Those miscreants have NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to interfere in or meddle with our thriving and fair, NATURAL FOOD SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY, even criminalizing what is NOT CRIMINAL and destroying this fair industry with the stroke of a pen, upon which fair industry our entire world depends, as a last bastion of SANITY and Health Freedom.

Who damages this virtuous industry, violates all that is right and good with humanity, violating our Sovereignty of Mind and Body, WITH IMPUNITY.

The Constitution does not authorize this sort of meddling impudence and insanity, nor does it give Congress/Senate/President/Greedy Corporate interests the POWER to implement these atrocities against the American People or anyone else.

All those sordid types want to do is go back to the Dark Ages, where these sorts were most comfortable, doing what they please against whomsoever it pleases them to destroy, with impunity, without the People to stop them!

ENOUGH OF THIS MADNESS! Wake up and smell the Cinnamon!

Daniel Chapter One does not agree, and are opposing the tyrannical Order of the FTC against them to stop sharing truthful information about natural healing. Daniel Chapter One is fighting for your FREEDOM TO INFORMATION, and YOUR RIGHT TO CHOICE.

“We believe that it is the right of the patient to choose the treatment they wish, the materials which are placed into their bodies, and to obtain as much information as possible with which to make an informed decision.”
(Dr Gammal, 1999)

DANIEL CHAPTER ONE WELCOMES YOU TO JOIN THEM IN THEIR STAND ~ OR TO AT LEAST HEAR THEIR STORY!

It is a well-known fact that Americans in today’s society are frustrated with government-controlled health care. A large number of Americans have spoken out in opposition to the federal government’s interference with their access to dietary supplements.

The battle for free access to vitamins, minerals, and supplements continues as the FDA & Federal Trade Commission attempts to use its regulatory powers to push its own political agenda. They are demanding an unobtainable standard of proof from supplement manufacturers that their statements regarding vitamins, supplements, and minerals are true.

One of their targets is a Rhode Island based natural health ministry, Daniel Chapter One. Founded by Jim and Tricia Feijo in the summer of 1986, Daniel Chapter One has been ministering world-wide with natural solutions to many health problems, and thousands of people have attested to the truth of their information and effectiveness of their quality supplements.

Wouldn’t we all agree that the track record for FDA-approved drugs speaks for itself? Approved pharmaceuticals are tagged with a risk factor. All drugs are chemicals, poisons. Natural supplements are just that, natural, the connotation clarifying that they are legitimate; normal; not artificial, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; conformed to truth or reality.

History:

The Canadian and United States Governments are trying to censure what is said, oppress what is done, and ultimately extort any company promoting all-natural vitamins, minerals, and supplements. The Canadian FTC first complained about Daniel Chapter One’s nutritional support for cancer and reported successes. The U.S. FTC seized upon and continued the harassment; the Federal Trade Commission is currently demanding that Daniel Chapter One sign their Order, pay a burdensome fine, and stop sharing information and testimonies about natural healing. When Daniel Chapter One refused to sign their order and without one complaint from a person that have used the products, the FTC proceeded with trying to destroy Daniel Chapter One and what it stands for.
The Federal Trade Commission does not want you to have true health treatment options. They are implementing Stalin-like dictatorship in regards to natural, God-given supplements. For the past two years Daniel Chapter One has battled the FTC only to be ruled against by the Federal Trade Commission. Daniel Chapter One is now in the process of appealing this ruling in Federal Court. The ministry has endured libelous accusations and extreme financial hardship to keep this battle going so all of us can have the right to choose how we want to deal with our own and family’s health and illnesses.

Recent Press Release in regards to the FTC’s most recent ruling against Daniel Chapter One:
STATEMENT OF DANIEL CHAPTER ONE REGARDING RECENT FTC ACTION TO SHUT IT DOWN

Portsmouth, Rhode Island (January 5, 2010). On Christmas Eve 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Daniel Chapter One — a Christian ministry — to bring to a halt its outreach program offering an array of dietary supplements and herbal remedies that numerous people had tried and found helpful in their bouts with cancer and other illnesses.

The FTC holiday order brought to an end the first chapter of a year-long battle that Daniel Chapter One has been fighting to ensure freedom of choice for cancer victims who found that chemotherapy, radiation, and other traditional medical treatments had not made them better.

For an entire year the FTC has pressured Daniel Chapter One to cease its ministry, even though the FTC had received no consumer complaints against it. And even though the FTC has the unlimited resources of the United States government, it made no effort to prove that anyone had been harmed by a Daniel Chapter One product. Rather, the FTC refused to hear the many voices of those who wanted to testify how well the products worked for them.

In short, the FTC attack on Daniel Chapter One — and others like it — all offering an alternative way back to health — amounted to nothing more than a bureaucratic blow on behalf of cookie-cutter, big Pharma-based medicine — one size fits all — the government deciding what is right for you.

While others buckled under the weight and power of the federal behemoth, Daniel Chapter One — constrained by religious principle — went into battle for the precious liberties of those it helps.

Throughout this lengthy fight, Daniel Chapter One has had one hand tied behind its back with no opportunity to defend itself and its ministry before any court of law. Instead, Daniel Chapter One has been subjected to a financially and emotionally draining administrative process where the FTC — a powerful government agency — has been both its prosecutor and its judge, in an unprecedented effort to silence a nonprofit ministry.

Now — for the first time — Daniel Chapter One has the opportunity to take its fight for religious liberty and health freedom for all Americans to a federal court. And it will do just that, seeking to overturn the FTC’s draconian order and to restore the individual right of Americans to make their own health care choices.

Ways we can take action:

Join Daniel Chapter One Freedom to support Daniel Chapter One’s legal battle with the FTC (www.dc1freedom.com ) Contribute any amount, pray for us or just enter a comment.

Call every talk show you can and sound the alarm. If you have a friend or family member with connections to the media, tell them about this struggle and see if they would interview or have Jim & Tricia as guests on their program. Write letters to your newspaper editors on the issue.

It doesn’t matter if we agree on everything. Remember, when good, honest Americans are willing to stand up for our rights, we need to stand together or we will all hang separately.
Help organize like-minded people to win this fight.

I urge you to read the report and see for yourself.

Ilene Ringel Heller
Senior Staff Attorney
Ceneter for Science in the Public Interest

I have found that natural supplements are reversing these problems and giving me a second chance at a healthy life. However, we need to know which supplements will help our situation and if the FDA listens to the CSPI and refuses to allow me to get this information, then the FDA doesn’t care about people staying healthy and are hastening their death.

In fact, I am convinced that the reason we have so many people in Nursing Homes is because of the doctors listening to the Pharmaceutical Companies and prescribing all the drugs they recommend, especially to our elderly. They don’t look for the problem and correct the problem, they give them pills to block some part of their body from working. Then when that causes more problems, they give them more pills to block something else from working. The result, people are taking so many pills they become drug addicts and cannot function or take care of themselves. Many become zombies just sitting in a wheelchair day in and day out until they die. In fact, I spent a lot of time in Nursing Homes several years ago when my Mom had Alzheimer’s, so I saw a lot of people that were overdosed. I am now convinced they would have been much better off with supplements and Vitamins instead.

Please, I beg you, do not to do do anything to limit my ability to get the supplements I need.

The CSPI request is neither ‘for Science’ nor ‘in the Public Interest’ and should be denied for lack of merit and substance (it has no basis on Science and is against the Public Interest)

I am an RN who is informing my patients and coworkers of the independent studies on the most effective and least damaging interventions for many health problems. I am using valid and reliable studies that meet the standards of scientific inquiry. My coworkers are often amazed that the interventions studied in these studies are not being used in mainstream medicine. They and myself as well understand that their application would cause far less damage and ease so much human suffering. The FDA is primarily responsible for this as you will not allow valid research to be published with a product or procedure unless it has been run at great expense by a major drug company. You do this almost without exception. Any party who dares publish this data in conjunction with a product can have their assets immediately taken and can serve jail time like a common criminal. What you already do is inexcusable. The amount of human suffering you increase and support is incalculable.

The proposal by the Center for Science in the Public interest to not allow holistic health studies to be published or even spoken of by health care professionals to their clients is tyranny. It is a violation of our constitutional rights to free speech. I am imploring you to at least not cross this line of violating our basic human rights and reject this proposal.

I further am encouraging you to do the honest and ethical action and to change your policy by developing a standard for studies that are valid and reliable in their findings even if these studies are not done by Big Pharma and don’t cost millions of dollars apiece to implement. To refuse to do so is unethical and indefensible.

Sincerely,
Bill Dovel RN

THE THINGS WE HAVE ACCESS TO SHOULD NOT BE DETERMINED BY WEALTH, BUT BY VALUE.

The writing is on the wall. PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING AND DYING. How do you sleep at night? What do YOU eat??

The cat is out of the bag. There is nothing less than a scientific revolution currently taking place at the intersection of food, food extracts, and food supplements. Solid, peer-reviewed scientific research is pouring forth from reputable research institutions, especially research universities such as Harvard, Stanford and the like. But the American people do not hear about this research. Food and supplement producers would like to tell them about it — but FDA rules prevent it. Our economy is paying a higher and higher price for health care (aka DISEASE-MANAGEMENT) that does not improve our health because of this, and because of the emphasis on using expensive and harmful drugs to TREAT SYMPTOMS rather than PREVENTING and HEALING the CAUSES of disease naturally and inexpensively.

Reject the CSPI proposal. Do not abolish the Structure/ Function and Qualified Health Claims systems. Stop censoring good science. Wake up and join the rest of us HUMAN BEINGS in the 21st century!!

Thank you in advance.

Drugs have almost killed my mother and doctors to not listen to the patient nor to the caregiver as drugs not being able to be taken by an individual.

Drugs in my opinion are foreign to the body and why would someone want to use a foreign substance when a natural one is out there to be had even without the approvable of the government. WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO TAKE BACK OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR RIGHTS TO CHOOSE WHAT IS BEST FOR US IN DRUGS, PROTECTING OURSELVES, HOW WE SHOULD BE GOVERN.

GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO CONTROL EVERY ASPECTS OF OUR LIVES AND OUR CONSTITUTION IS LONGER BEING FOLLOWED. OUR RIGHTS ARE BEING TAKEN AWAY BY THE GOVERNMENT THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT DONE SUCH A GOOD JOB AT CONTROLLING GOVERNMENT SPENDING SO WHAT IN THE WORLD WOULD THEY THINK THAT THEY COULD CONTROL OR EVEN HELP IN THE MEDICAL ASPECT OF SOMEONE’S LIFE.

YEAH!!!! What a fantastic article! May I have permission to provide a link to this article along with a paragraph to pass along to some folks with our coming newsletter for the Natural Health Freedom Defense Network?

We are currently engaged in fighting this battle, and the referenced website gives people an opportunity to write to their Congressman to support the legislation introduced by Ron Paul which will allow health claims to be made unless they can be proven, in and of themselves, to be false and misleading. Then and only then can the FDA and FTC punish those health claims! Our newsletter is almost ready to go out to 75,000 readers. We would certainly like to join our forces with you in having those readers exposed to a way to write to the FDA directly, and ask you to have your people write to their Representatives directly through our webpage.

Thank you for joining in this battle to allow the American public, and the world population, to have access to quality scientific information about health supplements and foods! Keep up the good work!

We need to be able to read all the latest scientific studies/updates on all natural substances to keep making informed decisions/purchases to maintain optimum health.

Robin.

THE FDA NEEDS TO BE ABOLISHED AND REPLACED WITH A GENUINE GROUP OF SCIENTISTS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS WHO ARE NOT PAID OFF BY BIG PHARMA !!!!!!! This is just sickening. Big Pharma and the AMA and big agri-business not only are allowed to poison the people of the Earlth to make huge profits, but they can also put competing multi-billion dollar businesses out of business!???

Everyone is being poisoned in the name of all-mighty capitalism, – but then there is no real capitalism because the FDA can put anyone out of business at the drop of a hat – small organic farmers, vitamin & supplement manufacturers, alternative doctors and scientists and researchers who really want to cure cancer.

REFORM THE FDA, THE US MEDICAL INDUSTRY, AGRI-BUSINESS, BIG PHARMA, THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY, WALL STREET AND ABOLISH LOBBYING WHICH FEEDS THE CHAOTIC CANCER THAT THESE INDUSTRIES SPREAD.

IMPLEMENT CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM SO THAT CONGRESS IS REPRESENTING INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS AGAIN – NOT CORPORATE GIANTS OR GIGANTIC UNIONS THAT HAVE LOST SIGHT OF THEIR PURPOSE.

STOP THE MADNESS!

FDA. REJECT the CSPI proposal.

FDA. REJECT the CSPI proposal.

I replied once, and it now ALWAYS has my name and em address in those fields. Often, I forward these emails on to people and I do not like this information permanently fixed above.

Thank you.

ALL government agencies need to be reigned in and held accountable. Power must be balanced – as in the balance of powers established by our founding fathers with the judicial, legislative, and executive branches of governing.

Freedom of speech is one of our most precious rights.

All health freedom organizations must merge together as one powerful force to influence the public through social networking sites such as facebook and twitter. Also, other grass root organizations with indirect association to this cause should merge with the these groups to “ban” (must be done covertly to lessen arrest) proven poisonous prescription/non-prescription drugs now on the market, deadly treatments, such as chemotherapy and radiation, and overuse of dangerous, sometimes unnecessary, tests (to protect doctors from litigation). Other Human/Patient rights abuses “enforced” by the “sick care” industry (the medical industrial complex, plus the AMA) should be addressed. Medical school curriculum should also be influenced/reformed to teach that not all natural medicine is “experimental” and practiced by quacks.

In addition, White House Insiders and corporate whistleblowers can utilize creative and covert actions/operations (strategically associated with grassroots groups) to uncover the corrupt, name names, and effect pocketbooks. The time is now HIGH NOON for radical public action to affect the bottom line of the very powerful and corrupt collusion between the FDA, drug companies, and “bribed” politicians. Our country, since Nixon’s time, has become a “ghost police state” “governed” by “bought-and-payed-for” politicians creating absurd laws enforced (to protect the profits of drug companies, which routinely introduce drugs that mostly do patients more harm than good and only address symptoms) by the FDA, FCC, and FTC.

Somehow the renegade FDA must be reformed or outright abolished. History dictates that mass movements( revolutions etc.) acting for what is inherently best for humanities common good can, usually with much sacrifice and avarice, win their struggle because they persisted and never lost hope in the cause; many thought the Wall in Germany would never come down. America, and indeed the world, needs some sort of health freedom revolution-NOW! Thousands of brave, brilliant scientists, & integrative/alternative doctors,even fifty years ago, discovered natural cures for cancer and other deadly diseases; they were discredited and silenced; we need their voice NOW to be part of this internet movement/revolution. Incredible breakthroughs and discoveries in natural heath continue to happen everyday. Diseased people around the world need access to this vital life-saving information. The world’s modern, “mainstream” doctors must be influenced and convinced that it is an ominous health travesty (they routinely forbid the Hypocratic Oath & abuse or harm their patients) to reject any complimentary natural treatments which can save lives and assist patients bodies to heal themselves. They MUST come to realize that DRUGS AND SURGERY ARE NOT THE ONLY TREATMENT OPTIONS regarding what is best for patients. Public health freedom-the freedom to choose a treatment or doctor “outside the box” of “mainstream medicine”-should not be considered a “crime” and is, at most, a fundamental tenent of constitutional health rights.

Sincerely, Donald Chapman

Viviane

Do not allow the drug companies to fund the FDA!

Do not to abolish the Structure/ Function and Qualified Health Claims systems, but rather expand them and stop censoring good science!

Do not allow the drug companies to fund the FDA!

Do not to abolish the Structure/ Function and Qualified Health Claims systems, but rather expand them and stop censoring good science!

As an American citizen who wants to take charge of my own health and healthcare, and a consumer of dietary supplements, I strongly oppose any tightening of rules concerning Structure/ Function and Qualified Health Claims about natural health products. For me, for whom the pharmaceutical/allopathic model of healthcare has been nothing but a nightmare, I rely on the free flow of information about these natural products to make informed choices for my health. With the limitations that exist now, it can be a daunting task to sift through the products out there to determine which are best suited to my needs. Further restricting what a producer can say about its products only makes that task harder — if not impossible.

I had been severely disabled for over 30 years. The medical model could do absolutely nothing for me, except increase the toxicity of my body. But, because of the information that was available to me about certain natural health products, I was able to climb out of my disability and start my own business. If the producers of these products had been able to give truthful information about them, I could have begun my recovery much sooner, and possibly be further along the path toward health.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is NOT looking out for my interests. What is needed is MORE information, not LESS. Given enough information, the public can make its own informed decisions about these products. If information is more restricted, it would cause untold harm to people like me — the people you are supposed to serve.

Thank-you.

Tom Anson

Please reject the proposal of the CSPI and continue allowing American citizens the right to know about the historical and documented health benifits of OTC suppliments, natural foods and herbs.

I urge you to uphold the free flow of information regarding the health benefits of foods and natural supplements.

The route to justice in this is to take FDA to court for various reasons. Through publicity the public (and legislators) will learn about the great deception and perhaps the FDA will be removed – or changed.
FDA has no jurisidition over foods and nutrients right now.
Elena Marcus

I am once again voicing my opinion–too bad I don’t have a couple million to drop in some Congressman’s bedcovers–Bigpharma does!

Leave the FREE RIGHT OF SPEECH AND INFORMATION ALONE!

Yes, you all are the government, so hidebound, in the box types, while on our payroll also with your hand out to the big players who don;t care who and what they destroy in the search of big profits. But how about that democratic ideal – freedom to information. How about the idea that you all work for us, not Pfizer, Merck and the rest of that twisted brethren.