Lately in my new volunteer post as Associate Editor of the National Health Federation’s excellent magazine, the Health Freedom News (HFN), as I call on leaders in different industries and professions to ask them to contribute their cutting-edge articles for HFN’s next issues, I find myself explaining who we are and what we do in the increasingly intensifying fight for health freedom.

NHF Stands Alone

               Do you realize that NHF is the only one of two health-freedom organizations that have their own magazine? All members get a quarterly issue as well as e-mail alerts. When my husband and I joined, we got corporate memberships for our optometry clinics and our bed-and-breakfast retreat.

Dr. Donald and Katherine Carroll

By getting corporate memberships it allowed us to receive extra magazines to put in our waiting room or guest’s suites and to share with family and friends. Having these extra magazines around has resulted in new members joining us all in the health-freedom fight. It has also increased their awareness and many didn’t know what Codex was before we spoke of it and shared the magazine. Many are just excited about the caliber of articles we print and want to make sure they are kept up-to-date with the magazine and our e-mail alerts.

As many of you know, reading president Scott Tips’ excellent article on Ractopamine turned me into an overnight activist. All because NHF is the only health-freedom organization that has a magazine! Were it not for being given the magazine and learning about something I had never heard of – well, it has changed the course of my whole life! We joined NHF and joined in the battle to protect our health-freedoms for ourselves and our large family. I’m excited about sharing HFN with others so they don’t have to be in the dark about issues that will affect their health and their family’s future.

The Power of One Voice Speaking

     The power of One Voice – NHF’s – speaking at Codex is what gave me hope that we can indeed change the World. This particular article, “Codex Avoids Implosion by Five Votes” in the Summer 2011 issue/Volume 29/No.2 became the spark to ignite an inner activist in me just waiting to be discovered! You can re-read it online at http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2946 and see if it doesn’t make you want to sign the petition on the website www.thenhfcom and get the word out before the July 2012 Codex meeting in Rome where this hot-button issue will be discussed yet again.

As I speak to prospective authors for HFN, few know that NHF is the only health-freedom organization authorized to speak at these crucial, standard-setting Codex meetings. That’s why we chose to include NHF in our charitable giving in our businesses and display the Health Freedom News magazine in our waiting room and guest suites. No other health-freedom organization can say they have the right to speak. So our Voice is important and will continue to be for some time.

The other groups can observe at Codex meetings but they are completely powerless to take the microphone and speak out, much less to submit papers or correct final entries in the records compiled at the conclusion of each meeting. NHF alone among all health-freedom organizations can do all these things.

When I explain how much power NHF has, not to mention we’ve been doing this longer and more effectively than any other group – indeed, before most of these groups were even formed – since 1955, people are excited to ally their efforts with an organization like ours and they are anxious and excited to join and start working with NHF.

NHF is indeed the fulcrum that tips the World of Codex

               Do you realize how many times president Scott Tips has influenced decisions at Codex – often speaking as the Lone Voice amidst a sea of opposition? The Ractopamine issue had been influenced by his aggressive speeches years before at the Codex Alimentarius Commission meetings. The ridiculously dumbed-down Nutrient Reference Values for vitamins and minerals were stopped dead in their tracks in 2009 by NHF’s near-lone stand at a German Codex meeting. And recent trips to Codex meetings in the Netherlands and Paris have created the same predictably powerful results in regards to the food contaminant Melamine and the steroid animal drug Ractopamine.  Both of these latter issues were held back rather than being rubber-stamped and simply moved on for final approval and adoption. I’m so very proud to volunteer for an organization this powerful and with years of victories behind us and a bright future for creating many, many more.

By being willing to speak when the whole World is against you is indeed to champion those of us who choose not to bend to the avarice of nations with trade profits surpassing health for their people. NHF’s presence at Codex is vital and valuable to the continued peace and existence of our health freedom. This powerful fulcrum carrying Your vision to influence high level decisions has tipped the World, represented as delegates at the Codex meetings, in our favor. No other health freedom organization can say this. Not one.

President Scott Tips’ 30+ years of being an attorney specializing in food-and-drug law surely serves NHF well as he is skilled in the art of debate and delivers strongly persuasive arguments – often, sadly enough, in direct opposition to the U.S. Delegate’s biased talk that works against the people’s desires and wishes.

     Remember that Codex operates by consensus –  to be reduced to voting would break the voluntary World cooperation that is the desired outcome of these meetings. There have been multitudes of times where president Tips’ interjections have swayed the course of nations and given us the assurance of retaining our health freedoms a little longer. This is the real power of NHF- the often Lone Voice speaking to accurately represent the desires of the freedom-loving World.

NHF Has It All!   

               With our unique privileges that no other health-freedom organization has- and also in the current leadership with all of the skills that go along with an FDA specialist attorney speaking for us at the Codex meetings – well, we can each be grateful we had the wisdom and insight to choose the one health-freedom organization that holds the real influential power to create positive change and preserve our rights.

As If All This Weren’t Enough!

               As if all this were not enough, and truly completely over the top compared to other health-freedom organizations, president Scott Tips is a writer and an editor and has been since his days in law school where he was Editor of the California Law Review. Whether in the written word, and he has articles in every issue of HFN and issues news releases after every Codex meeting he attends; or whether he is speaking at Codex or on radio and TV, NHF has the most chance of bringing badly needed direction and change to the World right now and in decades to come.

But What Really Makes NHF Unique Is – YOU!

               We are humbled when we hear of your daily efforts to keep moving forward, advancing the front lines – from the senior citizen on a fixed income who sends in three one-dollar bills folded into an encouraging handwritten note, to the Chapter leaders around the World educating and organizing in their own cities, from the generous donors who always find a way to cover NHF’s operating expenses like our recent need to print the Codex Alimentarius book in other languages and thus take the message to other countries around the World…to the young people, our future, who speak for the bold, enduring work of NHF in their classrooms…We are buoyed up by your positive, contagious energy and are so grateful for your continuing and often unsolicited support.

Noblesse Oblige

               Each one of us who is represented so very well by NHF has a duty and responsibility to give back and keep this grand organization going for our children’s children. NHF will go down in history as the one health-freedom organization that has been tipping the fulcrum of the World’s standards to the healthy side – the side with innate integrity in a World where unbiased integrity is an evaporating quality – the side dedicated to freedom, a side we will always stand on.

Tipped off by the European Union delegation while at the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Foods meeting in Maastricht last week, I attended a very special session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission where the animal steroid drug Ractopamine was discussed.  Held in Paris, France today, the meeting was another one of those special “facilitated” sessions where a facilitator – in this case the Codex Alimentarius Commission Chairman Mr. Sanjay Dave – somehow tries to bring two irreconcilable sides together so as to reach a compromise.

The compromise?  To see if the 70% of the World who refuses to accept unhealthy, ractopamine-doped meat in its food supply from the other 30% who want to make more money by selling such unhealthy meat (pork, beef, turkey, etc.) can be convinced to yield to the 30%.  Some compromise!  Heads you lose, tails we win . . . .

Evidently, the Western Hemispheric countries (from Canada in the north down to Argentina and Chile in the south) want to sell their Arnold-Schwarzenegger animal meat with nary a thought for the adverse health effects (to humans or the animals), just so long as they can make a few dollars more per animal.  So, I went to this meeting expecting the worst.  Remember, the NHF had fought ractopamine-doped meat at Codex many times before (see http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2945) and barely won at previous meetings, thanks really to the firm opposition of the European Union, China, Russia, and the others who actually, ironically, speak more for American and Canadian consumers than do those citizens’ own representatives!  But NHF is well-known for being aggressively outspoken on these issues.

Today, I spoke out twice against this drug monstrosity.  The second time followed Australia’s feeble attempt to justify poisoning the World with yet another dangerous chemical.  “We either abide by our own rules or we don’t,” he intoned, building on his theme that since the Codex scientists had conducted three expert reviews that said a little of this poison in our meat supply was fine ,  we should swallow the poison wholesale.

               I spoke right after him and agreed that “We either abide by our own rules or we don’t.  In this case, let’s just buy a big rubber stamp labeled ‘Approved,’ give it to the Secretariat, and from now on just let her rubber-stamp every decision given to Codex by the scientists.  What need is there then for our review at the Commission level?  It’s been proposed that just because JECFA [the scientists] issued an opinion and just because the underlying Committee accepted it, then we at the higher Commission level must automatically accept it.  That’s wrong and the rules say that we can either accept or reject such decisions.  The JECFA science is faulty, they are not perfect and we should not automatically accept bad science here.  What we at NHF do not understand is when so much of the World’s population has substantial health concerns with a proposed standard and with the supposed science behind it, how could anyone justify forcing that unhealthy standard upon the majority?  It will destroy the credibility of Codex, all for some commercial interests that want to push their ractopamine-doped meat on the rest of the World.”

The three-hour-long special meeting was not productive, the two sides’ irreconcilable positions were just restated for all to hear once again amidst calls for the Commission to abandon its attempt to set a Maximum Residue Level for ractopamine-doped meat in the food supply.  But it shows how determined the United States, Canada, Brazil, and other New-World countries are to push their ill-health upon the rest of us.  The issue will come up again at the Commission meeting in Rome this coming July.

The NHF’s position:  How can you compromise with ill-health? You either have the poison in your food or you don’t.  Anything in between is yielding to the poison, and accepting the concept that money is more important than good health.  The NHF will continue being outspoken on this issue and will do whatever it can to stop our food from being poisoned.

Your support is critical to help us keep fighting this and other issues at Codex.  We are Your Voice for Health Freedom!  Help us be there for you.  Go to www.thenhf.com and join us, donate, volunteer.

       ”Hi! Are you familiar with NHF? The National Health Federation is the oldest, and most active, organization fighting for your health-freedom rights. May I show you – “

That’s how I – at the NHF booth at the recent (March 2-4) Long Beach Health Freedom Expo – got people interested who were strolling past our booth.

Once I had their attention, I handed them a membership application, explained the benefits – from e-mail alerts to our magazine – and offered them sample magazines and more.

     “If you sign up today, you can have one of our books for free,” – - – pointing out a number of books we had available, what they were all about, like the CODEX book, and why people must be aware of what CODEX is all about (- – trying to take supplements and special nutrients away from us and allow contaminants in our food supply).

Naturally, our pride was to point out that Scott Tips, NHF President, would be giving a talk about CODEX, and exposing the tricks used around the World to take 160+ supplements, vitamins, and special nutrients that are effective in the prevention and treatment of various diseases, away from us.

Why would they – governments – want to do this?

You have to understand the disease business – heavily supported by government agencies – that want to maintain/increase their profits, while keeping us sick, coming, and paying.

By the way, the belief that nobody is really trying to find effective cures for diseases will be a key topic at the upcoming medical congress of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M), to be held May 17-19, in Orlando, Florida. I will be speaking there, with my talk – “Stem Cells, where is the beef? – evaluating present stem cell research, and evaluating why major research efforts are not aimed at finding person-specific embryonic stem cells.

      But volunteering at a meeting like this – there is one coming up in Chicago soon, the Health Freedom Expo in June – is also a lot of fun. You get a free pass, you can explore the many exhibits, and you can even attend any one of the many interesting lectures that cover anything from healing magnets, to new supplements, or anti-aging developments.

So, if you live in the Chicago area, how about volunteering at the NHF exhibit?

Note by Katherine Carroll:

I first met Dr. Kugler in October 2011, when I traveled down to LA to meet various Board members and visit the NHF headquarters. Kugler’s energy is positively contagious and he is the picture of vitality and health- he exudes energy and has fire in his eyes. It will be my first time volunteering to host a table, along with Scott Tips and Sylvia Provenza, at the Chicago Health Freedom Expo in June. So I turned to Hans, asking for advice to make this first experience of many a successful one. In the past, I had interviewed Sylvia on how to build membership in NHF as she is known as the “Queen of Membership Drives.” Having the passion and experience that she, Dr. Kugler, and Scott Tips available to mentor those of us interested in using our time, energy, and resources to volunteer is invaluable.

Many of us carry NHF with us wherever we go, dropping magazines at the local co-op or health-food stores … sharing them in our professional office waiting rooms or leaving brochures with family members who will help in our efforts to build awareness of NHF’s powerful mission and increase our forces. One in our own ranks, Caroline Knight, Executive Director in the UK, put on a conference in London, England that you will read about soon on this blog. It was so successful it will be an annual event.

If you have a vision and a passion for starting a local chapter in your city, if you desire to host the table with us in Chicago, or if you have any other ways in which you’re ready to take your membership with NHF to the next level, please let us know and we will make sure you have everything you need to create a successful outcome.  One thing about us health-freedom fighters, we never give up and we are always – everyday – each one of us finding ways to advance the cause of health freedom. We have said it before, but it bears repeating: We cannot do it without YOU!

     At the first day’s meeting of the 6th Session of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF) yesterday in Maastricht, the Netherlands, the Committee unanimously agreed to cancel the blank check previously written to the food-packaging industry that would have allowed them to contaminate liquid infant formula with melamine-based packaging without any limits imposed upon such contamination.

Melamine is a man-made, cumulative toxin used in food equipment and packaging, as well as in an herbicide, which has killed thousands of pets and babies in years past and still continues to be a pervasive background contaminant. At previous Committee meetings, the food-packaging industry had won an “open skies” exemption from the Maximum Permitted Upper Level of melamine contamination of liquid infant formulas. (Read about it at http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2947.)

Scott Tips & CCCF Chairman Martijn Weijtens after melamine victory

Scott Tips, NHF president and its Codex delegate, noted after yesterday’s victory,

     ”It has been a long journey – not in terms of time as much as in terms of support – to arrive at this result, and amazingly enough with no opposition at the end. Three years ago, when the National Health Federation (NHF) first began speaking out at CCCF against melamine contamination of our foods, NHF was the absolute lone voice at this Committee. I was looked at as if I were from the Moon. In 2010, NHF was again alone – not another delegation supported us. But by the 2011 CCCF meeting several important and outspoken delegations, such as Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Peru, had joined NHF in opposing melamine contamination. Over our most-vocal objections, though, the Committee adopted the standard, with the dangerous “sky’s the limit” exemption, and sent it to the Commission for final approval. Fortunately, a groundswell of opposition had coalesced by that point – some three months later – to cause the Codex Commission Chairwoman to send the melamine standard back down to the CCCF for reconsideration.”

     At this week’s Committee meeting, the groundswell became unanimous as the handwriting was clearly on the wall that numerous delegations were going to fight hard to eliminate the melamine exemption. First, the powerful EU delegation privately agreed that the exemption had to go. The United States then joined in publicly, and even New Zealand – formerly a strong supporter of the food-packaging exemption – actually asked the Committee to remove the exemption. Costa Rica, Ghana, Korea, the Philippines, Nigeria, India, Kenya, Cameroon, Columbia, and of course the NHF all spoke out strongly in favor of removing the exemption, and it was, without dissent.

     The standard now goes to the Commission meeting to be held in Rome this coming July, where it will almost certainly be adopted without the exemption. But for the NHF’s strong and determined stand all by itself in 2009 and 2010, this exemption would have passed unhindered and would have resulted in a huge loophole for food producers to poison infants with melamine from food packaging.

To see the full scope of what NHF defeated in the melamine issue visit www.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melamine. Realizing that NHF ALONE alerted the World for several Codex sessions to the dangers listed by the Widipedia report is alarming. We thank every single supporter who made sure that their Voice was represented by NHF’s attendance at these critical meetings. Truly you can see, we cannot do this without your continued support, donations and gifts. The following is a copied link from Wikipedia on melamine:

Uses

Melamine is combined with formaldehyde to produce melamine resin, a very durable thermosetting plastic used in Formica™, and melamine foam, a polymeric cleaning product. The end products include countertops, dry erase boards, fabrics, glues, housewares, dinnerware, cooking spoons, guitar saddles, guitar nuts, acoustic foam paneling, and flame retardants. Melamine is one of the major components in Pigment Yellow 150, a colorant in inks and plastics.

Melamine dinnerware
Melamine also enters the fabrication of melamine poly-sulfonate used as superplasticizer for making high-resistance concrete. Sulfonated melamine formaldehyde (SMF) is a polymer used as cement admixture to reduce the water content in concrete while increasing the fluidity and the workability of the mix during its handling and pouring. It results in concrete with a lower porosity and a higher mechanical strength, exhibiting an improved resistance to aggressive environments and a longer life-time.
The use of melamine as fertilizer for crops had been envisaged during the ’50s and ’60s because of its high nitrogen content (2/3).[7] However, melamine is much more expensive to produce than are other common nitrogen fertilizers, such as urea. To be effective as a fertilizer, it is essential that the plant nutrients are released or made available in a manner that matches the needs of the growing crop. The nitrogen mineralization process for melamine is extremely slow, making this product both economically and scientifically impractical for use as a fertilizer.
Melamine and its salts are used as fire-retardant additives in paints, plastics, and paper.[8]
Melamine derivatives of arsenical drugs are potentially important in the treatment of African trypanosomiasis.[9]
Melamine use as non-protein nitrogen (NPN) for cattle was described in a 1958 patent.[10] In 1978, however, a study concluded that melamine “may not be an acceptable non-protein N source for ruminants” because its hydrolysis in cattle is slower and less complete than other nitrogen sources such as cottonseed meal and urea.[11]
Melamine is sometimes illegally added to food products in order to increase the apparent protein content. Standard tests, such as the Kjeldahl and Dumas tests, estimate protein levels by measuring the nitrogen content, so they can be misled by adding nitrogen-rich compounds such as melamine.[12][13]
[edit]Toxicity

Melamine is described as being “Harmful if swallowed, inhaled or absorbed through the skin. Chronic exposure may cause cancer or reproductive damage. Eye, skin and respiratory irritant.” However, the short-term lethal dose is on a par with common table salt with an LD50 of more than 3 grams per kilogram of bodyweight.[14] U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) scientists explained that when melamine and cyanuric acid are absorbed into the bloodstream, they concentrate and interact in the urine-filled renal microtubules, then crystallize and form large numbers of round, yellow crystals, which in turn block and damage the renal cells that line the tubes, causing the kidneys to malfunction.[15]
The European Union set a standard for acceptable human consumption (Tolerable Daily Intake) of melamine at 0.5 milligrams per kg of body mass (reduced to 0.2 mg per kg in April 2010),[16] Canada declared a limit of 0.35 mg and the US FDA’s limit was put at 0.63 mg, but was later reduced to 0.063 mg daily. The World Health Organization’s food safety director estimated that the amount of melamine a person could stand per day without incurring a bigger health risk, the “tolerable daily intake” (TDI), was 0.2 mg per kg of body mass.[17]
[edit]Acute toxicity
Melamine is reported to have an oral LD50 of 3248 mg/kg based on rat data. It is also an irritant when inhaled or in contact with the skin or eyes. The reported dermal LD50 is >1000 mg/kg for rabbits.[18] A study by USSR researchers in the 1980s suggested that melamine cyanurate, commonly used as a fire retardant,[19] could be more toxic than either melamine or cyanuric acid alone.[20] For rats and mice, the reported LD50 for melamine cyanurate was 4.1 g/kg (given inside the stomach) and 3.5 g/kg (via inhalation), compared to 6.0 and 4.3 g/kg for melamine and 7.7 and 3.4 g/kg for cyanuric acid, respectively.
A toxicology study in animals conducted after recalls of contaminated pet food concluded that the combination of melamine and cyanuric acid in diet does lead to acute renal failure in cats.[21] A 2008 study produced similar experimental results in rats and characterized the melamine and cyanuric acid in contaminated pet food from the 2007 outbreak.[22] A 2010 study from Lanzhou University attributed renal failure in humans to uric acid stone accumulation after ingestion of melamine resulting in a rapid aggradation of metabolites such as cyanuric acid diamide (ammeline) and cyanuric acid.[23]
[edit]Chronic toxicity
Ingestion of melamine may lead to reproductive damage, or bladder or kidney stones, which can lead to bladder cancer.[18][24][25][26][27]
A study in 1953 reported that dogs fed 3% melamine for a year had the following changes in their urine: (1) reduced specific gravity, (2) increased output, (3) melamine crystalluria, and (4) protein and occult blood.[28]
A survey commissioned by the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians suggested that crystals formed in the kidneys when melamine combined with cyanuric acid, “don’t dissolve easily. They go away slowly, if at all, so there is the potential for chronic toxicity.”[29][30][31]
[edit]Treatment of urolithiasis
Fast diagnosis and treatment of acute obstructive urolithiasis may prevent the development of acute renal failure. Urine alkalinization and stone liberalization have been reported to be the most effective treatments in humans.[23]
[edit]Regulation in food and feed

The United Nations’ food standards body, Codex Alimentarius Commission, has set the maximum amount of melamine allowed in powdered infant formula to 1 mg/kg and the amount of the chemical allowed in other foods and animal feed to 2.5 mg/kg. While not legally binding, the levels allow countries to ban importation of products with excessive levels of melamine.[32]
[edit]Synthesis

Melamine was first synthesized by the German chemist Justus von Liebig in 1834. In early production, first calcium cyanamide is converted into dicyandiamide, then heated above its melting temperature to produce melamine. However, today most industrial manufacturers use urea in the following reaction to produce melamine:
6 (NH2)2CO → C3H6N6 + 6 NH3 + 3 CO2
It can be understood as two steps.
First, urea decomposes into cyanic acid and ammonia in an endothermic reaction:
(NH2)2CO → HCNO + NH3
Then, cyanic acid polymerizes to form melamine and carbon dioxide:
6 HCNO → C3H6N6 + 3 CO2
The second reaction is exothermic but the overall process is endothermic.
The above reaction can be carried out by either of two methods: catalyzed gas-phase production or high pressure liquid-phase production. In one method, molten urea is introduced onto a fluidized bed with catalyst for reaction. Hot ammonia gas is also present to fluidize the bed and inhibit deammonization. The effluent then is cooled. Ammonia and carbon dioxide in the off-gas are separated from the melamine-containing slurry. The slurry is further concentrated and crystallized to yield melamine.[33] Major manufacturers and licensors such as DSM, BASF, and Eurotecnica have developed some proprietary methods.
The off-gas contains large amounts of ammonia. Therefore, melamine production is often integrated into urea production, which uses ammonia as feedstock.
Crystallization and washing of melamine generates a considerable amount of waste water, which is a pollutant if discharged directly into the environment. The waste water may be concentrated into a solid (1.5–5% of the weight) for easier disposal. The solid may contain approximately 70% melamine, 23% oxytriazines (ammeline, ammelide, and cyanuric acid), 0.7% polycondensates (melem, melam, and melon).[34] In the Eurotecnica process, however, there is no solid waste and the contaminants are decomposed to ammonia and carbon dioxide and sent as off gas to the upstream urea plant; accordingly, the waste water can be recycled to the melamine plant itself or used as clean cooling water make-up.[35]
[edit]Production in mainland China

Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, both consumption and production of melamine grew considerably in mainland China. By early 2006, melamine production in mainland China is reported to be in “serious surplus”.[36] Between 2002 and 2007, while the global melamine price remained stable, a steep increase in the price of urea (feedstock for melamine) has reduced the profitability of melamine manufacturing. Currently, China is the world’s largest exporter of melamine, while its domestic consumption still grows by 10% per year. However, reduced profit has already caused other joint melamine ventures to be postponed there.
Surplus melamine has been an adulterant for feedstock and milk in mainland China for several years now because it can make diluted or poor quality material appear to be higher in protein content by elevating the total nitrogen content detected by some simple protein tests. Actions taken in 2008 by the Government of China has reduced the practice of adulteration, with the goal of eliminating it. Court trials began in December 2008 for six people linked to the scandal and ended in January 2009 with two of the convicts being sentenced to death and executed.[37][38]
[edit]Melamine poisoning by tainted food

Melamine has been involved in several food recalls after the discovery of severe kidney damages of children and pets poisoned by melamine-adulterated food.
[edit]2007 Animal feed recalls
Further information: 2007 pet food recalls and Chinese protein adulteration
In 2007, a pet food recall was initiated by Menu Foods and other pet food manufacturers who had found their products had been contaminated and caused serious illnesses or deaths in some of the animals that had eaten them.[39][40][41] In March 2007, the US Food and Drug Administration reported finding white granular melamine in the pet food, in samples of white granular wheat gluten imported from a single source in China, Xuzhou Anying Biologic Technology[42] as well as in crystalline form in the kidneys and in urine of affected animals.[43] Further vegetable protein imported from China was later implicated.
In April 2007, The New York Times reported that the addition of “melamine scrap” into fish and livestock feed to give the false appearance of a higher level of protein was an “open secret” in many parts of mainland China, reporting that this melamine scrap was being produced by at least one plant processing coal into melamine.[44] Four days later, the New York Times reported that, despite the widely reported ban on melamine use in vegetable proteins in mainland China, at least some chemical manufacturers continued to report selling it for use in animal feed and in products for human consumption. Li Xiuping, a manager at Henan Xinxiang Huaxing Chemical in Henan Province, stated, “Our chemical products are mostly used for additives, not for animal feed. Melamine is mainly used in the chemical industry, but it can also be used in making cakes.”[45] Shandong Mingshui Great Chemical Group, the company reported by the New York Times as producing melamine from coal, produces and sells both urea and melamine but does not list melamine resin as a product.[46]
Another recall incident in 2007 involved melamine which had been purposely added as a binder to fish and livestock feed manufactured in the United States. This was traced to suppliers in Ohio and Colorado.[47]
[edit]2008 Chinese outbreak
Further information: 2008 Chinese milk scandal
In September 2008, several companies were implicated in a scandal involving milk and infant formula which had been adulterated with melamine, leading to kidney stones and other renal failure, especially among young children. By December 2008, nearly 300,000 people had become ill, with more than 50,000 infant hospitalizations and six infant deaths.[48][49][50] In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it was reported that melamine exposure increased the incidence of urinary tract stones by seven times in children.[51] Melamine may have been added to fool government protein content tests after water was added to fraudulently dilute the milk. Because of melamine’s high nitrogen content (66% by mass versus approx. 10–12% for typical protein), it can cause the protein content of food to appear higher than the true value.[52][53] Officials estimate that about 20 percent of the dairy companies tested in China sell products tainted with melamine. On January 22, 2009, three of those involved in the scandal (including one conditional sentence) were sentenced to death in a Chinese court.[54]
In October 2008, “Select Fresh Brown Eggs” imported to Hong Kong from the Hanwei Group in Dalian in northeastern China, were found to be contaminated with nearly twice the legal limit of melamine. York Chow, the health secretary of Hong Kong, said he thought animal feeds might be the source of the contamination and announced that the Hong Kong Centre for Food Safety would henceforward be testing all mainland Chinese pork, farmed fish, animal feed, chicken meat, eggs, and offal products for melamine.[55]
As of July 2010, Chinese authorities were still reporting some seizures of melamine-contaminated dairy product in some provinces, though it was unclear whether these new contaminations constituted wholly new adulterations or were the result of illegal reuse of material from the 2008 adulterations.[56][57]
On characterization and treatment of urinary stones in affected infants, the New England Journal of Medicine printed an editorial in March 2009, along with reports on cases from Beijing, Hong Kong and Taipei.[58]
Urinary calculi specimens were collected from 15 cases treated in Beijing and were analyzed as unknown objects for their components at Beijing Institute of Microchemistry using infrared spectroscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, and high performance liquid chromatography. The result of the analysis showed that the calculus was composed of melamine and uric acid, and the molecular ratio of uric acid to melamine was around 2:1.[59]
In a 2009 study of 683 children diagnosed in Beijing in 2008 with nephrolithiasis and 6,498 children without nephrolithiasis aged < 3 years, investigators found that in children exposed to melamine levels < 0.2 mg/kg per day, the risk for nephrolithiasis was still 1.7 times higher than in those without melamine exposure, suggesting that the risk of melamine-induced nephrolithiasis in young children starts at a lower intake level than the levels recommended by the World Health Organization.[60]
In a study published in 2010, researchers from Beijing University studying ultrasound images of infants who fell ill in the 2008 contamination found that while most children in a rural Chinese area recovered, 12 per cent still showed kidney abnormalities six months later. “The potential for long-term complications after exposure to melamine remains a serious concern,” the report said. “Our results suggest a need for further follow-up of affected children to evaluate the possible long-term impact on health, including renal function.”[61] Another 2010 followup study from Lanzhou University attributed the uric acid stone accumulation after ingestion of melamine to a rapid aggradation of metabolites such as cyanuric acid diamide (ammeline) and cyanuric acid and reported that urine alkalinization and stone liberalization were the most effective treatments.[23]
[edit]Testing in food

Until the 2007 pet food recalls, melamine had not routinely been monitored in food, except in the context of plastic safety or insecticide residue. This could be due to the previously assumed low toxicity of melamine, and the relatively expensive methods of detection.
Following the 2008 deaths of children in China from powdered milk, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission in Belgium set-up a website about methods to detect melamine.[62] In May 2009, the JRC published the results of a study that benchmarked the ability of labs around the world to accurately measure melamine in food. The study concluded that the majority of labs can effectively detect melamine in food.[63]
In October 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new methods for the analysis of melamine and cyanuric acid in infant formulations in the Laboratory Information Bulletin No 4421.[64] Similar recommendations have been issued by other authorities, like the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare,[65] both based on liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC/MS) detection after hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography (HILIC) separation.[66]
The existing methods for melamine determination using a triple quadrupole liquid chromatography – mass spectrometry (LC/MS) after solid phase extraction (SPE) are often complex and time consuming. However, electrospray ionization methods coupled with mass spectrometry allow a rapid and direct analysis of samples with complex matrices: the native liquid samples are directly ionized under ambient conditions in their original solution. In December 2008, two new fast and inexpensive methods for detecting melamine in liquids have been published on-line in the Chem. Comm. Journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK).[67]
Ultrasound-assisted extractive electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (EESI-MS) has been developed at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) by Zhu et al., (2008)[68][69] for a rapid detection of melamine in untreated food samples. Ultrasounds are used to nebulize the melamine-containing liquids into a fine spray. The spray is then ionised by extractive electrospray ionisation (EESI) and analysed using tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). An analysis requires 30 seconds per sample. The limit of detection of melamine is a few nanograms of melamine per gram of milk.
Huang et al., (2008)[70][71] have also developed at Purdue University (US) a simpler instrumentation and a faster method by using a low-temperature plasma probe to ionize the samples. The major obstacles being solved, the ESI-MS technique allows now high-throughput analysis of melamine traces in complex mixtures.
The Melaminometer[72][73] was a hypothetical design for a synthetic biology circuit, to used for detecting melamine and related chemical analogues such as cyanuric acid. The conceptual project is hosted at OpenWetWare as open source biology in collaboration with DIYbio and has been discussed in various newspapers in the context of homebrew biotechnology. As of October 2009, the design has not been verified.
Because melamine resin is often used in food packaging and tableware, melamine at ppm level (1 part per million) in food and beverage has been reported due to migration from melamine-containing resins.[74] Small amounts of melamine have also been reported in foodstuff as a metabolite product of cyromazine, an insecticide used on animals and crops.[75]
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) provides a test method for analyzing cyromazine and melamine in animal tissues.[76][77] In 2007, the FDA began using a high performance liquid chromatography test to determine the melamine, ammeline, ammelide, and cyanuric acid contamination in food.[78] Another procedure is based on surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS).[79][80]
Member States of the European Union are required under Commission Decision 2008/757/EC[81] to ensure that all composite products containing at least 15% of milk product, originating from China, are systematically tested before import into the Community and that all such products which are shown to contain melamine in excess of 2.5 mg/kg are immediately destroyed.

This past week I stopped by the health food stores in my locality to share with them NHF’s work on their behalf in regards to H.R. 3380. I left off magazines explaining the issue and the postcards necessary to get action from our Congressional representatives, making our wishes known in regards to saving our supplements from vanishing. I asked for their corporate membership as well.

I  was stunned to know that half of the health food store owners did not even know they were under a threat. What a massive disconnect… Standing in their stores, I visualized several of their (profitable) shelves being swept clean, their presumed mission for creating health diminished, their profits minimized. We are ALL the losers potentially. More so if we are ignorant or fail to act.

     President Scott C. Tips says, “Let me be very clear: These two governmental actions, if allowed to come about, will cause actual deaths and harm to millions of Americans. by eliminating safe and effective supplements, and by pricing those remaining others beyond the reach of citizens through regulatory overkill on already safe supplements, the government will kill and injure the very people it is supposed to protect.”

Today, my young correspondent, Caleb, sends in a blog for publishing and it is on this exact issue! At 12 years of age, he has a grasp of the situation that most of my local business owners fail to comprehend. His mother is doing a fantastic job touching his palette for protecting his health freedom and he is responding from his heart and with impeccable logic as you can see. In Caleb’s viewpoint, he writes to us all,

“It’s been exciting around my house for the last two days. I’m busy helping my mom fold cards (to petition Congressional representatives) for the National Health Federation. Mom and my big brother will hand them out while I’m at school.

This is the article on the website:
“A bill, H.R.3380, sponsored by Representative Dan Burton (R-IN) in conjunction with The National Health Federation, has been introduced that would spare thousands of dietary supplements from removal from retail store shelves due to onerous new safety testing guidelines proposed by the Food and Drug Administration.

This bill, called the Dietary Supplement Protection Act of 2011, would exempt all dietary supplements made prior to January 1, 2007 from the new testing requirements.

Last July, the FDA stunned supplement manufacturers with its proposed Guidance that would require all dietary ingredients introduced into the marketplace since 1994 to undergo drug-like safety testing prior to marketing. The tests could cost millions of dollars per each new ingredient, and that includes each variation on that ingredient too. These requirements would not make supplements any safer than they are today and would require supplement makers to lay aside 20 years of profits to conduct the tests. To make matters worse, tens of thousands of workers could lose their jobs as the supplement industry would be forced to remove products from store shelves.

While many of these dietary supplements have been on the market for over a decade without reported deaths or significant side effects, the FDA’s proposed new dietary ingredient guideline appears to be nothing more than an expensive paperwork exercise intended to eradicate many safe products from the marketplace.

The National Health Federation’s solution will need the support of every part of the health-freedom community, consumers, health stores, supplement manufacturers, and you.

If you have never been an activist for health-freedom, you must be one now! In mass, we can win this one.

With this new FDA Guidance, it appears to be pre-DSHEA all over again and the FDA is poised to impose harsh and costly restrictions on supplements. If you want to save your supplements, and probably your very business. So, Act Now!”

     Tina, at the NHF office in Monrovia, California will be happy to send you a supply of these cards so that you can share them too. Call Tina at 626.357.2181 and she’ll send you what you need to get your point across to the Congressional representatives in your area.

When you go to the store and can’t find a simple but powerful supplements like resveratrol, Gaba, ubiquinol, curcumin and bioperine you’ll regret you failed to take the simple action of making your desires known by mailing in the postcard to your representative. The time for passivity, if there ever was a time, is over. To fail to act is to relinquish your right to decide what you need to remain healthy. If a 12 year old can get motivated about it, I know we will too. We owe it to those that aren’t quite as aware. We owe it to ourselves.

Right now, someone is rearing a future leader. Nelson Mandela’s mother and father- did they know they were influencing greatness that would change the World? Or John F. Kennedy’s parents? Were they actively shaping him toward a path of intelligent service? I’ve raised three children and had the privilege and great pleasure of influencing three step children and now five grandchildren. Early on- in my 20’s -, somewhere in my vast reading as a ‘stay at home’ mother of three, I ran across a concept that impacted the lives of my children. It is the concept of ‘touching the palette’. Just as an artist has a palette of paints to create from, parents can provide an environment rich in texture and color that will stimulate children to find their destiny calling.

We all have things that taste good to us and others that we aren’t drawn to or even are repulsed by. Each child is a unique individual with bio-individuality and a personality, natural talents and giftings that will best express the irreplaceable aspects of that particular human being/child. This also is the “palette”; the taste-buds that determine the bent of a life, that I’m referring to.  But as a young mother, how would I have known what my children would become and what their destiny would be? How would I set up the scenarios for them to discover their passion and their gift to the World?

So the concept of ‘touching the palette’ encompassed liberating a World of potentials upon the landscape of childhood in the safety, supervision and security of the home by setting up vignettes in the environment came into my experience and into the lives of my children. There was a corner for musical instruments of every possible type, timeless music playing and a library of great musicians’ biographies. There was an art corner tucked away where messes can be tolerated and works in progress can develop over time and the artist’s lives to draw inspiration from. There was a well-stocked library – audio and books. Perhaps we’d raise a writer or a chef…there was a kitchen with child-sized measuring cups, whimsical spoons and colorful aprons. Outside, there was a virtual petting zoo of farm animals and the chance to develop animal husbandry; perhaps a veterinarian or a nurse would emerge from the care of others. There was a garden with little hoes and shovels and a hand seeded carrot pulled from the earth at age 2…  Inside hamsters, something called Duproses that my enterprising daughter ended up selling offspring to pet stores at a great profit, disgusting rats that I consented to crawl on me for the sake of being a good fearless mother in the presence of a developing child… dog and cats and fish… You see where I’m going with this. We step outside of our own preconceived desires and visions for our children to provide an entire palette of things for children to choose from hoping that something will spark our children’s interest and allow it to grow into the passionate fire that fuels their adult life. Variety is really and truly the spice of life.

The day I saw my two small sons literally 40’ up a fir tree  pounding nails for a tree fort, I tried – and succeeded – in ignoring my urge to call them down of out of my own fear of them falling. Today they are successful custom-home builders with their own company and finish carpenters. The vignette that was provided was never intended to allow them to climb so high, but then we cannot censor our children’s dreams and aspirations. They may be higher than our own for them. Each of my children is a responsible, productive citizen and each is on a path of service to mankind in their own way. The grace of God combined with some good palette touching? Thankfully the parents of Ghandi and J.F.K. understood this. They gave free reign for the development of greatness and provided a multitude of arenas to discover the special gift that each possesses for the benefit of mankind. I can’t think of any other way they discovered they were destined to rule but in the nurture and protective encouragement of the home.

Right now, someone is rearing the future President of NHF. Because I was very late coming to join the Health Freedom Movement- in my early 50’s, I queried parents what it would take to develop the activist spirit in a child purposefully. Evidently I hit upon a loaded word “activist” unwittingly. What does that word mean- apart from our associations with it?  What does Wikipedia have to say about it?

“Activism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Activism consists of intentional efforts to promote, impede or direct social, political, economic, or environmental change. Activism can take a wide range of forms from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing businesses, rallies, street marches, strikes, sit-ins, and hunger strikes.

Activists can function in roles as public officials, as in judicial activism. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. introduced the term “judicial activism” in a January 1947 Fortune magazine article titled “The Supreme Court: 1947.”^[1]

Some activists try to persuade people to change their behavior directly, rather than to persuade governments to change laws. The cooperative movement seeks to build new institutions which conform to cooperative principles, and generally does not lobby or protest politically.

There is also a distinction to be made between Activists and Activism, as a huge amount of activism is carried out by people who would not label themselves as activists. It is crucial to recognize this, otherwise you fail to recognize the amount of activism being carried out and risk marginalizing this type of social change as a specific form of activism i.e. as carried out by the activist. For example environmental activists’ that align themselves with Earth First, or Road Protestors would commonly be labeled activists, whereas a local community fighting to stop their park or green being sold off, or built on would not be classed as activists, yet they are still effectively carrying out very similar actions. In short Activism is not always carried out by Activists.^[2]”

I like the first sentence. We can attach all kinds of things to being an activist, but as a brand-spanking new activist I find myself compelled to share my knowledge because I HAVE TO- I CAN’T NOT… and so far, it is a complete gift to others. I can’t tell you how many intelligent professionals had no idea about NHF or Codex. They all thank me for taking time to share and to fight on their behalf by my association with NHF.

You may know my trigger was President Scott Tip’s excellent article on ‘Codex Avoids Implosion by Five Votes” in the Summer 2011/Volume 29/No.2 issue of Health Freedom News, the National Health Federation’s fine publication. If sharing the Ractopamine story awakens others to the need to create change, then an activist I am. From that leaping off point, I wondered, “If I were a young mother again today, how would I touch the palette of my children- the children possibly intended to be drawn into activism?”

Mothers came forward on the National Health Federation’s Face Book page to offer very valuable advice. One of the mothers finds herself with a potential leader in her and her husband’s care. She tells the story of Caleb and I see how he is in a home that will allow his talents, gifts and skills to fully develop under careful ‘palette touching’.

In her words, “Caleb is the math brain who loves a good book or three a day… He likes his vitamins and takes them easily.  He wants me to talk to his class about the NHF and Codex and give all the students membership brochures for their parents.  Caleb told me he is wants to become a Scientist and share all his work with the NHF which he is going to join as soon as he’s old enough.  He’s all fired up already and wanting to share everything he can to get more members!  Maybe he should start an NHF pony league in school!”

She continues, “It really blew me away the way Caleb got so interested so fast.  Finding a way to get the information in their hands is key (to touching the palette). Caleb found out about health freedom by hearing me talk about different articles and issues. Before I knew it, he was reading over my shoulder and asking questions.” I asked Caleb if he would share with us his budding ‘activist’ experience. He doesn’t know it by that  word. He is just being himself…a curious young man and realizing his palette is completely engaged with health, health freedom and he wants to share his passion!

“When my mom found out about the NHF,  I heard her talking about it to everyone we know.  If you don’t know, NHF stands for National Health Federation.  Mom says it’s a health freedom organization.  The more she told people about the NHF the more I listened to some important stuff that is happening, not only here but all over the  world.

For instance Ractopamine.  Did you know that people want to feed it to pigs to change the pig’s natural body?  That stuff makes the pigs bloat which means swell.  Mom says studies show that it stays in the animals and the meat we eat!  There are so many important things going on that people need to know about that I asked my mom to come to my school and give everyone information about the NHF and health freedom.  The freedom to eat things that won’t eventually harm our bodies.  I’m still growing and my mom wants me to eat foods that are safe.

The National Health Federation is an organization that helps moms find the best food for their kids.  They do a lot of other good stuff too.”

Well said, Caleb! May you one day lead us all toward greater health freedom…

Another parent contributes, “It is up to the parents to teach a child about taking medications and about health.” This is where the concept of ‘touching the palette’ is born- in the cradle of good parental care and that includes an excellent parental example. I know that my children “caught” more than they were “taught”. We are the books they read, without knowledge of reading skills.

Sometimes we have to wonder who is leading whom in example. “Caleb will be 13 this year.  He helps me distribute magazines and brochures at the pier. He’s always been a health nut as soon as he could read the expiration dates on food items. There is a healthy eating education part of health class at school. He was educating me way before I knew anything about Codex. There is an obesity problem in the U.S. and healthy eating is already being taught in classes all over the states. His teacher is thrilled with the work he is doing and he’s earning extra credit on his blog in Health Science”. In this case, it is ‘iron sharpening iron’ as these parents are committed to the cause of health freedom and their son is clearly mirroring their passion with an equal fervor of his own. Will he be the next President of NHF to protect our health freedoms by speaking Codex? Someone, somewhere is that child…What kind of mirror are we providing?

So what emerged from these casual conversations on National Health Federation’s Face Book page? Activism is a matter of individual gifting. Some are selecting a very young age, a path of service. They are fortunate if they are in a family that can provide an atmosphere to further the ‘touching of the palette’ but deep down, we know that they will achieve their destiny regardless. We must respect the individuality of each child and not push our will. We must be true to our own path and let them find theirs.

Were I a parent again today, I would broach discussion at the dinner table about World events that will impact them. I would encourage my children to see their body as a sacred trust, indeed ‘a temple’ that no one has the right to pollute with GMO foods, vet steroids (Ractopamine), fluoride and on and on. I would encourage them to find their own Voice- even at a very young age. What self-esteem that builds!

One last story…I had a young guest of 7 years last summer. He had some behavioral and attention issues that prompted him being put on a sugar-free diet and I was advised to cook to this diet prior to his coming. It was really how we already manage the kitchen here in a low glycemic fashion, being Nutritional Therapists. The change in him, according to the parents, was remarkable after adopting this healthy diet.

As I cooked breakfast for this family, this brave child let me know in no uncertain terms, “If there is sugar in anything that you cooked, I will not eat it.”  This impressed me beyond belief! I had a little 7 year old having the courage and fortitude to stand firm to his beliefs in the face of an adult!

Thankfully, we use honey, maple syrup and xylitol but the point was well made. I have never had a 7 year old dictate to me what came out of the kitchen much less an adult and I thought, “May more 7 years olds stand up and dictate to the school cafeteria what they will and will not put into their precious little developing bodies and mind – bodies and minds that will develop to lead us into the future.” It is possible to be an activist without having any knowledge whatsoever of the word. This child simply IS. It moved me in a way I will never forget. This child has a future….and we will reap the benefits of his courage and commitment

Children are our teachers. They will lead us one day. How can we touch their palette to discover their unique and treasured gifts to the World? As always, your comments are welcome on the blog and we want to hear what you are doing to promote awareness and a sense of responsibility to fellow man and to the World in your lives and around your dinner table with your own children. We are all in this fight for health freedom together. There are many more experienced among our ranks. We would love to hear from you to encourage us all in our efforts to allow free expression among the children who are gravitating toward this path of service who are in our field of influence and care.

Many have no idea what Codex is or how it has the power to impact and disrupt lives. Because we’ve come across so many lately who really seek to understand, it seems timely to reprint the first chapter of this compilation exposing Codex and how it works- often against the very health freedom it sets out to protect.We can remain ignorant, if we are, of this body. But in so doing we risk suffering further losses of freedom. We can arm ourselves with knowledge and each provide support for NHF’s work in the ways that are right for us, to stop the progressive loss of our health freedoms. We encourage you to share this article- or better yet – order the book on Amazon. Currently they are  out, but more are on the way for you to help enlighten friends and family in ways they can fight again the progressive loss of freedom in this supposed ‘land of the free’.

Codex Alimentarius
Global Food Imperialism

As is often the case with governmental programs and the ostensibly good intentions that are professed to accompany them, the implementation of those programs and the resulting effects upon the individuals affected by them are invariably negative. Whether it has been the American government’s 35-plus-year-old failed “War on Cancer” or its equally-long and equally unsuccessful “War on Drugs,” for example, each massive increase in taxpayer money thrown at the problem by the government has not resulted in a cure or solution but simply more bureaucracy, more tunnel-vision as to the path to take, and an ever-receding goal still stretching out of reach.

It is perhaps the prime example of the “Law of Unintended Consequences.” This law of nature (which says that an action or program will have the opposite or at least unexpected effect of that intended) seems to dog government actions no matter what they are. And Codex Alimentarius, an international intergovernmental program, enjoys no special exemption from this Law.

Codex Alimentarius is actually a noble concept. The idea – at least the idea put forth to the public – has been for countries throughout the World to adopt a uniform food standards that would allow the free and unhindered flow of food goods among countries and to consumers. This is an idea with which many of us can agree and even embrace. But, as you will read in this book, the actual implementation of this laudable ideal is falling far short of the ideal itself. Indeed, the implementation of this ideal is having the opposite effect of its stated purpose.

The Food Code

Codex Alimentarius is Latin for “Food Code.” It is, and is to be (since the process is still ongoing), a set of standards covering many different categories of food. The Codex Alimentarius Commission is the international body establishing these global trade standards for foods. Created in 1963 as a result of resolutions passed in 1961 at a Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) conference, and now sponsored jointly by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the FAO of the United Nations, Codex has some 27 active committees dealing with various food and food-labeling issues from fish and infant-feeding formulas to food additives and vegetable proteins. And each committee is hosted in turn by a particular country that provides both the chairman and the meeting place in that country.

The stated goal of the Commission is to promote and protect the health of the public. This follows from the FAO’s own stated purpose of “achieving food security for all” and its desire “to make sure people have regular access to enough high quality food to lead active, healthy lives.” With the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, and the subsequent institution of various trade and other agreements, an additional goal of removing barriers to trade has also emerged.

CCNFSDU

The committee concerned with food supplements is the one with the annoyingly long acronym: the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU), which is hosted and chaired by Germany. Typically, the CCNFSDU meets in Bonn, or near Bonn, every November, although the committee meeting in October-November 2006 took place in Chiang Mai, Thailand in deference to Third World sensibilities.

As its name implies, the CCNFSDU covers a number of agenda items in its meetings, including the ever-controversial infant formula standards, dietary fiber guidelines, proposals for nutrient-content claims, and risk analysis. The CCNFSDU chairman is Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a German functionary who wields considerable control over the proceedings and who only occasionally faces revolts from the delegates attendees and only then if he has been particularly high-handed.

The delegates to these committee meetings are themselves almost universally regulatory bureaucrats and functionaries themselves, largely out of touch with the interests of the consumers they purport to represent. The United States delegation, for example, consists of the U.S. Representative, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employee, and her assistant delegate, yet another FDA who may or may not be listened to by the FDA delegate, depending upon whose interests they represent. To make sure that these private individuals who plump up the U.S. Delegation are properly hamstrung, the FDA requires as a condition of their attendance that they sign a petition form promising that they will not lobby other countries’ Codex delegates at these meetings.

For two years, I myself was a member of the U.S. Delegation attending the CCNFSDU meetings in Bonn, Germany. I found that the views I expressed on behalf of the National Health Federation (NHF), a nonprofit health-freedom organization representing the views of thousands of pro-supplement and pro-health individuals, mostly fell on deaf ears.

It was not until 2002, when the then-U.S. delegate, Dr. Elizabeth Yetley, refused to let me continue being on the delegation that I was spurred into action to obtain official Codex-recognized status for the NHF as an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) and could then attend and speak out at the CCNFSDU and other Codex meetings unfettered by FDA handcuffs. Indeed, it is really thanks to Dr. Yetley’s refusal, which completely backfired, that the NHF could begin to have an impact at Codex meetings. And we are still the ONLY health freedom organization who can speak, and therein lays our power. Often, in speaking out at the meetings, the NHF has taken a position opposite to that of the United States, which U.S. position the NHF has found to be antithetical to the very principles of health freedom upon which the United States was founded.

The Guidelines

Despite the often-fierce First World-versus-Third World battle over infant formulas, this particular committee achieved even more notoriety and thus the object of focus for health-freedom activists around the World in 1994 when it took up more directly the issue of vitamin-and-mineral food supplements. In doing so, it began establishing “guidelines” intended to govern the international trade in vitamins and minerals.

Interestingly enough, these Codex Guidelines for Vitamins and Mineral Food Supplements are intended to apply only to those jurisdictions (read, countries) where supplements are regulated as foods. Where they are regulated instead as drugs, such as in supplement-hating Norway, these Guidelines are more of a curiosity than something of importance. So, the game has been rigged almost from the beginning. In a bureaucratic form of “heads I win, tails you lose,” the Guidelines will clamp down on both the quality and availability of supplements being sold as food while having no effect on those supplements legally classified as drugs.

The NHF – along with the freedom-loving South African delegate, Antoinette Booyzen – fought hard to prevent or at least slow down the establishment of the recently-adopted Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements. Obviously modeled after the European Union’s Food Supplements directive of 2002, these Guidelines take an anti-health-freedom, bureaucrat-friendly approach to natural substances that purports to protect health and lives through severe restrictions upon the sale and information given about vitamins and minerals. Yet, by making health-saving information about vitamins and minerals virtually impossible to obtain and by limiting consumer access to health-benefiting vitamins and minerals at levels that will actually make a physiological difference, these arguably well-intentioned regulators are ensuring the ill-health of future generations. Used to a toxicological model of dealing with substances they know little about and, hence, mistrust, these Codex bureaucrats are painting everything in their path with a very wide rush and the same color paint. Again, the Law of Unintended Consequences is at work here.
In November 2004, at the Bonn, Germany CCNFSDU meeting, South Africa and the National Health Federation were the only delegations opposing approval by the Committee of these harsh Guidelines. According to Codex procedural rules, the Guidelines were then required to be submitted to the next regular meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission for final review and approval. So it was, then, that at the July 2005 Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting in Rome, Italy (and with Mrs. Booyzen absent), the NHF was the One and Only Voice – out of literally hundreds of attendees – to speak up and oppose the Commission’s adoption of the Guidelines.

It is important to remember, though, that at present these Guidelines are nothing more than a framework, with maximum permitted upper levels for vitamins and minerals to be slotted in under a risk-assessment approach. Ever fearful of vitamins and minerals, which they have never understood, the Europeans are striving to keep a firm lid on the maximum permitted upper levels. And, unfortunately, instead of opposing this straightjacket, the Americans, Canadians, and many others are willing – even eager – midwives to the process.

While the birthing process still has a few years to go, in the regulatory timescale, this is the merest blink of an eye. To us, bureaucrats move glacially slow; but in their strange Einsteinian universe the few years left to complete and fill in the Guideline’s framework is a heart-pounding rocket-ride to the stars.

Harmonization

What many health-freedom activists around the World have long ago realized, however, is that these euphemistically called “guidelines” will be used not only to exclude high-potency American dietary supplements from the European marketplace but they will also be used, either directly or by way of example, to stifle the domestic national markets in supplements as well through a leveling process called “harmonization”.

Importantly, though, harmonization of food standards is not just a Codex process but is a deliberately-planned interlocking process being fitted together through a number of treaties, “agreements,” and regulatory “handshakes” that, once in place, will make it nearly impossible for any countries’ citizens to shake themselves free of this straightjacket. These harmonization processes include, but are not limited to, the World Trade Organization, the Sanitary and PhytoSanitary (SPS) agreements, the Technical Barriers to Trade (TBA) agreement, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), the Trilateral Cooperation Charter, and the planned North American Union (NAU).
And if any of you are still under the illusion that any government, but especially the American government, is a supporter of health freedom or a protector of health-freedom rights in any way, then you need only look to the actions and words of the FDA. This Agency has not only announced its intention to harmonize U.S. laws and regulations to international standards but it has been acting upon the World stage for years to do just that. It does not matter to the FDA that the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) was passed by Congress in order to protect certain of the health freedoms of Americans. The FDA has always hated this law, which removed FDA’s arbitrary enforcement powers (but not, as is often claimed, its regulatory powers), and has been seen that although it cannot yet directly repeal DSHEA, it can and will outflank DSHEA through harmonization with anti-freedom rules, regulations, and ‘guidelines.”

It is not the purpose of this Foreword to explain how this process of harmonization will affect the North American and other global markets in general and dietary supplements in particular, but rather markets in general and dietary supplements in particular, but rather through the following collection of articles gathered together and presented to you in this compilation – written as they were by many of those individuals who have monitored, argued, and written about Codex over numerous years – you will more completely grasp what many have realized and argued is nothing more than a net slowly descending over our collective heads to benefit a few.

Many have claimed that somewhere along the way Codex was hijacked by financial interests antithetical to the true health interests of consumers. Using propagandistic phrases such as “the need to protect consumer health,” these commercial interests have allied themselves with the naturally future-fearing tendencies of government bureaucrats to suppress the rapidly rising use of dietary supplements. What better way to eliminate the competition than to suppress it with regulatory and legislative handcuffs? The pharmaceutical industry, with a global market of more than $600 billion will act, and has been acting, to protect its commercial interests.

The Players

As will be evident from reading this collection of articles and essays, there are many players in this drama. While Sepp Hassslberger, a Bavarian living in Rome, Italy, was probably the first to privately call attention to the Codex threat, and while the National Health Federation began following Codex from afar in 1995-1996, it was John Hammell of the International Advocates of Health Freedom (AIHF) – to my knowledge – who first publicly pulled the alarm bell on Codex in 1996 with his very first article on the subject, republished in National Health Freedom’s publication available on Amazon, Codex Alimentarius, Global Food Imperialism.

Around the same time, Suzanne Harris, a Kansas-City based journalist with degrees in law and political science, began reporting on international Codex meetings at the suggestion of the NHF and with partial funding from the NHF. Her investigations and articles also helped educate many of us to developing events at Codex.

As did Dr. Mathias Rath and his Foundation, which had not only been monitoring Codex meetings but actively demonstrating them as well with large crowds, big signs, and speaking events. While I did not think his demonstrations were effective, Dr. Rath, to his credit, has poured much of his own personal money into fighting Codex restrictions on vitamins and minerals.

Then , in early 2000, with much of my time spent in Europe, I suggested to NHF president Maureen Kennedy Salaman that NHF start sending me to the CCNFSDU meetings in Berlin. Not hesitating even a second, she agreed and the path for the Federation to start regularly attending what up to then it had only been monitoring and reporting on was established. In June 2000, I attended my first Codex meeting and wrote a report – found here – on what transpired. Coincidentally, and although I did not meet them at this Codex meeting, both Sepp Hasslberger of LaLeva and Tamara Theresa Mosegaard of MayDay also attended this Codex meeting for the first time as members of their respective countries’ delegations.

The following year’s meeting in Berlin (with the meeting dates then changed to the Fall) saw the beginning of the involvement of the American Holistic Health Association (AHHA), with both Susan Negus and Suzan Walter attending several Codex meetings and reporting their own observations and conclusions.

Many others have since been inspired to become more familiar with and involved in Codex work. These include Paul Anthony Taylor of both NHF and the Rath Foundation (who began attending Codex meetings in 2003), Diane Miller of the National Health Freedom Coalition, Carolyn Dean of Friends of Freedom International, Brenna Hill of the American Association for Health Freedom, and, more recently, Robert Verkerk of the Alliance for Natural Health. The absence of other, unnamed here, is not intended to slight them in any way, but will probably be more a reflection of my memory, or lack thereof.

Importantly, award-winning film-maker Kevin Miller researched, wrote, filmed, and produced an excellent documentary on Codex Alimentarius called We Become Silent that features some of the individuals mentioned above and presents much information on Codex in an educational and entertaining way. Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench narrates the film.

At the same time, the other players in this Codex drama include the CCNFSDU chairman Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, the EU/EC Codex representative Basil Mathioudakis, Dr. Elizabeth Yetley and her successor, Dr. Barbara Schneeman, as the U.S./FDA delegates, Dr. John Hathcock of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, James Turner and James Gromley of Citizens for Health, and the International Alliance of Dietary Food Supplement Associations. Often at crossed swords with the writers in this book, these individuals and organizations have figured large at Codex meetings or otherwise participated in some way.

Last, but certainly not least, a very important player at Codex meetings has been Antoinette Booyzen, the South African delegate. It was Mrs. Booyzen who, courageously and usually alone among national delegations (although supported by NHF), stood up and faced the ire and even ridicule of the Chairman and many others for daring to speak out for the right of all persons to exercise their right to consume healthy, nourishing foods and supplements. Her undaunted courage at these meetings was an inspiringly frequent occurrence.

What the Future Holds

Although the Codex Alimentarius Commission has adopted the Guidelines, there are still two arenas in which this health-freedom drama will play out. These are the two that bear the most watching.

First, since the Guidelines are nothing more than a framework, they are not useable until the maximum permitted levels are established through the application of risk analysis and risk assessment. So, the fight here will be over how high the vitamin-and mineral potencies will be set, with the pro-health-freedom forces agitating for the highest possible levels and the pro-pharmaceutical interests wanting to minimize the upper levels (and hence the effectiveness) as much as possible. The science is on the side of the proponents of health freedom, but the “beauty” of science merged with politics is that it can be easily manipulated to say whatever its manipulators want it to say. The future will tell us whether truth and scientific integrity prevail or whether politics as usual will rule.

The second arena will be the application of the Guidelines domestically within each country’s national boundaries, otherwise known as “harmonization.” Already, countries are lining up like lemmings to accept whatever cliff-edge Codex standards would have them jump off.

As in the case of the development of Codex standards, harmonization is not simply a process, it has actually become a way of thinking. Numerous countries, institutions, and individuals have come to accept harmonization as inevitable. In a sort of “Borg-like, resistance is futile” fog of mind, they have ceased to question the value of harmonization, or to compare the advantages with the disadvantages, or especially to consider that there might be a far better way to handle the health issues presented to them.

It has been often said that to know the future one should remember the past. It is for this reason that the Foundation for Health Research has – with the kind permission of the authors whose works appear herein – compiled and published the ensuing collection of articles in one place so that you, the reader, may see and follow the historical progression of thought on this important Codex issue, an issue that will profoundly affect everyone’s health in the years to come.

Scott C. Tips
President, Foundation for Health Research
April 4, 2007, the European Union

Don from Iowa writes:

“Regarding H.R.3380: Why move the date to 2007? Why not 2012 or forever, permanently taking our precious dietary health food supplements out of their reach.”
(http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=3099)

Dear Don,

Thank you for your very generous donation to NHF. Without stalwart supporters such as you, the Federation would not be able to accomplish nearly as much as it has. Your support is more critical than most realize.

In answer to your very pertinent question about H.R.3380; you are absolutely right, why 2007? Why not 2012 or forever? That’s what I personally wanted. But our wishes met political reality and the NHF was forced by political reality to go with what we thought we could accomplish politically with a bill in this Congress, this Session.

Of course, we preferred actually removing the definition of a “New Dietary Ingredient.” But, we figured better saving thousands of supplements than none at all. Our strategy too is that if we get this bill passed into law, then it will set a precedent for the future. When yet more supplements (post-2007) accumulate and become subject to FDA regulatory excesses , then we will go back to the trough and extend the date again, or maybe as you & I think, even get the “forever” date that we want.

Thank you Don again for your support and I hope this answers your question.

Best wishes to you,

Scott C. Tips, President and General Counsel
National Health Federation ~Your Voice for Health Freedom TM

     I had a funny, but sobering, experience when I was in Southern Europe two years ago, meeting with a company and potential client that wanted to start marketing its dietary supplement powders into the United States. I looked at their product labels and immediately realized that as good as their products were, they suffered from a major drawback – they contained aspartame as their sweetener. “What?” I was asked in disbelief, “That would be a problem in the United States?” Yes, it most definitely would be, at least to the health-food retail market that they sought to enter. They weren’t laughing.

Unfortunately, as with so many others, they were simply ignorant of the dangers of aspartame and had used it in their powdered supplements as sweeteners. They had never read the Congressional testimony of Dr. M. Adrian Gross, a former senior FDA toxicologist, who said, “Beyond a shadow of a doubt, aspartame triggers brain tumors” and that “by allowing aspartame to be placed on the market the FDA has violated the Delaney Amendment, which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause cancer.”

Herein lies the problem: While many of us and our friends and colleagues recognize that aspartame is a dangerous, carcinogenic toxin, there are too many who do not. They have bought into the G.D. Searle and Company propaganda line that claims aspartame is a healthy alternative to sugar and that studies “show” it to be safe to consume. As a result, over the last two decades, we have seen approval for this toxin’s use in many different food and beverage products grow almost astronomically. Now it can be found virtually everywhere. It is ubiquitous. In fact, it is hard to avoid now.

Codex Alimentarius

It is with this growth as a background, and with decades of opposition to its approval, that we at the National Health Federation (NHF) – the World’s oldest health-freedom organization and the only one accredited to attend and speak out at the Codex Alimentarius meetings – sought to oppose aspartame standards not just at the national level but at the Codex level.

    Codex Alimentarius, as many of you already know, is an international body organized back in the early 1960s under the auspices of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for the two-fold purpose of eliminating international barriers to food trade and protecting the consumer from unsafe foods. To that end, Codex created various committees to develop food standards and guidelines for those foods and beverages each substantive committee was considering (some other committees were charged with developing measurement and general operating principles). One of those committees was known as the Codex Committee on Contaminants and Food Additives. Note the combination.

Many years later, the Committee was broken apart into two separate committees, one called the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF) and the other the Codex Committee on Food Additives (CCFA). Why is this dull Codex history of any importance? Because aspartame approval had been obtained in the previously joined Committee and then Codex consideration of additional standards for aspartame use in many other foods and beverages was moved over to CCFA when the Committee split.

Although NHF had covered other Codex meetings since the mid-1990s, this Committee was not one that NHF could afford to attend until 2008. At that meeting, on behalf of NHF, I spoke out against any approval of any standards that would allow aspartame to be used in either foods or beverages. My pleas, unfortunately, fell on deaf ears. The aspartame industry had already done its damage with this Committee. So, too, with the more recent CCFA meeting held in China last March. NHF submitted written comments to the Committee (see http://www.thenhf.com/files/pdf/AspartameCRD.pdf) opposing aspartame’s food use. Again, our urgings to stop aspartame were not heeded; but I have found that even though our words seem to be at times of no use, over time they have a cumulative effect.

We have seen this happen with the CCCF and melamine use (melamine, a man-made toxin that contaminates infant formulas), where our lone voice in 2009 has now been joined by ten other strong voices that actually stopped one melamine standard from being approved last year by Codex. (Read about it at http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=2947.) And NHF’s virtually sole efforts at the 2009 Codex nutrition committee meeting in Germany halted the adoption process for “dumbed down” Nutrient Reference Values (essentially RDIs) that would have, for example, lowered the daily requirement for Vitamin C from an already ridiculous 60 milligrams per day down to 45 milligrams per day! Our solitary voice has caused a snowballing effect that has resulted in these NRVS having been stymied at three successive, annual Codex meetings! (See http://www.thenhf.com/article.php?id=3109)

So, with enough effort and ammunition to back that effort, it will be possible to impact aspartame at the Codex level, that is, the global level. We have already shown that other ill-advised Codex standards can be impacted when enough heart-felt and persistent action is taken to stop or change them.

Codex Is Important

Often with the cry “Think globally but act locally” ringing in my ears, I am asked by others about the real importance of Codex to local communities. It seems to many people that the States and Federal government are the main culprits enacting increasing legislation to shut down healthy foods, from raw milk to new dietary supplements. And that is true – up to a point. However, through various Treaties (the World Trade Organization, as well as the CAFTA, Sanitary and Phytosanitary, and Technical Barriers to Trade agreements) and national legislation, the United States has become increasingly bound by treaty obligations and law to incorporate Codex standards into our domestic food laws.

     Legislators will say that exceptions are built in so as to protect domestic legislation such as the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), which has protected supplements since its passage. Yet, the reality is that we are being hemmed in by a regulatory fence of Codex guidelines and standards that our own Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration have chosen to follow whenever and wherever possible.

Moreover, our own food industry loves Codex guidelines and standards because then it can then sell more of its debased food products throughout the World without trade barriers and their accompanying costs. Using Codex food standards that favor debased and contaminated foods, these big food corporations then have trade portals that are window-pane clear while truly healthy products slam up against opaque barriers. That is how our World is being crafted these days.

But Your Voice Is More Important

For those of us tired of seeing our healthy food and dietary-supplement choices slowly whittled away by uncaring and greedy government officials and industry fatcats, there is much that can be done to counter these losses. We are certainly not powerless, as was proved so amazingly before when we all banded together and overwhelmingly petitioned Congress to pass DSHEA, which it did unanimously. To this very day, Congress is still afraid to directly attack DSHEA and must content itself with snipping away at its corners and letting the FDA and Codex do its dirty work for it.

Our previous NHF president would always remind us that “Politicians don’t see the light, they feel the heat!” So, I would urge all of you to educate yourself thoroughly on all of the issues that stir your passions. Then, being fully informed, be what I call “Persistently Vocal.” That is, don’t just contact your Congressional representative once and then let the matter go; contact him or her by every means possible: e-mail, telephone, correspondence, and even personal visits at their offices. Then, once you have finished that set of contacts, start over again. And be sure to include contacting family, friends, and work colleagues to enroll them in the campaign.

Remember, too, that letters to the editor of various publications, even submitting the more widely read Op-Ed pieces, as well as writing on Internet Blogs can be very effective means of motivating people and changing public opinion. Always, “Challenge, Challenge, Challenge.”

Perhaps, most importantly, join with others of like mind to act together to make effective change. That could be your local professional associations, it could also be active health-freedom organizations such as the National Health Federation (www.thenhf.com). The NHF has been active protecting your health for almost six decades now. Whether you knew it or not, NHF has been your voice for health freedom.

As important as it is, aspartame is only one of many issues that affect our health. If we want to protect both our rights as practitioners and as consumers, we need to take action now at Codex, national, and local levels to protect and even advance our health freedoms. Not only our health but our children’s health depends upon it.

As Margaret Mead once wrote, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” You and the rest of us are that small group, and we can and will change the World.

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As you know, my “inner activist” was released this August when I read an article in Health Freedom News, the National Health Federation’s fine magazine. The article was by President & General Counsel, Scott C. Tips on something I couldn’t even pronounce and never heard of: Ractopamine. It turns out; no one I asked had heard of it either yet our U.S. Delegate to the Codex meetings, where global standards are set said that the U.S. was in FAVOR of it. So why is this kept under such wraps that even the smartest among do not generally know about? Who stands to lose major world trade profits Ractopamine fails to pass again at Codex this July in Rome, Italy?

Ractopamine is a veterinary steroid drug, created by Eli Lilly’s vet arm: the Evil Elanco. Ractopamine makes turkey, pigs and cattle shift nutrients from fat production over to lean mass production. At first glance, it sounds okay and my uncle who was a pig farmer, would have loved the $3 per pig net gain in profit, but the reality is that it not only makes the animals ill to the point of death but we end up eating this poison. Since they are bypassing the standard 14-28 day clearance time before slaughtering a medicated animal a shocking 20% of this veterinary steroid taints the meat and YOU and YOUR FAMILY will eat it! Shocked? Yes, me too. Do you realize the cumulative effect of multiple meat meals a day with vet meds in it??? Next time you pass the meat aisle, just think about what’s lurking in there….it can send you to the hospital thinking you’re having a heart attack or a panic attack at best. Are you ready for dinner?

You know, I’m a vegetarian but I have children and grandchildren and elderly parents who regularly eat all three – sometimes in a single day! It is just wrong to put profit over people…Remember that this is the same drug company that brought DES and Human Bovine Hormone to market and both were passed- then banned AFTER the problems surfaced…problems they knew about all along.

Side effects of humans consuming this vet drug (which is clearly labeled “Not for human use”) is increased heart rate and vessel constriction as well as being a carcinogen….Want to come to dinner? A little panic attack and/or heart attack for dessert and a whopping BIG medical bill even IF you have insurance…. We’re having some doped meat…Oh, and bring your health insurance card. We may be going for a little ride- a fast one in the ambulance.

One of the 5 grandbabies...

When I called Donn’s brother, Dr. Ron Carroll, and asked what would happen if I brought my 86 year old father or 2 year old grandson in for emergency treatment having a reaction to ‘dinner’, he said they would never even know what they were treating because “we don’t even have veterinary medicines in our drug toxicity screens.” He would administer Beta Blockers to slow the heart, run an EKG’, order the tox-screen and basically create “a very large ER bill trying to figure out what was wrong.” And send you home with more medicine than you came in with. In the final analysis, it will become a socioeconomic issue. When word gets out, won’t YOU buy organic meat? Low-income people will consume this and the already over-burdened medical system of the United States will collapse under symptom managing because our US delegate thought we were willing sacrifices to Eli Lilly’s greed.

160 countries around the World, including China which spent a lot of money researching the problems associated with Ractopamine, banned import and export of the tainted meat. When President and General Counsel, Scott C. Tips spoke against Ractopamine passing as a global standard in Geneva last year, he was able to persuade a few other countries against adopting the US stance. So even though our FDA employed US delegate was willing and eager to get it passed – selling out our health for US profit, President Scott C. Tips, working through the National Health Federation funding that got him there to represent us, worked for me, for my father, for my grandchildren and my whole family and YOU while many of us were quietly unaware there was even a problem being debated of this magnitude. I don’t even take aspirin…I’ll be damned if I let our government feed us VETERINARY STEROIDS on our dinner plates every day. If this doesn’t move you, I don’t know what will….

Complacency leads to annihilation – of your health and of your freedom. Kat Carroll, NTP

I will be forever grateful to the work that health freedom fighters have done for me and my family, and continue to do. Am I ashamed for being “asleep” for most of this vital work? Yes…But no more. Donn and I have a corporate membership for our two businesses, and then I came on board as a volunteer for NHF in October. It’s my passion.
Ractopamine is just one of many issues up for decisions at Codex this year for the whole World, and the general purposes of NHF dovetail so perfectly with our commitment at Adytum to healthy food and freedom of choice for health care and what we choose to put into our bodies.

Ractopamine reminds me of rape. It is, at best, a forced entry upon an innocent victim.

Can you explain it any other way? Or do you want to line up for a spoonful of designer drugs made for turkeys, cows and pigs and agree that you need it for your own personal health and wellness plan? Thought you were smarter than that…

I became NHF Membership Director most recently and in that role, I’m asking you to help me to get to Rome, Italy this July 2012 where the Ractopamine issue comes up again for debate. Believe me; I will be speaking against it loud and clear along with President and General Counsel, Scott C. Tips and other delegates from the National Health Federation.

The reason I chose to work with NHF is that they are the ONLY health freedom federation that can speak at Codex, where these standards for the World are set. They can also submit papers and correct the ‘inadvertent omissions’ Codex is famous for committing.
NHF has a Voice, YOUR VOICE, therefore they have real power to speak for YOU!

They are also the most experienced health-freedom organization, having been around since before I was born- 1955- and I might add, before any of the other health-freedom organizations were born too…NHF has a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. as well and always has. NHF is working for us every day! I like the fact they run a very lean organizational structure. Most of us are volunteers and donations go right to the front-lines of the battle. You don’t see me out of my 1998 Toyota Pickup because of this new job…I’ve met enough of the directors and key players and they aren’t in a hot new car either. In fact, what I see is a lot of dedicated, passionate, intelligent professionals who are mad as hell and they aren’t going to take it any more…and neither should YOU. It’s your family we’re talking about. It’s your children, your grandchildren and the legacy you will leave. This is serious, my friends…

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These are important issues- and just a few among many others discussed there during the week of solid meetings. One of our guests actually thanked me for being willing to go attend these meetings on behalf of her and her family. That gave me reason to pause… Another guest took home the magazine and immediately joined at the corporate level of $200. She wrote a scathing editorial on the Ractopamine issue- it really speaks to mothers in particular. We are in charge of feeding our family good healthy food for heaven’s sake…The thought of cumulatively poisoning our families with a drug never intended to enter humans…all for the sake of American greed- well, it got me mad enough to finally wake up and it did the same for her!

I humbly ask you for your support of the NHF (www.thenhf.com) and you will, in exchange, enjoy Adytum at the lowest rate you ever will and you will incur our eternal gratitude for seeing the big picture and being willing to step into the fray. God bless you for it…