'From Baby Food to a Nation of Babies' by Emma Holister

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October 09, 2004

 

'From Baby Food to a Nation of Babies' by Emma Holister

Health Freedom

 

 

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

countries get " equal access " to these nutritionally doubtful products.

 

In Josef Hasslberger's article " Who Decides About our Health "

(http://www.laleva.cc/supplements/berlin02_hass.html) 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 obediently to the exclusive

control of the pharmaceuticals industry. Quite naturally the

profit-oriented businessmen within the Pharmaceutical cartel wish to

muscle in on this potential multi-billion-dollar sector of the market.

Especially 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

developing countries - 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 and the other

industrial giants.) to maintain their financial dominion.

 

The following information is from Friends of Freedom, the Canadian

Health Rights Advocacy Organisation campaigning for freedom of choice:

(www.friendsoffreedom.org) :

 

" 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 America's 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 mega doses 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 their 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 Global 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. "

 

Global Health Freedom Movement (to begin with...)

 

www.alliance-natural-health.org

www.laleva.cc

www.friendsoffreedom.org

www.iahf.com

www.candidainternational.org

www.dr-rath-foundation.org

www.drclark.net

http://www.masternewmedia.org

http://www.olivierclerc.com

http://gestionsante.free.fr

Gary Null " Death by Medicine "

www.thenhf.com

 

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