hmmmm EMA promoting interests of those it is supposed to be regulating?

Now here is an interesting article!

European Parliament refuses to approve European Medicines Agency accounts


It came across it via Shazzie's blog this morning and really wanted to share it.  So glad I remembered to come back and look it up!

This is not only an interesting article but an important one.  In summary it states:

With this report, MEPs have stated in black-and-white terms that the EMA is acting to promote the interests of the very pharmaceutical interests it is meant to be regulating on behalf of EU citizens – misusing citizens’ money in the process! In other words, the EMA is as corrupt as they come, and its accounts are not worth the cost of the paper they are printed on. Read more here....


Just think about this.  Pharmaceuticals kill over a three quarters of a million people in the USA every year.  Yet they want to ban herbs??? 
 

1000's of herbs banned. Please sign this petition

On the 1st of March a law came into effect that interfers with our access to many many herbs which have been used for natural medicinal purposes.  Often herbs are safer than drugs and if you're unwell and there is a herb that can help you, then you'd want access to it right?  The new law limits our choices.  Choices which can help us to stay healthy and prevent illness.  Choices that could help us get well if we were sick.

So please take a moment to sign this petition and ask all of your friends to as well.  Last time I checked there were 5000000 signatures and we needed at least another 5000000 for this law to be reviewed. 


You can find the petition here:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_herbal_medicine_ban/

For some more information about the history around how we got to this point, this video gives some useful information...

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