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North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger

Posted by timothy on from the we-haff-veys-to-maek-you-schutt-down dept.

vvaduva writes "The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle... the state diatetics and nutrition board decided [Steve] Cooksey's blog — Diabetes-Warrior.net — violated state law. The nutritional advice Cooksey provides on the site amounts to 'practicing nutrition,' the board's director says, and in North Carolina that's something you need a license to do." If applied consistently, I think this would also clear out considerable space from the average bookstore's health section. (And it could be worse; he could have been offering manicures.)

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  1. Protecting domains by StillNeedMoreCoffee · · Score: 1, Troll

    Geez, if you started this process where would it end. You would have to shut down all the biology departments in schools for practicing Religion without the tax exempt status. You would have to jail all the "Job Creator" appologists for operating without a "Snake Oil" license. It would be total anachry. Free speach no more ,without paying someone for the right to say it (unless your already a member of the club and paid your dues).

  2. Re:You Forgot the Part About the Money by Scarred+Intellect · · Score: 0, Troll

    The first amendment doesn't apply here anyway.

    I quote: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

    Emphasis mine. People forget the Constitution limits FEDERAL powers, but that

    "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." (10th Amendment)

    So a state, not being specifically forbidden from limiting free speech, may in fact do so. They shouldn't, but they can.

  3. Re:Practicing nutrition? by jellomizer · · Score: 0, Troll

    Could that mean we can jail almost all the Vegans out there, who give us a hard time, for those who actually eat meat.

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