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Codex Threatens Health of Billions
Natural News ^ | 7/30/2009 | Barbara Minton, Editor

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.

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To: GovernmentShrinker

Thanks.

It’s persistently hepful when government shills

CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE EMPHATICALLY

their own ignorance and cluelessness.

I gather you still haven’t read the quotes from our fearless traitorous leaders of the last 100 years documented in their own publications and others ref’d in my tagline.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81

Calling for other to study solid factual references far more than you seem to have done is quite a new level of cheek on the part of government shills.

Quite impressive.

Carry on.


121 posted on 08/07/2009 11:35:06 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: ex-Texan

I can’t believe some of these FReepers. The damn bill is ready to be voted on and they can’t see the forest for the trees. God help them.


122 posted on 08/07/2009 11:38:58 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: 1rudeboy
wellllllllll
!!!DOH!!!

When the old traitors die off, they are replaced with their underlings. What a surprise! /s

123 posted on 08/07/2009 11:39:05 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

It’s called ONE WORLD ORDER and don’t think it’s not going to happen.


124 posted on 08/07/2009 11:39:38 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary

They would have to get their heads out of their own stinky caves to see anything.


125 posted on 08/07/2009 11:39:59 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Lancey Howard

You really don’t have a clue, do you. Cheez.


126 posted on 08/07/2009 11:40:35 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary

Please carry on Dear Heart.

I need to tend to my computer problems and getting ready for the new term.


127 posted on 08/07/2009 11:41:08 AM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Marysecretary
The damn bill is ready to be voted on and they can’t see the forest for the trees. God help them.

You mean H.R. 2749? It was referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on August 3rd. It's not "ready" for anything.

128 posted on 08/07/2009 11:45:03 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
I think there are always people wanting to have some type of control over others.
But I just see these conspiracy theories as usually one step away from lunacy and paranoia.
But who knows, they may be right. I may be turned into Soylent Green at a Obama ‘reeducation” camp someday!
129 posted on 08/07/2009 11:52:46 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I agree with Rick..)
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To: ex-Texan

I neither like nor trust Waxman. I would be hard-pressed to think of anything good he has done for this country since he took office. His support of a bill like this does more than concern me...

That said - I read through the entire article and followed each link and some of the links at those sites as well. This article is honestly only reasonably well-written.

Some parts of it are fairly well researched and sourced, while other parts of it are disconcertingly vague, bereft of scientific specifics, and phrased in a way as to incite/ create alarm from calm-sounding but half-empty words.

If those scholarly aspects of the story were held to a higher and more uniform standard, citing facts and specifics again and again, in an absolutely hard-hitting manner, I would willingly suspend a lot more of my sense of reservation.

As it is, a lot of the language used in the measure as now written is what is popularly called “boilerplate” language - meaning that a lot of it is empty language with no history of being fully enacted or enforced.

Candidly speaking, however, that is not especially comforting given the general direction of policies and practices under the current administration, and there are far too many “Czars” who are unaccountable to anyone other than their master, the President, who is further left than they are.

What is comforting is knowing that we Americans have freedom and risk taking almost “imbedded” into our DNA. We have a history of being able to do what we reasonably want to in pursuing happiness, and a history of not tolerating infringements thereof...

We have a history as a people of mistrusting leadership with too much power, a history of awakening from complacency and mobilizing into powerful and terrible action, and the world has borne witness to this.

We can do almost anything we set our minds and hearts to, and the extent of our distrust of our current leaders and their imperious policies and their arrogant, dismissive ways, and now their orchestrated, thuggish tactics -

has motivated us to the point where the private ownership of firearms has reached an all-time high in this country, and so too has the volume of our ammunition stockpiles and the percentage of home reloading equipment and supplies in the hands of private citizens.

The Second Amendment is the safety valve, or the “reset” button...or whatever metaphor you may find to be most evocative and accurate.

And “We, the People” have had just about enough of the Washington DC crapstream.

AAC


130 posted on 08/07/2009 12:34:07 PM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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To: 1rudeboy

Maybe and maybe not. Just be aware.


131 posted on 08/07/2009 12:49:10 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: little jeremiah

EXACTLY. Control the food, control the people. Hmm. Where have I heard that before?


132 posted on 08/07/2009 12:50:46 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary

Hitler’s useless eaters; starving the kulaks in Ukraine by Stalin, I’m sure there are more examples.


133 posted on 08/07/2009 12:58:07 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: AmericanArchConservative

OThuga et al have a long history of ignoring THE CONSTITUTION.

Boiler plate tyranny is quite useful enough for those blokes.


134 posted on 08/07/2009 1:03:22 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: ex-Texan

Will people stock up on vitamins like they are stocking up on bullets?


135 posted on 08/07/2009 2:08:13 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Don't nuke me, bro)
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To: little jeremiah

Yep. And it won’t surprise me one bit if we follow suit.


136 posted on 08/07/2009 2:27:00 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: Marysecretary

Years ago I read several books about concentration camps in WW2. Treblinka, Sobibor, Anus Mundi (about a couple of the camps - let’s see, I think Berkenau and the other one that begins with B), Dora (a camp I didn’t know about, forced labor making weaponry), Babi Yar, and others. Babi Yar was not camp related, but about the occupation of Kiev by the Nazis and their slaughter of the Jews there.

The thought that was foremost in my mind was: This will happen again; as people are no better, not more moral or virtuous, now. In fact if anything they’re worse. So it will or something similar, WILL happen again.


137 posted on 08/07/2009 2:54:18 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

YUP.

Interesting that none of the trolls seem to have read the quotes ref’d in my tagline and come back about them.

Perhaps the truth hurts them too much.


138 posted on 08/07/2009 3:02:30 PM PDT by Quix (POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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To: Quix

Those supporting and promoting evil have no interest in a rational debate about facts. They only want to fight dirty. Lies, deceit, innuendo, bravado and intimidation are their methods.


139 posted on 08/07/2009 3:04:37 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: Quix

Now I’m going to see what your tagline is about!


140 posted on 08/07/2009 3:04:59 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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