When the AP puts out a hit piece on health freedom, one that is funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is this a sign that the stranglehold of Big Pharma is finally toppling?

Characterizing health freedom as a “conspiracy driven agenda” and complaining about bills pushed by people with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, their writing smacks of partisan politics, or in a more generous vein, a deep level of ignorance that might even be characterized as “misinformation.” Not only did these writers omit the oldest and leading organizations of the health freedom movement, but they also totally ignored the issues these organizations have ardently worked on over the last 70 years, as if health freedom is a new concept in America.

Modern Health Freedom movement active in USA since 1955

If it wasn’t for National Health Federation, established in 1955, an official NGO of the United Nations Codex Alimentarius, the US would not have a presence in international forums discussing food and food additive safety for people on the Planet. In fact, if it wasn’t for their leadership and the passage of the federal 1994 Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, Vitamin C and other nutrients would be regulated as dangerous drugs, and the US would not have safe dietary supplements on the shelves accessible to consumers. If it wasn’t for NHF and Citizens for Health (founded in 1992), citizens would not be educated and mobilized today to fight for their health freedoms.

I say this as a co-founder of National Health Freedom Coalition, founded in 2001, the hosting organization of the US Health Freedom Congress. This Congress has brought together the leading health freedom organizations in the US for the past 25 years, addressing all and more of the issues the AP characterized as new:  vaccines, milk safety, and fluoride. The article did not mention the almost 50 issues addressed in Resolutions by the US Health Freedom Congress, such as: genetically engineered foods, mercury in food, dentistry, and drugs including vaccines, autism, protection of bodily autonomy and right to refuse medical interventions, access to holistic physicians, access to complementary and alternative health care practitioners, EMFs and microwave radiation from Wi-Fi and antennas, and many more. 

AP weaponizes a tragedy and belittles democracy

The AP article used one story of the loss of a child (which I respectfully give my deepest condolences to the family) without mentioning the thousands of children maimed or killed by vaccines or other medical interventions. Just ask Barbar Loe Fisher, mother of a vaccine injured child, who wrote her story in 1985 in a book called, “Shot in the Dark.” Loe Fisher went on to found the National Vaccine Information Center and worked to address the painful issue that vaccine manufacturers have immunity from liability for vaccine injuries.

The AP article refers to “experts” as if citizens, who are not government employees, cannot have professional experts representing their interests and gives the impression that citizens should “stay in their lane” and continue to oppose bad legislation instead of drafting legislation that shapes the world into a better place for all. The beauty of the US is that the people make the laws, and the government is here to serve the people. It is a wonderful development that the people of this great nation are stepping up to utilize their power to make laws. There is no mention of how invested interest groups can impact legislation and lawmaking. Or of how these groups might have been responsible for some of the current entrenched public policies that have infringed on the right of each and every human being to make their own decisions regarding their health and the health of their family.

We commend the efforts of MAHA Action and US Health Freedom Congress attendees, Stand for Health Freedom, the National Vaccine Information Center, and the Weston A. Price Foundation, for their courageous work bringing to light new information and perspectives for the citizens of our great country to consider. Now it appears that these facts and our freedom are in the hands of the media and that whoever has the most distribution and visibility to spread their particular take on things will be successful. Well, at least this is my take.