Daniel Hannan - EU against herbs
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Daniel Hannan MEP for South East England
The restriction and in some cases the prescribing of alternative medicine herbal remedies
with a high dose of vitamin and mineral supplements
is one of the greatest scandals of European regulation.
I have no idea of what the efficacy of these cures is.
My wife swears by them, I’m a little bit more skeptical
but as the King Solomon wisely said,
“Better is a dinner of herbs in the house where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.”
CITÁTY SO THIS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND, IF ANYONE UNDERSTAND PLS WRITE
And rarely a proverb could have described quite so apically about the bitter herbs
But in this case, whether they are useless
or whether they are helpful but certainly not deleterious to health.
So why does European Union criminalize the harmless activity
because some 20 million Europeans answer:
lobbying by some large pharmaceutical cooperations which saw the opportunity
to put small herbalists out of business.
Something that is now happened all over my constituency.
They could never have got these rules through the national parliaments
Once again we see the way in which the Brussels machinery
has become a rocket opened to the big cooperations