Food is of crucial importance to good health. The international food code, also called CODEX ALIMENTARIUS, was set up in the 1960's, ostensibly to promote the safety of foods. But recently, Codex has come up with an extraordinary piece of advice: "Be careful about those nutrients." A Codex Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplement Guideline adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Rome in July this year says just that.

On the other hand, Codex has consistently refused to get a handle on the most widespread and mind boggling experiment endangering not only world food safety but the sustainability of agriculture itself - the genetic modification of our staple foods. The experiment has been covertly pushed into the field and into our kitchen by the giant biotech companies. There is no international convention to label genetically modified foods at consumer level, much less to scientifically evaluate their consequences for our health. Studies are rigged by industry and obligingly endorsed by Codex. When the UK commissioned a full review on the effects of the consumption of GM foods, results were so bad they were suppressed and the researcher dismissed.

Eileen Dannemann, director of the National Coalition of Organized Women points out the great contradiction in the actions of Codex Alimentarius. On the one hand we see a "warning" on simple and clearly vital nutrients, on the other we witness complete complacency on genetic modification. A scientific experiment, to merit that name, needs a control group. There is no control for the genetic modification experiment...

GMOs and the movie "Future of Food"
Loss of Access to Vitamins and Dietary Supplements

by Eileen Dannemann

Every one involved in CODEX and Dietary supplements must see the movie, The Future of Food. A copy can be gotten by emailing sara@lilyfilms.com.

Here you will see that the CODEX has not, by one iota, concerned themselves with "the safety of food" as is their # 1 dictum. CODEX has not even labeled GMO food in the last 10 years. CODEX has not challenged the safety of the most mind boggling, paradigm shifting new FOOD technology of this epoch (including concerns about cloned beef, unlabeled at the consumer level) yet, it pays inordinate attention to vitamins.

You must ask WHY

Why is the attention on the safety of innocuous vitamins and not GMO food? Why?

Health advocates, anti-CODEX, CAFTA, NAFTA, FTAA, WTO activists who are addressing some amorphous entity "out there" fail to focus on the correct target.

The target is the United States. The United States is covertly in charge of CODEX. You must realize who is in charge when the steps leading to labeling of US based patented GMOs have not progressed in 10 years amid the erstwhile cries of EU. Currently still no progress; still no labeling and, what's more, it is now too late. The EU has been infiltrated and polluted as part of a strategy called "Acreage Conversion" by Monsanto.

Why did Congress pass CAFTA with its phytosanitary rules? Why? Because the US must appear to join the organizations it creates in order to take charge of managing world trade. Why is Mike Taylor's (Monsanto's lawyer who revolved in and out of the FDA as assistant to David Kessler and brought GMOs to world prominence) wife, a delegate on CODEX dietary supplements?

Because of CODEX non-labeling of GMOs, 185 million acres and more have been covertly planted around the world. It is my intuitive belief that we threw European bio pharmaceuticals (German model) the vitamin bone in return for our continued dominance over non-labeled GMO foods which is the bigger piece of the pie (although most corporations, foreign or otherwise must work closely under US patents). Why did Paul Bremer change Iraq intellectual property laws to preclude the use of traditional seed planting for, instead, genetically engineered seed agriculture? Why is there a State model bill initiated by the national, DC based, corporate run legislative council, ALEC (see ALECWATCH) running across the nation that takes away local control of agricultural seed?

Dietary supplements, enzymes, etc, are increasingly being made from GMO sources and with genetic engineering technology, unlabeled. Without Source labeling you will never know. Begin shining the flashlight on GMOs by DEMANDING SOURCE LABELING, in particular, the use of genetic technology or food source of GMO foods. It is very deceptive to expect people to buy "natural" vitamin derived from GMO sources to cure disease "naturally" when GMO technology is considered a hostile violation of natural law.

The conflict of interest is clear. CODEX, with regard to Vitamins and dietary supplements, is pulling off a huge deception and distraction. Bio Pharmaceuticals, Biotech Corporations are behind these initiatives with the complicity of Congress and the administration. The United States intends to own the entire world food supply. Now, that is a major national resource. Try to stop that!

My intuition is that the only way it will be stopped is by nature Herself... a global agricultural holocaust … in the form of soybean rust ... ecological chaos (i.e. monarch butterfly), etc. I point out that if biotechnology is really science which is their clarion call, then where is the "control group"? It is scientifically imperative that the scientific model be adhered to. We must insist on adhering to scientific methods. DEMAND THE CONTROL GROUP.

I recommend that the world biotech control group be AFRICA

Let's make a sustainable AFRICA, the world’s GMO free zone in case of an imminent agriculture collapse (IAC) caused by this highly risky technology. In addition there should be sub zones all over the United States, in every state … that is local, sustainable, organic farming. These should be the control group and subsidized by government and Biotech industry. As well, the land grant University must be funded as well as the new biotech departments. We must keep traditional agriculture interest alive. Did you know that 90% of Iowa soybean fields are now genetically engineered? What will happen to our food source with IAC? Think about it as you swallow the GMO pill!