10th September 2008

MEP KATHY SINNOTT LAYS DOWN THE GAUNTLET AT IRISH HEALTH SHOW

Independent Irish MEP Kathy Sinnott addressed the Irish health trade while at the Rude Health Show at the RDS in Dublin on the 6th and the 7th September, signalling major concerns over the European Commission’s proposed approach to harmonising European laws affecting the natural products industry.

Speaking to a large audience at the Irish Association of Health Stores (IAHS) annual dinner, held on Saturday evening at the Radisson Hotel, Dublin, Ms Sinnott said:

“We should be the healthiest people in the history of the world. We are most certainly not. Every other person has a chronic disorder.

We seem to have traded swift early death for early debilitation and slow death. We have, with the introduction of nutrient-depleted foods, toxic and stressful lifestyles, together with social and environmental disconnection, made ourselves increasingly sick.

In fact we have created a culture of sickness, a perverse culture in which sickness seems to most people to be a normal and expected part of life.

And this is where all of you assembled here come in.

You are the ones who remind people that there is another way and that that way will be found in nature. It is you who have committed to alleviate suffering, heal and prevent sickness with nature respecting remedies and techniques.”