Therapeutic Products Bill – Save our Supplements by Making a Submission Before 15 Feb 2023

From nzdsos.com

Let’s tell Chris Hipkins that we are not standing for the Therapeutic Products Bill. It is easier than you may think to make a submission and very easy to sign a petition. What would happen if we could get a million people to say:

No, we don’t want Natural Health Products regulated.

We urge Kiwis to join together, putting aside our differences, which in the whole scheme of things is tiny. We all want health and happiness for ourselves and future generations.

For more information on how the government wants to restrict your access to common foods, plants and supplements see:

1. Dr. Guy Hatchard’s easy to read article here.

​​​​​​​2. Jodie Brunings article on her substack: Therapeutic Products Bill: Labyrinthine & unaccountable as it exits the starting gate? (substack.com)

3. The Therapeutic Bill iself hee (if you want to indulge in some light reading) Therapeutic Products Bill – New Zealand Parliament (www.parliament.nz)

4. Barbara Roberts blog page with specific information on relevant clauses here Barbara Roberts, Homeopath (homeopathbarbara.nz)

5. Gary Moller’s Therapeutic Bill suggestions and example here: Therapeutic Products Bill: Natural Health Practitioners (garymoller.com)

Rejecting the Therapeutic Products Bill

There are two easy ways you can add your name to the increasing number of people who are saying no without leaving the couch!

1. Make a submission

This might sound scary, but we can tell you it is not. We’ll talk you through it.

1. Go to this webpage and start filling out your details. For those fired up you can request to make a submission in person but this is not compulsory.

1. Add your submission. This can be uploaded as a document or typed directly on the webpage.
   
2. Then simply click/press done!

Here are some hints about making a submission.

MPs are people too and they don’t like to read through screeds of evidence or hear your life story. They also won’t react well to you denigrating them either.

• Keep it short Make it personal but not long-winded

• State what you want. You do not need to justify yourself. MPs work for us.

Useful comments you can add.

• We don’t want natural health products regulated Natural health products are much safer than many over-the-counter medications We trust our own bodies and know what they need Access to natural health supplements takes the pressure off the New Zealand health system by helping people to stay well At least 50% of New Zealanders use supplements As Maori, we have a right to easily access Rongoa, our traditional medicine

• New Zealand boasts many people from diverse backgrounds. We all demand access to traditional medicine that has been used for centuries, whether it be Traditional Chinese Medicine or Traditional Western Herbal Medicine and everything in between.

Here is an example letter which you can use to help structure your opposition to the Therapeutics Bill. This example is long but gives you an idea of how to begin your objection.

2. Sign The Petition

When you sign this petition by lawyer and freedom fighter, Sue Grey, the government gets a message. Let’s get this to 1 million messages!

Lawyer Sue Grey’s message on the petitionThe proposal to regulate foods and herbs and traditional medicines is unlawful, irrational, unreasonable and unnecessary and is contrary to the interests of New Zealanders.

I am opposed to this bill because:

Foods, herbs and traditional medicines belong to the people, not the government.

It is contrary to the interests of New Zealanders to restrict affordable access to our foods, herbs and traditional medicines.

The Bill is too complex and impossible to understand.

The Bill is a poorly disguised attempt to privatise and block access to natural remedies with layers of costly red tape.

The Bill fails to recognise the considerable difference in risk between artificial and novel pharmaceutical drugs and natural products and that Pharmaceutical drugs are a significant cause of harm and death, whereas food and herbs are not.

New Zealanders need access to natural health practitioners. It is wrong to threaten them with civil and criminal penalties.

The NZ Government has NO mandate to reduce or remove our access to cheap, effective herbs, spices and nutritional supplements. This bill stinks of excessive influence of foreign corporations, and weak government that puts their profit ahead of our health.

Please take our foods, herbs and other safe, effective, traditional natural health products out of the Therapeutic Products Bill!

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