Suppliment Ordering To End in June 2005?

They can have your Vitamin C when they pry it from your cold, dead fingers? Are you one of those diehards?

Y’all need to check out Canada. If it can happen in Canada, you damn well know that over on the left, there’s someone that wants it to happen in the United States, and is doing everything in their power to make it happen…

GM

No, I am thinking steel, as in industrial sizes. Dropped from bombers. We should have a surplus because of the WTO. Unless China buys at any cost.

Hmmm… very Wiley Coyote, Thunder. Maybe you can lure them in with a pile of capitalists with a sign stuck in them: “Free Capitalists”.

From the little I’ve read it is slated to begin going into effect this summer. The main issue is whether the Codex stuff is optional. If so, America can say fuck it, we aren’t going to play that game. There may be a problem with what is technically optional vs. practically optional. America may have to make a choice. I’m all for pulling out of the WTO, but our gov won’t do it, not even under the allegedly “conservative” Bush administration.

One way around this may be to designate supplements under federal law as drugs instead of foods, thus taking them out of reach of this treaty. On the downside this would throw them out of the frying pan into the fire because our fed goons would apply all their drug regulating bullshit. We’d have our feds dictating what vitamins and supplements are safe for use instead of the WTO. Oh, what a relief.

Why is anyone upset about this Codex business? The feds already have a long list of drugs we can’t possess, carrying hefty penalties for violators. Hell, a good portion of the people in prison right now in America are there for violating such laws. The public doesn’t care. So why would you get upset if the gov adds yet another prohibition concerning what you can possess or use, and in what quantities? Your kid may eventually get 20 years for felony possession of 1000mg Vitamin C tablets. So what? Not any different than what is going on now with other substances.

Face it, our government knows what is best for us and always acts in our best interest. Stop thinking. Obey.

I don’t know GM, maybe if the sign said “politicians for sale, cheaper by the dozen”.

I think you’re on to something, Wiley! I am, at this very moment contacting the mail order department of a famous company, with an order for the necessary supplies.

GM

Looks like the Mrs. and I will be taking regular trips to Canada. They’ll probably throw up road blocks and seal off the borders.

HH

What’s next?
Are they going to come into my backyard and chop down my orange tree cause I may be selling oranges onto the US black market?
You never know. Stranger things have happened!

If I was you guys, I would be worried. Since when has a government, any government, done what is it the best interests of its people?
Just one more thing.
Would you guys kindly PM me when this becomes law so I can go out and buy up a shit load of pharmaceutical company stocks? Thanks.

Horse, I can be your Canadian dealer, and we’ll set up a “vitamin underground”.

Hot damn, Redwood!! We can make a killing!! :D :

You guys can be like the Kennedy’s but instead of moonshine you can transport supplements

Hell yeah, we’ll keep you guys supplied with arginine and what not, and in turn you can overthrow your Government, and bring back freedom. :cutlass:

The best part is you get to buy them with Canadian dollars, and as most of you know to save on printing our own money we just bought bulk crates of the Parker Brothers’ game: Monopoly. I am even willing to accept some hotels, as I am running out…

:/D

You do realize this Codex stuff will also apply to Canada? Your silly regulators decided several years ago that ephedrine couldn’t be sold in pills containing more than 8mg each . I suspect Canada is far more likely than America to bend over and grab its heels if the WTO threatens action for non-compliance.