Codex Alimentarius and GM Food

I would love to see a discussion and to raise consciousness about what is happening on the Codex Alimentarius front, so that we can stop it from becomming the law of the land come 12/31/09.  Here is some information from the Natural Solutions site.

Good News on the Codex Front

(This post is an excerpt from the Natural Solutions Foundation
newsletter 3.3.08 To learn about the dangerous threat of Codex, see
"Codex Alimentarius Summarized in 7 Points" www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php

One of the most successful battle fronts in Codex is the adamant
determination of much of the rest of the world NOT to allow either any
GM food (like Benin, for example) or unlabeld GM food (like Norway,
Switzerland, the EU, Japan, Russia and many other countries. The US has
been fighting to impose its anti-consumer policies of forbidding any
labeling of GM foods because consumers reject it if they know they are
eating genetically modified "Franken Foods". So when the African
nations laid the ground work for inactivating the mine field the US was
setting for them in the wording of a document it was proposing, things
were looking quite hopeful, at least on that front.

After the meeting was over we went to Benin, a country with a
moratorium on GM foods. We brought advanced technology to see if it
would increase the crop yield, increase the nutrient density and
decrease the water use in that dry and hungry country as part of the
Natural Solutions Foundation's effort to reclaim healthy, sustainable
food production. This is part of our International Decade of Nutrition.
Of course, we were working with government people as well as private
ones to make this happen.

The head of the Beninese food safety and security program is a
remarkable veterinarian trained in human nutrition in the US. He has a
limited staff but a huge commitment to protecting his country's food.
He asked if we could provide information in French giving him reasons
that his position opposing GM foods makes scientific sense (which Benin
will need to follow the Codex Two Step Process on GM issues) and I
said, "Yes!" That's why we started the Natural Solutions Foundation GM
Files.

Here are the links to the GM Files I have compiled so far, starting with Dr. Mae Wan Ho's excellent summary:

Making the World GM Free and Sustainable

www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php

Fundamental Weaknesses in the GM Concept

www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php

GM, Fish Oil, Protein and Brain Power for Kids

www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php

Russian Studies Show Rats Fed GM Feed Fail to Thrive, are Infertile

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GM Contamination Set to Worsen: London Guardian

www.healthfreedomusa.org/wp-ad...st.php

Another Extinction: Public Land Grant Colleges

www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php

New Zealand Scientists Urge PM to Show Sanity re: GMOs

www.healthfreedomusa.org/wp-ad...st.php

Seeds of Destruction

www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php

This is a big (and very important) project with huge potential
impact and your help is both needed and most welcome! If you can do the
research to supply documents that we can add to the GM files in
electronic format (or if you can translate these documents into
French), please write to Kathy Greene, my assistant,
akathy.greene@usa.net to volunteer your help. Just put "GM Files" in
the subject line and let her know if you are interested in research or
translation (or perhaps both!)

If you already know about the dangers of eating (and growing) GM
foods, please pass these data on to others. In case you think that GM
foods are tested for safety by the FDA (they are not) or are not part
of your food supply (they are found in 60-80% if all US prepared foods
unless you eat an all organic diet), please take some time to read
these GM Files. The good news is that more and more people at home and
abroad are "getting it" about GM foods and don't want to be part of the
largest experiment in human history - without benefit of informed
consent or insurance.

Good News In Action

The Natural Solutions Foundation is about solutions. Our solutions
are natural so they work! And part of our solutions are the action
steps that we provide for you to let legislators know what you want
(health freedom to make your own health choices) and what you do not
want (including compulsory screening, drugging and vaccination.

Here are some good news statistics: 129,101 people support our
right to know how nutrients and supplements can benefit us and support
Ron Paul's bill HR 2117, the Health Freedom Protection Act which not
only guarantees free speech but forces the FDA to allow scientifically
based information instead of prohibiting that information as they do
now. Click here (salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/56...n.jsp ) to join
nearly 139,000 people in urging their Congresspeople to become
co-sponsors of this important law.

Another bit of good news: we've finally got the amazing Songhai
video posted on the Natural Solutions YouTube Channel. You must see
this demonstration of Fr. Godfrey's completely sustainable, beyond
organic, natural solutions to integrated farming communities! Go to:
youtube.com/naturalsolutions and scroll down to "Videos" to see what
can be done to produce food properly, Fr. Godfrey is going to work with
us to set us the sustainable zero emissions system in the Santa Clara
Project (see below for more on that project).

588,832 people used our website to tell the FDA its CAM Guidance,
allowing the FDA to declare nutrients "untested drugs" if they were
used for health benefits was unacceptable. Recently the FDA forced two
companies to stop making and marketing products for diabetics made from
cherry juice because the products turned cherry juice into an untested
drug by stating the health benefit derived from using it. More action
is clearly needed: half a million voices were not enough to counter Big
Pharma. Five million would be more like it. That means you need to get
your circle of influence activated. Ask them to go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org and subscribe to the free Health Freedom eAlerts (www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php ) and get involved in protecting their health and their freedom before there is nothing left to protect.

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Yours in health and freedom,

Dr. Rima

Rima E. Laibow, MD

Medical Director Natural Solutions Foundation

www.HealthFreedomUSA.org

Source:  http://gmfoodwatch.tribe.net/thread/5f753fb8-67b1-4968-8c0a-ff39595222b0

Codex Alimentarius - health freedom threat number one.

Codex Alimentarius has nothing to do with “consumer protection”. That
is propaganda. Rima E. Laibow, M.D. a natural medicine physician,
studied more than 16,000 pages of Codex Alimentarius documentation and
her conclusion is that Codex Alimentarius [Latin for food rules] is a
very serious threat to health freedom.

The organization was born in 1962 when the UN established the Codex
Alimentarius Commission (CAC) as a “Trade Commission” to regulate and
control every aspect of food and nutritional supplement produced and
sold; it is about trade and profits of multi-national corporations.

The more natural health products people use, the fewer drugs they
use and Big Pharma fears this, as it would diminish their profits.
Codex protects them by eliminating natural health products and
treatments and classifying nutrients as toxins. It uses “Risk
Assessment” to set ultra low “safe upper limits” for them. Risk
Assessment is a branch of Toxicology, the science for assessing toxins;
the science for assessing nutrients is Biochemistry. Codex does not use
Biochemistry.

Codex law is based on the Napoleonic Code; anything not explicitly
permitted is automatically forbidden. Under Common Law (our system),
something does not have to be explicitly permitted to be legal. The
tyrannical Napoleonic Code allows the banning of natural health options
by default. Codex will go on December 31, 2009, unless we take action.

The media wants us to believe that Codex is about “consumer
protection”; the strategy is to tarnish the image of natural health
options, through for-hire studies. One-time defenders of supplements
and nutritional products, such as the National Nutritional Foods
Association (NNFA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), have
fallen prey to new pharmaceutical members [their boards used to be run
by health freedom fighters] and they are spreading disinformation
saying that Codex is “consumer protection”.

Codex has standards for every aspect of food; one of these
standards ratified in July 2005 was the destructive “Codex Alimentarius
Vitamin and Mineral Guideline” (VMG) that can ban high potency and
clinically effective vitamins & minerals. Under this standard,
vitamin C can be restricted to only a few milligrams per dose; other
nutrients, such as amino acids, are also under threat.

We have a powerful legal tool for health freedom, the Dietary
Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), passed 1994. The DSHEA
scientifically classifies nutritional supplements as food and prevents
dosage restrictions [Codex classifies them as toxins and sets ultra-low
doses]. Thus, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline of 2005 violates U.S.
law, because it violates DSHEA.

The pharmaceutical industry uses politicians to do their bidding
and Big Pharma’s is influencing Congress to pass laws friendly to drugs
and unfriendly to nutritional supplements. Some politicians are
actively helping Big Pharma by supporting bills designed to destroy
DSHEA. The U.S. Codex Office, the Congressional “point of contact” and
the FDA support Codex, in direct violation of DSHEA.

Congress has the power to keep America Codex-free by defeating the
bills designed to destroy DSHEA, by supporting health freedom bills,
and by reprimanding the U.S. Codex Office and the FDA. We must lobby
Congress to do just this, and thanks to the Internet, we can.

Through this portal...the world wide wed.... we can unite to
protect the USA from Codex . We must get active, get organized, and
stand up and fight as one to protect our access to natural health care.
Are you ready to take action? Would you like to learn how? www.healthfreedomusa.org 

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