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It is a continuation of the centuries-old attack on the \u201cknowers\u201d and the healers. It is a fat and painful reminder that this centuries-old attack was abusive and destructive the very second it started\u2014and that it is not going to stop until <em>we<\/em> stop it.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, it is not about the protection of our interests because \u2026 look around! The same financial interests whose servants purport to protect us from the boogeyman of dietary supplements are poisoning our food, our air, and our water, and chasing us with syringes filed with toxic liquid!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is a very important practical story because there is yet another active attack on our access to \u201calternative\u201d medicines, herbs, and dietary supplements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":122949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Attack on Herbs and Supplements Is a Racket - 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