Producers of bottled water are now forbidden by law from making the claim and will face a two-year jail sentence if they defy the edict, which comes into force in the UK next month. Critics claim the EU is at odds with both science and common sense. Conservative MEP Roger Helmer said: “This is stupidity writ large.
“The euro is burning, the EU is falling apart and yet here they are: highly-paid, highly-pensioned officials worrying about the obvious qualities of water and trying to deny us the right to say what is patently true. If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project then this is it.”
NHS health guidelines state clearly that drinking water helps avoid dehydration, and that Britons should drink at least 1.2 litres per day. The Department for Health disputed the wisdom of the new law. A spokesman said: “Of course water hydrates. While we support the EU in preventing false claims about products, we need to exercise common sense as far as possible."
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Why make the claim in the first place when everyone knows this?
I think the EU ruling was that the vendors could not claim that *only* water could prevent dehydration. The point being that most drinks are mostly water and will perform exactly the same function.
Vendors of bottled water were acting as if only bottled water could prevent dehydration. As if tap water or, for example, orange juice couldn't do exactly the same thing.
Gareth, you think?
Na, more like: we are headed back into the Dark Ages.
Where...
Vaccinations is immunity (when in fact, they weaken your immune-system).
Cut, burn and poison is the only allowed treatment for cancer.
Natural, cheap cures for cancer are outlawed. (there are currently 14 known cures, all of which are...guess what?)
Fresh organic food is outlawed.
Vitamin and mineral supplements are outlawed.
Raw milk is outlawed.
Using your own land is outlawed.
Marijuana/hemp is outlawed (a VERY useful plant/herb).
Fluoridation is GOOD for you!
Questioning your government is outlawed.
And yes. this is a crossly incomplete list, but I think you get the idea.
One more thing...
Question:
If progress means moving forward, what does Congress mean?
Die Telegraaf is turning into the Daily Heil!
I really think they're trying to discourage the idea that bottled water is somehow better than tap water. Bottled water in developed countries is a huge waste of resources and produces even more plastic waste.
I for one would like to know what these '14 known [natural, cheap] cures for cancer' are that Mark (above) is touting.
Also, Mark, you claim that vaccinations 'is immunity', and they 'weaken the immune system'. Could you clarify your reasoning behind that? As for as I understood it, vaccinations only posed a hazard to those with damaged immune systems to begin with, and in all other cases stimulate the immune system to do what it is supposed to, thereby helping it. Perhaps you are confusing vaccinations with antibiotics?
Mark seems to be confusing many things.
Not confusing anything,
all you guys have to do is take you heads out of your a**es and do your research, and you would find all this out for yourselves. But of course you would have to undo all the brainwashing done to you by the corporate controlled mass-media and public education.
(As the saying goes... follow the money stupid!)
I will name just 4 of the cheap cures for cancer: Laetrile (B17), bloodroot, Marijuana (oil extract), and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate).
My uncle, diagnosed with cancer and given 6 months to live, went to Tijuana, Mexico for laetrile injection treatments; lived another 25+ years, cancer free.
You guys seem to be convinced that the bottled water thing is all about the plastic bottles. Please give reference to your assumptions, because the article says no such thing.
Peace
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Anonymous wrote:
“Also, Mark, you claim that vaccinations 'is immunity', and they 'weaken the immune system'. Could you clarify your reasoning behind that?”
Your wish is my command…
I don’t claim that vaccination is immunity. No, no, that is the WHO, AMA, CDC and the corporate controlled mass-media that claim this, again, follow the money…! I say that vaccinations weaken the immune-system. And it really isn’t me saying this, it is independent researchers (NON-corporate controlled) that are saying this--verified and documented.
And why would they be saying such a ridiculous thing as this!? Let’s see… maybe because they contain substances like: phenol, 2-phenoxyethanol, thimerosal, aluminum salts, squalene, acetone, formaldehyde, ethylene elycol (antifreeze), triton x100, glycerin, monosodium glutamate (MSG), and polysorbate 80. None of which should be being injected into your body! It aint rocket science folks…they all cause neurological and/or immunological damage—DUH! Lets all grow up, shall we?
Peace
P.S:
About the 4 cures for cancer I mentioned earlier:
No one should ever attempted using these methods without the help of someone who knows what they are doing.
"Squalene is a natural organic compound... primarily from shark liver oil, though plant sources (primarily vegetable oils) are used as well, including amaranth seed, rice bran, wheat germ, and olives. All plants and animals produce squalene, including humans."
"Acetone is naturally produced and disposed of in the human body as a result of normal metabolic processes."
These are bad, yet baking soda (sodium bicarbonate, created artificially from salt water, limestone and immonia) is a great natural remedy?
And I would have loved to have seen Mark telling those receiving WHO smallpox vaccinations in 1973 that they're weakening their immune systems and that they should 'grow up'. I bet that would've gone down a storm.
When was the last recorded case of naturally-occurring smallpox, remind me again? Oh yes, 1977... because we *eradicated it through an organised worldwide vaccination programme*.
Do you believe in homeopathy, Mark?
Apologies, spelling correction to the above - (ammonia).
Sorry Anonymous, but your ignorance is truly glaring and set in concrete apparently. But hey it's not your fault. You and many others have been led to believe a lie. All in the name of Mammon (love of money)
Yes the following is cut and past:
Vaccination: 50 Things [your] Doctor Forgot To Tell You
Smallpox
Smallpox would have disappeared around 1870 if Jenner's cronies had not persuaded Parliament to force the smallpox vaccine onto children in 1867, causing the largest epidemic of smallpox ever with a peak of 42,000 deaths in 1872.
To test the effeciveness of natural immunity versus vaccination, the nonvaccinated Kingston Clinic staff challenged six vaccinated doctors to join them, in 1936, in a smallpox isolation unit. The doctors had the very good sense not to accept the offer.
The degree of AIDS incidence in Brazil, Haiti, Burundi, Ruanda, Tanzania, Zaire Zambia, Uganda and Malawi coincides with the degree of smallpox vaccination intensity.
Polio
American health authorities are considering a complete change of policy in the face of strong evidence that all cases of polio are caused by the polio vaccine.
Bernard Reis, English professor at Cornell University and an "energetic, athletic achiever" was paralysed by polio a month after his baby was, by law, polio-vaccinated.
One point one million dollars damages were awarded to Kay McNeary after she was crippled by polio alter changing her baby's nappy.
Millions of children, in the fifties and sixties, were given the Salk vaccine contaminated with the cancer causing virus SV40.
Dr F Klinner stated, "Many here voice a silent view that the Salk and Sabin vaccines, being made of monkey tissues, have been directly responsible for the major increase of leukaemia in this country."
The Lancet reported an outbreak of paralytic polio in Oman in fully vaccinated children. The vaccine lobby said what was needed was an increase of the vaccine dose at birth, 6,10 and 14 weeks, and at times of other vaccines being given.
Tuberculosis
The World's largest vaccine trial, in Southern India, of the BCG vaccine, resulted in more TB in the vaccinated group than in the control group.
DPT
The whooping cough vaccine is made from the mucus of infected children, mixed with formaldehyde, aluminium and mercury.
In a recent study of 540 Dutch babies, 512 had adverse reactions to the DPT vaccines.
Thirty thousand cases of diphtheria have occured in recent years, in the UK, amongst diphtheria vaccinated children.
A University of California study showed that 1,000 SIDS (cot deaths) per year are caused by the DPT shots.
Dr Robert Mendelsohn, paediatrician, said, "...nearly 10,000 SIDS each year" (in the USA) "are related to the vaccines routinely given to children."
In 1986 Dr Michael Weiner PhD. stated, "More die each year from SIDS than the total number of all AIDS cases since 1981, yet little research money has been allocated to study the possibility of a relationship between these deaths and the DPT vaccine."
...truncated by quite a bit.
For complete article see:
http://www.vaccinationnews.com/DailyNews/September2001/BritAntiVivSoc.htm
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Ignorance IS NOT bliss...
Peace
Anonymous wrote:
"Squalene is a natural organic compound... primarily from shark liver oil, though plant sources (primarily vegetable oils) are used as well, including amaranth seed, rice bran, wheat germ, and olives. All plants and animals produce squalene, including humans."
"Acetone is naturally produced and disposed of in the human body as a result of normal metabolic processes."
I would imagine that peanut butter is also a natural organic compound Anonymous. Guess you wouldn’t think twice about injecting that into your body…ey?
Dr. Tullio Simoncini (http://www.curenaturalicancro.com/) is curing people with cancer using sodium bicarbonate (baking soda; pharmaceutical grade I’m sure), with no adverse side effects. If I had my choice between chemo-therapy or sodium bicarbonate, guess which one I would choose? …It’s a NO-BRAINER!
Don’t let me get in the way of your happiness Anonymous, you just keep on doing whatever floats your boat.
I’m done,
Peace
Mark, you do realise you come across as a patronising, self-important ignorant chump?
"Hey, it's not your fault..."
"Take your heads out your a**es..."
"Do your research..."
"It's not rocket science, people"
"DUH! Lets all grow up, shall we?"
I'm all for healthy discussion on the internet, but personal insults don't exactly help your arguments. You're more than entitled to your opinion, but people start to take exception once you begin throwing around that kind of everyone-but-me-is-a-moron judgemental attitude.
And a lot of your arguments are facetious and irrelevant. No, I would not inject peanut butter into my body, because it is a foodstuff designed to be consumed for nutritional value. And enjoyment. Because it is delicious. Squalene and acetone are already present in the human body. Such comparison is farcical.
It seems that Dr. Tullio Simoncini is no longer allowed to practice medicine.
http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/sodium-bicarbonate
"[Dr. Simoncini] has been using unsubstantiated cancer treatments for 15 years… in 2003, his [Italian] license to practice medicine was withdrawn, and in 2006 he was convicted by an Italian judge for wrongful death and swindling… This has not stopped him from continuing to provide his controversial treatments, not only in Italy, but apparently also in foreign countries, such as the Netherlands."
Yeah, I would totally trust this guy to cure my cancer.
Also, back to the topic at hand, this article seems to explain the whole mess quite nicely - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/nov/18/1?newsfeed=true
Mark, what size of tinfoil hat do you wear?
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