Daniel Hannan - EU against herbs

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