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The supplement ban is going to happen in August ( b*stards ). For those who haven't signed this petition please consider doing so ( UK only )http://www.conservatives.com/vitamins/moreinfo.htm
done
everyone should do this
I did it before you ass wipe.
BengDogg
09-12-2004, 18:35
Done it, After you Rob :)
done it before but did it again! ****ing hell, whats next ? banning shoelaces incase we trip over them?
Nice one guys! It's a shame there isn't a computer in every home yet. We shouldn't have to take this sh*t.
Most people will just accept this especially with all the anti supplement propaganda we have had lately ( ie. recent Horizon programme, studies giving wrong conclusions ie. the recent vitamin E study ).
So what are we seriously going to do about this..??
It's more than likely that it will go ahead anyway.
What sort of thing will the companies be able to do..?
Setup some sort of CDWOW type thing whereby they mail supplements from Hong Kong, and hope they get in...???
I don't know where the heck we're going to have to order the banned supplements from and hope they get through. Probably Hong Kong or some where strange like you say. So ofcourse the supplements could be of dubious quality ordered from places like that and put our health at risk.
Its rediculous. People can go ruin thier health on BigMac's and cigarettes, and alcohol, but we can't buy an essential nutrient for survival?
BengDogg
10-12-2004, 18:08
The whole stance of the government stinks on issues like this as Rob raises a very valid point
Man of Steel
10-12-2004, 21:45
We all need to write to our MP's, MEP's and all that about this ban, but how many of us will be bothered to do it.
Well, I think I have a solution to that. If someone semi inteligable (Boxer - no pressure :048: ) writes a generic one, we can all send it to our respectiv MP's. Also, some one that is on MT needs to do that as they have a lot of memebrs, and more people=more power.
Good idea Rob. I don't think i'm the best person to write the letter though to be honest as I can't remember the last time I wrote a letter.
Avoiding pharmaceutical drugs would be another good way too hit back. Just imagine if the drug companies actually lost money because of this. It would stop them messing about with anything else in the future.
Most people don't realise what drug companies are actually like in that they withhold negative studies etc. and care only about the money not health. Always including a link to a website that exposes the phramaceutical companies in your sig on all forums is a one way of doing this. What do you guys think?
Done deal. Get me that link!
Ok, give me some time to find a good one! Let's all do this! :035:
I'm still looking but this one looks ok http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/laws_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm
Look at numbers 11, 12 and 13...
'Vitamins and other effective natural health therapies that optimize cellular metabolism threaten the pharmaceutical “business with disease” because they target the cellular cause of today’s most common diseases - and these natural substances cannot be patented'.
'Throughout the more than one hundred year existence of the pharmaceutical industry, vitamins and other essential nutrients, with defined functions as cofactors in cellular metabolism, have been the fiercest competition and the greatest threat to the long-term success of the pharmaceutical investment business'.
'Vitamins and other effective natural health therapies that effectively prevent diseases are incompatible with the very nature of the pharmaceutical “business with disease.”
Here's a few more guys http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/06/04/why_do_pharmaceutical_drugs_injure_and_kill.htm
http://www.heall.com/body/healthupdates/drugs/
http://www.mercola.com/2003/aug/2/prescription_drugs.htm
Has anybody got any other ideas too?
I'd be interested to see what companies like affordablesupps.co.uk and the like are doing about it?
I can't believe the vitamin and supplement companies aren't lobbying the **** out of the government.
They should get some pointers from the cigarette, alcohol and petroleum companies...
I think the letter idea is a good one, although I know that a lot of forums in the US did this when they had the impending ban of Ephedra and Pro-Hormones. I don't know what it will do but there's no harm in trying.
I'm going to email a couple of supplement companies to see what comments they have.
Stu
I've mailed cheapuksupplements.co.uk and also monstersupplements.co.uk - once I have a response I will post it.
Stu
That was rather quick from cheapuksupplements...!!!
Hi Stuart,
Yes we are well aware of the ban and it is indeed worrying. We have
done our own investigations and from July any product that isnt proven
to be safe will not be allowed for sale. So all prohormones will be
gone and similar products. Also vitamins/minerals will be under gretaer
scrutiny, for example vitamin c will not be sold in quantities greater
than 500mg's if I remember correctly.
We are pretty confident that whey protein will be ok, and hopefuly
creatine too but for now it is a grey area and only time will tell what
will and won't be legal.
At cheapuksupplents we have all signed that petition and written
letters to our local conservative mp's, so we really are doing as much
as we can to stop the ban, but to be honest there isn't much that can
be done now as the law has been passed and will enforced in July.
We're glad to have you onboard as a customer, especially as you
obviously care about your supplement rights!
Iron-city seems like a good forum, i'll sign up soon and post some
thoughts!
Kind Regards
Elliot Dawes
Cheap UK Supplements
BengDogg
13-12-2004, 19:16
Good luck to em, If the ban on supplements got real tight then some people are gonna lose thier livley hood just for selling whey and creatine which is a piss take, I find mrps so conveinient when im busy, without them what would ya do when you get stuck, eat maccy d's probably and the health problem will probably worse lol!
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