Codex Alimentarius - Dare you ignore it?
More and more people are becoming concerned about the shady, secretive
organization that is Codex Alimentarius - the thinly-veiled propaganda
arm of the international pharmaceutical industry that does everything
it can to promote industry objectives whilst limiting individual
options to maintain health (which would diminish mermbers profits).
Codex alimentarius is one of the major bodies behind the effort to
limit access to nutritional products and information. Its motivation
is not rocket science and neither is the source of its funding - money
that somehow expected to return a profit to its members . . . Most of
the information available regarding codex alimentarius refers to its
role in the USA, but it is not a US-specific body. Far from it, Codex
has wiggled its dirty little tentacles into just about every national
or international body concerned with public health. Posing as a
benefactor, it then uses its significant financial and political clout
to do its masters bidding.
As you can read in the excellent article below, there is much to be
concerned about when considering codex alimentarius - ignore it at
your peril.
Codex Alimentarius - The Sinister Truth Behind Operation Cure-All
(From an
original article by Ruth James)
What's really behind Operation Cure-All? Is it just the FDA and FTC
taking their power too far? Or is there a deeper, more sinister
purpose to this campaign? Who are Codex Alimentarius?
How could a country that prides itself in its freedom of speech,
freedom of choice, and freedom of information be facing such severe
restrictions in health freedom and dietary supplements? Haven't the
people made their will known? Didn't our government pass the Dietary
Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994 to insure our right to
health supplements?
Indeed, our government did. But the FDA and FTC have found ways to get
around that. The laws put in place to protect us are being ignored.
And what's worse is that those laws are about to be superseded, if the
powers that be have their way.
OPERATION CURE ALL IS JUST ONE MEANS TO AN END
You see, Operation Cure-All is just a tactic, a vehicle, in a much
bigger overall plan. It is a result of "Codex Alimentarius" (meaning
food code) -- a set of regulations that aim to outlaw any health
information in connection with vitamins and limit free access to
natural therapies on a worldwide scale.
WHAT'S BEHIND CODEX ALMENTARIUS?
Behind the Codex Alimentarius Commission is the United Nations and the
World Health Organization working in conjunction with the
multinational pharmaceutical cartel and international banks. Its
initial efforts in the US with the FDA were defeated, so it found
another ally in the FTC. Now Codex, with the FTC and the
pharmaceutical cartel behind it, it threatens to become a trade issue,
using the campaign of Operation Cure-All to advance its goals.
Codex began simply enough when the U.N. authorized the World Health
Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization to develop a
universal food code. Their purpose was to 'harmonize' regulations for
dietary supplements worldwide and set international safety standards
for the purposes of increased trade. Pharmaceutical interests stepped
in and began exerting their influence. Instead of focusing on food
safety, Codex is using its power to promote worldwide restrictions on
vitamins and food supplements, severely limiting their availability
and dosages.
REAL GOALS OF CODEX
This is to bring about international 'harmonization.' While global
harmony sounds benign, is that the real purpose of this plan? While
the stated goal of Codex is to establish unilateral regulations for
dietary supplements in every country, the actual goal is to outlaw
health products and information on vitamins and dietary supplements,
except those under their direct control. These regulations would
supersede United States domestic laws without the American people's
voice or vote in the matter.
HOW CAN IT BE POSSIBLE?
Americans gasp at the thought. It goes against everything America
stands for. Many believe this can't be possible. The truth is, it's
not only possible, it's required by the Codex Alimentarius agreement.
In fact, under the terms of the Uruguay Round of GATT, which created
the World Trade Organization, the United States agreed to harmonize
its domestic laws to the international standards. This includes
standards for dietary supplements being developed by the United
Nation's Codex Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Nutrition and
Foods for Special Dietary Use.
The Uruguay Round Agreements carry explicit language clearly
indicating that the U.S. must harmonize to international standards:
"Members are fully responsible under this Agreement for the observance
of all provisions.... members shall formulate and implement positive
measures and mechanisms in support of the observance of the
provisions.... by other than central government bodies." [WTO TBT
Agreement at Article 3.5]"
In other words, the federal government must NOT ONLY CHANGE FEDERAL
LAW, but must ALSO require state and local governments to change their
laws as well to be in accordance with international law.
Not only that, but Codex Alimentarius is now enforceable through the
World Trade Organization (WTO). If a country disagrees with or refuses
to follow Codex standards, the WTO applies pressure by withdrawing
trade privileges and imposing crippling trade sanctions. Congress has
already bowed to this pressure several times and so have the
governments of many countries.
While the exemption clause (USC 3512(a)(1) and (a)(2) was created to
supposedly protect our laws from harmonization to international
standards, it has proven to be totally ineffective. The United States
has already lost seven trade disputes despite the exemption clause.
Due to the enormous pressures put on them by lobbyists from
multinational corporations (who contribute millions to congressional
campaigns), Congress bowed to pressure and changed U.S. laws.
It appears our government (as well as al others) is being manipulated
one way or another to serve the goals of the UN, the World Health
Organization and the World Trade Organization. Food control equals
people control -- and population control. Is this beginning to sound
like world government and one-world order? Could this be the real goal
behind Codex Alimentarius?
The United States, Canada, the Europeans, Japan, most of Asia, and
South America have already signed agreements pledging total
harmonization of their laws including food and drug laws to these
international standards in the future.
WHAT CODEX WILL BRING
What can we expect under Codex? To give you an idea, here are some
important points:
- Dietary supplements could not be sold for preventive
(prophylactic) or therapeutic use.
- Potencies would be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the
drug companies and the big phytopharmaceutical companies would have
the right to produce and sell the higher potency products (at inflated
prices).
- Prescriptions would be required for anything above the extremely
low doses allowed (such as 35 mg. on niacin).
- Common foods such as garlic and peppermint would be classified
as drugs or a third category (neither food nor drugs) that only big
pharmaceutical companies could regulate and sell. Any food with any
therapeutic effect can be considered a drug, even benign everyday
substances like water.
- Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding
(escape clauses would be eliminated).
- All new dietary supplements would be banned unless they go
through Codex testing and approval.
- Genetically altered food would be sold worldwide without labeling.
According to John Hammell, a legislative advocate and the founder of
International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF), here is what we
have to look forward to:
"If Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals,
homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have
taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game
for Codex Alimentarius is to shift all remedies into the prescription
category so they can be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly
and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. Predictably, this
scenario has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association
and the Health Protection Branch of Canada (HPB).
The Codex Alimentarius proposals already exist as law in Norway and
Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken
over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg
is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so
on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an
Echinacea tincture, which is being sold there as an over the counter
drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many
other herbs, and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right
to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food
stores, convenience stores or pharmacies."
It is now a criminal offence in parts of Europe to sell herbs as
foods. An agreement called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to
selling other illegal drugs. Action is being taken to accelerate other
European countries into 'harmonization' as well.
Paul Hellyer in his book, "The Evil Empire," states: "Codex
Alimentarius is supported by international banks and multinational
corporations including some in Canada, and is in reality a bill of
rights for these banks and the corporations they control. It will hand
over our sovereign rights concerning who may or may not invest in our
countries to an unelected world organization run by big business. The
treaty would make it impossible for Canadian legislators either
federal or provincial to alter or improve environmental standards for
fear of being sued by multinational corporations whether operating in
Canada or not.
This will create a world without borders ruled by a virtual
dictatorship of the world's most powerful central banks and
multinational companies. This world is an absolute certainty if we all
sit on our hands and do nothing."
This is the future the FDA and FTC are striving to bring us via Codex
harmonization. Is this a future we are going to willingly accept or
prevent?
WHY TARGET THE INTERNET?
It is no accident that the FDA and FTC are targeting Internet health
sites through Operation Cure-All. We are standing in the doorway of an
unprecedented revolution -- the information revolution brought about
by the Internet.
Now all people everywhere have the ability to learn about anything
that interests them with just a few clicks. History has shown that
informed, educated people change civilizations -- they change the flow
of thought and they change the flow of money. They can even change the
direction of a country. When similar transitions have happened in the
past, the powers that existed did not give up willingly. The Catholic
Church fiercely protected its practice of selling 'indulgences' as a
forgiveness of sin. When the practice was abolished, the Catholic
Church lost a great deal of power and money.
When the printing press was invented, books were banned and printers
were imprisoned by the authorities, who feared an educated public
could not be governed. In the same way, the medical monopoly (and the
UN) now fears that a public educated in health and privy to the
shortcomings of modern medicine could not be controlled. Loss of
control means loss of revenue and loss of power. And they are doing
everything they can to stop progress so they can contain their losses
and strengthen their power.
The printing press changed the world. Can you imagine what life would
be like today if the book banners had their way? But because the
printing press won out, society progressed and freedom was embraced.
The Internet is changing the world in an equally significant way.
While the entire Internet can hardly be suppressed, the pharma-cartels
and their backers are looking to protect their interests by
restricting as much information as they can on the Internet.
Will we, the people, win out again -- or will the UN and the World
Health Organization agenda and the pharmaceutical cartel change the
course of history and take us back to the "dark ages" of medicine?
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Step number one is learn as much as possible about this issue. Here
are some websites where you will find a great deal of information:
John Hammell's International Advocates for Health Freedom
website:
http://www.iahf.com
"The Health Movement Against Codex Alimentarius" - article from Dr.
Rath's website:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/...S/health_movement_against_codex/index.htm#top
'U.S. and European Leaders Agree on Principles to Harmonize Dietary
Supplement Regulations: 'http://www.crnusa.org/shellnr112000.html
Federal Register where the FDA states its intention to harmonize with
Codex standards:
http://iahf.com/codx-fda.txt
Read, "
WHOSE TRADE ORGANIZATION? Corporate Globalization and the
Erosion of Democracy" by By Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza,
Public Citizens Global Trade Watch:
http://www.tradewatch.org/publications/wtobook.htm
Sign the petition - Click on 'Sign Health Freedom Petition:'
http://www.iahf.com/index2.html
Also sign the European Anti-Codex petition at:
www.laleva.cc
Signing petitions is fine, but not nearly as effective as writing to
your congressmen and congresswomen. Write to them insisting we hold a
PROPER Oversight Hearing on Codex. An oversight hearing was held in
March, but the truth was not allowed to come out. Witness who could
have exposed what was going on, and who wanted to testify, were denied
the opportunity to testify. Congress is strongly resisting another
Codex hearing, telling their constituents it is not necessary. This
could not be further from the truth.
Contact information for representatives:
http://www.house.gov
Contact information for senators:
http://www.senate.gov
Copyright 2001 Ruth James
[email protected]
www.therealessentials.com
CTM Comment: Codex is of course the single most virulent assault on
human freedoms in recent times. The desire to control of vitamins,
minerals, herbs and other nutritional factors has ironically come
about as a result of the inability of orthodox medicine to destroy the
practice of the public practicing health without drugs. Now government
and the chemical industry will seek to control and profit from that
which was available directly to the public in times gone by.
Overturning the Codex by a mass public backlash is CTM's sworn goal.
This can be accomplished only with large numbers of the public all
committed to this endeavor. As the above article states, the Internet
itself has been able to grant access to information freely to anyone
seeking it, and this has destabilized the flow of money and profits to
institutions which have traditionally believed their highly lucrative
monopolies to be safe. There can be no more pressing reason to join
the Campaign for Truth in Medicine for FREE than to assist us in
pressuring for the scrapping of Codex.
For more information go to:
http://www.campaignfortruth.com