What do Vitamins Have to do With Wall Street Reform?: Henry Waxman Puts Vitamin Regulation Amendment in Wall Street Bill

We already know the federal government wants more power over the nation’s food supply as well as your little garden. HR 875, the Food Safety Act pushes government power further into the our nation’s farms. When it comes to nutrition and the freedom to make choices for homeopathic treatment, the government now wants more say in what vitamins and supplements you put in your body. They are doing it secretly—not in the Food Safety Act, but in the Wall Street Reform bill.

Congressman Henry Waxman snuck an amendment into the House Version of the financial reform act that gives government more power over vitamins and supplements. Why would he use the Wall Street rhetoric to sneak the amendment into the bill?

As the government takes more power over our medical decisions, they look at the homeopathic medicine industry as one of their next targets. It’s no surprise to many people who understand nutrition know food today is being robbed of vital nutrients. As well, companies like Monsanto continue to experiment with genetically altered foods that produce their own insecticides that people are digesting, and the government seems to have little concern over the long-term effects on your health with these foods. As well, the government continues to put chemicals in food and water many fear are leading to other health issues. The nation’s vitamin and supplement industry offers alternatives to replace nutrition robbed from the great food experiment taking place in the nation’s Capital. With a growing concern over the health of food and water, the government now wants to get its greedy hands on another aspect of nutrition.

Waxman’s amendment gives the Federal Trade Commission more power over the vitamin and supplement industry. The FTC has long targeted the supplement business, but Waxman’s amendment may give them enough power to put many vitamin and supplement companies out of business by forcing them into the same red tape that drives up the costs of pharmaceutical production. Of course the difference is, the pharmaceutical companies produce chemicals that actually have long-effects on the body including death as noted in any Physician Desk Reference, and vitamins and supplements are made from natural ingredients that offer alternatives to pharmaceutical concoctions.

The FTC often attacks the claims of vitamin and supplement makers telling manufacturers they cannot make many of the claims they do. For instance, there are natural alternatives that balance a child’s brain chemistry through nutrition that don’t have the harsh effects on a child’s personality like Ritalin, Concerta, and Prozac. It’s controversial to even suggest something natural may have benefits and can be used as an alternative over these dangerous drugs they continue to push on children. I have plenty of friends who study nutrition, that understand the dangers of these drugs and realize many of the medical conditions we suffer from are simply from the lack of nutrition. Of course, it’s easier for the government to drug the population with mind altering drugs like Ritalin rather than offer real nutritional responsibility. Of course, they will attack McDonald’s Happy Meals while they carry out this deceit that continues to add children to the list of users of these mind altering drugs to give the illusion they care, all the while they let Monsanto genetically alter foods infusing seeds with insecticides.

Waxman’s amendment allows the Federal Trade Commission to write its own laws. Obama granted this similar power to the EPA, so the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide. This obviously would further the FTC’s war on homeopathic natural treatments and force more people to dangerous drugs. Read the PDA sometime if you don’t believe the drugs your doctors prescribe are not dangerous.