CAFTA anf the EU: Codex Alimentarius

The Liberty Committee ^ | July 23, 2005 | Kent Snyder

[w6ai5q37b]

July 13, 2005

Will the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) finally force you to get a doctor's prescription just to buy vitamin C, or E, or other dietary supplements you currently pick up "over the counter" in America? Powerful special interests are banking on it.

Since 1995, Big Medicine has spent billions of dollars trying to get Washington to regulate your dietary supplements just as European governments do. So far, that effort has failed in America. But you may lose the battle for health freedom if CAFTA entangles the U.S. in Europe's infamous Codex Alimentarius (Codex).

And if you think CAFTA -- the bogus "free trade" agreement -- really has nothing to do with limiting the manufacture and distribution of dietary supplements, then why does it specifically mention Codex?

CAFTA, chapter 6, article 6.3.6(d) states: "The Committee [Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Matters] shall provide a forum for consulting on issues, positions, and agendas for meetings of the WTO SPS Committee, the various Codex committees (including the Codex Alimentarius Commission), the International Plant Protection Convention, the International Office of Epizootics, and other international and regional fora and food safety and human, animal, and plant health."

On top of this, CAFTA is being shoved down Congress' throat under unconstitutional "fast track" trade-negotiation authority. That way, Congress isn't allowed to change even one word it. That means Congress must either accept the Codex language, or reject all of CAFTA. The special interests love it -- they are betting Congress doesn't have the courage to dump CAFTA.

You see, CAFTA, like NAFTA, isn't really about free trade. It's about managed trade where government gets to pick the winners and losers. In this case, major pharmaceuticals win, and you, the consumer, lose. The pharmaceutical companies want government to "manage" the dietary supplement industry under Codex in order to drive out competitors so only they can manufacture and distribute vitamin C and other dietary supplements. If that happens, as it already has in Europe, the supplements you now take will be available only by prescription and at a much higher cost -- if they are available at all.

We will fight CAFTA, NAFTA, WTO and the like because they subjugate our national sovereignty to the "rulings" of global institutions and the whims of the unelected bureaucrats-for-life who run them. As this web of global governance grows, our freedom to choose shrinks -- and health freedom is just one example.

You can't afford to stay out of this fight.

Read "Your dietary supplements: Under attack again" by Henry Lamb, and "Controversial EU vitamin ban to go ahead" by Sam Knight.

View the powerful documentary "We Become Silent" narrated by British actress, Dame Judi Dench. This film features Congressman Ron Paul.

Then, call your U.S. representative. Urge him or her to vote against -- to dump -- CAFTA. The U.S. House will likely vote on CAFTA next week.

This vote will be very close. They are keeping score on Capitol Hill and your effort counts.

"Your dietary supplements: Under attack again" http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44713

"Controversial EU vitamin ban to go ahead" http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1690686,00.html

"We Become Silent" http://www.welltv.com/

Congressional Directory http://capwiz.com/liberty/dbq/officials/

The U.S. House is likely to vote on CAFTA next week. Please, take action today -- and spread the word.

Kent Snyder

The Liberty Committee

http://www.thelibertycommittee.org

[w6ai5q37b]

Fore more on this trojan horse called CAFTA, please click here.

[Dog Gone]

The hysteria against this agreement has reached comical proportions. Oh my, there will be a "forum" established. That means one world government. We've just surrendered to Costa Rica.

It's well beyond silly.

[Moral Hazard]

I see the CAFTA conspiracy theories are growing even more ridiculous.

[KarlInOhio]

But what about crystal meth dealers who will be whipping up batches of bootleg vitamins in the trunks of their cars?

[Just A Nobody]

Ping

[PAR35]

CAFTA anf the EU: Codex Alimentarius

What's an "anf"? I know 'auf' is German for 'upon', but I'm not sure what language we are dealing with here.

[xcamel]

If you spend all your time squalling about CAFTA at the front door, you'll miss FTAA being secretly being ushered in the back door.
http://www.stopftaa.org/

[Jenny Hatch]

Just ignore the whiny boobies on this site. Thanks for the links and the updates, I am right now downloading the movie we become silent, and will comment on what I see after I watch it.

Another thread chatting about this...


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1441880/posts

Jenny Hatch

[Dog Gone]

Cool, we should dismiss any discussion among conservatives about this issue.

Is there any reason why the folks who have been losing every battle on free trade shouldn't be more accurately called the whiners? Victors don't usually whine.

[Jenny Hatch]

I'm the one who has been posting on this topic quite a bit requesting conversation...I was refering to this whiny booby...

"I see the CAFTA conspiracy theories are growing even more ridiculous."

Let's keep conversing....hopefully together we can come to the truth...

Jenny Hatch

[hedgetrimmer]

FYI from the Liberty Committee

[hedgetrimmer]

Oh my, there will be a "forum" established

Yes where the UNELECTED will have the authority to make rules we all have to live by. Who is on the committee? How does a citizen get a voice?

AMERICANS were once taught the value of elected representation. These "trade agreements" do nothing but TRADE AWAY OUR RIGHTS.

Its shameful that so-called Americans defend this, especially given the fact that an committee of internationalists, unelected and generally unknown to the American people, get to develop rules to impose on us and that our government will force compliance

[Willie Green]

Let's keep conversing....hopefully together we can come to the truth...

The Wreck of the Free Trade Model Engenders Myths and Falsehoods

[w6ai5q37b]

Yes, sure, CAFTA won't erode our sovereignty. Just go to sleep! Let Congress hand over their Constitutional authority to regulate what goes in and out of this country to a supranational governing authority. And after they find they need at least 20,000 new bureaucrats to administer the 10,000 pages of new regulations, *smile* when Princess Hillary tells the good residents of the Province of America, they will need to have another tax increase.

[Nowhere Man]

Its shameful that so-called Americans defend this, especially given the fact that an committee of internationalists, unelected and generally unknown to the American people, get to develop rules to impose on us and that our government will force compliance

I daresay that CAFTA and FTAA are part of the New World Order agenda.

[w6ai5q37b]

I see the CAFTA conspiracy theories are growing even more ridiculous.

Not "conspiracy theory" but conspiracy fact.

[Just A Nobody]

;*) see post #5

[w6ai5q37b]

Just ignore the whiny boobies on this site.

Thanks Jenny. I sometimes wonder if some of these people are being paid by the opposition to ridicule anyone who dare speaks out on "free trade."

[Malsua]

Ping, you've nailed it.

I take some of those vitamins at "unapproved levels".

I guess some fuckwit at the UN needs to tell me what I'm allowed to take.

I need to know his name. If he or a group of them suggest I shouldn't have access to suppliments, he and them need to have their lives taken from them. When it's all said and done, all this noise will end.

[Cedar]

I'm just finding out about Codex--a relative of mine mentioned it to me today.

Also gave me a good website for info and taking action:

http://healthfreedomusa.org/

For a quick understanding of Codex, look on the left side of the web page for links.