Food Safety: Codex Backs World GM Experiment - Could AFRICA Be Control?

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Health Supreme Update: Food Safety: Codex Backs World GM

Experiment - Could AFRICA Be Control?

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Health Supreme Update: Food Safety: Codex Backs World GM Experiment -

Could AFRICA Be Control?

 

 

September 15, 2005

 

Food Safety: Codex Backs World GM Experiment - Could AFRICA Be Control?

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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.

 

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 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.

 

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!

 

 

See also:

 

GM Watch

latest information and comment on the genetic modification global

experiment

 

Independent Science Panel

making the case for a GM free world

 

GM Soya Disaster in Latin America

Hunger, Deforestation and Socio-Ecological Devastation

 

Scrambling & Gambling with the Genome

Jeffrey M. Smith, author of Seeds of Deception Spilling the Beans,

July 2005