Posted on 08/06/2009 8:20:56 PM PDT by ex-Texan
Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the dark about the coming nutricide.
Codex Alimentarius is scheduled for full global implementation on December 31, 2009, and not a word has been spoken in main stream media about this threat to humanity.
Yet, according to the projections based on figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), a minimum of 3 billion people will die from the Codex mandated vitamin and mineral guideline alone.
Former Nazi is father of contemporary Codex
Codex is the enemy of everyone except those who will profit from it. Codex has an association with those who committed crimes during the Nazi regime. At the end of World War II, the Nuremberg tribunal judged Nazis who had committed horrendous crimes against humanity and sentenced them to prison terms. One of those found guilty was the president of the megalithic corporation I.G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. His company was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, and had extraordinary political and economic power and influence with the Hitlerian Nazi state. Farben produced the gas used in the Nazi gas chambers, and the steel for the railroads built to transport people to their deaths.
While serving his prison term, Schmitz looked for an alternative to brute force for controlling people and realized that people could be controlled through their food supply. When he got out of prison, he went to his friends at the United Nations (UN) and laid out a plan to take over the control of food worldwide. A trade commission called Codex Alimentarius (Latin for food code) was re-created under the guise of it being a consumer protection commission. But Codex was never in the business of protecting people. It has always been about money and profits at the expense of people.
In 1962, the timetable was set for Codex to be fully implemented on a global level by December 31, 2009. Under Codex, committees were established to create guidelines on such topics as fish and fisheries, fats and oils, fruits and vegetables, ground nuts, nutrition, food for specialized uses, and vitamins and minerals. There were 27 committees in all, creating a huge bureaucracy. Under Codex there are over 4,000 guidelines and regulations on everything that can be put into your mouth with the exception of pharmaceuticals which are not regulated by Codex.
Codex is a weapon being used to reduce the level of nutrition worldwide
Codex is an industry dominated regulation setting organization, and as such has no legal standing. Participation in Codex is said to be voluntary. But Codex has risen to the level of de facto legal standing because Codex is administered by the WHO and FAO. They fund it and run it at the request of the UN. Since the WHO and FAO are supposed to be about health, there is conflict of interest. The committees of Codex work up guidelines, rules and regulations, and present them to a Codex commission for ratification. Once they are ratified and approved by consensus, they become mandatory standards for any country that is a member of the WHO.
Codex was accepted when the WTO was formed in 1994 as a means of harmonizing food standards globally for easy trade between countries. As a result, countries must harmonize with Codex if they want to have any standing in a trade dispute. When disputes arise and countries are pulled in to WTO, the one that is Codex compliant automatically wins, regardless of the merits of its case.
Codex has become a weapon to make every nation scurry to become compliant to its mandated decline in nutritional standards. Compliance in the U.S. will mark the end of its consumer protection laws. Codex will not serve consumers. Codex will serve the interests of the medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, and big agricultural industries.
Under Codex, nutrients are classified as poisons
The Dietary Substances Health and Education Act (DSHEA), was signed into law in 1994 for the purpose of ensuring that safe and appropriately labeled products would remain available to those who wanted to use them. In the findings associated with this law, Congress stated that there may be a positive relationship between sound dietary practice and good health, and a connection between dietary supplement use, reduced health-care expenses, and disease prevention. Under DSHEA, nutrients and herbs are classified as food. There is no upper limit set, and access is freely given. Americans are allowed to have any nutrients they want, because under English common law, anything that is not expressly forbidden is permitted.
Codex, on the other hand, is based on Napoleonic law and is much more restrictive. In 1994, the same year DSHEA was signed, Codex had nutrients declared to be toxic and poisonous. And as poisons, they claimed people must be protected from them through the use of toxicology and risk assessment, under which scientists test small doses on animals until they are able to discern an impact. They then take the first sign of the most minimal impact and divide this amount by 100 to establish a safety margin required from these poisons. This means that the largest dose of any nutrient allowed under Codex is 1/100th of the amount shown to produce the first discernable impact.
Nutrients allowed under Codex are limited to those on the positive list, expected to contain only 18 nutrients, one of them being fluoride. Although fluoride has no biological benefit whatsoever, it does make people complacent.
The Codex proponents now have several bills before Congress designed to overturn and get rid of DSHEA. Once this is accomplished, the U.S. will have been harmonized with the vitamin and mineral guidelines of codex. High potency, therapeutically effective, significant nutrients will then be illegal in the way that heroin is illegal. They will not even be available by prescription.
Codex supports toxic food additives, pesticides and GM foods
Codex poses a significant threat to the food supply, according to Dr. Robert Verkerk, founder and director of the Alliance for Natural Health. About 300 dangerous food additives that are mainly synthetic will be allowed under Codex, including aspartame, BHA, BHT, potassium bromate, tartrazine, and more. Dr. Verkerk is particularly concerned that no consideration has been given to potential risks associated with long-term exposure to mixtures of additives.
Codex sets limits for the dangerous industrial chemicals that can be used in food, but they are incredibly high, and the list of chemicals that can be used is long. In 2001, 176 countries including the U.S. got together and decided that 12 highly toxic organic chemicals, known as persistent organic pollutants (POPS), were so bad that they had to be banned. There are many more than 12 toxic chemicals used on food, but these 12 were unanimously declared to be the worst. Of these, 9 are pesticides.
Under Codex, 7 of the 9 forbidden POPS will again be allowed in the production of food. All together, Codex allows over 3,275 different pesticides, including those that are suspected carcinogens or endocrine disrupters. There is no consideration of the long-term effects of exposure to mixtures of pesticide residues in food.
Organic food governance will be dumbed down to suit the interests of large food producers. Various synthetic chemical additives and processing aids will be allowed, and food labeled as organic may be irradiated. Labeling will permit the use of hidden, non-organic ingredients.
Monsanto, a member of Codex, will benefit greatly as production of genetically modified (GM) foods are stepped up and more GM plants are given the green light. Terminator seeds will be approved for international trade. GM food animals will also be on the way.
Under Codex, every dairy animal can be treated with growth hormone, and all animals in the food chain will be treated with sub-clinical levels of antibiotics. Codex will lead to the required irradiation of all foods with the exception of those grown locally and sold raw.
Codex is food regulations that are in fact the legalization of mandated toxicity and under-nutrition. Of the 3 billion people initially expected to die as the result of the Codex vitamin and mineral guidelines, 2 billion of them will die from the preventable diseases that result from under-nutrition, such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and many others. Those who will live will be the wealthy elites who are able to somehow provide themselves with sources of clean food and other nutrients.
Codex is legalized genocide
Dr. Gregory Damato, Ph.D., writing for Natural News, has characterized Codex as "population control for money". He sees Codex as run by the U.S. and controlled by the big pharmaceutical corporations and the likes of Monsanto with the purpose of reducing the population of the world to a level considered sustainable by those promulgating the New World Order. This would mean a reduction of approximately 93 percent of the current world population.
Once Codex standards are adopted there will be no turning back. When Codex compliance is instigated in any area, as long as the country remains a member of the WTO, those standards cannot be repealed, or altered in any way.
The time for modifying Codex guidelines is rapidly disappearing
Some hope remains. Over the years, the WTO has accepted Codex standards as presumptive evidence of the rules of trade between countries. However, several times in history, the WTO has refused to make Codex the single and only standard to be used in trade disputes. Under Codex`s own statutes, their guidelines are claimed to be "advisory", and nations are able to set up their own guidelines as long as they are more restrictive than those of Codex.
Since compliance with Codex standards is simply presumptive evidence, and not finally determinative, a nation can opt out of the guidelines in an effort to protect its traditional foods and remedies. The Codex two step process is a legal strategy developed to help nations wanting to do this. Under step one, the country develops its own food and health guidelines that may be at variance with Codex guidelines. For example, it may be much stricter on the issues of toxins in the food supply or on the issue of genetically modified foods. It may require, for example, that companies using GM ingredients be required to indicate them on food labels. In countries that refuse to use GM foods, this can be indicated on their label too, so that people can make informed choices. The second step is to adopt a national law that implements those guidelines on a sound scientific basis.
Normally, in a trade dispute before the WTO, the country that has adopted Codex guidelines will be the winner of that dispute based on those guidelines being presumptive evidence. However, when countries have gone through the two step process to create their own guidelines, there is no such presumption, and the WTO will look at the science behind the guidelines.
In the U.S. the door is open to Codex
In 1995, the FDA issued a policy statement saying that international standards such as Codex would supersede U.S. laws governing all food. Under the Central American Free Trade Agreement, which is illegal under current U.S. law, but is legal under international law, the U.S. is required to conform to Codex as it stands on December 31, 2009, unless it creates its own guidelines and gets them approved under the two step process. Given current government sentiment, this seems unlikely. Besides, as guidelines are one-by-one chiseled into standards, time is running out.
For more information:
http://www.naturalnews.com
“That’s because I never said “all nutrients from all foods” is [my] criteria for seeing that this is a public health issue that could lead to malnutrition.”
Then who’s argument are you arguing for if not your own?
“I never set out to make any comment about what might or might not be a “public health issue that could lead to malnutrition.””
But that is what the thread you are posting in is about. If you aren’t here to talk about that, then why are you here?
“What I DID say is that removal of all nutrients from all food is preposterous.”
How is it preposterous that, given time, a hybrid seed crop will contain too little of a percentage of nutrients for the human body to derive sustenance?
Can I take a moment to say that I appreciate this discussion?
My post 109 has caused quite a kerfuffle on this thread, but you have actually tried to find out what I mean, and I appreciate that.
I only meant to point out that hyperbole and absolutes will only make opposition to the Codex look looney and absurd.
If someone tried to say the Codex would result in further—perhaps nearly-exclusive—use of GMOs and hybrids that would further dilute nutrition in the food supply, I would agree completely.
Saying the Codex would set out to remove all nutrients from all foods is preposterous.
“It doesn’t say or show ALL nutrients...”
It has confirmed all nutrients for whom data has been kept for the 50 year study period. Records were not kept in 1950 for magnesium, zinc, vitamin B-6, vitamin E and dietary fiber, nor phytochemicals. And absence of testability does not automatically mean these nutrients are unaffected. Quite the contrary when it is revealed that the mechanism for the nutrient depreciation is modern farming techniques.
“...nor does it say or show ALL crops.”
The study concluded that the most likely explanation was modern farming techniques. That means all crops grown under said techniques. The food in the supermarket is all made from these techniques.
If someday that happens, it will still not result in the removal of all nutrients from all food.
The absolutism destroys credibility.
No, I do not. You must have a very faulty memory.
Nor do I deserve the kind of crude remarks HE throws at me regarding my church affiliation, personal attacks on my pastor, and on me. You don’t know the half of it, trisham.
Still not ALL nutrients from ALL foods (not “crops,” foods—see 109).
Oh, but I AM my church and my pastor is my friend. You attack them, you attack me. It’s plenty personal and I’m asking you to knock it off.
No “memory” is needed, it happened right here on this thread.
I will note for the record that you just took another swipe at me.
Nope.
My church is my family. Maybe you don’t have that kind of relationship in yours, but we do. I’ve been an active member for over 25 years and these people have stood by me in thick or thin. You blast them, you blast me. So knock it off. If you want to be treated with respect, then treat others the same way.
Yeah, please write it all down. I worry about you.
Thank you very much, I appreciate it too.
It’s true that the article about the Codex could have been worded better, but the Codex itself does present a disturbing danger to public health.
The Europeans are fighting it, but it looks like it may sail through here without anyone even noticing it.
The Codex will remove nutrition labels from packaged food, ramp up crop quantity over nutrition in hybrid seed stock, and use government regulations, taxes, and outright banning (depending on the world zone you live in) to reduce or eliminate the availability of supplements and heirloom seed.
People will start suffering from malnutrition and, because of missing labeling on food, not know what is wrong with them. They will then go to their government healthcare provider and be told.. what? With supplements unavailable they will either be given the pain pill, or worse, misdiagnosed and given a cure more deadly than the disease.
Perhaps they will be told they have swine flu or some such, and then given a shot that will in turn actually end up giving them swine flu. When they return to their Government Health Official saying the problem has gotten worse, what will he say? He will probably tell them that the swine flu has ‘mutated’. There will be an uproar, a panic, perhaps even martial law due to WHO and CDC regulations.
The state media will say nothing of the real cause, they will just promote the ‘swine flu’ panic. Only the internet will inform people of what’s going on, perhaps by using articles like the above and threads on FR.
Lay it on thicker now.
Let the insults fall like hail.
That does not equal "...but I AM my church..."
Every member of that church IS the church. WE are the Body of Christ.
Cool your jets.
Nope.
Feel free to reply with a gratuitous personal attack again.
Sorry you flew into the flak fired at me by those who have decided I am their enemy.
You and I have a lot in common, I think.
For instance, the phrase “Round-up Ready”—and the arrogance behind that product—makes me viscerally angry.
I can see you don’t recognize what a true church is, a body of believers who care for one another. Doesn’t that happen in your church or do you just go as your duty and not pay attention to the people around you? I feel badly for you if that’s the case. A church is a living body, not four walls and a door.
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