Codex Alimentarius Summarized in 7 Points

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beholden to no one: our only interest is health freedom.

Rima E. Laibow, MD, successful natural medicine physician since the 1970s,
has studied 16,000 pages of Codex documentation. Her conclusion is that people
who say that Codex is "consumer protection", "voluntary", or "harmless" are, at best,
seriously mistaken.

1) Started in 1962 by UN, Imposed by WTO Sanctions

Codex Alimentarius was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN to
control the international trade of food. Its initial intentions may have
been altruistic but it has been taken over by corporate interests, most
notably the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotechnology and chemical industries

Codex Alimentarius is backed up by the crippling trade sanctions of the
World Trade Organization (WTO). Any non Codex-compliant nation would face
huge economic punishment since they would automatically lose in any
food-trade dispute with a Codex compliant country.

2) "Nutrients are Toxins" Is Junk Science

Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact
nutrition. One of them, the "Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for
Special Dietary Uses" (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician
who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the "top-guy" for Codex
nutritional policy, and he has stated that "nutrition is not relevant to
health".

As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared nutrients
to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment)
to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements!
It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus happens to own the Risk
Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on this issue. This company
makes money when its toxicology services are used for the "assessment" of
nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call that a "conflict of interest".

Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the
Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low
doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients
illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By
using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients. While Risk Assessment is a
legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology) it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients!
In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry,
the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients.

Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.

Nutrients are not toxins - they are essential for life.

No matter what Codex Alimentarius officials say to convince you that Risk
Assessment is a "science-based" approach to nutrients, it is not.
And it is worth repeating that Dr. Grossklaus, the head of Codex
Alimentarius, owns the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on
the "benefit" of using Risk Assessment to assess nutrients.

3) Not Consumer Protection - That's Propaganda

Contrary to the propaganda, Codex Alimentarius has nothing to do with
consumer protection. Nothing! Codex is about the economic ambitions of
multi-national corporations, in particular, the pharmaceutical industry.
Using their multi billion-dollar marketing budgets, these industries have
launched a massive media propaganda campaign to paint Codex Alimentarius as
a benevolent tool of "consumer protection", as well as to negatively taint
the image of natural health options and mislead people to fear them as
"dangerous", so they will take drugs (which really are dangerous). Natural
health products and options have an amazing safety record and are remarkably
effective, especially when compared to pharmaceutical drugs.
Unfortunately, one-time defenders of health freedom such as National
Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition
(CRN) have joined the propaganda bandwagon and are spreading false
information saying that Codex Alimentarius is either "harmless" or
benevolent "consumer protection". Neither is true.

The membership of these one-time defenders of health freedom has become
permeated by people from the pharmaceutical industry (for example, CRN
counts as its members corporations such as Monsanto® and Bayer®).

4) Codex: Serious Threat to Health and Health Freedom

If Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America,
therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals (and all other nutrients soon
to follow) will become unavailable because they will literally become
illegal.

Here's how it would work, in a nut-shell:

Due to the junk science use of Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess
supposedly toxic nutrients, a false belief is being engineered saying that
nutritional supplements are dangerous to people's health".
Using this false belief generates calls to "protect" people from these
toxic" nutrients. After the calls come the bills to set ultra low
permissible dosages (remember, nutrients are deemed "dangerous toxins" under
this false belief). If enough of us and our Congressional delegates buy this
nonsense, we and Congress would blindly comply with Codex Alimentarius' VMG.
And blind compliance is what the industries behind Codex Alimentarius intend.

Blind compliance goes hand-in-hand with lack of activism. This lack of
activism allows our protective laws, classifying nutrients as foods with no
upper limits (such as DSHEA), to be easily repealed and replaced with
draconian laws to classify nutrients as toxins. And "harmonization" with the
pro-illness, pro-pharmaceutical industry Vitamin and Mineral Guideline is
there to fill the void. Only intentionally ineffective, ultra low dose supplements
would be legal, with or without a prescription, on the VMG list. If enough people do not
take action, we can expect to watch nutritional supplement manufacturers and
thus health food stores, to go out of business, in a domino effect. The
only player left standing would be Big Pharma.

Therapeutic grade vitamins, minerals, and amino acids would be eliminated
from the marketplace (although a few low-dose supplements would be allowed
by Codex, as a symbolic measure to avoid suspicion about their ulterior motive).

Natural health professionals would lose the tools of their trade
(nutritional supplements) and health conscious people would be unable to
choose natural health options for health promotion and disease treatment.
And that is, in a nutshell, how Codex Alimentarius is poised to make Natural
and Nutritional Medicine (NNM) disappear from the legal health world and go
underground. Who benefits? Big Pharma.

It would take a few years for the above scenarios to be feasible (Codex
Alimentarius is meant to go into full global effect by 2010). The slower the
process takes, the less alarmed people will be. That's probably the logic of
the architects of Codex Alimentarius.

5) Serves Economic Interests of Sickness Industries Through WTO and Napoleonic Code

More and more people are turning to natural health products globally. The
"wellness" trend is a major trend in today's society. The more natural health
products people use, the fewer drugs they buy. The pharmaceutical industry,
which is part of the "Sickness Industry", fears the inevitable shift toward
natural health care.

Instead of accepting the will of the people and rethinking the future of the
pharmaceutical industry, the industry has decided upon an unethical course
of action: the use of deception and deceit to eliminate natural health
products completely.

Codex Alimentarius is a shrewd vehicle for protecting the pharmaceutical
industry from the loss of income it stands to suffer due to the inevitable
growth of natural healthcare.

Codex Alimentarius is the resistance of the dinosaurs to inevitability: the
burgeoning desire of humanity for a healthier, saner, and more sustainable
way of life.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) intends to force Codex Alimentarius upon
the nations of the world, including the U.S. This would be done under the
threat of massive economic sanctions if WTO-countries do not comply with
Codex Alimentarius.

Furthermore, Codex is based in the Napoleonic Code, not Common Law. That
means that under Codex Alimentarius, anything not explicitly permitted is
forbidden. Under Common Law, we hold that anything not explicitly forbidden
is permitted. The difference is the difference between health freedom and
health tyranny. Codex Alimentarius would be able to ban supplements by
default.

6) DSHEA Protects America From Codex Alimentarius

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA, 1994), an American
law classifying our supplements and herbs as foods (which can have no upper
limit set on their use), was passed by unanimous Congressional consent
following massive grass-roots support organized by health food stores.
Millions of American activists told Congress, in no uncertain terms:
"Protect nutritional supplements as foods or we will remove you from office."

Congress listened and carried out the will of the people.
DSHEA appropriately classifies nutritional supplements as foods which can
have no upper limits set on their use. DSHEA recognizes that people use
nutrients safely to deal with their individually differing needs for
nutrients. The concept of biochemical individuality means that people have
different needs for nutrients at different times. Are nutrients toxins? No,
they are not toxins. They are substances essential to prevent, treat and
cure any chronic condition, in differing doses at different times in
different people.

DSHEA protects the US from Codex Alimentarius' deadly Vitamin and Mineral
Guideline. We must reach our Congressional members, educate them about the
facts on Codex Alimentarius and direct them to vote against anything that
would threaten DSHEA.

Congress holds the keys to our health freedom. And it is their job to listen
to us. Let's not allow cynicism to tell us otherwise. We did it for DSHEA in
1994. We can do it again in 2005.

7) Your Action is Needed Now!

DSHEA is right now under significant legislative attack. Your letter-writing
is crucial: if the members of Congress know that voting against health
freedom means losing their jobs come election time, they will listen. Our
job is to make sure they get the message loud and clear. Take action via our
3 easy steps and send personalized emails to Congress right now.
After taking action on HealthFreedomUSA.org, consider getting together with
others in your area and visit your Congressional members in their home
offices. If we wait, we lose our health freedoms. Once we "HARMonize" with
Codex, by the way, we no longer have the right, while we belong to the WTO,
to repeal or change that "HARMonization"!

Conclusion

The objective of the pro-Codex Alimentarius multi nationals is to "boil the
frog slowly" so that we do not wake up to it in time to avoid Codex.
Once we have "HARMonized" to Codex Alimentarius, as long as we are in the WTO
we cannot amend or change what we've been "HARMonized" to.
Codex Alimentarius will go into global implementation by December 31, 2009,
unless We, the People, avert it. We must act now because right now, with
$758 Million spent on declared Congressional lobbying by Big Pharma last
year, there are members of Congress who are trying to overturn DSHEA and
allow Pharma-friendly free reign for Codex. If protective laws like DSHEA
are destroyed, the sanctioning power of the autocratic WTO kicks in, and it
will be impossible to get out from under Codex Alimentarius. We can protect
our access to high potency nutrients and stave off an adulterated food
supply only by putting pressure on Congress.

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Gah! This Codex stinks!