That doesn't quite make total sense as the FDA doesn't regulate herbs, supplements etc, so Pharma's interest in the FDA is to promote their products not suppress Alternatives.Moreno wrote: ↑February 25th, 2023, 6:01 pmYou're preaching to the choir.
Ah, it's pharma not doctors. The pressure they put on WHO and the FDA. It's their anti-alternative propaganda which they send to different media to highlight problems or hallucinate them related to alternative approaches and they of course use their money to downplay the problems with their approaches.Why should he be an expert in something that you can get at the grocery store? Doctors can write prescriptions for medications that you can't otherwise obtain. So if you can solve your problem with meditation, or yoga, or herbs, or acupuncture that's fantastic. I've never met a Western medicine practitioner who seeks to fill their appointment slots with people whose symptoms can be controlled in the absence of surgery or prescription drugs.
The Codex AlimentariusI'm not familiar with the legislation that you're referring to. Please provide more details about it.
In Europe they passed legislation it must be 10 years ago and it was part of driving most of the independent alternative health stores out of the city I live in. So many products could no longer be sold. I could still buy cigarrettes - which are partially an herb, in a nice deadly mixture - alcohol, McDonalds food, products with palm oil, smoked meat and so on, but a number of herbs and other products just could not be purchased anymore, despite no evidence they were as dangerous as any of those other products.
Big Pharma has control of the FDA via funding it and revolving door hiring with it and via lobbying.
As to the Codex, I assume you are aware that following it is voluntary by each signitory nation. So if your home country made certain products unavailable (which I'd appreciate learning any you can name) it did so on it's own.