Interview with Paul Anthony Taylor --Q & A re Codex + Dr M Rath - Biography

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Interview with Paul Anthony Taylor

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The 26 June – 3 July 2009 issue of _Formula AS_

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arius-11282) , , a popular Romanian magazine, carried an interview on the

subject of _Codex Alimentarius_ (http://www.codexalimentarius.net/) with

the Foundation's External Relations Director, Paul Anthony Taylor.

 

 

Paul is an internationally-known writer, researcher and lecturer on the

subject of Codex, and, during the past six years, courtesy of the _National

Health Federation_ (http://www.thenhf.com/) , has been an official observer

delegate at Codex meetings.

 

 

Sponsored by the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture

Organization of the United Nations, the activities of Codex are increasingly

perceived by natural health advocates as one of the biggest global threats

to the future availability of therapeutic vitamin supplements and other

micronutrient-based natural health therapies.

 

 

Explaining how Codex is not about health, and describing how the 27

European Union member states are increasingly using it as a vehicle for shaping

global food and nutrient regulations to reflect EU law, Paul's insights are

essential reading for everybody who is interested in understanding this

important issue.

 

The full, unabridged version of the Formula AS interview with Paul follows

below.

 

 

What is Codex Alimentarius?

 

The _Codex Alimentarius Commission_

(http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp) (Codex) is a United

Nations organization that receives its

funding from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and

Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Established in 1963, its

main

activities centre around the drafting of global standards for all food

products, including food supplements. The " Codex Alimentarius " is the collective

name for these standards. Working as a coordinated bloc, the 27 European

Union (EU) member countries – including Romania – are increasingly using

Codex as a vehicle for shaping global food regulations to reflect EU law.

 

 

Will Codex be mandatory after 31 December 2009? Could the Romanian

Parliament reject it, even though Romania is an EU member?

 

All of the global food standards produced by Codex are already effectively

mandatory, due to the fact they are used by the World Trade Organization

(WTO) as the benchmark in its adjudication of international trade disputes

involving foods. The trade sanctions and huge financial costs that can

result from losing such a dispute basically leave all WTO member countries with

little or no option but to implement Codex standards into their national

laws.

 

As such, the claim by some that " _Codex will go into global effect on

December 31, 2009_

(http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/marketingmaterial/Codexflyer2.pdf) "

is not only untrue, but also somewhat absurd. The Codex

Alimentarius already consists of _over 300 official global food standards_

(http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/standard_list.do?lang=en) , some of

which originate from as long ago as 1966.

 

Romania is represented at Codex meetings by officials from its National

Sanitary, Veterinary and Food Safety Authority and Ministry of Agriculture

and Rural Development. To all intents and purposes, these officials

essentially take their orders from the Romanian government and the European

Commission. As such, and as I will describe below, Romania and the governments

of

the other 26 EU countries are actively participating in the drawing up of

global food standards that threaten the health and lives of the entire planet.

In the vast majority of cases, however, even if they wanted to reject it,

ordinary elected members of the Romanian Parliament get no significant

input into this process.

 

 

How will Codex affect our health? Is it an instrument of the globalization

forces? Is it a sort of vanguard of the global government? Do they intend

to govern the World by controlling our food and medicines?

 

To all intents and purposes, Codex is now the primary political

battlefield where the war is being waged over who will regulate and control the

global food supply from farm to fork.

 

However, in addition to dealing with ordinary foods, Codex also sets

global standards for: vitamin and mineral food supplements; health claims;

organic foods; genetically modified (GM) foods; food labeling; advertising;

food

additives and residues of pesticides and veterinary drugs in foods. In all

of these areas, the evidence is now inescapable that Codex is increasingly

putting economic interests – and particularly those of the pharmaceutical,

chemical and GM industries – before human health.

 

Without doubt, therefore, Codex is indeed an instrument of the forces that

are promoting so-called " globalization " and a corporate-controlled global

government. By controlling our access to healthy foods and safe, natural

medicines, the forces behind Codex intend to control our lives.

 

 

Where are the headquarters of Codex?

 

The office of the Codex Secretariat is located in the headquarters of the

FAO, in Rome, Italy.

 

 

Will Codex protect the health of consumers and the international food

trade, like it claims? Should we stay silent, because Big Brother is looking

after us? How? Is Big Brother a good guy this time?

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission sees the interests of the international

food trade as being far more important than protecting the health of

consumers. This is amply illustrated by the fact that the Food and Agriculture

Organization of the United Nations provides almost 86 percent (US$7.2

million) of the annual funding of Codex, with the World Health Organization

contributing a mere 14 percent (US$1.2 million).

 

More importantly, however, by controlling and limiting your access to

safe, healthy nutritious foods and food supplements, it can be seen that

ultimately Codex is primarily promoting the interests of the multi-billion euro

pharmaceutical industry. To this industry, anything that promotes optimum

health rather than sickness is a direct threat to its sales of patented

synthetic chemical drugs.

 

Romanian citizens should therefore not be fooled into thinking that Codex

is their friend.

 

 

We have here, nearby, a market. In this market there is a plaphar store

(the old Romanian word for the stores which sell natural oils, herbs and

vitamins). Even though their floorspace is small, they keep there hundreds of

natural products, from FLAVIN7 (the Hungarian pure flavonoides) to Siberian

Ginseng, from CoQ10 to Indian Momordica powder. Will this store be closed

after December 31? What will happen then?

 

So long its owners pay their taxes and continue to comply with Romanian

law, this store will not be closed after December 31. As described above,

this date is of no practical significance to Codex whatsoever.

 

In the longer term, I should stress that natural products and food

supplements will not be banned completely. But certainly, without any doubt,

some

products will be at threat. The key danger at present is that the potencies

(i.e. amounts) of vitamins and minerals in the EU could potentially be

limited to very low, ineffective dosages. However, if this were to happen, many

people will still probably take the same dosages that they had previously

been taking by consuming a larger number of tablets/capsules. In such a

situation, of course, the financial costs – to consumers who choose to do

this

– will be higher than previously.

 

But I'm not a fortune teller, and nobody – including Codex itself – knows

for sure what will happen in the future. More importantly, what will

almost certainly determine the outcome will be the extent to which consumers

are

prepared to stand up and fight to protect their right to freedom of

choice. If people choose to do nothing, for example, and hope that the hard

work

will be done for them by others, then they can't complain if at some point

in the future their favourite supplements are banned from sale.

 

 

Even if Codex will be mandatory for all of us, do you think that it will

have a powerful enough control system to check every store in the world? How

will this control work?

 

Powerful systems of governmental control can only retain their power so

long as people sit back and do nothing. In other words, unless you want to

live under a global dictatorship, you must do something to help bring about

change.

 

To continue controlling our health, Codex and the EU depend upon the

world's people remaining in ignorance about basic functions of the human body

and natural approaches to maintaining and improving health. Realising this, I

and my colleagues have recently developed an online World Health

Alphabetization (WHA) course. By directing people to the WHA website

_www.wha-www.org_ (http://www.wha-www.org/) you can help to end health

illiteracy for

yourself, your family, friends, colleagues and your community.

 

 

Of course they will force Romania (for example) to comply with their

regulations, like they did with biometric passports. But what about civil

society? What about the hundreds of doctors dedicated to alternative medicine,

the local traditions, the remote villages, the ancient experience? Could they

ignore all these?

 

The EU and Codex can and will ignore all of these things unless enough

people act now and help to protect natural forms of medicine. Over the past

decades, health care systems around the world have been taken hostage by

interests that have defined human diseases as multi-billion dollar markets for

their patented synthetic chemical drugs. Doctors who have dedicated

themselves to practising alternative forms of medicine must therefore educate

their patients not only about health, but also about the ways in which people

have been misled by orthodox medicine and the things they need to do to bring

about change. To enable this to happen, I and my colleagues have developed

several important websites:

 

-- _www.arv-facts.com_ (http://www.arv-facts.com/) " ARV " is short for

antiretroviral drugs. This class of highly toxic chemicals is promoted by the

drug industry to patients with HIV-infections as " life saving. " In this

effort, the drug industry is using an army of lobbyists, including celebrities

and even politicians, some of whom may not be aware of the scientific

facts: none of these drugs has ever been shown to cure either HIV or AIDS and

they are not allowed to be sold as a cure. Moreover, these toxic drugs are

known to attack the immune system of patients and eventually destroy it. The

ARV Facts website contains extracts from the " patient information leaflets "

of these dangerous drugs, as published by the drug manufacturers

themselves.

 

-- _www.chemo-facts.com_ (http://www.chemo-facts.com/) Cancer is a

multi-billion dollar business. The drugs used in chemotherapy kill cancer cells

–

but they also kill healthy cells too. That fact alone is bad enough, but it

doesn't stop there. The drugs used in chemotherapy also have side-effects

and many cause new cancers and new diseases, leading to the use of yet more

drugs which in turn have new side effects. It’s a vicious circle and a

license to print money for the pharmaceutical industry. The Chemo Facts

website contains extracts from the " patient information leaflets " of these

chemotherapy drugs, as published by the drug manufacturers themselves.

 

-- _www.cholesterol-fact.org_ (http://www.cholesterol-fact.org/)

Cholesterol-lowering drugs are the single largest business segment of the

global

pharmaceutical drug business. The global sales of the leading drug category –

statins – have surpassed 200 billion dollars per year. This entire business

is built on fear – the fear that cholesterol actually causes heart

attacks. While this " cholesterol-scare " has become a gold mine for the drug

companies – the economic burden of this business is ultimately carried by us,

the

people. Health professionals, political decision takers and hundreds of

millions of patients worldwide have the right to know: What are the proven

facts – and what is the fiction promoted by the multi-billion dollar

investment business with patented cholesterol-lowering drugs. All of this

information, and more, can be found on the Cholesterol Facts website.

 

-- _www.pharma-fact.org_ (http://www.pharma-fact.org/) The pharmaceutical

industry portrays itself as an industry fighting to prevent and eliminate

diseases but, behind the pretext of this noble cause, it is extorting

billions of dollars in subsidies from dozens of governments and is demanding

blind obedience from hundreds of millions of patients. As such, the Pharma

Facts website describes how the pharmaceutical drug industry is not a health

industry at all, but an investment business. While pretending to deliver

health to the world, its entire existence is based on promoting diseases as

multi-billion dollar markets for patented drugs.

 

 

Do you think that our magazine will be put in danger? What do you suggest

to us to do in order to circumvent this situation? What should we tell our

readers?

 

Nobody knows for sure what will happen in the future. That said, freedom

of speech is already at threat in the EU. As with natural products and food

supplements, therefore, the survival of your magazine may well be

determined by the extent to which consumers are prepared to stand up and fight

to

protect the right to free speech. The right to free speech is one of most the

important rights of all and should be protected with great care. Without

free speech you cannot have democracy – and without democracy what you get is

tyranny.

 

Fortunately, however, there are two very important things that you can do

to help bring about change.

 

-- Our European Referendum Initiative (_www.eu-referendum.org_

(http://www.eu-referendum.org/) ) is a campaign for citizens to have the right

to vote

in a referendum whenever significant changes to laws affecting them are

made at either national or European level. Currently, its campaigns include a

petition for a Europe for the People, by the People; a petition to reject

the EU's so-called Lisbon Treaty; and a petition for a referendum on natural

remedies. Thus far, over a quarter of a million people across Europe have

signed these petitions and we now have supporters in all 27 EU countries.

 

-- The historical documents published on our EU Facts website

(_www.eu-facts.org_ (http://www.eu-facts.org/) ) prove that the blueprint for

the

undemocratic " Brussels EU " originated on the drawing boards of Nazi leaders

during WWII. The publication of this information marks the beginning of the end

of the undemocratic experiment of the " Brussels EU. " In addition, however,

the EU Facts website also gives people the opportunity to participate in an

online referendum against the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the aim of which is to

deliver Europe once and for all into the hands of corporate interests. Under

this treaty, the so-called EU Commission would be elevated to the status

of a de facto European Government – without ever having been democratically

elected and with no fear of ever being voted out of office. And, unlike in

a democracy, the EU Parliament would have no powers to control this form of

" government of commissioners " . By downloading our special software program

from the EU Facts website, you can email your clear No! to this

undemocratic treaty to the political decision-makers of Europe.

 

 

Does Codex contravene the right to freedom of opinion and expression? Our

current advertising is dedicated 95% to natural treatments. What does Codex

say about advertising?

 

Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

states the following: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and

expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference

and

to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and

regardless of frontiers.

 

However, through placing unwarranted restrictions upon health claims in

relation to labelling and advertising, Codex standards clearly contravene

these rights.

 

For example, there are already several Codex texts in existence that place

restrictions upon the health benefits that can be attributed to foods and

food supplements. Perhaps the most significant of these is the Codex

General Guidelines on Claims. Adopted in 1979, and revised in 1991, these

guidelines are in some senses the very root of the Codex problem – in terms

of

placing severe restrictions upon natural forms of healthcare – in that they

effectively seek to ensure that the only products that can make claims

relating to the prevention, alleviation, treatment, and cure of disease are

pharmaceutical drugs.

 

Specifically, and amongst other things, the Codex General Guidelines on

Claims prohibits the following:

 

-- Claims implying that a balanced diet or ordinary foods cannot supply

adequate amounts of all nutrients.

 

-- Claims that food products (including food supplements) are suitable for

use in the prevention, alleviation, treatment or cure of diseases.

 

 

 

These prohibitions are demonstrably unwarranted and openly disingenuous

for two reasons. Firstly, _independent studies_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/newsletterlinks/faqs.html#2) conducted in

the United States,

Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and many other countries show that

the nutrient content of our food has fallen substantially over the past few

decades. Secondly, there is abundant _scientific evidence_

(http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/NHC/researcharchive.html) that

micronutrients can

prevent, alleviate, treat and cure disease.

 

As such, nobody should be in any doubt that Codex is knowingly attempting

to prevent people from accessing crucial health information that could help

to save millions of lives.

 

 

 

What about organic food, additive-free foods and non-GM foods?

 

The key danger here is that Codex has gradually been weakening the

definition of the word " organic. " As a result, substances now permitted for use

under the Codex '_Guidelines for the Production, Processing, Marketing and

Labelling of Organically Produced Foods_

(http://www.codexalimentarius.net/download/standards/360/CXG_032e.pdf) ' include

sulphur dioxide, which is known

to cause allergic reactions in some people; carrageenan, which has been

linked with the formation of ulcers in the intestines and cancerous tumors in

the gut; and ethylene, which is now permitted to be used for ripening

kiwifruit and bananas. Clearly, whilst it is true that fruits do produce their

own ethylene as a part of their ripening process, most consumers would

consider it a monstrous lie to label food as " organic " when it has been plucked

before ripe, transported thousands of miles across the world in cold

storage containers filled with carbon dioxide (CO2), and then artificially

treated with ethylene for ripening.

 

On a simple level, of course, what is happening here is that the large

multinational food producers want to benefit from the higher prices that

organically-labelled food fetches, but without having to go to the same trouble

in producing it as do the the smaller, specialist organic farms.

 

On a deeper level, however, the reality is that the producers of patented

GM foods see organic foods as a threat to their business model because they

can't be patented. As such, there is an important parallel here with the

producers of synthetic chemical drugs, who likewise see vitamins and other

non-patentable natural therapies as a threat.

 

Significantly, therefore, some of the major players in the pharmaceutical

industry are also now becoming major players in the production of GM seeds.

Given that in many cases these same companies also produce artificial food

additives and synthetic chemical pesticides – both of which, because they

don't exist in nature, are patentable – it can be seen that the

pharmaceutical and chemical industries' control over our health is now deeper

than most

people would ever have considered imaginable.

 

 

 

Paul Anthony Taylor was interviewed by Ion Longin Popescu.

 

 

To learn more about Codex, and how it affects you and your health, click

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Dr. Matthias Rath - Biography

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Dr. Rath was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1955. After graduating from

medical school he worked as a physician and researcher at the University

Clinic of Hamburg, Germany and the German Heart Center in Berlin. His research

focused on the causes of arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

 

In 1987, Dr. Rath discovered the connection between vitamin C deficiency

and a new risk factor for heart disease- lipoprotein(a). After publication

of these research findings in the American Heart Association journal “

Arteriosclerosis,†Dr. Rath accepted an invitation to join two-time Nobel

Laureate Linus Pauling. In 1990 he went to the United States to become the

first of Cardiovascular Research at the Linus Pauling Institute in Palo

Alto, California.

 

Dr. Rath worked together with the late Nobel Laureate in various areas of

nutritional research. The two scientists became close personal friends who

shared common humanistic values, including their determination for peace

and justice. In 1994, shortly before his death, Linus Pauling stated: “There

is no doubt in my mind that I was thinking about Dr. Rath as my successor.â€

 

Today Dr. Rath heads a research and development institute in nutritional

and Cellular Medicine. His institute is conducting basic research and

clinical studies to scientifically document the health benefits of

micronutrients

in fighting a multitude of diseases. Dr. Rath is the founder of the

scientific concept of Cellular Medicine, the systematic introduction into

clinical medicine of the biochemical knowledge of the role of micronutrients as

biocatalysts in a multitude of metabolic reactions at the cellular level.

Applying this scientific knowledge in the fight against diseases, he and his

research team have identified the following common health conditions as being

primarily caused by chronic deficiencies of micronutrients:

 

-- Arteriosclerosis (the cause of coronary heart disease and stroke)

-- High Blood Pressure

-- Heart Failure

-- Irregular Heart Beat

-- Diabetic circulatory problems

-- Osteoporosis

-- Many forms of cancer

-- Immune deficiencies as a precondition for a variety of infectious

diseases, including AIDS

 

 

 

Dr. Rath is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American

Heart Association and other scientific organizations. His popular science books

“Why Animals Don’t get Heart Attacks – but People Do†and “Cancerâ€

have

sold several million copies in ten languages.

 

" Fighting for a medical breakthrough against existing interests and

dogmas is like sailing on the ocean, " says Dr. Rath, " the wind that blows in

your face becomes your compass. " And he adds: " You don't have to be a

university professor or Nobel Laureate; what counts is that heart attacks,

strokes,

cancer and many other diseases will essentially be unknown in the future. "

 

Dr. Rath is an outspoken advocate for patient rights and for free access

to natural health worldwide. His advocacy continues to be instrumental in

preventing a global ban on natural health therapies on behalf of the

pharmaceutical industry. To protect their global market of patented drugs, this

industry is seeking a global ban on preventive and therapeutic health

information in relation to natural, non-patentable therapies by abusing the

United

Nations “Codex Alimentarius†(Food Standard) Commission.

 

In recognition of his civil courage against the pharmaceutical interests

and his efforts on behalf of the people of the world, he received the

prestigious 2001 “_Bulwark of Liberty Award_

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Preventive Medical Association.

 

Dr. Rath pioneered a new way of responsible enterpreneurship: all profits

from the sales of the micronutrient programs developed at his institute go

to the Dr. Rath Health Foundation, a non-profit organization, focusing on

research and education in natural health worldwide.

 

In addition, this non-profit organization supports a broad spectrum of

activities in the field of human health, social justice and – most

importantly

– in the preservation of peace. In this effort Dr. Rath sees the work of

his Foundation as following in the spirit of Nobel Peace prizewinners like

Linus Pauling, Albert Schweitzer, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.

 

Dr. Rath comes from a modest background. His parents were farmers in

Southern Germany who passed their humanitarian values on to their children.

" These values, " says Dr. Rath, " are still a driving force for me. My life is an

example that you do not have to be born privileged to make a contribution

to a better world. "

 

 

Scientific Publications by Dr. Rath:

 

During his career Dr. Rath has made scientific discoveries that rank among

the most important discoveries of all time in the field of medicine.

 

Most importantly, his groundbreaking discoveries in the field of medicine

will improve the health and life of all people for generations to come.

 

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