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Petition against VAT on health foods

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  • #52
    El_Dangeroso
    Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 5,620 ✭✭✭El_Dangeroso


    Montgolfier wrote: »
    Darragh O'Briain said in regards to herbal medicine " they took all the herbs that worked and called them drugs and what ever was left was called herbal medicine"
    Thought it was apt.

    Although I get the point, I've always taken issue with that quote, no one tested every herbal medicine and then if determined valid, deemed it regular medicine.

    Sometimes so called 'herbal' (so vague a term as to be deemed useless) medicine can equal or outperform medications in clinical trials. I have a couple of links in this space if anyone cares.

    I'm for regulation of supplements and herbal medications (ingredients can vary and this can be dangerous), but I don't presume to think that anything that hasn't been discovered by pharma R&D is by definition useless.


  • #53
    nice_guy80
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,722 ✭✭✭nice_guy80


    it would make sense to tax healthier foods less and increase taxes on unhealthy foods

    well, it would make sense to me.


  • #54
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    FullblownRose wrote: »
    That's your prerorgative :) I know rationally what works for me, and it's not important whether that's panadol, or a tea or something else. panadol is also probably cheaper unless you harvest and dry your own herbal alternative (meadowseet or willow bark or something) rather than paying for it pre packaged. The herbs are someties taken in tea form but it is for a different reason (usually) to why people drink Bewley's.

    The thing is, if you don't want to buy a tea or other item that isn't classed as a pharmaceutical medicine, fair enough, but many do and rationally they know it works for them or they wouldnt keep buying and using it. they do their own research and know what works and why and how it works.

    If I took a panadol and someone spouted about how they dont reach for panadol because x,y,z, instead they do it another way, I would find them annoying, so would most people, so why be just as bad when someone choses an alternative method of pain management like a herbal tea or something?

    If you don't care whether there's v.a.t added to health foods and teas then just don't sign it :)

    That was the plan, yeah

    I also drink a box of tea a week.. Even when I'm sick.. It never made me better.. So.. Yeaaaah.


  • #55
    Snake
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Snake


    nice_guy80 wrote: »
    it would make sense to tax healthier foods less and increase taxes on unhealthy foods

    well, it would make sense to me.

    But it's not fair to force people to eat food that's healthier... I don't eat healthy food and I think you should sign this petition to have the VAT on unhealthy food reduced.


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