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FDA Seizes Herbal Tea
"Any substance
that has any therapeutic effect whatsoever on the human body is
considered by the FDA to be a "drug" and must be approved as such -- a
lengthy process costing about $800 million and requiring the favor of
an agency that practically works for Big Pharma."
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FDA seizes $71k in herbal tea products as campaign of censorship against nutritional supplements continues
18 October 2007 - By Mike Adams - newstarget.com
(NewsTarget) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration,
continuing its campaign of censorship against truthfully-described
herbal supplements, seized $71,000 worth of Charantea herbal
supplements last week in a raid involving U.S. Marshals. The company,
Fulllife Natural Options, was accused by the FDA of marketing an
"unapproved drug" due to the truthful marketing claims that accurately
describe the blood sugar lowering effects of the product's main
ingredient: Bitter Melon fruits.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, there is no such thing
as an herb, food or supplement that has any biological activity
whatsoever on the human body (other than simply providing calories),
and any person who dares to make such a claim is immediately
considered to be in violation of the FDA's authority. Any substance
that has any therapeutic effect whatsoever on the human body is
considered by the FDA to be a "drug" and must be approved as such -- a
lengthy process costing about $800 million and requiring the favor of
an agency that practically works for Big Pharma.
The FDA is well known for its censorship efforts against nutritional
supplements. Earlier this year, the agency sent threatening letters to
29 cherry growers, warning them to remove all links to scientific
literature describing the anti-inflammatory effects of phytonutrients
found in cherries. Merely linking to such studies from a web page, the
FDA warned, instantly transformed cherries into drugs requiring FDA
approval. The FDA believes that the dissemination of scientific
information about the health benefits of fruits, vegetables and plants
simply cannot be tolerated.
The Food and Drug Administration has a long history of engaging in
armed raids against nutritional supplement and herbal companies. Read
these articles to learn more:
The true history of FDA armed raids:
http://www.newstarget.com/021791.html
The FDA shuts down red yeast rice distributors:
http://www.newstarget.com/022046.html
See NewsTarget's 222 articles on the FDA:
http://www.newstarget.com/list_features_the_FDA.html
Censoring truthful health claims of nutritional supplements
While the FDA claims it raided the Charantea company in order to
protect consumers from mislabeled products, the truth is that the
agency -- which operates a criminal prescription drug racket that
should be prosecuted under organized crime laws -- is far more
interested in protecting the market for pharmaceuticals. Herbal tea
products that effectively lower blood sugar are seen as competition
for high-profit diabetes drugs. The most effective way to protect the
market for patented pharmaceuticals is to disrupt the business
operations of those selling natural alternatives such as herbal teas,
and that's exactly why this raid took place.
From a scientific standpoint, there is absolutely no question that
drinking bitter melon as a tea (or taking it as a supplement) helps
regulate blood sugar. Cinnamon has a similar effect, as do many other
herbs. These medicinal plants have been used for thousands of years to
support human health. It is only in the last 75 years or so that
western medicine has gained power over the industry and
surreptitiously declared that all of the medicinal herbs used for
thousands of years throughout human history are now suddenly inert or
harmful. In today's system of medical oppression, merely
telling the
truth about your own product that actually works to regulate blood
sugar is enough to get your warehouse raided by the highly corrupt FDA
-- an agency with such a corrupt history of armed raids against
supplement companies that you would think it was operated by the
Russian mafia.
From Big Pharma's point of view, there is no question that this FDA
tactic is highly successful. By terrorizing fruit growers, herbal tea
companies and nutritional supplement manufacturers, the Food and Drug
Administration continues to exercise iron-grip control over the
printing of any information regarding the true medicinal applications
of foods and plants. The FDA's censorship campaign is, by any measure,
outrageously successful, and any company that dares to tell the truth
about its own products is very much aware that they risk being put out
of business by this rogue agency.
Our last defense against medical tyranny: Free Speech
The only reason that I am able to tell you the truth about the FDA is
because I sell no nutritional supplements and earn no money from the
sale of such supplements. The FDA has no authority over this article.
If they did, I would have been imprisoned and censored off the
internet years ago. This is part of the reason I continue to refrain
from the entering the supplement business: Because it's far more
important for me to remain independent and uncensored so that I may
continue reporting the truth about how the FDA and Big Pharma are
collectively operating as either corporate criminals or domestic
terrorist organizations, depending on how much you believe about the
real reasons of why they do the things they do.
When will medical tyranny finally be stopped in this "free" country?
When will free speech finally become a reality for nutritional
supplement manufacturers? It can only happen with radical reforms that
end the medical monopoly currently enforced by the Big Pharma / FDA
conspiracy. See my book, Natural Health Solutions and the Conspiracy
to Keep You From Knowing About Them to learn more:
http://www.TruthPublishing.com/NaturalHealthSolutions.html
Today, it is very clear that we are NOT living in a free society.
Freedom of speech is simply not allowed for anyone selling food, herbs
or nutritional supplements of any kind. Simply stating obvious truths
-- like "vitamin C cures scurvy" or "chocolate makes the brain feel
happy" -- is enough to land you in federal prison courtesy of the
pharmaceutical thugs running the Fraud and Drug Administration. Today,
we live under a system of medical tyranny engineered by the agency
that, in an honest world, should be protecting consumers and finding
ways to help enhance their health rather than focusing on ways to
exploit them for Big Pharma profits.
The FDA has never threatened me to remove a single article I've
written about the agency. You know why? Because if any of this went to
court, all my evidence against the FDA would become a matter of public
record. They'd rather ignore my work and tolerate the relatively small
number of people who read this than take this public and risk it going
national with a story of how the FDA tried to censor a free speech
journalist. As much as NewsTarget has been hugely successful in the
natural health industry, it's still barely a blip on the radar for
mainstream America. Not even one in a hundred people are aware of this
website or the importance of this information, and as long as Big
Pharma owns Big Media, it's probably going to stay that way.
Accordingly, consider yourself fortunate to be among the very few
people who are aware of what's really going on in our federal
government. As Americans, we currently live under a system of
medical
tyranny. It is a system that insists on continuing disease among the
population so that politically influential corporations can profit
from disease, generation after generation. All cures are outlawed.
Anything that actually works to prevent disease is censored. Medical
pioneers who open clinics to cure cancer are arrested or run out of
the country. Astonishingly, healing is a crime in these United States,
and nutritional therapies that actually work will simply not be
tolerated.
Charantea is simply the latest victim in an ongoing war against
health-enhancing nutritional supplements being waged by the FDA / Big
Pharma gang. Charantea was targeted precisely because their product
actually works. While the FDA will openly tolerate useless synthetic
vitamins (which are mostly made by pharmaceutical companies anyway),
the rogue agency will not tolerate herbal products that actually work
to cure cancer, halt diabetes, reverse heart disease or otherwise
strip revenues from Big Pharma by eliminating disease.
Personally, I hope you support this company just to spite the FDA. You
can learn more about their bitter melon product at
www.charanteausa.com
Bitter melon really works to help regulate blood sugar. In my view, it
works better than diabetes drugs. Of course, what really works best
overall is to stop eating processed foods and sugar, and switch to a
raw living foods diet. Diabetes usually disappears within 30 - 60
days, never to return as long as you stay with the raw foods diet.
There are many cures for diabetes, but the medical establishment does
not want consumers to know about any of them because there's simply
far too much profit to be found in the ongoing treatment of "lifetime
diabetics."
This, folks, is exactly why the FDA attacks nutritional supplement
companies. There's a revenue stream at stake here, and patients must
remain diseased in order for Big Pharma to profit from them. Any
herbal product that actually works will quickly find itself in the
FDA's crosshairs, especially if it is described with honest, accurate
language telling consumers the truth about what the product actually
does. Garlic halts the growth of cancer tumors, but don't you dare say
it on your web page, or the FDA will consider you a criminal and seize
your garlic supplements.
If you think this is criminal behavior on the part of the FDA, you are
right! The FDA is, indeed, run by unindicted criminals who are
currently engaged in heinous crimes against humanity. I can only pray
that, in time, these people will be made to answer for their crimes,
and that freedom will be returned to the people in the form of a
Health Freedom Protection Act that ends the decades of censorship that
the FDA has enforced against nutritional supplement companies. The FDA
represents an imminent threat to the health and safety of the American
people, and its actions are far more dangerous to Americans than all
the terrorists in the world. Statistically speaking, even a nuclear
bomb going off in a major U.S. city would not equal the number of
deaths caused by the FDA in just the last five years. This is an
agency that is, without question, an enemy of the American people and
a purveyor of death and disease.
Think about this: In a nation where telling the truth is a crime,
power belongs to those who enforce the censorship. Read 1984 by George
Orwell to see what happens next…
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About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher
and author with a strong interest in personal health, the environment
and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored and
published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers guies, and
books on topics like health and the environment, impacting the lives
of millions of readers around the world who are experiencing
phenomenal health benefits from reading his articles. Adams is a
trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional
fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2007,
Adams launched EcoLEDs, a manufacturer of
mercury-free, energy-efficient LED
lighting products that save electricity and help prevent global
warming. He also launched an
online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com)
and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors.
He's also the founder and CEO of a well known
email mail merge software
developer whose software, 'Email Marketing Director,' currently
runs the NewsTarget email subscriptions. Adams is currently the
executive director of the
Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly
pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known as
the 'Health Ranger,' Adams' personal health statistics and mission
statements are located at
www.HealthRanger.org
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