As you may have already heard, health freedom in NZ is again threatened, this time by the Natural Health and Supplementary Products bill.
To sum up the situation in one sentence, the Natural Health and Supplementary Products bill threatens New Zealanders’ access to the large range of natural health products from which we can currently choose and the survival of natural health businesses – especially small to medium businesses.
There is information about this bill in the Health Freedom section of issue 20 (available free of charge when you download the sample PDF for this issue from this link) and there is also information on the a number of links of our website (the most crucial links are listed below.)
If you share our concerns about the Natural Health and Supplementary Products bill, please consider taking the following actions.
1) Signing Professor Julia Rucklidge’s petition against the bill.
You can access the petition website directly at this link or read more about it first by visiting this link.
2) Writing to government MPs to express your concerns about the bill.
There is information (including email addresses) available to help you do this via this link of our website.
3) Using the submissions process to express your opposition to the bill and/or to suggest how it may be improved. NB Closing date for submissions is March 4.
There is information about how to write a submission, and a template submission if you do not have time to write your own original submission, at this link.
4) Educate your family, friends and colleagues about this issue and encourage them to take action.
A new link on our website includes information about the health freedom situation in NZ as well as the suggestions 1-4 ( above) so that you can easily share this link with family and friends etc. via email and/or through Facebook.
Health freedom related information is also shared through our new Facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/The-NZ-Journal-of-Natural-Medicine-1556883684629639/
NB: Please do what you can as soon as possible as the deadline for submissions is March 4 and it is important to get as many signatures as on possible on the petition by that date, too.
Important links on our website to share:
https://naturalmedicine.net.nz/news/care-about-health-freedom-please-sign-and-share-this-petition/
NB: There are other links on this site about the Natural Health and Supplementary Products bill for people who would like further information. You will be able to find these links by typing Natural Health and Supplementary Products bill into the search facility on this website.
There is information about this bill in the Health Freedom section of issue 20 (available free of charge when you download the sample PDF for this issue from this link) and there is also information on the a number of links of our website (the most crucial links are listed below.)
NB: The NZ Journal of Natural Medicine frequently includes articles relating to freedom of choice in healthcare Our online shop, where you can buy printed and PDF copies of our magazine is here.