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Billions of People Expected to Die Under Current
Codex Alimentarius Guidelines
Barbara Minton
Natural News
July 21, 2009
Your right to eat healthy food and use supplements of your choice is rapidly
vanishing, but every effort has been made to keep you in the dark about the
coming nutricide. Codex Alimentarius is scheduled for full global
implementation on December 31, 2009, and not a word has been spoken in
main stream media about this threat to humanity. Yet, according to the
projections of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO), a minimum of 3 billion people will die from
the Codex mandated vitamin and mineral guideline alone. As the clock ticks
toward this irrevocable deadline, the Natural Solutions Foundation (NSF) and
its medical director, Dr. Rima Laibow, are feverishly working to change Codex
guidelines.
Former Nazi is father of contemporary Codex
Codex is the enemy of everyone except those who will profit from it, according
to Dr. Laibow. She points to its association with those who committed crimes
during the Nazi regime. At the end of World War II, the Nuremberg tribunal
judged Nazis who had committed horrendous crimes against humanity and
sentenced them to prison terms. One of those found guilty was the president
of the megalithic corporation I.G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. His company
was the largest chemical manufacturing enterprise in the world, and had
extraordinary political and economic power and influence with the Hitlerian
Nazi state. Farben produced the gas used in the Nazi gas chambers, and the
steal for the railroads built to transport people to their deaths.While serving
his prison term, Schmitz looked for an alternative to brute force for controlling
people and realized that people could be controlled through their food supply.
When he got out of prison, he went to his friends at the United Nations (UN)
and laid out a plan to take over the control of food worldwide. A trade
commission called Codex Alimentarius (Latin for food code) was re-created
under the guise of it being a consumer protection commission. But Codex was
never in the business of protecting people. It has always been about money
and profits at the expense of people. In 1962, the timetable was set for Codex
to be fully implemented on a global level by December 31, 2009. Under Codex,
committees were established to create guidelines on such topics as fish and
fisheries, fats and oils, fruits and vegetables, ground nuts, nutrition, food for
specialized uses, and vitamins and minerals. There were 27 committees in all,
creating a huge bureaucracy. Under Codex there are over 4,000 guidelines and
regulations on everything that can be put into your mouth with the exception
of pharmaceuticals which are not regulated by Codex.
Codex is a weapon being used to reduce the level of nutrition
worldwide
Codex is an industry dominated regulation setting organization, and as such
has no legal standing. Participation in Codex is said to be voluntary. But Codex
has risen to the level of de facto legal standing because Codex is administered
by the WHO and FAO. They fund it and run it at the request of the UN. Since
the WHO and FAO are supposed to be about health, there is conflict of
interest. The committees of Codex work up guidelines, rules and regulations,
and present them to a Codex commission for ratification. Once they are
ratified and approved by consensus, they become mandatory for any country
that is a member of the WHO. Codex was accepted when the WTO was formed
in 1994 as a means of harmonizing food standards globally for easy trade
between countries. As a result, countries must harmonize with Codex if they
want to have any standing in a trade dispute. When disputes arise and
countries are pulled in to WTO, the one that is Codex compliant automatically
wins, regardless of the merits of its case. Dr. Laiblow sees codex as a weapon
to make every nation scurry to become compliant to the decline in nutritional
standards. She points out that compliance in the U.S. will mark the end of its
consumer protection laws. Codex will not serve consumers. Codex will serve
the interests of the medical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, and big
agricultural industries.
Under Codex, nutrients are classified as poisons
Under English common law, anything that is not expressly forbidden is
permitted. Codex, on the other hand, is based on Napoleonic law under which
anything not expressly permitted is forbidden. Therefore, only what is
expressly allowed under Codex will be permitted, and everything else is
forbidden. In 1994, Codex had nutrients declared to be toxic and poisonous.
As poisons, they claimed people must be protected from them through the use
of toxicology and risk assessment, under which scientists test small doses on
animals until they are able to discern an impact. They then take the first sign
of the most minimal impact and divide this amount by 100 to establish a
safety margin required from these poisons. This means that the largest dose of
any nutrient allowed under Codex is 1/100th of the amount shown to produce
the first discernable impact. Nutrients allowed under codex are limited to
those on the positive list, expected to contain only 18 nutrients, one of them
being fluoride. Dr. Laibow points out that although fluoride has no biological
benefit whatsoever, it does make people complacent. Significant nutrients will
be illegal in the way that heroin is illegal. They will not even be available by
prescription.
Codex supports toxic food additives, pesticides and GM foods
Codex poses a significant threat to the food supply, according to Dr. Robert
Verkerk, founder and director of the Alliance for Natural Health. About 300
dangerous food additives that are mainly synthetic will be allowed under
Codex, including aspartame, BHA, BHT, potassium bromate, tartrazine, and
more. Dr. Verkerk is particularly concerned that no consideration has been
given to potential risks associated with long-term exposure to mixtures of
additives. Codex sets limits for the dangerous industrial chemicals that can be
used in food, but they are incredibly high, and the list of chemicals that can be
used is long. In 2001, 176 countries got together and decided that 12 highly
toxic organic chemicals, known as persistent organic pollutants (POPS) were
so bad that they had to be banned. There are many more than 12 toxic
chemicals used on food, but these 12 were unanimously declared to be the
worst. Of these, 9 are pesticides.
Under Codex, 7 of the 9 forbidden POPS will again be allowed in the
production of food. All together, Codex allows over 3,275 different pesticides,
including those that are suspected carcinogens or endocrine disrupters. There
is no consideration of the long-term effects of exposure to mixtures of
pesticide residues in food. Organic food governance will be dumbed down to
suit the interests of large food producers. Various synthetic chemical additives
and processing aids will be allowed, and food labeled as organic may be
irradiated. Labeling will permit the use of hidden, non-organic ingredients.
Monsanto, a member of Codex, will benefit greatly as production of genetically
modified (GM) foods are stepped up and more GM plants are given the green
light. Terminator seeds will be approved for international trade. GM food
animals will also be on the way. Under Codex, every dairy animal can be
treated with growth hormone, and all animals in the food chain will be treated
with sub-clinical levels of antibiotics, according to Dr. Laibow. She claims that
Codex will lead to the required irradiation of all foods with the exception of
those grown locally and sold raw. Dr. Laiblow sees Codex as "food regulations
that are in fact the legalization of mandated toxicity and under-nutrition".
According to her, the WHO and FAO estimate that of the 3 billion people
initially expected to die as the result of the Codex vitamin and mineral
guidelines, 2 billion of them will die from the preventable diseases that result
from under-nutrition, such as cancer,cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and
many others. Those who will live will be the wealthy elites who are able to
somehow provide themselves with sources of clean food and other nutrients.
Codex is legalized genocide
Dr. Gregory Damato, Ph.D., writing for Natural News, has characterized Codex
as "population control for money". He sees Codex as run by the U.S. and
controlled by the big pharmaceutical corporations and the likes of Monsanto
with the purpose of reducing the population of the world to a level considered
sustainable by those promulgating the New World Order. This would mean a
reduction of approximately 93 percent of the current world population. Once
Codex standards are adopted there will be no turning back. When Codex
compliance is instigated in any area, as long as the country remains a member
of the WTO, those standards cannot be repealed, or altered in any way.
Natural Solutions Foundation is working to revamp Codex
guidelines worldwide
Some hope remains. Over the years, the WTO has accepted Codex standards
as presumptive evidence of the rules of trade between countries. However,
several times in history, the WTO has refused to make Codex the single and
only standard to be used in trade disputes. Under Codex’s own statutes, their
guidelines are claimed to be "advisory", and nations are able to set up their
own guidelines.
Since compliance with Codex standards is simply presumptive evidence, and
not finally determinative, a nation can opt out of the guidelines in an effort to
protect its traditional foods and remedies. The Codex Two Step is a legal
strategy that the Natural Solutions Foundation has developed to help nations
wanting to do this. Under Step One, the country develops its own food and
health guidelines that may be at variance with Codex guidelines. For example,
it may be much stricter on the issues of toxins in the food supply or on the
issue of genetically modified foods. It may require, for example, that
companies using GM ingredients be required to indicate them on food labels.
In countries that refuse to use GM foods, this can be indicated on their label
too, so that people can make informed choices.
So, the first step is for a country to set up its guidelines. The Second Step is to
adopt a national law that implements those guidelines on a sound scientific
basis. The NSF is preparing models to be used for doing this that are available
to any country. There is a model vitamin and mineral guideline, and a model
of a food and health statute to implement that guideline. Normally, in a trade
dispute before the WTO, the country that has adopted Codex guidelines will be
the winner of that dispute based on those guidelines being presumptive
evidence. However, when countries have gone through the two step process to
create their own guidelines, there is no such presumption, and the WTO will
look at the science behind the guidelines.