dvx, sorry, my error  and thanks for making me aware of it (and I try to check my sources better next time :-) ) - I did not read his definition of the "German Model" - as I have read about it before. I would have warned about these comments, which are offensive. However, the German Model in alternative health care is considered very restrictive. In Germany as in Switzerland there are many things like enzymes, or trace minerals or other nutritional supplements that are hard to come by, which can not be bought or only in very small amounts. Often as is described in the article you can only buy synthetic versions of a vitamin. Here in Switzerland you can only buy very low doses and only synthetic vitamin E in the pharmacies, or in even lower doses at regular food or health  stores, often with lots of additives and of course quite expensive. When I was in Ireland 3 years ago I saw higher doses being sold, from natural sources and many herbs and even homeopathics available in health stores - which are not available here in Switzerland, or as far as I know in Germany. And they also were a lot less expensive.

I do not believe that it is a German attempt to world dominion. But I do think the German model is convenient for the pharma industries, to restrict our access to nutritional supplements. Here in Switzerland we have Roche and Novartis which both are into vitamins.

I have read some studies, have to search for them if I also can find them online, that indicate that even organic vegetables have a lower nutrition content today, than they used to.

One aspect about this topic is, that there is so much controversial information. Thus I appreciate any information that helps to clarify the topic.