For Europeans and Americans, New Zealand and Australia seem so far away we don't usually think that what happens "down under" is going to affect us in any way. Better think twice. What is happening there does have relevance to us. In fact we are facing attempts by the European Union and by the FDA to "regulate" supplements that are not dissimilar to what is happening on the other side of the world.
Clearly, people taking care of their own health with non-medicinal nutritious products are anathema to the medical/pharmaceutical juggernaut that is controlling government health authorities and is running roughshod over our health and well being. Their global war against natural medicine is in full swing, just like the global war against "terror", which is leading us right into a future UN-controlled dictatorship. We even have our own 911 equivalent - the recall and immediate destruction of more than a thousand innocent natural products, operated last April by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration.
The plan is to now form a joint Australian/New Zealand Agency for the control of Medicines (TGA), which is expected to end many of the freedoms New Zealanders have traditionally enjoyed when it comes to taking care of their own health using natural health products. The agency is to be modeled after the existing Australian TGA, sadly famous for its unprecedented natural products recall, which Australian industry charges was a hatchet job. Not one of the products recalled and destroyed immediately has been shown to be harmful in any way.
New Zealand member of Parliament Sue Kedgley of the Aotearoa Green Party is actively opposing the planned Australian takeover of her country's health system. Her May 2004 newsletter charges that the takeover could lead to the demise of much of New Zealand's natural products industry, not to speak of diminished freedom for New Zealand consumers of natural health products, which in the future are to be classified as medicines.
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