Congratulations to Belgium for this ruling against Herbalife and let us all keep our fingers crossed that it is upheld on appeal. May it be the first of many judgements against these unscrupulous companies who are sellers of overpriced goods and cult like "motivation" practices designed to capture the naive in order to make money for the 3% at the top.

It is rare that the average MLM seller makes any meaningful money from retail sales after the first few months a new product is launched. After that the appalling quality /price ratio causes a high fall out rate, leaving the poor new "independent business operator" with, at best, a load of unshiftable product in their garage and divorced, friendless, penniless and worse at the other end of the scale. Most of us have sad stories about friends or family to tell on this topic.

It is amazing that these companies in the US still have so much influence on legislation in general and the FTC in particular. (or given the extraordinary power wielded by the corporations, perhaps it is not so suprising)