guards are watching. The next night she got a 58-year old roommate charged with kidnapping her children from her husband 20 years ago, after being extradited from Tennessee on outdated bogus charges tagged with 200 thousand bail. It would appear that Orange County is desperately trying to maintain job security at the expense of the innocent!
Laurie was released on the streets of Santa Ana after midnight, in an unsafe area of Southern California for a woman, after five days of incarceration. Upon Laurie’s arrest, officers impounded her van and turned it upside down looking for drugs. She had to pay over 300 dollars in impound fees to get the van back.
Social Services approved the foster families that Laurie had arranged for Chad and Crystal. Now Laurie is on trial, forbidden to speak under a gag order, by the very judge that had issued the bench warrant for her arrest, because she refused to go along with orthodox medicine. The dermatologist, appointed by Social Services, testified in court that the melanoma is playing hide and go seek, that they’d have to subject Chad to unnecessary and dangerous further biopsies and medical procedures to find where it migrated to. The dermatologist further stated that the melanoma had become even more deadly, claiming it has now traveled to different organs. The prescription for surgery is a large border excision to the skullbone. Chad says he is old enough to defend this country’s freedoms, but he is denied that same freedom of choice when it comes to his own health and he is also under gag order. Ms. Jessop intends to sue anyone who touches her son against their wishes. All Chad’s blood tests are consistent with a healthy 17 year old 6?2? young man. They refuse to tolerate anyone trying to clear their conscience at his expense. Laurie says her record stands, she will not back down, and she wants parents to know they do not have to be intimidated by this system! The judge has stated twice that she doesn’t want Chad to die while she is on the bench; which sounds like she has bias in the case! Surgery and chemotherapy had been intended for the following week. The doctor is still of the mind Chad could die any day now. When giving testimony, the dermatologist was asked if he could perform surgery on Chad, knowing that Chad would not cooperate with any Western medical butchery. His answer was emphatic No, he could not perform an operation on anyone against their will.
What Big Brother has been doing to Ms. Jessop and her children is unconscionable, beyond outrageous, a gross miscarriage of justice and an abuse of authority. Many families have been torn apart by lesser abuses of CPS and modern medicine. The Jessop family is very united and strong in their convictions, very aware of their constitutional rights, and will not give up to our corrupt system. Being a single parent for the last 11 years, Laurie has done herself proud raising her children and is extremely close to both of them. Laurie and her children have stood the test and this hellish ordeal has brought them closer together as a family. She said at the press conference, “I am a mama bear and no one is messing with my cubs!”
Laurie’s deadbeat ex-husband, Marcus, has never voluntarily paid for child support or any of the children’s medical bills, even though he is legally bound to pay for half according to their divorce agreement. She has had to drag him into court to get a judgment and garnish his wages in order to collect on past due medical bills. It so happens Marcus is in agreement with the state, he wants his son, (having had no contact for the last 10 years) to be butchered and drugged to eliminate this incredible cancer, that refuses to carry out its death sentence and is too clever to show up on tests. Marcus is in court with his own public defender, pushing for this even though he has no legal or physical custody, not even any visitation rights. If he was in agreement with Laurie’s medical beliefs, this court probably wouldn’t allow him in the courtroom. Our tax dollars, hard at work!
In the state of Virginia, a brilliant 17 year old young man went through a very similar ordeal, but won his battle with CPS. Once his case was over, he was instrumental in passing a new law in the state of Virginia. Abraham’s Law, that gives a minor the right to make their own medical decisions when they are bright and understand their choices. Laurie wants to get her story out and push through a similar bill in California, called “Chad’s Law,” so that other families do not have to go through the abusive nature of a department that is supposed to be protecting our children. As “Roy of Hollywood” stated on KPFK recently, who is protecting us from the Child Protective Social Services Department? Pushing through a bill like this may be very expensive, but once Laurie makes up her mind that she is doing something, she is all steel, determined, and will persevere to find a way to make this happen. ….
Orthodox medicine is unwilling to admit it does not know everything, and it hates competition. Its methods of treating cancer are not the only ways that can work. Ms. Jessop believed she could find another way, and her son, given a diagnosis of imminent death, is now free of cancer. Never mind, the doctor is sure it’s still there, so Big Brother intends to make an example of her as an unfit mother for disobeying her doctor, putting her son in mortal danger. That’s not happening, but truth often doesn’t matter to Big Brother, as is apparent in most government policy. If Chad were actually endangered by not getting conventional treatment, the authorities might have a leg to stand on, but in this case, it’s not his mother putting him in jeopardy, it’s the system! The doctor has egg on her face, because she was sure Chad would die quickly without aggressive conventional treatment, and she has been proven wrong! Instead of learning from her error, she wants to make Ms. Jessop and her son pay for showing her up!
I’m helping her get her story out. One newspaper did a story, but in general, very little has been reported so far. I tried to find the story online, but no luck. A press conference was held on Sept. 6th, just before court. Two of the major TV news stations and one of the largest AM radio all news stations showed up. KFWB radio ran the story immediately that day. As soon as court started the judge announced that there was a gag order on this case and threatened jail time and contempt of court to anyone (including the minor in question), that spoke to the press or anyone else for that matter. One of the TV news stations didn’t want to run the story without interviewing Chad and getting his viewpoints. The judge denied a continuance six different times, ignoring all six times valid reasons for the requests. The judge also denied Laurie the right to hire her own attorney! She retained a law firm with her own money, but the judge insisted she has to keep her Public Defender, presumably as a public servant easier to control than a private attorney not so dependent on the system.
The final outcome of the Jessop saga is unfolding now. Stay tuned
November 3, 2004
Here are the questions we asked of each Presidential candidate on our Health Freedom Scorecard. To date, only Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) has provided his answers to those questions.
We urge all candidates for the office of President of the United States take the time and effort necessary to consider, and answer,
HFUSA: The FDA current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) Final Rule
Do you support the FDA cGMP Final Rule for dietary supplements, issued on June 22, 2007, requiring the batch testing of all food dietary supplements although
– Supplements have an enviable safety record
– The FDA’s own economic analysis of the impact of the cGMP shows that it will drive a significant number of small and medium size manufacturers out of business?
Dr. Paul: I oppose all federal regulations that burden dietary supplement manufacturers. There is no need for the federal nogovernment to impose “Good Manufacturing Practices” on the dietary supplement industry. In addition, the federal government lacks constitutional authority to create standards for the supplement industry.
HFUSA: The FDA draft Guidance on Health Claim substantiation
A. Are your aware of the FDA draft guidance on Health Claim substantiation, issued this summer, which mandates an unreasonably high “Significant Scientific Agreement” standard instead of the FTC “competent and reliable scientific evidence”, as proposed in HR 2117, The Health Freedom Protection Act?
Dr. Paul: I oppose the CAM Regulation draft guidelines and submitted comments to the FDA in opposition to the CAM regulations.
HFUSA: Do you support HR2117 {Health Freedom Protection Act]?
Dr. Paul: I introduced HR 2117, and oppose all FDA actions that in any way infringe on the First Amendment rights of consumers to learn about the health benefits of dietary supplements.
HFUSA: Protection of Dietary Supplements
Do you support continuing strong protection for Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) products?
Dr. Paul: I support DSHEA.
HFUSA: Bio-Identical Hormones
Do you support the right of men and women to use supplemental Bio-identical Hormones such as DHEA and progesterone to support normal function during change of life and premature aging in preference to less effective, dangerous and more expensive prescription drugs if they prefer bio-identical hormones?
Dr. Paul: The federal government has no constitutional authority to stop Americans from using bio-identical hormones.
HFUSA: Compounding Pharmacies
Do you support the right of Compounding Pharmacists and licensed physicians to continue to provide compounded medications, on a doctor’s prescription, for special needs and choices of individuals, communicating their availability to the public, as permitted by the landmark Supreme Court case of Thompson vs. Western States Medical Centers?
Dr. Paul: The federal government has constitutional authority to restrict the operations of compounding pharmacies.
HFUSA: A. Trilateral Cooperation Charter/North American Union/Security and Prosperity Partnership
A. Do you support the “North American Union” and its companion “Security and Prosperity Partnership” which were created without Congressional debate and approval?
Dr. Paul: A. I am the leading Congressional opponent of the North American Union and the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
HFUSA: B. Do you support FDA’s policy of “harmonization” of regulations with those of Mexico and Canada through the North American Union and the already-operating Trilateral Cooperation Charter which fuses the national health departments of all three countries into a single entity without Congressional oversight or authorization of any entity?
Dr. Paul: B. I oppose all efforts to harmonize American law with the law of other countries and I have taken the lead in working to mobilize congressional opposition to the Trilateral Cooperation Charter.
HFUSA: C. Do you support such executive agreements without Congressional debate and approval?
Dr. Paul: C. No; I do not support allowing the President to erode our freedom and threaten our sovereignty by executive agreement.
HFUSA: D. If elected, do you pledge to use the power of the Executive Branch of Government to overturn or reverse the North American Union, Security and Prosperity Partnership and the Trilateral Cooperation Charter?
Dr. Paul: D. As President, I will withdraw the United States from the North American Union, the Security and Prosperity Partnership, and the Trilateral Cooperation Charter.
HFUSA: HARMonization of FDA regulations with international and foreign agencies and entities
A. Do you support FDA?s policy of ?harmonization? of regulations with those of the European Union, under executive agreement?
Dr. Paul: A. I oppose harmonization. Centralization of power and control breeds oppression.
HFUSA:B. Do you support FDA?s policy of ?HARMonization? of regulations with the standards and guidelines of the Codex Alimentarius when those texts are created through the US efforts on behalf of industrialized food supply constituents and degrade and render toxic the US and global food supplies?
Dr. Paul: B. I am the leading Congressional opponent of CODEX.
HFUSA: C. If elected, what steps do you pledge to take to end these HARMonization activities of the FDA, USDA, FTC and EPA?
Dr. Paul: C. I will seek to stop US participation in the Codex process and make it clear to the UN and the WTO that my administration will not change one comma in American law to make the bureaucrats at Codex happy.
HFUSA:Anti-HARMonization Statute
Do you support strict enforcement of the Anti-Harmonization Statute, 19 USC 3512, which prohibits such harmonization with respect to the US food supply and those foods known as Dietary Supplements?
Dr. Paul: I was instrumental in drafting the anti-harmonization statute, so, yes; I supported strict enforcement of it.
HFUSA: FDA HARMonization with international standards
A. Are you aware and do you support the FDA’s announced policy of “harmonization” with International Standards, even where those standards are not finalized: “In a notice published in the Federal Register of October 11, 1995 (60 FR 53078), FDA articulated its policy regarding the development and use of standards with respect to the harmonization of various national and international regulatory requirements and guidelines? – http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/fr970707.html ?
Dr. Paul: A. As stated before, I am strongly opposed to harmonization.
HFUSA:B If elected, what steps do you pledge to take to reign in such HARMonization and return the US to regulatory sovereignty?
Dr. Paul: B. please see my previous answers.
HFUSA: World Trade Organization and similar international bodies
A. Do you support harmonizing America’s legal structure and freedoms to international restrictions through participation in bodies such as the World Trade Organization?
Dr. Paul: A. No; I oppose harmonizing American laws with those of foreign countries to satisfy the WTO or any other international regime.
HFUSA: B. Do you support withdrawing from the World Trade Organization?
Dr. Paul: B. Yes; as a Congressman, I took advantage of the clause in the WTO enabling legislation that allows any member of Congress to introduce legislation withdrawing the United States from the WTO. In fact, by twice introducing WTO withdrawal legislation, I twice forced Congress to vote on withdrawing the United States from the WTO.
HFUSA: C. Do you support withdrawing from the United Nations?
Dr. Paul: C. Yes; I have introduced legislation to withdraw from the UN (HR 1146).
HFUSA: Divesting the FDA of food regulatory authority
A. Since nutrient and natural health products are regulated as Food in accordance with US law, do you support a division of the FDA into two separate agencies, one focusing on Foods (including dietary supplements and all natural or non-pharmaceutical health products) and the other finally focusing on protecting the safety of the public with regard to dangerous drugs and invasive medical devices?
Dr. Paul: A. No; I favor reducing the power of the FDA, not “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic” by dividing the FDA bureaucracy.
HFUSA: B. Do you support the FDA’s approval of genetically modified foods in the absence of any safety testing, requiring only a patent before the genetically modified food can be admixed with the food supply?
Dr. Paul: B. Consumers should have the right to choose whether or not to use genetically modified food without having the FDA deny them that choice.
HFUSA: C. Do you support the FDA’s position that since the FDA has declared genetically modified foods equivalent to natural ones in the absence of any testing to demonstrate that to be the case and its stated understanding that the public would reject genetically modified foods if they knew what they were buying and eating, that it would be false and misleading if genetically modified foods were identified as such so their labeling is prohibited?
Dr. Paul: C. Consumers have every right to demand that genetically-modified food be labeled as such.
HFUSA: Compulsory medical treatment
A. Do you support the use of the State’s powers to compel compulsory mental health or other screening, forced drugging or other medical treatment under any circumstances?
Dr. Paul: A. No; I oppose compulsory medical treatment.
HFUSA: B. Do you support removing children from parental custody when parents refuse to use medication for alleged “mental health problems” in their children?
Dr. Paul: B. The federal government has no authority to remove children from their parents’ custody because those parents have refused to medicate their children according to federal edicts.
HFUSA: C. Do you support removing children from parental custody when parents refuse to use medication for the allopathic (pharmaceutical) treatment of life threatening diseases such as cancer?
Dr. Paul: C. The federal government has no constitutional authority to remove a child from a parent’s custody because of that parent’s refusal to seek state-ordered medical treatments for their child.
HFUSA: D. Do you support the forced use of pharmaceutical or other medical treatment in adults under any circumstances?
Dr. Paul: D. I have a difficult time imaging a scenario where I would support forcing medical treatment on someone against their will, especially in my capacity as a federal elected official.
HFUSA: E. Do you support the right of parents or adult persons to chose natural medical treatments over pharmaceutical ones if they desire?
Dr. Paul: E. Of course; I support the right of adults to choose natural medical treatments. I have consistently cosponsored legislation in Congress to protect this right.
HFUSA: Mandatory screening
A. Do you support mandatory mental health or other health screening?
Dr. Paul: A. I am the leading Congressional opponent of Mandatory Mental Health Screening.
HFUSA: B. Do you support the use of Federal funds for such screening?
Dr. Paul: B. I have introduced the Parental Consent Act (HR 2387), which forbids federal funds for mandatory mental health screening of children without parental consent. I oppose any use of funds for mandatory mental health screening.
HFUSA: C. Do you support the use of Federal funds to pay for forced drugging of children or adults?
Dr. Paul: C. Yes, I oppose the use of federal funds to pay for forced medicating of children (or adults).
HFUSA: Natural Health Options
Do you support the use of Federal funds for natural medical and health therapy services and treatments on a par with pharmaceutical and other allopathic treatments, at the discretion of the patient?
Dr. Paul: As long as the federal government is financing health care, it should allow the beneficiaries to choose to use their federal funds for alternative treatments.
HFUSA: Vaccination
A. Do you oppose mandatory vaccination under all circumstances?
Dr. Paul: A. It is difficult for me to imagine a scenario where I could support forced vaccinations, especially in my capacity as a federal elected official.
HFUSA: B. Do you support continuing the pharmaceutical industry’s exemption from legal responsibility for injuries caused by vaccinations?
Dr. Paul: B. No, I do not believe the pharmaceutical industry should be protected from paying compensation to those harmed by their vaccines.
HFUSA: C. Do you support continuing the pharmaceutical industry’s exemption from legal responsibility for injuries caused by drugs approved for any indication?
Dr. Paul: C. No, the pharmaceutical industry should not be protected from being held accountable to those injured by their products.
HFUSA: . Reproductive Autonomy
A. Do you support a woman’s right to control her reproductive life without interference from the Federal government?
Dr. Paul: A. As a physician, I oppose abortion. I believe this should be dealt with by state and local governments; it is not a federal issue.
HFUSA: B. If elected, what will you pledge to do to protect the reproductive autonomy of women?
Dr. Paul: [No Answer provided]
HFUSA: Freedom Plank
How soon can the American public expect a formal Health Freedom Plank in your campaign platform?
Dr. Paul: There is further information on my position on health freedom on my website at http://www.RonPaul2008.com.
Before I tell you what I think might be the best news we have had in a long time, let me ask your indulgence: right now, because of the strength with which people all over the world are resonating with our message, We have 10,647 non-spam emails in our email box. 6,736 are unread. So please rest assured that if you have sent the Natural Solutions Foundation (or me, for that matter) an email and have not gotten a reply it is because we are still plowing through the huge mass of very welcome communications. Every email received by the Natural Solutions Foundation gets answered by a real, live, caring and involved person. Just understand that it may take a bit of time.
As long as we are talking numbers, here are a few more:
179,358 people have sent comments to the FDA through our comments page on the dangerous FDA Guidance. A total of 426,506 folks have tried to send comments through that page but could not for technical (or other) reasons. That is a lot of people responding to this major threat to their health freedom. And, despite what is floating around the internet, it IS a major threat. One prominent health site, Mercola.com, citing the assessment of his “$500 an hour lawyer” poo pooed the idea that there is any threat from the Guidance. They are dead wrong. High fees don’t make an assessment right (or wrong) One usually high priced lawyer looses every case.
Here is what ONE of our lawyers, also high priced, who happens to be in agreement with our other high priced lawyers, wrote on his comments area:
I note that Gavin posted my Threat Assessment regarding the FDA draft CAM
guidance on this blog. The draft was “issued” on 12/26/06, though FDA waited
until 02/26/07 to give notice in the Federal Register, initially allowing
little time to reply. That’s now been extended to 05/29/07. Apparently, some
people, not used to reading the bureaucratic-speak in the draft, don’t
appreciate the potential harm in codifying bad law, thus they consider my
views controversial.Since comments are limited on this blog [REL notes: he refers here to the health site he was posting on], here is a link to a blog entry of
mine about how the FDA CAM guidance, Codex, the NAU etc. are linked and how
all need attention, since eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. Please
see:http://drrimatruthreports.com/index.php/?p=367
As stated therein, “All of these multiple assaults are, of course, connected.
They are connected in philosophy, proponents and beneficiaries. Their
proponents refuse to allow us the freedom to make our own choices, deeming
that their political power gives them the authority to decide for us. We have
had enough of such deciders. They have given us a medical system that kills
hundreds of thousands each year…”Please consider all views with an open mind. I for one refuse to disallow
anyone’s efforts to preserve and enhance health freedom, and I refuse to
condemn anyone for disagreeing with my reading of the threat inherent in the
anti-CAM guidance.
Despite the circulation of information on the web saying that the Guidance is not significant, the Natural Solutions Foundation, based on the assessment of our legal team, continues to ring this alarm bell. And the public continues to respond! Remember that the comment period has been extended to May 29 and it is vitally important to make sure that we flood the FDA with our strong commitment to maintaining our access to natural health options.
According to Alexa.com, which tracks internet use, the rank of www.HealthFreedomUSA.org in the US is 17,490 (22,832 in Canada) and 45,631 globally among all the sites that they track! They also say that 3 out of every thousand people using the internet visited our site yesterday! Clearly, the health freedom bell is ringing.
It may, just may, have rung at Codex. True, there were blankets ready to muffle its sound, but sitting in the (seemingly endless) meeting yesterday of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling a rather astonishing thing happened.
You may recall that the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (which administer Codex) told Codex in July of 2005 that they wanted it to find ways to implement the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (GS) and that the Codex Committees on Food Labeling (CCFL) and Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Purposes (CCNFSDU) were tasked with doing just that. You may also recall that both of those committees dragged their feet, played parliamentary games and otherwise dodged that particular responsibility.
But this year, when the Agenda item dealing with implementation of the Global Strategy came up, it was NOT put to the end of the meeting. Instead, representatives from WHO and FAO spoke on the GS and the WHO representative, Dr. Margaret Cheney, laid out what WHO proposed. I had a hard time not whooping with excitement!
WHO wants food global labeling which includes information and statements specifically designed to allow consumers to protect their health by reducing their risk of the non communicable diseases (NCDs) of under nutrition (Cancers, CardioVascular Disease and Stroke, Diabetes and Obesity) AND it wants these labels to contain information on the — fasten your seat belts — dietary management of these diseases!
That means that WHO wants consumers all over the world to know that nutrition, food, nutrients can make them sick, protect them from getting sick, or help them get well if they are sick! That is the very information that the US government does NOT want people to have. It is the very information that CCFL does not want them to have. It is the very information that the US-supported definition of “advertising” — ANY information which is likely to reach the public and change beliefs or action about diet — does not want to allow people to have.
The WHO drew a line in the sand and the teams began to line up. Lots and lots of countries tried to explain why their consumers did not need, should not have, could not have, could not afford, could not understand, would not use, could not handle, information about nutrition on their pre-packaged food labels. Others, including the US, said that we do have mandatory labeling on pre-packaged food and that it really does help consumers to make their food choices.
Now the battle will be WHICH foods are included, which characteristics of foods will be included (total energy, added sugars, transfats, [synthetic ones from partially hydrogenated oils or natural ones or both], etc. Every lobby, every special interest group and those countries that they control, will be fighting for turf and protection for their interests. But some countries and organizations will be fighting for their people and for the right to make informed choices. We’ll see who lines up on which side! You can be sure I will keep you posted!
On another note, at the reception held by the Government of Canada for the CCFL attendees at the magnificent Museum of Civilization last night, the US Codex Point, made it a point to introduce his wife to General Stubblebine and me saying, “I want you to meet Dr. Laibow: she gives me a hard time!”. His wife said, “Yes, I’ve heard the stories!” and we had a very pleasant chat. I guess it was a bit like two attorneys who are arrayed on diametrically opposite sides of an issue still finding a way to maintain civility. Neither Dr. S. nor I changed sides, but we had a meaning conversation (including a discussion about the definition of advertising and its dangers) and opened a door for more conversation. It would be really nice if the health freedom community could engage in that civility. We had a meaningful and possibly productive conversation last night and did not waste any energy on enmity. We focused on the issues and apparently actually heard each other, at least a bit.
If the various factions of the health freedom community which choose to act without civility decided to stop slinging mud at each other and wasting energy on such infantile behavior, we would be able to get a lot further. There are real enemies out there. The Natural Solutions Foundation believes that those in the health freedom movement who spend their time attacking anyone — and everyone – who differs from their current position by the least jot or tittle are wasting the most precious resource that we have in this battle: awareness.
Unless, of course, that is their intent.
You will notice that the Natural Solutions Foundation NEVER attacks any one. We take positions, we take action, we alert and we report but we never savage or impute motivations to anyone. And we accomplish forward movement. That’s the goal.
We are, as I like to say, the ones we have been waiting for. That does not mean that we are the ones we have been waiting for to attack. At least not to us!
Stay tuned.
Today is another day of deliberations for the Codex Committee on Food Labeling (where, by the way, the juices served at breaks has fructose, added glucose and artificial flavors and colors). The munchies last night were deep fried so delegates could get their trans fat fix. The coffee break snacks are nothing but commercial carbs: not a protein molecule or veggie in sight. So much for walking the talk at Codex. I will keep you posted.
Don’t forget to mobilize your circle of influence to send in their comments on the dangerous FDA Guidance, send letters to the editor, etc. Your comments on S 1082/H 1082, the FDA Revitalization Bill of 2007 need to be heard, too.
This is the health freedom battle and it is a battle worth fighting.
Yours in health and freedom,
Dr. Rima
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
Oh, yes, don’t forget that health freedom isn’t free. Make your tax deductible donation now! If you already have, “thank you!”
REL
What I am about to tell you will thrill you and chill you at the same time. It will thrill you because it confirms that the course set by the Natural Solutions Foundation in the US and around the world is an effective strategy which is working. And it will chill you because it confirms that your personal freedoms and mine are being curtailed at a frightening rate in the US and elsewhere. Freedom to make your own health choices and use natural products and techniques, eat clean, unadulterated food and see health care professionals who treat you naturally is clearly under huge attack. Part and parcel of that attack is the attack on our rights, given by God, according to the Constitution of the United States, to speak as we wish and contend with the views of government and industry (increasingly one entity, in the US and elsewhere) without fear of punishment because of that speech.
As advocates for what we believe (and what you do, too), we know that speaking our truth to power and to the public at large is our right and our responsibility. Apparently, for doing so, we have been marked by the “security police” as people to be treated like enemies. Our work on behalf of health and health freedom has led some cog in the burgeoning US security Gestapo to do us the favor of confirming that the Natural Solutions Foundation is on exactly the right path. We are saying and doing things the US Government is not happy about and to let us know that, they treat us like enemies of the state every time we fly in the United States!
Here’s the story:
For about the last year, every time General Stubblebine and I travel by air — anywhere — we have been subjected to increasing, and increasingly nasty and burdensome, scrutiny at security screening points. As you know, we do a LOT of traveling so this was very, very clear to us. Up until recently, however, we were always told that it was due to “random screening procedures” and that we had been “selected for additional security”. It was, of course, a funny kind of random: the enhanced security seemed to randomly apply to anyone named Albert N. Stubblebine III and Rima E. Laibow, MD who just happened to share our seat assignments.
On January 10, 2007, when General Stubblebine and I left our home near New York City on another extended trip in the service of health and health freedom, the security thing got ratcheted up quite a large notch. Our itinerary was Newark NJ (a New York regional airport) to Asheville NC to Albuquerque NM to Los Angeles to Bangkok and beyond. Within the US we were flying on Delta Airlines. At each airport both General Stubblebine and I were treated to a level of absurd “security” unlike any we had ever experienced before. I was “smacked down”, not patted down. Our carry-on luggage was not just inspected, it was torn apart. Wires, mice, cables, combs, lipsticks, everything was opened, examined, flung around, shoved into bags in a totally disorganized, “higgledy piggledy” manner with rude demeanor and agonizing slowness thrown in for good measure. We came very close to missing our flights several times despite being at the security station a full 2 hours before take off. Nasty does not even begin to describe the manner in which we were treated.
During a lay over between connecting flights I got to chatting with a member of the Delta Airlines cabin crew staff who was “dead heading” home from an international flight. I told him about the treatment we had been experiencing and he said, “You must have a code on your tickets put there by the government. Are you speaking out about something the government doesn’t like?”
So at the next check point I innocently said to the woman checking our boarding passes and photo IDs (which is, of course, just a warm up for the “Real ID” national identification card coming our way in 2008) that we were experiencing an absurd amount of security scrutiny. She smiled warmly, pointed to our boarding passes and said, “Well, here’s why. The code is right here on your boarding cards: it says that you are to get extreme scrutiny. Are you talking about something the government doesn’t want you to say?”
At that airport, too, we were subjected to the same malicious and ridiculous “screening” as at all the others. The code was right there: SSSS. So our tickets marked us, presumably at the request of the United States Government Department of Homeland Security, as bad people, people who should have their persons and belongings searched for dangerous contents. Bad people, people who should be taught a lesson, intimidated and, most important of all, people who should be cowed into not speaking out to defend their rights and the rights of others. For speaking our truth both to power and to the masses, we have been marked, as with the biblical “Mark of the Beast”.
I say, however, that our paranoid and dangerously out of control government, the one that has forgotten that our rights are, according to the United States Constitution, conferred by God, NOT by the US government, had obviously created a process of marking the best. Those who speak out, those who tell their truth and remind our government that it serves us, it does not own us, those who keep the flame of liberty, which demands active participation to feed it, alive and vigorous, are marked “for special scrutiny”. And these are the best patriots.
If the Natural Solutions Foundation were not on target, its spokespersons would not be targets. If the Natural Solutions Foundation’s Codex activities were not right on the mark, Dr. Claude Moshe, the Codex Alimentarius Commission Chairman would not have marked us for special attack before and during the 2006 Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting last July in Geneva.
Actually, I feel pretty good about receiving this direct confirmation from the US Government at the same time that I feel enraged and sorrowing that this is what our institutionalized paranoia has led us to: speak up and be marked. Be a real patriot by defending your country from corporate tyranny and become a target. You will remember that when we returned home from another long trip (during which we met privately with the President of India to brief him on Codex), our internet and phone service had been interrupted by someone who climbed the phone pole outside our isolated and remote home, removed a filter from its insulating and water-proof boot and left the boot open. Since we live on a street with only 12 houses and virtually no traffic, the pole feeds only our home with telephone and power lines. The message? Just ask General Stubblebine, who, during his active duty military career, controlled the US Army’s counter-intelligence service and he will tell you that what it means is, “We know where you live!” So the powers that be were telling us last July that we were on a watch list, too.
Is this what freedom is about? Is this what the US Constitution is about? Or is this of a piece with the same government policies and practices that are working so hard to take away your right to vitamins, minerals, natural prevention and treatment options — in short to your taking, and holding, control of your own health in favor of a pharmaceutical tyranny?
We know the answer and so do you. To the extent that you value that freedom, it is up to you to take a stand, and keep taking it, for yourself and others who may not understand yet that their freedoms, and, in fact, their very survival is at stake.
There are powerful steps you can take to support your freedoms and exercise them at the same time. Some of them will sound familiar, some will be new. They are ALL vitally important to the extent that your health and freedom are important.
Step 1: USE THE TOOL KIT
A. NUTRICIDE Watch “Nutricide” on Google Video and then get the “Nutricide: the DVD” and show it in your community. Make sure you send everyone you know this link and ask them to watch the video and then go to the Natural Solutions Foundation website, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org.
B. CODEX eBOOK The Codex eBook applies the Natural Solutions Foundations’ Two Step Process (developed in conjunction with the Citizens Codex Working Group) which can protect countries from both the dangers of Codex and World Trade Organization trade sanctions for deviating from Codex has been applied to the dangerous and restrictive Vitamin and Mineral Guideline. Get the same information we present to Heads of State, Codex Delegates, Ministers of Health and other decision makers in this outstanding down-loadable eBook.
C. CODEX INFORMATION
Big Pharma and the other corporate friends of health fascism don’t want you to know what’s going on so there is a virtual black out on information about Codex. Natural Solutions Foundation wants you to have accurate, accessible and vital information. When you visit www.HealthFreedomUSA.org you will find a wealth of information for your use. Feel free to take the 5 minute Codex Tour, be sure to read “Nutricide: the Killing Fields of Codex“, download the one page Codex Flyer, visit the Resource Center, etc. You have my personal permission to use, share or reproduce these materials as long as you give full credit and a complete citation when you do. Email it, post it, blast it, just get the word out. The major media are not covering this issue so it’s up to you and me.
B. TAKE THE ACTION STEPS
Join the Citizens Petition and become part of the historic suit against the US Government against their illegal Codex policy on supplements. Nearly 40,000 other US Citizens have already signed the petition. Let your circle of influence know how important their signatures are and send them the link with your suggestion that they sign the Citizens Petition, too!
If you have not yet signed the Citizens Petition at www.HealthFreedomUSA.org, do it now! You can automatically email it to us with the click of a button and we will take it from there.
Step 2: SIGN UP FOR EMAIL UPDATES
Make sure you are signed up for our secure (I.E., never sold, shared, loaded or rented), Natural Solutions Foundation eNewsletter (on our homepage, www.HealthFreedomUSA.org) and send the email blasts you receive from us to your entire circle of influence, too.
Step 3. ORGANICS4U: SUPPORT YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR HEALTH FREEDOM AT THE SAME TIME
Every time you make a purchase from our all-organic, doctor recommended store, Organics4U you are supporting the Natural Solutions Foundation, protecting your body. Organic foods and supplements do not expose you to the dangers and damage caused by pesticides, artificial colors, preservatives, artificial sweeteners, synthetic “supplements” or food and nutrients derived from dangerous genetically modified sources. Everything at the Organics4U shop has been verified by me personally to be organic, clean and wholesome. You can shop safely for yourself and your family.
More than that, though, you know that you are helping the Natural Solutions Foundation to fight for your freedom to have access to clean, unadulterated products like these. And, as a way of saying “thank you” for your support, the tax deductible portion of every portion (approximately 40%) comes back to you as a tax deduction to a charitable organization with a letter you can give to your tax adviser come tax time in a few months!
Step 4. DONATE
Your one time or recurring tax deductible donations make it possible for the Natural Solutions Foundation to keep on finding effective solutions to problems like Codex Alimentarius and other serious health freedom threats. You send us to Codex meetings, allow us to enlist lawyers and other experts who, like us, are willing to donate their time but have travel and other expenses associated with doing this work. You pay for our webmaster, and a host of other on-going expenses. What you do not pay for is salaries or retainers for our lawyers or for us: we donate 100% of our time to keeping your health freedom alive and well. We are endorsed by organizations like the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals among others.
We have no commercial support: our only constituency is you. We cannot continue to be uniquely effective and uniquely present at the right times and places without that support. Consider making a recurring gift so we know what our monthly income will be. But please make your donation right now.
Step 5. GET INVOLVED
People write to me at my new email address, dr.laibow@gmail.com, to tell me that they are eager to become involved. They can either become community organizers or, as often happens, they have wonderful talents and ideas for art auctions, dance and music fund raisers, lectures, health freedom t-shirts, tag sales, etc., etc. What would you like to do to support health freedom? We’ll help! Let’s make it happen.
We’ll be here in Bangkok working on some special projects for health freedom and international cooperation for a while, then off to India in about a month to follow up on the outstanding successes we have had there. In May we’ll be in Ottawa for the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, in Rome in July for the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting (where Dr. Moshe is probably NOT going to roll out the red carpet for us. You get the picture. We are there, literally, for you. Tell me your particular way of being there for us and we’ll continue changing the world, and protecting our freedoms, together!
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation
dr.laibow@gmail.com
October 4, 2006
A Letter From Our Attorney
Natural Solutions Foundation’s lawyer, Ralph Fucetola, has provided us with a copy of the letter with which he responded when some people asked similar questions about the Natural Solutions Foundation activities.
He has authorized us to share it with the folks on our list. Please feel free to copy, share or distribute this letter as you see fit. We do ask that you do not edit or change it in the event you forward it on.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Ralph Fucetola JD
www.VitaminLawyer.com
58 Plotts Road – Newton, NJ 07860
973.300.1519 – Fax: 300.5486
October 6, 2006
Dear Rima,
Several people have raised questions which I have answered in the attached
letter. Please feel free to share it with your elist and on your web site.
Ralph Fucetola, JD
http://www.vitaminlawyer.com
All Rights Reserved
Attached:
Ralph Fucetola JD
www.VitaminLawyer.com
58 Plotts Road – Newton, NJ 07860
973.300.1519 – Fax: 300.5486
September 26, 2006
Dear Allan:
I urge all Natural Solutions Foundation supporters to respond to this call for emergency help and support. The Foundation’s growing international alliances are proving to be the most effective opposition to the Codex Alimentarius anti-nutrition, anti-health agenda. The international situation is critical and Natural Solutions Foundation needs immediate financial support so that we can attend the upcoming Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses where the Global Strategy is on the agenda. The Foundation needs Health Freedom Angels this week.
Donation Link : www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/donate.shtml
Natural Solutions Foundation is a nonprofit research and public policy, nongovernmental organization active in the international health care community. The Foundation and its leadership are very well respected in the healing community. Later this month, the Foundation’s President and its Medical Director will jointly receive the prestigious Dr. Carlton Lee Award from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. The AAEM gives this award to those who have done the most for natural medicine in the past year.
Natural Solutions Foundation is not tied to any company, industry or special interest. All funding comes from your private donations. Our ability to attend international meetings and pursue the International Strategy depends entirely on Foundation supporters to provide the necessary funding.
Donation Link : www.healthfreedomusa.org/action/donate.shtml
As general counsel, I am responding to questions that have been raised regarding the work of the Natural Solutions Foundation. The recent attacks are akin to the Pharma-Cartel funded “Quack-Buster” attacks on pharmaceutical medicine’s most effective, natural (alternative) competitor therapies, and the unfounded criticisms voiced by the Chairman of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, Dr. Claude Mosha, at recent Codex meetings (see: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/7/prweb406560.htm).This orchestrated campaign appears designed to undermine and marginalize Natural Solutions Foundation.
Smear, ridicule, slander and liable are used against all effective opponents of the pharma-driven world order. These attacks are a validation of how effective The Foundation’s International Strategy has been in creating a pro-health consortium at the international level. These baseless smear tactics are intended to divide the health freedom community and isolate one of the most effective and sophisticated international forces for consumer health and natural health options – the Natural Solutions Foundation. We reject these attacks as unworthy of further response. I think we can all agree that our focus must be on actions that engage Codex Alimentarius, the World Food Code, in supporting good nutrition and natural health solutions.
It has been falsely asserted that I disagree with the leadership of the Foundation about impact of steps taken at the Codex CCFL and the implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health.
My article about the events at the Codex CCFL meeting in Canada earlier this year reported that the committee took significant steps toward a more nutritionally sound international food trade. Specifically the committee included the South African principles for implementation of the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health in the committee’s official meeting report. I also reported the ongoing jockeying between major forces in Codex, especially, the US and EU.
The report of the meeting posted by the leaders of the Natural Solutions Foundation, who were also present, made the same points as my article. The Final Committee Report states …
“24) The Delegation of South Africa, supported by the observer from NHF, put forward several proposals for consideration: recognizing that nutrients are not toxins and that their assessment should reflect acknowledged benefits and desired impacts from their use in order to achieve positive outcomes and that they should generally be recognized as safe; banning the addition of partially and fully hydrogenated trans fatty acids in foods; allowing the enrichment of dietary supplements in foods in order to optimize nutrient density to compensate for a decline in micronutrients in various foods; ensuring that global legislation prevent the use of industrial toxins and additives that are not supported by biochemistry and clinical experience; supporting nutrition and health claims and advertising for those foods that contribute to a healthy life style, while banning such claims for those foods which do not contribute to a healthy life style, especially as regards avertising as directed to children, all in the context of optimal health.”
[3]
This is unique and important step in insuring the inclusion of nutrition standards in international food trade rules. The South African representatives at the meeting concurred with us in our interpretation of these events.
We at the Natural Solutions Foundation believe that the inclusion of the essence of the “South African principles” in the CCFL Committee Final Report advances our two-pronged strategy for the implementation of an international food trade standard that focuses on organic food and natural health options which tracks the Health Freedom principles of the US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994, that Supplements are Foods, not Toxins.[4],[5] The strategy consists of persuading countries to adopt a health promoting revised guideline or standard based on better science than the corresponding Codex guideline or standard and then enact legislation which makes this revised guideline or standard national law. With respect to the Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements, this template would be manifested in the following manner:
1. Establish the international guidelines for food supplement trade developed by Natural Solutions Foundation in conjunction with the Citizens for Health Codex Working Group as their domestic nutritional guidelines, rather than the scientifically flawed Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements (ratified July 4, 2005, Rome, Italy).
2. Adopt domestic national food supplement laws that apply the principles of the US Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA).
Natural Solutions Foundation and the Citizens for Health Codex Working Group have developed a Model International Food Supplements law to assist countries interested in adopting DSHEA-type legislation based on the principle that nutrients are foods to serve as the precedent for other corrective guidelines and standards to replace those which support an industrialized food supply over a natural, organic one. You can find our proposed guidelines and Model law on our web site at: Codex e-Book ,
http://drrimatruthreports.com/resources/books.shtml.
Natural Solutions Foundation representatives have had great success in pursuing this agenda in meetings with senior national officials, including cabinet members and heads of state, in several African and Asian countries and at Codex meetings. The actions of the Codex CCFL in Canada have been helpful in these efforts. But the favorable discussions held so far are only the first steps in creating sound nutritional standards for international food trade. The next step is to persuade countries to act on the information that they are treating positively in these early conversations.
For your records, to allow comparison with what the CCFL included in its Report, here are the South African Principles as proposed to the CCFL:
South Africa presented eleven points for the implementation of the Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Exercise and Health:
1. Formally recognize and accept that nutrients are not toxins. They should be subjected to sound assessment procedures which take into account empirical, clinical, statistical and peer review processes and which take acknowledged benefits and desirable impact from the use of them in order to achieve positive outcomes, into consideration;
2. Formally accept nutrients as generally safe and encourage the unrestricted sale of that category of food called “dietary supplements” at all levels, including optimum potency levels, throughout the world;
3. Ban all added trans fats derived from industrial hydrogenation in the production of food;
4. Ensure that countries are encouraged to add, and do not place restrictions on the addition of nutrients which are supported by biochemistry, clinical nutrition, clinical experience, empirical observation and customary usage to food;
5. Ensure that countries enact strong legislative restrictions on the addition of industrial toxins to food, which are not supported by biochemistry, clinical nutrition, clinical experience and customary usage;
6. Allow and encourage enrichment of foods through the addition of that class of food called dietary supplements in order to optimize nutrient density of foods. Require that countries compensate for the decline in micronutrients in agricultural produce (e.g., fruits and vegetables) as a result of the depletion of trace nutrients in soil by commercial agriculture practices through the incorporation of that class of food called dietary supplements in order to optimize nutrient density of these foods;
7. Encourage and support the development of national and international policies which, enhance local, national, regional and global optimal nutrition through life-style modification (including diet), fortification and supplementation with that category of food called dietary supplements at all levels, including optimum potency levels;
8. Identify foods that do not contribute to, conflict with or are not essential for a healthy lifestyle (”junk food”). Similarly, identify foods that can support a healthy life-style. Support nutrition and health claims in labeling and advertising for those foods that do contribute to a healthy life-style and ban nutrition and health claims on the labeling and advertising of those foods which do not contribute to a healthy life style in order to encourage health-supporting foods and discourage ones that do not support health;
9. Ensure that countries encourage truthful, full and accurate labeling and advertising on all foods, which contribute to health and ban advertising and health claims on those that do not;
10. Ensure that countries develop a ban on junk food advertising to children (birth to 18 years);
11. Require that the Chairpersons of CCFL and CCNFSDU report to the Codex Alimentarius Commission every other year on the status of the implementation of the WHO/FAO GLOBAL STRATEGY ON DIET, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND HEALTH and items 1-10 listed above.[6]
I trust that this letter clarifies the role of the Natural Solutions Foundation and myself in the campaign to include sound nutrition principles in the regulation of international food trade. I encourage all individuals who support or are interested in the activities of the Natural Solutions Foundation to contact us directly on any matters of interest or concern about the Natural Solutions Foundation.
I am proud to be a Natural Solutions Foundation supporter. On behalf the leadership and the other good people at NSF, I invite your continued support. We need your donations to succeed.
Donation Link: http://drrimatruthreports.com/action/donate.shtml .
I thank you for your inquiry about the role of the Natural Solutions Foundation and for your continuing support of the Natural Solutions Foundation.
Sincerely,
Ralph Fucetola, JD
www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
info@healthfreedomusa.org
[1] http://www.who.int/hpr/gs.strategy.document.shtml
[2] Report of the Thirty Fourth Session of the Codex Committee on Food Labeling, Ottawa, Canada May 1-5, 2006, Alinorm 06/29/22, p 9
[3] Ibid
[4] Codex eBook, http://drrimatruthreports.com/resources/books.shtml
[5] International Decade of Nutrition, http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/9/prweb432432.htm