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Posted September 7, 2004
Health Freedom Threatened in Denmark
Another assault on free choice in the name of "consumer safety"
From Tamara Mosegaard, the leader of Mayday, a health freedom organization in Denmark allied with The International Advocates for Health Freedom.
Please support Tamara:
Tamara is in a solidarity fight to protect the freedom of choice in healthcare in Denmark. It's a very stressful, very lonely battle for her, and IAHF urges you to take notice of Denmark's plight, because where one of us is in chains, none of us is truly free.
If you know anyone in Denmark, please forward Tamara's alert to help her out. Health freedom is very much at risk in Denmark.
The Danish Veterinary & Food Administration has sent out a Guidance on dietary supplements (and herbs) as a public hearing notice. In short, it states that, in the future, any substance with a physiological effect is to be regarded as a medicine.
This means that the concept of "dietary supplements" will soon cease to exist, and that a lot of widely used and harmless dietary supplements and herbs will be disappearing from the shelves of Danish health shops by November 2004.
Gone is the freedom of choice for the many seeking to maintain and restore good health and quality of life, and prevent sickness.
Such nannyism is totally unacceptable!
MayDay has long been concerned that such legislative restrictions can be expected throughout EUrope in the time to come.
MayDay invites all health freedom-loving people to support our work, to inform the public about unjust measures from government authorities, and ensure free personal choice in health matters.
A word from IAHF:
A tiny number of individuals have made some donations of late, which have been very helpful; but more help is needed to offset our expenses.
Here at IAHF, we're doing the almost impossible, too often for the ungrateful, with next to nothing. Please ask yourself where you think you'll be in a year or two, vis a vis access to dietary supplements, if we at IAHF should get burned out and quit doing this work due to chronic lack of support.
Every time a donation comes in, it's very uplifting. We're putting our hearts and souls, our blood, sweat and tears into fighting this lonely, often thankless battle; and we're doing it for you.
Please do more, if you can, to help:
The International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Rd.
Point Roberts, WA 98281
USA
Your support can be provided via PayPal at www.iahf.com. We're trying to cover nearly $1,000.00 in expenses for the Health Freedom Summit in Minnesota (2004), and have received less than $100.00 in donations. We need your help to help you.
Please go to MayDay's website (www.mayday-info.dk) where it's possible to sign up to be a member and/or support the Alliance for Natural Health's legal challenge of the EU Food Supplements Directive.
Danes are requested to protest against these serious restrictions, writing to their favorite newspaper and/or politician and/or the Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture & Fisheries (fvm@fvm.dk), plus the Danish Veterinary & Food Administration (fdir@fdir.dk).
Kind regards,
Tamara Theresa Mosegaard
MayDay, Civil Health Rights Movement
Secretariat:
Rundforbivej 2, Troeroed
DK - 2960 Vedbaek
Denmark
Tel.: +45 4499 8898
Fax: +45 4565 0599
ttm@mayday-info.dk
www.mayday-info.dk
Why this should be of concern to you
Denmark may seem like a long way away from America. We don't even hear much of anything about this country in the news. But, especially with growing globalization, policies adopted in one country tend to be adopted in others. There is already serious pressure being placed upon the natural health industry in this country, and if the freedom of choice is lost in Denmark (as it has already largely been lost in Australia and other countries), our freedom could be next.
We really are all in this together.
