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From:	Hanan (68.147.244.248)
Subject:	RAW FOOD IS ILLEGAL, GO GO GO!!
Date:	May 7, 2008 at 7:35 am PST

We have rallies all over Canada to STOP BILL C51 which is a scary combination of acts to stop natural health in all it's forms, food, herbs, supplements, cosmetics!!!! Go here for info and dates: http://www.stopc51.com/default.asp

A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.

The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved "therapeutic substances." Learn about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the Stop51.com website: http://www.stopc51.com

More you can do:
Here's what you can do to protect your rights:

Tell others

· Talk to your local Press

· Please Contact your Member of Parliament or write a letter requesting them to vote against the bill. Find your member of parliament here:
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberB...

Here are the addresses:

Stephen Harper, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6 (no postage necessary), Tel. (613)992-4211, Fax: (613)974-0310, email: pm@pm.gc.ca

Tony Clement, Room 278, Confederation Building, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6, (no postage necessary), Tel. (613)944-7740, email: minister_ministre@hc-sc.gc.ca

Robert Thibeault, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0A6, email: thibeault.r@parl.gc.ca

· Ask the leaders in your community to get involved

· Contact your MLA

· Tell your Friends

Do it now!! Don't forget!!

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