On my recent trip to New Zealand I was uplifted by the scenic beauty of this uniquely beautiful land packed with magnificent scenery, dramatic snow-capped mountain ranges, craggy coastlines, sandy beaches and hot volcanic pools. I marvelled at the evergreen forests, the serene lakes that contrasted with turbulent rivers and was taken aback by the breathtaking sight of the hot bubbling mud pools and spouting geysers. There are thermal spas in many parts of the North Island, good for creaky joints, but as I only had a certain amount of time I was unable to take a dip in a hot-water pool when I visited Rotorua. Hopefully next time I will find time to take a therapeutic mud bath in the hot springs of Mother Earth.

As a natural health therapist of many years standing I was impressed with the interest the native New Zealanders have in natural health and the steps they take in order to stay well. The many health shops everywhere were packed from floor to ceiling with vitamins, herbal remedies, homeopathic tinctures and health foods. The health stores were full of books by naturopaths, chiropractors, homoeopaths and other alternative practitioners and were well stocked with information leaflets so that people visiting to either shop or browse could help themselves so that they could become more knowledgeable regarding natural health.

On my travels around this clean, green land, I visited a health shop in every city, town and village, speaking to the friendly New Zealanders about alternative health, telling them what had happened to us here in the UK since the EU Food Supplement Directive was passed into law. Many were aghast at what I had to tell them, ‘what right have they to take away substances that people need to stay well?’ was a recurrent cry. What right indeed. I explained that the European Court of Justice said that it was not ‘a human right’ to have free access to these substances. They could only stare at me in disbelief. I had to convince them I was not joking but was deadly serious.

I sighed with nostalgia as I found supplement after supplement, herb after herb, on shelf after shelf, that we once used to have in our natural health stores. Many of these healing substances are now banned under this unjust and unscientific directive. This is what our natural health industry used to be like in Britain before the EU and its pernicious directives were incorporated into law against the wishes of thousands of people who fought a long battle but lost. I felt a burning anger welling up that in New Zealand they were lucky enough to have these fabulous shops and we here in the UK had them once and now they have been destroyed by a faceless corporate state that only listens to the big multinationals and not the people who live in the EU.

However, all is not rosy in New Zealand either. There have been attempts over there to control and suppress all the alternative health remedies, to wipe out what they call ‘fringe medicine’. This is happening today all over the Western world because of the UN Codex Alimentarius. This is a food code that is being implemented by unelected, faceless bureaucrats on a global scale. The aim is to ‘standardise’ all natural health and to ‘harmonised’ world wide ostensibly for ‘free trade’. This is not true. Why not ‘standardise’ to the upper levels, why to the lower ones? We are also told that these ‘caring’ anonymous and unaccountable bureaucrats want to ‘protect the public’ from unregulated supplements and quacks who prey on the vulnerable.

Within the sanctified air of all this concern for the public, lies a sneaky and devious agenda. These healthful supplements represent competition and the pharmaceutical giants and their cohorts have long wanted to get rid of what they see as an area that is eating into their profits. Supranational bodies like the UN and the EU are now making rules that countries with democratically elected governments have no option but to go along with because unbeknown to the citizens of these countries, these governments are hell bent on the globalisation agenda. The World Trade Organisation, an instrument of corporate power, can fine any country that does not co-operate with their dictats. Who are the representatives in the WTO? Are they democratically elected? No of course not, and yet they have the power to make these wide ranging decisions that affect all our lives. Do you remember voting for the removal of your natural health supplements at any election?

Recently the New Zealanders put up a very hard and feisty fight against being ‘harmonised’ with Australia – they fought the ANZTPA very hard and won the battle, but as I spoke to many health practitioners and people who ran independent health stores on my travels, I told them ‘you have won the battle but you have not won the war’. You must be constantly on your guard as they will try again. They were well aware of the threat that is still looming. They may have wounded the monster but it is not dead. I was told that there were marches in which thousands of Kiwis took part but that there was a media blackout. Does this sound familiar? This happened here in the UK as well when the vitamin-takers took to the streets so that the EU Food Supplement Directive could be thrown out. What happened? There was a media blackout here too and we were ignored by our elected politicians and the EU. When this happens it bears all the hallmarks of a fascist state and cannot be called a true democracy.

The New Zealand Labour Government has still been making noises about supplements being ‘unregulated’. This is code word for ‘unrestricted’ and this is something these controllers do not want. When governments say they want to regulate natural health this is a code word for restrict public access. The N.Z. Prime Minister has been at the forefront of fighting to limit the New Zealanders health choices. It is interesting to note that she often makes visits to the EU and meets with the UN on a regular basis. She was over here again seeing Gordon Brown when I was over there. They are all working together to get the globalisation New World Order off the ground. Governments, lobbied aggressively by Big Pharma, want all our health supplements down to low, inconsequential levels, and others banned outright so that on a world-wide scale only drugs are used to treat, cure or prevent disease. Not that drugs can prevent any disease as is touted by orthodox doctors and they certainly cure nothing. This type of medicine does not study health, it only studies disease.

Unfortunately this sorry state of affairs has come about because politicians are in thrall to commercial interests made up of a diabolical trilogy in the shape of Big Pharma, the Food Industry with its unhealthy plastic concoctions masquerading as food and the Medical Cartel. This greedy trio cannot abide freedom of choice, so dictatorial is its mindset. They have a lot of money and can afford to buy a lot of bureaucrats.

Here in the UK we have had constant attacks by so-called experts whose credentials in natural health have been impossible to verify. They constantly cry out that these unproven remedies have not been ‘scientifically evaluated’. We have all heard of scientific fraud and what passes for a scientific study in some cases has been bought and paid for by a company that paid some laboratory a large sum of money to ‘prove’ what they want proved. This is one reason that the public is becoming increasingly cynical and these scientific ‘experts’ are upset that they are no longer seen as having come down from Mount Olympus.

Then there are the attacks on the practitioners who are derided as being charlatans, quacks and snake oil salesmen. Incidentally, snake oil is rich in essential fatty acids and has been used in Oriental medicine for thousands of years! Not bad for a quack-nostrum!

I read only the other week of a couple of orthodox doctors, you know, the type society approves of and states that ‘they are not charlatans’ because they are state-registered who were practising medicine even though they had criminal convictions! And on my return I also read of a hospital in Kent where over 90 people [true figure will never be known] died from the stomach bug Clostridium difficile. This is what I call a medical massacre. Where are the natural health detractors? Where is their voice in all this death by orthodox medicine? Or do I assume that it is OK if you kill dozens of people because the deaths were caused by allopaths who were approved by the state?

It is clear that on a world-wide scale we have more than a battle on our hands to save natural medicine, we have an all out war. There is a planned restriction on a global scale on our rights to safe supplements that we have been using for years and unless we fight against these restrictions there will be a gradual further erosion of our right to choose in matters concerning natural health. This is a right we have had for centuries under British tradition and Common Law and we are gradually losing these rights as we come more and more under the grip of the EU/UN global market place. The New Zealanders are aware of this and are in no mood to give up the fight.

What can be done by the citizens of the free world who wish to continue having access to natural health? We must all get together and use our consumer power. Consumer activism is something we can all engage in by refusing to buy the pharmaceutically-dominated supplements and their worthless potencies now being sold in pharmacies. We must let it be known that we oppose these restrictions on our health choices through legislation such as ‘standardisation’ and ‘harmonisation’. We must become involved in politics and make sure our elected representatives know that they will be voted out of office if they sit back and do nothing. We must continue to make our views known. And we must become informed. A good website to visit and get updates from is the www.iahf.com headed by John Hammell who has fought long and hard to Save Our Supplements.

History has shown us that although the alternatives were stamped out by the forces of orthodoxy they eventually came back. Let us make sure that this time they do not get as far as outlawing them completely for decades like they did before. The globalists are trying very hard to take away our health freedoms but it is becoming harder and harder for them to pull the wool over our eyes because people are waking up in their thousands. Although the situation is dire, it is not too late, it is never too late. Get active, spread the word, we are slowing them down. We have to choose whether we want to live in a world where we have no health freedoms left or whether we put a stop to this evil agenda. I know that all people who value their health will agree with me that this is worth fighting for.