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Many believe that
wise old saying: “You are what you eat.” This would imply
that most agree that it is important to know what we are
eating and to have control over what goes into our mouths.
However, ask anyone
what “Codex Alimentarius” is and most people won’t have a
clue. It’s a big word and tires the brain just looking at
it. Who would ever have guessed that this is the title of
the United Nations organisation responsible for
controlling what we do or do not put in our mouths: our
food-supply-decision-makers?
Baby food? That’s
their job too. They decide who eats it, who sells it, who
buys it and who gets it. Codex Alimentarius (‘Food
Code’), the champion of “free trade,” is there to make
sure that mothers who are breast-feeding their children in
famine-stricken, Third World countries get “equal access”
to these nutritionally doubtful products.
In Josef
Hasslberger’s article “Who Decides About our Health,” we
learn that in Berlin November 4-8 2002, the Codex
Committee were busy developing guidelines on how to define
vitamin and mineral supplements. Should we continue to
see them as food and keep them within the confines of the
Codex or - as the pharmaceutical giants are now insisting
- should we consider them as medicine and demand that they
be subjected to the same extortionately expensive
regulatory procedures (from the FDA and HPB, etc.) that
mainstream, synthetic pharmaceutical products undergo?
This would involve
handing them over meekly and obediently to the exclusive
control of the pharmaceuticals industries. Quite
naturally the shrewd businessmen within the Pharmacartel
wish to muscle in on this potential multi-billion-dollar
sector of the market. This is especially true as public
opinion is increasingly pulling away from their costly
chemical therapies with the myriad serious side-effects
that they often entail, towards these natural and
effective age-old remedies that cure us without
endangering our health. Why else would they have been
investing hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying
aimed at destroying and discrediting the alternative
health industry for so many years? It’s a simple question
of eliminating competition.
Although the Codex
guidelines are not immediately applicable as laws, they
are nevertheless used by many countries - especially in
the Third World - for creating their own legislation. The
World Trade Organisation also uses them when resolving
trade disputes between countries and then uses sanctions
to secure the widespread sale of this or that product. So
the Codex is used as a tool by the globalising forces on
this planet (the Pharmacartel & Co.) to maintain their
financial dominion.
The following
information is from Friends of Freedom, the
Canadian Health Rights Advocacy Organisation campaigning
for freedom of choice:
“The Codex
Alimentarius is an international commission that was
created in 1962 by the pharmaceutical industry as a branch
of the United Nations and is connected to the World Health
Organisation, and the World Food Organisation. Of the 30
committees using the title "Codex Alimentarius," those
involved with food supplements and vitamins are of
particular interest to the pharmaceutical industry. In
the future, the commission wants the distinction between
food and medicine to be made by the pharmaceutical
industry and not by governments. Here are some of the
ramifications if the Codex becomes the world-wide
standard:
[1] A world-wide ban on all information about the
preventive nature and therapeutic health benefits of
vitamins, minerals, amino acids and other essential
nutrients will be put in place. Item 5.7 of the proposal
by Codex states: The label must contain a warning
statement if the product contains a significant amount of
a nutrient with respect to the toxicity level. (Show us
who has been killed as a result of the thousands of
natural health supplements used by hundreds of millions of
people daily to justify these risk concerns.)
[2] Outlawing unrestricted access to essential
nutrients, which exceed the arbitrary and illogically low
dosage recommendations of the Codex. This information,
taken right off the Codex website, indicates (Item 3.2.2)
that the maximum level of each nutrient contained in a
vitamin and mineral supplement should not exceed the RDA
100% of the recommended daily intake or the estimated safe
and adequate intake per daily dose. The RDA (Recommended
Daily Amount) was established during World War 2 and was
the minimum amount that a soldier should take to avoid
getting diseases like scurvy. For example, the RDA level
for vitamin C is currently 60 milligrams. Modern research
has not been used to update these standards. Our zoo and
racing animals have better nutritional standards than our
human population!
[3]
Imposing international trade sanctions upon nations not
willing to implement the "Codex" decisions into
international law. Visit the website,
www.tradewatch.org, to see
the list of U.S national laws that would be changed to
reflect the new proposed international standards. In the
proposed Free Trade of the Americas draft document, (www.ftaa-alca.org),
the Codex requirements will be binding on all countries
that sign that agreement.”
Since it has become
clear that the Codex Alimentarius is a real threat to all
kinds of natural therapies, several grassroots
organisations against them have formed all over the
world, and are linking their networks to stop this threat
to human health and freedom of choice in health care.
The more that high
dosage vitamins are publicised as an effective and
side-effect free competitor to a whole range of drugs
produced by the pharmaceutical industry, the more the
Pharmacartel has to vilify them.
A study from the
Journal of American Medicine in 1998 concluded that
properly prescribed prescription medicine is estimated to
kill more than 100,000 people a year in the U.S.A. alone.
On the other hand, many studies are promoting megadoses of
nutrients for good health such as Folic acid, Vitamin C,
etc. One such study was done by Dr James Enstrom and his
colleagues from the University of California where they
investigated vitamin intake of more than 11,000 Americans
over ten years.
This
government-sponsored study showed that people who took at
least 300 mg per day of Vitamin C in their diet, or in the
form of nutritional supplements, compared to 50 MG
contained in an average American diet, could reduce their
heart disease rate by up to 50% in men and 40 % in women.
This same study showed an increased intake of Vitamin C
was associated with an increased life expectancy of up to
six years.
It is ironic that
anything that improves the health of citizens and cannot
be patented is a threat to the Pharmacartel. In research
conducted by the Canada Health Monitor, 1 out of 2
Canadians use natural health products, and 56 percent of
Canadians have used complementary medicine in the last 6
months and self medication via natural supplements is
increasing in popularity.
It is because of
this that the pharmaceutical industry has tried repeatedly
in recent years, to lobby at the national and
international levels to outlaw supplements that contain an
effective amount of vital nutrients that promote good
health, and also to restrict the general public’s access
to natural health-related disease-specific information.”
For these very
reasons we need more than ever to start informing
ourselves. Humanity needs to grow beyond its present
state of infantile dependence on a minority of
“cleverly-spoken-highly-qualified-experts” who force-feed
us poison for their own profit and withhold from us our
right to choose natural therapies for the cure and
prevention of illness.
A nation of babies
is a dangerous nation, whichever nation that may be. TV
culture is greatly responsible for diminishing our ability
to question authority and makes us more malleable. It is
no difficult task to manipulate human beings if all their
lives they have renounced autonomous thought and active
participation in the decision-making that governs them.
What do most of us
really know about politics and economics other than they
are being annoying or difficult subjects at school?
However, these are the forces in society that have a
direct effect on whether we are healthy or ill, whether we
go to war or remain in peace, whether we live or die.
Perhaps it seems simplistic, but if we want to live, if we
want to protect our children, then learning more about how
we are “governed” is as important as learning how to eat.
The common feeling
in this age of overwhelming information and confusion is
that if we add anything else to our already stressed
agenda our brains won’t be able to cope. Fortunately and
contrary to popular belief, making room for a little more
information, especially if it is of a life-saving nature,
will not make our brains explode.
It is now painfully
clear that if the average person does not wake up soon and
begin to demand that his or her participation in the
decision-making regarding food and health be acknowledged,
then the present situation of being poisoned and
manipulated by a minority of unscrupulous profiteers risks
wiping out vast portions of the world’s
population…again…and again.
So, to stay alive
and healthy in this troubled age we should do the
following things:
*Ask
ourselves what is going on in the United Nations regarding
Codex Alimentarius, the supplements issue, and write to
them insisting that they respect our right to choose.
*Inform
ourselves about the decision-making that is also taking
place above our heads in the European Parliament which,
like Codex, is conspiring to destroy the supplements
market. Americans, Canadians and South Americans included
– what passes in Europe may well also come to pass in the
New World. Let’s not forget that these are global and not
simply national forces.
*Write
to our local and national governments demanding that they
refuse to implement these insane laws regarding
supplements which will annihilate our right to choose how
we take care of our own health, something which is our
most basic human right and which no government, no
governing body, no matter how “qualified” may take away
from us.
*Join
the health-freedom movement and the many grassroots
associations all over the world that have been campaigning
for our health rights for many years.
And remember the
wise words of George Bernard Shaw: “Liberty means
responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
www.CandidaInternational.org
emma@holisters.com
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