[P2P-F] Stop the enclosure of the food and health commons

[Michel Bauwens]

thank you Lisinka, already on our ning blog and I'm asking Sepp in cc to see
what we can do with this for our regular blog,

sepp is also a health rights advocate,

thanks for looking into this Sepp!

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Lisinka Ulatowska <
lisinka.ulatowska at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Dear Friends,*
>
> *I am sending this to all my friends and colleagues who are involved with
> the (global) commons. We're losing the right to manage our own health. Even
> the right to choose our food is being enclosed. This is an opportunity to do
> something about it, in a period of history when we, the people, are gaining
> the means to reclaim more and more power.
> *
>
> I received the following letter from Heidi Stevenson, Editor, Gaia
> Health,Author, Declarations of Health Rights: Foods Are Not Drugs.
>
> With urgency,
>
> Lisinka
>
> --
> Dr. Lisinka Ulatowska
> UN Rep. Association of World Citizens;
> Institute for Planetary Synthesis
> www.ipsgeneva.com
> www.globalcommonstrust.org
> www.worldcitizensaction.com
> www.allwinnetwork.org
>
> A stunning theft of our rights is happening now—right under our collective
> noses. We're losing the right to manage our personal health as we see fit.
> It's a right so basic that no one ever thought to list it among the rights
> of free speech and assembly. Who could ever have imagined that something so
> basic might come into question?
>
> That, though, is exactly what is happening. Some of us try to do battle,
> but we've been focusing on losses as they occur. We combat genetically
> modified foods, loss of access to vitamins and herbs, and much more. The war
> is being fought on so many different fronts that we're all suffering battle
> fatigue. We win an occasional bout, but lose most, which adds to our
> frustration.
>
> Can this war on our personal rights be won? Are our children destined to
> have no choice about what they eat or how to treat illness?
>
> I believe it can - but we need to take the battle to the next level. For a
> further discussion, please read The Theft of Health Rights: Can It Be
> Stopped?<http://gaia-health.com/articles451/000490-theft-health-rights.shtml>
>
>
> We need to address the methods by which these thefts of our health rights
> are being taken. To do this, a new petition has just been started to stop
> the redefinition of foods as drugs. There are two essentially identical
> petitions, one for the US and one for the EU:
>
> US Declaration of Health Rights: Foods Are Not Drugs<http://www.change.org/petitions/us-declaration-of-health-rights-foods-are-not-drugs>and
>
> EU Declaration of Health Rights: Foods Are Not Drugs<http://www.change.org/petitions/eu-declaration-of-health-rights-foods-are-not-drugs>
>
> The text reads:
>
> *The people's ability to manage their own health as they choose is being
> undermined by a proliferation of claims that foods are drugs. These
> declarations, based both on claims of health effects and substances that
> have been isolated from foods and also used as pharmaceutical drugs, have
> the potential of bringing every aspect of our lives under control.
>
> This is a dangerous path, threatening every citizen's access to foods of
> their choice and self-determination in health management. This redefinition
> of terms supports draconian controls over the people's food supply and
> health management.
>
> We call on our representatives in the House of Representatives and the
> Senate to stop this dangerous pattern of limiting access to the foods,
> including herbs, vitamins, and minerals that are ingested as nutrients.
> Please assure that the following statement, or its equivalent, is enacted
> into law:
>
> "No substance that has traditionally been considered a food or source of
> nutrition may be designated or redefined as a drug. No natural substance
> derived from foods may be designated as a drug. No newly discovered natural
> plant or animal that people find palatable as food or nutrition may be
> designated as a drug. No food may be controlled as a drug. All existing
> redefinitions of foods as drugs must be removed and any controls placed on
> them as a result of that redefinition must be reversed."*
>
> *Please, sign one of these petitions! *
>
> US Declaration of Health Rights: Foods Are Not Drugs<http://www.change.org/petitions/us-declaration-of-health-rights-foods-are-not-drugs>
>  or EU Declaration of Health Rights: Foods Are Not Drugs<http://www.change.org/petitions/eu-declaration-of-health-rights-foods-are-not-drugs>
>
> *Then forward this message to everyone you know.*
>
> *If you can manage, please make a small donation.<http://gaia-health.com/articles451/000490-donation.shtml>
>   **The health and welfare of you, your family, and future generations
> depends on getting the word out!*
>
> In solidarity with health rights advocates,
>
>
>
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