May seem OT, but involves GMO food and ALL natural health care

[Guest guest]

I hope it is ok to post this.. It seems absolutley relevant and needs action.

I didn't attach the letters because of the list. If you are interested please

email me and I will send them to you.

Cathy

 

 

 

The World Trade Organization usually works in secrecy

but I figure the people I'm emailing should know about

this proposal.

The gist is that the pharmaceutical companies are

attempting to make it impossible to use natural

remedies so that they can corner the market with their

synthetic and in many cases more intrusive forms of

treatment.

Read the following letter from a doctor who read the

proposed trade agreement documents and then if you

want more information go to this website:

 

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/health_movement_again\

st_codex/

 

I've also attached letters you can email or print out

and send to you reps. The hope is to get over a

million letters to Congress in the next few weeks.

 

Letter from Rima Laibow, MD

http://www.nmaseminars.com/

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

 

Each of us is deluged daily with so much information

that we are forced to choose quickly between what

deserves our attention and what to throw in the

circular file. I implore you to read the following.

Your professional and personal lives as you know them

depend on it.

 

No doubt you have received as many rambling, lengthy

emails about Codex Alimentarius as I have. I have

deleted more of them than I can count that were either

too alarming or too complacent in nature and lacking

in credibility. Now, let me ask you if you know anyone

who has actually read all 15,000+ pages of the working

documents of the Codex Alimentarius Commission? Well,

I have. As such, allow me to attempt to put an end to

any confusion you may have about Codex Alimentarius by

sharing what I have learned and what I believe to be a

reasonable and appropriate level of concern.

 

What's the bottom line for a healthcare professional

practicing alternative, nutritional, natural, or

environmental healthcare? The World Trade Organization

(WTO) is poised to take away your right to practice

the healing arts guided by natural laws, scientific

principles, and your clinical expertise and judgment.

Through the Orwellian process of harmonization (forced

alignment) with WTO standards that regulate trade,

distribution, and process ing of food, herbs, and

nutrients, your professional rights and options will

be eliminated within the next few years. The proposed

standards are extremely detrimental to the

environment, your medical practice, and the food

supply.

 

Okay. I saw that one eyebrow go up and heard that deep

sigh. Let me tell you that alarmism is not and never

has been in my nature. I am a medical doctor, have a

wide variety of interests, am passionate about

healthcare freedom, and pride myself in my rational

thinking and logic skills. I floss my teeth regularly

and eat a nutrient-dense whole foods diet and, yes,

occasionally sample the more decadent side of the

culinary arts. Neither my family nor I had a bomb

shelter during the Cold War era and I did not withdraw

from society or stock up on gasoline, food, or

batteries in anticipation of Y2K. Read on.

 

The ability of physicians to legally practice

environmental or natural medicine, their access to the

substances they rely on to do so, and the rights of

patients to chose these treatments are about to be

criminalized in the United States by a draconian set

of international regulations which have already become

law in Australia, Canada and the European Union (EU).

These standards, collectively known as CODEX

ALIMENTARIUS, (from the Latin for " Food Rules " ) have

been promulgated by the Codex Alimentarius Commission

[established for this purpose in 1963 by the United

Nations (UN)] in every area having to do with the

production, processing, packaging and use of food,

herbs and food components.

 

Think that can't happen here? Think again. It can and

it will, unless we take appropriate action and

activate each member of our personal and professional

networks. Skillful disinformation would have you

believe that CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (hereafter referred to

as CODEX) is a hoax and that, at the same time, it is

beneficial for you and your patients. (The inherent

illogic of this position is obvious to the discerning

reader.)

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was empowered to

work with other UN-linked organizations in order to

develop and promulgate uniform world-wide standards

for food, nutrition and agriculture. The WTO,

successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and

Trade (GATT), is empowered to enforce global

compliance with all CODEX standards via trade

sanctions across the entire economic spectrum. Member

nations (including the United States) agreed, upon

signing the WTO treaty, to always allow the standards

and regulations of the WTO to supersede and take

complete precedence over national standards, laws, and

regulations.

 

Once accepted CODEX takes on the force of law and

cannot be repealed or changed by the WTO member

nations.

 

Presenting itself as a c onsumer protection strategy,

CODEX policies masquerade as both benign and

beneficial while, in reality, they are neither. Given

the medically and environmentally horrific

stipulations and requirements of (See, for example,

the urban legend site, www.snopes.com article " Vitamin

See " which promulgates FACTUALLY INACCURATE

DISINFORMATION about the real nature and impact of

CODEX and the FDA's Response to Questions page,

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html, the

implementation of these " standards " will result in

incalculable harm to the healing arts and the patients

who depend on them.

 

Once CODEX is adopted by a nation, there is a

" phase-in period " during which the administrative

structure is established according to a strict

timetable. Bear in mind that in the United States,

nutrients are currently classi fied as foods [under

the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act

(DSHEA)] and that any substance not explicitly

forbidden is permitted as a nutrient in the United

States. Under CODEX, any substance not explicitly

permitted by CODEX policy is banned as a nutrient.

 

The CODEX preamble specifies that supplements and

nutrients 'may not be used to prevent, treat or cure

any disorder.' Yet, more than 80 percent of Americans

use supplements for exactly these purposes.

Nutritional and environmental physicians, naturopaths,

nutritionists, chiropractors and other licensed health

professionals employ hundreds of natural minerals,

supplements, and herbs precisely because they are

effective in preventing, treating and curing many

diseases.

 

These natural health options will become illegal if

the United States is " harmonized " with the WTO this

spring while compliance with CODEX is still

" voluntary " or when t otal compliance becomes

mandatory, as it will be the case after the next CODEX

Commission meeting in Rome. Health food stores will no

longer be able to market and distribute nutritional

supplements. Most health food stores and privately

owned nutrient manufacturers will, I believe, no

longer be in business after CODEX takes effect.

 

I know. This is all difficult to believe upon first

hearing it. You may have heard that is easy to get

people to believe a lie, particularly an outrageous

lie. In my experience, the opposite is also true: It

is difficult to get people to believe the outrageous

truth. Keep on reading, because this is a truth you

definitely need to understand.

 

Once CODEX is implemented (either through

'harmonization' or mandatory compliance), we will be

forced to follow the European CODEX model in which it

will be illegal to manufacture, buy, sell, recommend,

or use any b ut 28 ultra-low dose nutrients whether

you are a licensed health professional or not. " Only

synthetic versions of that " short list will be allowed

and natural supplements, herbs, enzymes and other non-

pharmaceutical treatments will be banned. The only

legal health option left will be the pharmaceutical

one.

 

CODEX regulations have been " harmonized " (i.e.

approved) in the EU, Canada and Australia. The United

States is next unless we act decisively and act now.

Though CODEX regulations are passed quietly and

without effective public notice in infrequent meetings

abroad that are invisible to most Americans, they have

grave and devastating impact on American's health

freedom.

 

Here in the United States, the 'harmonization' laws

which will enact CODEX policy have been defeated by

Congress several times, each time by a smaller margin.

Given the composition of the current Congress, it is

virtually certain t hat it will be passed unless we

take swift and immediate steps to assure that does not

happen.

 

This legislative stealth attack on health freedoms

will probably play out in May or early June of 2005

unless we take effective steps to help assure that

health freedom becomes the " Mother of all third rails "

for every politician in the country.

 

CODEX is the result of a complex relationship between

the UN (which established the Codex Alimentarius

Commission in 1962); the WTO (which is authorized to

enforce CODEX through trade sanctions); the World

Health Organization (WHO), which s to the

CODEX regulations (despite the fact that they directly

and explicitly conflict with their own findings and

policies such as the FAO/WHO official publication,

" Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic

Diseases " ); the Food and Agriculture Organization

(FAO), the United States Food and Drug Administration

(FDA); and the United States Department of Agriculture

(USDA) working in concert with industry

representatives of (and others unofficially

representing the interests of) the pesticide,

chemical, pharmaceutical, and dairy industries.

 

Consumers, health scientists, physicians and other

practicing natural medicine and other health-focused

voices have been totally absent from official CODEX

deliberations. A few observers have been present at

official deliberations but they have not been

permitted to speak in the sessions. Full ratification

is expected in Rome during the July 4- 9, 2005 meeting

of the CODEX ALIMETNARIUS Committee.

 

Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory

structure takes place outside of those official

sessions. And none of the health advocates have had

access to those meetings, agreements and sessions. Yet

CODEX will take away our health freedoms if we allow

ourselves to be " harmonized " or mandate d to comply

with CODEX.

 

Everyone knows if they have a jar of pickles and they

remove the pickle label and put a mayonnaise label on

it, that they're going to find pickles when they open

the jar. The packaging of CODEX policy under the label

of protection of fair trade, public health, and safety

does not make it so. Underneath CODEX's altruistic

labeling is a poisoned apple of extremely adverse

global policy that is, in fact, driven by economic

concerns of large corporate interests.

 

Once implemented, CODEX ALIMENTARIUS does the

following:

 

1. VITAMINS, MINERAL, NUTRIENTS AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY

ACTIVE SUBSTANCES

 

(a) The CODEX preamble forbids the use of nutrients to

" prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease " .

 

(b) CODEX defines minimum allowable dosages of

permitted nutrients as 15 percent of the amounts

naturally occurring in foods, while maximum allowable

doses of any permitted nutrie nts may not exceed the

dose of that nutrient found in food. Supplement values

subtract the amount assumed to be in the daily diet

from the maximum allowable dose and the result is the

permitted upper limit of a nutrient. This system is

based neither in science nor clinical requirements.

 

© Higher doses of permitted nutrients and nutrients

not explicitly permitted will be classified as illegal

substances (in the same class as heroin)

 

(i) Theoretical exceptions exist for natural

substances which are submitted and accepted for

testing. A substance successfully tested in this way

may then be prescribed at the tested dosage only. The

permission to use a nutrient in this way, by

prescription only, however, expires in 2009.

 

(ii) The cost of this procedure is staggering, most

applications for such testing have been turned down

and, since natural molecules canno t be patented,

potential manufacturers are unable to recoup the costs

of testing through later sales.

 

(iii) The period for submission of applications for

this process ends on July 12, 2005 and cannot be

extended

 

(d) The European Union (EU), whose European

Supplements Directive is the model administrative

agency for CODEX implementation, permits a total of 28

ultra-low dose nutrients. All other nutrients (e.g.

alpha lipoic acid, 1-gram doses of vitamin C, Co-Q 10,

fish oil, and curcumin) are banned substances and may

not be manufactured, distributed, recommended, sold,

supplied or be in the possession of anyone, including

licensed health professionals. Vitamin C, for example,

at any dosage higher than 200 mg per day will be

illegal. A gram of Vitamin C will be an illegal

substance! The dose of Co-Q 10 which has been shown to

resolve breast cancer in some patients (400 mg p er

day) will be illegal because Co- Q 10 will be totally

forbidden at any dose (following the European

Supplements Directive model).

 

e) The allowable maximum upper limits for permitted

nutrients have been set so low that they have little

or no clinical impact in keeping us healthy and none

at all in returning us to a state of health if we are

ill. Those which are available will be exorbitantly

priced, as current experience in Norway and Germany

reveals, where profit margins of synthetic, permitted

nutrients are being harmonized to match drug profit

margins.

 

(i) On August 1, 2005, 75 percent of the natural

substances currently available in health food stores

and pharmacies in Europe will become illegal as a

direct result of CODEX.

 

(ii) Only synthetic forms of permitted nutrients will

be available. All natural versions will be illegal

substances. Only syntheti c nutrients (at ultra-low

dosages) manufactured by pharmaceutical companies will

meet the molecular standards for use in humans or

animals.

 

2. HERBS AND HERBAL TREATMENTS

 

(a) Herbs, originally part of the CODEX deliberations,

were summarily removed and placed under a closed

committee of the WHO where they are held to be

untested drugs and therefore illegal.

 

(b) The European Supplements Directive, the model

agency for CODEX administration, has produced a very

short list of herbs which may be used and the

conditions for which they may be used (another short

and very trivial list).

 

© All other applications of herbs and any other

herbs besides those listed are strictly forbidden.

 

(d) There is the possibility that a few formulas of

well known Chinese herbal medicines may be exempt (but

that remains to be seen)

 

3. TRADITIONAL HEALING ARTS

 

(a) CODEX stipulates which conditions may be treated

using herbs and allows only minor, self-limited

conditions. Treating any other conditions with herbal

remedies will constitute a crime.

 

(b) Some complex oriental herbal formulas may be

permitted but most will be lost.

 

© Ayurvedic, Tibetan, tribal and other traditional

medicines which use herbs and natural substances will

be forbidden world- wide. Since most people do not

have access to pharmaceutical medicine, this

effectively removes the legal possibility of people

legally accessing any form of tribal or traditional

medicine.

 

(d.) Herbal, shamanic, energy based (e.g. Reiki and

acupuncture) medicine are forbidden forms of

treatment.

 

4) GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs)

 

(a) CODEX makes the un-labeled use of GMOs legal in

all foods under all circumstances, even though there

is significant opposition to the widespread use of

GMOs at this time. Farmers in Iraq, for example, must

purchase their seeds from Monsanto and are forbidden

from retaining seed crops under the new Iraqi

constitution. Similar laws exist in other less exotic

places.

 

(b) Many GMOs have been genetically engineered so that

seeds WILL NOT GERMINATE without the use of specific

pesticides (such as " Roundup " by Monsanto). In fact,

mounting scientific evidence makes it clear that the

incidence of birth defects, chemical sensitivity,

chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, severe allergies,

and a host of other conditions have a causative or

contributory relationship with increasing levels of

pesticide exposure that these crops will require.

 

© GMOs themselves are far from scientifically

established as safe for either the planet or its

people by objective, non- industry scientists. Genetic

drift through the spread of GMO genetic material is

recognized as a major threat to the biological

integrity of the entire plan et.

 

5. TOXIC RESIDUES

 

(a) CODEX sets permissible upper limits for pesticide

residues, toxic chemicals, hormones in food and other

environmental contaminants that are many times higher

than levels advocated by chemical and pesticide

industry lobbying groups.

 

(b) The current acceptable levels of toxins are

already responsible for most of the incidence of

cancers, heart disease, autism, chronic degenerative

conditions, and organ failures that associated with

mortality and morbidity globally. Increasing the

permissible levels of toxins can only accelerate

personal and global suffering.

 

6. ANTIBIOTICS, GROWTH STIMULANTS AND OTHER HORMONES

IN FOOD ANIMALS

 

(a) CODEX mandates that all animal feed must be

treated with antibiotics, hormones and growth

stimulants world wide.

 

(b) Organic, free-range, and biodynamic farming will

become illegal.

 

7. IRRADIATION OF FOOD (a.) CODEX mandates irradiation

of food under circumstances now hotly contested by

food safety advocates. Allegedly designed to 'protect

us from food borne illness', the irradiation of food

is by no means agreed to be a safe procedure (by

non-industry scientists) since there is considerable

scientific evidence that protein structures are

modified in unhealthy ways by introducing ionizing

radiation into food before it is consumed.

 

(b) The irradiation of food produces huge free radical

populations. The only protection against their

pervasive damage is high doses of anti-oxidants (which

will be illegal under CODEX).

 

At this point it will likely come as no surprise to

you that there has been no effective representation

from health advocates, nutritional supplement

manufacturers, natural healthcare professionals, or

other non-pharmaceutically oriented group at the Codex

Alimentarius Commission meeting. The Co dex

Alimentarius Commission meets every two years, always

offshore (Rome, Bonn, Paris, etc.) and never in

Smallville, USA, a fact that helps perpetuate its

opacity to the United States citizenry. The United

States' representatives to the Codex Alimentarius

Commission have well-documented, very unwholesome

conflicts of interest with the very industries that

stand to profit and benefit from the wholesale

implementation of the CODEX standards.

 

CODEX sets international standards for everything from

parmesan cheese to sweet cassava, canned sardines to

chicken meat, Echinacea to rice. The standards which

comprise CODEX are virtually complete: final

ratification of the entire package is expected at the

Codex Alimentarius Committee meeting in Rome from July

4-9, 2005.

 

Before ratification, " harmonization " is " voluntary "

but can be enforced by WTO trade sanctions. After

ratification, compliance with CODEX is m andatory and

enforcement by the WTO is a powerful threat to make

sure that it is complied with properly.

 

It is imperative that concerned health professionals

and their patients, friends, relatives, suppliers,

etc., become fully activated to stop CODEX from being

enacted in the United States.

 

Now that we know more about the boat in which we are

adrift, let me hand you a paddle. This threat to our

profession and to our ability to choose the type of

healthcare for our selves demands one of the most

powerful tools available to us: grass roots political

action. We can use the Democratic Process to our

advantage by:

 

1. Getting activated. If you do nothing now, when

CODEX is ratified you will have nothing left of your

environmental or nutritional medicine practice. It is

imperative that you alert your colleagues, friends,

patients, relatives, suppliers and everyone else you

know to this danger so they can join you in taking

effective action.

 

FAX, do not use regular mail or email, your

Congressional Delegation re: your strong outrage at

the limitation of our health freedoms through CODEX

and a group of domestic efforts to reclassify

nutrients as drugs and eliminate them as foods.

 

3 Visit www.healthfreedomUSA.org to find your

Congressional Delegation's FAX number and three sample

letters to Congress. Send each targeted Congressman

all three letters signed by you. We need to have a

minimum of one million faxes to Congress in the next 4

weeks.

 

3. Provide sample letters and a list of local

Congressional District members' FAX numbers for

patients in your office. This information is available

on the Natural Solutions Foundation website,

www.healthfreedomUSA.org . Offer to FAX letters for t

hose patients who do not have fax machines available

to them.

 

4. Become a supporter of the Natural Solutions

Foundation, a not for profit organization (of which I

am the Medical Director) to preserve, protect and

defend health freedom in the United States.

 

In addition to our other activities, the Natural

Solutions Foundation has commissioned a major

documentary to tell the story of CODEX to the American

public. Become a supporter of this effort. See

www.healthfreedomUSA.org for details.

 

We would all like to put our heads in the sand and try

to believe that CODEX would, could and should not

happen here. But it can and, unless we take action

now, CODEX will become the law of our land.

 

5. For a discussion of the domestic legislative

assault on health freedoms, go to

www.healthfreedomUSA.org. & nbs p; Whether your

motivation is global or local, professional or

personal, I ask that you take action now. FAX letters

supporting health freedom, a safe food supply and a

clean world: FAX letters to Congress and alert your

entire network to do that same.

 

Yours in Health and Freedom,

 

Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director, Natural Solutions

Foundation

 

Healthfreedom

 

www.healthfreedomUSA.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

The World Trade Organization usually

works in secrecy

but I figure the people I'm emailing should know about

this proposal.

The gist is that the pharmaceutical companies are

attempting to make it impossible to use natural

remedies so that they can corner the market with their

synthetic and in many cases more intrusive forms of

treatment.

Read the following letter from a doctor who read the

proposed trade agreement documents and then if you

want more information go to this website:

 

http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/health_movement_again\

st_codex/

 

I've also attached letters you can email or print out

and send to you reps. The hope is to get over a

million letters to Congress in the next few weeks.

 

Letter from Rima Laibow, MD

http://www.nmaseminars.com/

 

Dear friends and colleagues,

 

Each of us is deluged daily with so much information

that we are forced to choose quickly between what

deserves our attention and what to throw in the

circular file. I implore you to read the following.

Your professional and personal lives as you know them

depend on it.

 

No doubt you have received as many rambling, lengthy

emails about Codex Alimentarius as I have. I have

deleted more of them than I can count that were either

too alarming or too complacent in nature and lacking

in credibility. Now, let me ask you if you know anyone

who has actually read all 15,000+ pages of the working

documents of the Codex Alimentarius Commission? Well,

I have. As such, allow me to attempt to put an end to

any confusion you may have about Codex Alimentarius by

sharing what I have learned and what I believe to be a

reasonable and appropriate level of concern.

 

What's the bottom line for a healthcare professional

practicing alternative, nutritional, natural, or

environmental healthcare? The World Trade Organization

(WTO) is poised to take away your right to practice

the healing arts guided by natural laws, scientific

principles, and your clinical expertise and judgment.

Through the Orwellian process of harmonization (forced

alignment) with WTO standards that regulate trade,

distribution, and process ing of food, herbs, and

nutrients, your professional rights and options will

be eliminated within the next few years. The proposed

standards are extremely detrimental to the

environment, your medical practice, and the food

supply.

 

Okay. I saw that one eyebrow go up and heard that deep

sigh. Let me tell you that alarmism is not and never

has been in my nature. I am a medical doctor, have a

wide variety of interests, am passionate about

healthcare freedom, and pride myself in my rational

thinking and logic skills. I floss my teeth regularly

and eat a nutrient-dense whole foods diet and, yes,

occasionally sample the more decadent side of the

culinary arts. Neither my family nor I had a bomb

shelter during the Cold War era and I did not withdraw

from society or stock up on gasoline, food, or

batteries in anticipation of Y2K. Read on.

 

The ability of physicians to legally practice

environmental or natural medicine, their access to the

substances they rely on to do so, and the rights of

patients to chose these treatments are about to be

criminalized in the United States by a draconian set

of international regulations which have already become

law in Australia, Canada and the European Union (EU).

These standards, collectively known as CODEX

ALIMENTARIUS, (from the Latin for " Food Rules " ) have

been promulgated by the Codex Alimentarius Commission

[established for this purpose in 1963 by the United

Nations (UN)] in every area having to do with the

production, processing, packaging and use of food,

herbs and food components.

 

Think that can't happen here? Think again. It can and

it will, unless we take appropriate action and

activate each member of our personal and professional

networks. Skillful disinformation would have you

believe that CODEX ALIMENTARIUS (hereafter referred to

as CODEX) is a hoax and that, at the same time, it is

beneficial for you and your patients. (The inherent

illogic of this position is obvious to the discerning

reader.)

 

The Codex Alimentarius Commission was empowered to

work with other UN-linked organizations in order to

develop and promulgate uniform world-wide standards

for food, nutrition and agriculture. The WTO,

successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and

Trade (GATT), is empowered to enforce global

compliance with all CODEX standards via trade

sanctions across the entire economic spectrum. Member

nations (including the United States) agreed, upon

signing the WTO treaty, to always allow the standards

and regulations of the WTO to supersede and take

complete precedence over national standards, laws, and

regulations.

 

Once accepted CODEX takes on the force of law and

cannot be repealed or changed by the WTO member

nations.

 

Presenting itself as a c onsumer protection strategy,

CODEX policies masquerade as both benign and

beneficial while, in reality, they are neither. Given

the medically and environmentally horrific

stipulations and requirements of (See, for example,

the urban legend site, www.snopes.com article " Vitamin

See " which promulgates FACTUALLY INACCURATE

DISINFORMATION about the real nature and impact of

CODEX and the FDA's Response to Questions page,

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dscodex.html, the

implementation of these " standards " will result in

incalculable harm to the healing arts and the patients

who depend on them.

 

Once CODEX is adopted by a nation, there is a

" phase-in period " during which the administrative

structure is established according to a strict

timetable. Bear in mind that in the United States,

nutrients are currently classi fied as foods [under

the 1994 Dietary Supplements Health and Education Act

(DSHEA)] and that any substance not explicitly

forbidden is permitted as a nutrient in the United

States. Under CODEX, any substance not explicitly

permitted by CODEX policy is banned as a nutrient.

 

The CODEX preamble specifies that supplements and

nutrients 'may not be used to prevent, treat or cure

any disorder.' Yet, more than 80 percent of Americans

use supplements for exactly these purposes.

Nutritional and environmental physicians, naturopaths,

nutritionists, chiropractors and other licensed health

professionals employ hundreds of natural minerals,

supplements, and herbs precisely because they are

effective in preventing, treating and curing many

diseases.

 

These natural health options will become illegal if

the United States is " harmonized " with the WTO this

spring while compliance with CODEX is still

" voluntary " or when t otal compliance becomes

mandatory, as it will be the case after the next CODEX

Commission meeting in Rome. Health food stores will no

longer be able to market and distribute nutritional

supplements. Most health food stores and privately

owned nutrient manufacturers will, I believe, no

longer be in business after CODEX takes effect.

 

I know. This is all difficult to believe upon first

hearing it. You may have heard that is easy to get

people to believe a lie, particularly an outrageous

lie. In my experience, the opposite is also true: It

is difficult to get people to believe the outrageous

truth. Keep on reading, because this is a truth you

definitely need to understand.

 

Once CODEX is implemented (either through

'harmonization' or mandatory compliance), we will be

forced to follow the European CODEX model in which it

will be illegal to manufacture, buy, sell, recommend,

or use any b ut 28 ultra-low dose nutrients whether

you are a licensed health professional or not. " Only

synthetic versions of that " short list will be allowed

and natural supplements, herbs, enzymes and other non-

pharmaceutical treatments will be banned. The only

legal health option left will be the pharmaceutical

one.

 

CODEX regulations have been " harmonized " (i.e.

approved) in the EU, Canada and Australia. The United

States is next unless we act decisively and act now.

Though CODEX regulations are passed quietly and

without effective public notice in infrequent meetings

abroad that are invisible to most Americans, they have

grave and devastating impact on American's health

freedom.

 

Here in the United States, the 'harmonization' laws

which will enact CODEX policy have been defeated by

Congress several times, each time by a smaller margin.

Given the composition of the current Congress, it is

virtually certain t hat it will be passed unless we

take swift and immediate steps to assure that does not

happen.

 

This legislative stealth attack on health freedoms

will probably play out in May or early June of 2005

unless we take effective steps to help assure that

health freedom becomes the " Mother of all third rails "

for every politician in the country.

 

CODEX is the result of a complex relationship between

the UN (which established the Codex Alimentarius

Commission in 1962); the WTO (which is authorized to

enforce CODEX through trade sanctions); the World

Health Organization (WHO), which s to the

CODEX regulations (despite the fact that they directly

and explicitly conflict with their own findings and

policies such as the FAO/WHO official publication,

" Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic

Diseases " ); the Food and Agriculture Organization

(FAO), the United States Food and Drug Administration

(FDA); and the United States Department of Agriculture

(USDA) working in concert with industry

representatives of (and others unofficially

representing the interests of) the pesticide,

chemical, pharmaceutical, and dairy industries.

 

Consumers, health scientists, physicians and other

practicing natural medicine and other health-focused

voices have been totally absent from official CODEX

deliberations. A few observers have been present at

official deliberations but they have not been

permitted to speak in the sessions. Full ratification

is expected in Rome during the July 4- 9, 2005 meeting

of the CODEX ALIMETNARIUS Committee.

 

Of course, the real work of such a complex regulatory

structure takes place outside of those official

sessions. And none of the health advocates have had

access to those meetings, agreements and sessions. Yet

CODEX will take away our health freedoms if we allow

ourselves to be " harmonized " or mandate d to comply

with CODEX.

 

Everyone knows if they have a jar of pickles and they

remove the pickle label and put a mayonnaise label on

it, that they're going to find pickles when they open

the jar. The packaging of CODEX policy under the label

of protection of fair trade, public health, and safety

does not make it so. Underneath CODEX's altruistic

labeling is a poisoned apple of extremely adverse

global policy that is, in fact, driven by economic

concerns of large corporate interests.

 

Once implemented, CODEX ALIMENTARIUS does the

following:

 

1. VITAMINS, MINERAL, NUTRIENTS AND PHYSIOLOGICALLY

ACTIVE SUBSTANCES

 

(a) The CODEX preamble forbids the use of nutrients to

" prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease " .

 

(b) CODEX defines minimum allowable dosages of

permitted nutrients as 15 percent of the amounts

naturally occurring in foods, while maximum allowable

doses of any permitted nutrie nts may not exceed the

dose of that nutrient found in food. Supplement values

subtract the amount assumed to be in the daily diet

from the maximum allowable dose and the result is the

permitted upper limit of a nutrient. This system is

based neither in science nor clinical requirements.

 

© Higher doses of permitted nutrients and nutrients

not explicitly permitted will be classified as illegal

substances (in the same class as heroin)

 

(i) Theoretical exceptions exist for natural

substances which are submitted and accepted for

testing. A substance successfully tested in this way

may then be prescribed at the tested dosage only. The

permission to use a nutrient in this way, by

prescription only, however, expires in 2009.

 

(ii) The cost of this procedure is staggering, most

applications for such testing have been turned down

and, since natural molecules canno t be patented,

potential manufacturers are unable to recoup the costs

of testing through later sales.

 

(iii) The period for submission of applications for

this process ends on July 12, 2005 and cannot be

extended

 

(d) The European Union (EU), whose European

Supplements Directive is the model administrative

agency for CODEX implementation, permits a total of 28

ultra-low dose nutrients. All other nutrients (e.g.

alpha lipoic acid, 1-gram doses of vitamin C, Co-Q 10,

fish oil, and curcumin) are banned substances and may

not be manufactured, distributed, recommended, sold,

supplied or be in the possession of anyone, including

licensed health professionals. Vitamin C, for example,

at any dosage higher than 200 mg per day will be

illegal. A gram of Vitamin C will be an illegal

substance! The dose of Co-Q 10 which has been shown to

resolve breast cancer in some patients (400 mg p er

day) will be illegal because Co- Q 10 will be totally

forbidden at any dose (following the European

Supplements Directive model).

 

e) The allowable maximum upper limits for permitted

nutrients have been set so low that they have little

or no clinical impact in keeping us healthy and none

at all in returning us to a state of health if we are

ill. Those which are available will be exorbitantly

priced, as current experience in Norway and Germany

reveals, where profit margins of synthetic, permitted

nutrients are being harmonized to match drug profit

margins.

 

(i) On August 1, 2005, 75 percent of the natural

substances currently available in health food stores

and pharmacies in Europe will become illegal as a

direct result of CODEX.

 

(ii) Only synthetic forms of permitted nutrients will

be available. All natural versions will be illegal

substances. Only syntheti c nutrients (at ultra-low

dosages) manufactured by pharmaceutical companies will

meet the molecular standards for use in humans or

animals.

 

2. HERBS AND HERBAL TREATMENTS

 

(a) Herbs, originally part of the CODEX deliberations,

were summarily removed and placed under a closed

committee of the WHO where they are held to be

untested drugs and therefore illegal.

 

(b) The European Supplements Directive, the model

agency for CODEX administration, has produced a very

short list of herbs which may be used and the

conditions for which they may be used (another short

and very trivial list).

 

© All other applications of herbs and any other

herbs besides those listed are strictly forbidden.

 

(d) There is the possibility that a few formulas of

well known Chinese herbal medicines may be exempt (but

that remains to be seen)

 

3. TRADITIONAL HEALING ARTS

 

(a) CODEX stipulates which conditions may be treated

using herbs and allows only minor, self-limited

conditions. Treating any other conditions with herbal

remedies will constitute a crime.

 

(b) Some complex oriental herbal formulas may be

permitted but most will be lost.

 

© Ayurvedic, Tibetan, tribal and other traditional

medicines which use herbs and natural substances will

be forbidden world- wide. Since most people do not

have access to pharmaceutical medicine, this

effectively removes the legal possibility of people

legally accessing any form of tribal or traditional

medicine.

 

(d.) Herbal, shamanic, energy based (e.g. Reiki and

acupuncture) medicine are forbidden forms of

treatment.

 

4) GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs)

 

(a) CODEX makes the un-labeled use of GMOs legal in

all foods under all circumstances, even though there

is significant opposition to the widespread use of

GMOs at this time. Farmers in Iraq, for example, must

purchase their seeds from Monsanto and are forbidden

from retaining seed crops under the new Iraqi

constitution. Similar laws exist in other less exotic

places.

 

(b) Many GMOs have been genetically engineered so that

seeds WILL NOT GERMINATE without the use of specific

pesticides (such as " Roundup " by Monsanto). In fact,

mounting scientific evidence makes it clear that the

incidence of birth defects, chemical sensitivity,

chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, severe allergies,

and a host of other conditions have a causative or

contributory relationship with increasing levels of

pesticide exposure that these crops will require.

 

© GMOs themselves are far from scientifically

established as safe for either the planet or its

people by objective, non- industry scientists. Genetic

drift through the spread of GMO genetic material is

recognized as a major threat to the biological

integrity of the entire plan et.

 

5. TOXIC RESIDUES

 

(a) CODEX sets permissible upper limits for pesticide

residues, toxic chemicals, hormones in food and other

environmental contaminants that are many times higher

than levels advocated by chemical and pesticide

industry lobbying groups.

 

(b) The current acceptable levels of toxins are

already responsible for most of the incidence of

cancers, heart disease, autism, chronic degenerative

conditions, and organ failures that associated with

mortality and morbidity globally. Increasing the

permissible levels of toxins can only accelerate

personal and global suffering.

 

6. ANTIBIOTICS, GROWTH STIMULANTS AND OTHER HORMONES

IN FOOD ANIMALS

 

(a) CODEX mandates that all animal feed must be

treated with antibiotics, hormones and growth

stimulants world wide.

 

(b) Organic, free-range, and biodynamic farming will

become illegal.

 

7. IRRADIATION OF FOOD (a.) CODEX mandates irradiation

of food under circumstances now hotly contested by

food safety advocates. Allegedly designed to 'protect

us from food borne illness', the irradiation of food

is by no means agreed to be a safe procedure (by

non-industry scientists) since there is considerable

scientific evidence that protein structures are

modified in unhealthy ways by introducing ionizing

radiation into food before it is consumed.

 

(b) The irradiation of food produces huge free radical

populations. The only protection against their

pervasive damage is high doses of anti-oxidants (which

will be illegal under CODEX).

 

At this point it will likely come as no surprise to

you that there has been no effective representation

from health advocates, nutritional supplement

manufacturers, natural healthcare professionals, or

other non-pharmaceutically oriented group at the Codex

Alimentarius Commission meeting. The Co dex

Alimentarius Commission meets every two years, always

offshore (Rome, Bonn, Paris, etc.) and never in

Smallville, USA, a fact that helps perpetuate its

opacity to the United States citizenry. The United

States' representatives to the Codex Alimentarius

Commission have well-documented, very unwholesome

conflicts of interest with the very industries that

stand to profit and benefit from the wholesale

implementation of the CODEX standards.

 

CODEX sets international standards for everything from

parmesan cheese to sweet cassava, canned sardines to

chicken meat, Echinacea to rice. The standards which

comprise CODEX are virtually complete: final

ratification of the entire package is expected at the

Codex Alimentarius Committee meeting in Rome from July

4-9, 2005.

 

Before ratification, " harmonization " is " voluntary "

but can be enforced by WTO trade sanctions. After

ratification, compliance with CODEX is m andatory and

enforcement by the WTO is a powerful threat to make

sure that it is complied with properly.

 

It is imperative that concerned health professionals

and their patients, friends, relatives, suppliers,

etc., become fully activated to stop CODEX from being

enacted in the United States.

 

Now that we know more about the boat in which we are

adrift, let me hand you a paddle. This threat to our

profession and to our ability to choose the type of

healthcare for our selves demands one of the most

powerful tools available to us: grass roots political

action. We can use the Democratic Process to our

advantage by:

 

1. Getting activated. If you do nothing now, when

CODEX is ratified you will have nothing left of your

environmental or nutritional medicine practice. It is

imperative that you alert your colleagues, friends,

patients, relatives, suppliers and everyone else you

know to this danger so they can join you in taking

effective action.

 

FAX, do not use regular mail or email, your

Congressional Delegation re: your strong outrage at

the limitation of our health freedoms through CODEX

and a group of domestic efforts to reclassify

nutrients as drugs and eliminate them as foods.

 

3 Visit www.healthfreedomUSA.org to find your

Congressional Delegation's FAX number and three sample

letters to Congress. Send each targeted Congressman

all three letters signed by you. We need to have a

minimum of one million faxes to Congress in the next 4

weeks.

 

3. Provide sample letters and a list of local

Congressional District members' FAX numbers for

patients in your office. This information is available

on the Natural Solutions Foundation website,

www.healthfreedomUSA.org . Offer to FAX letters for t

hose patients who do not have fax machines available

to them.

 

4. Become a supporter of the Natural Solutions

Foundation, a not for profit organization (of which I

am the Medical Director) to preserve, protect and

defend health freedom in the United States.

 

In addition to our other activities, the Natural

Solutions Foundation has commissioned a major

documentary to tell the story of CODEX to the American

public. Become a supporter of this effort. See

www.healthfreedomUSA.org for details.

 

We would all like to put our heads in the sand and try

to believe that CODEX would, could and should not

happen here. But it can and, unless we take action

now, CODEX will become the law of our land.

 

5. For a discussion of the domestic legislative

assault on health freedoms, go to

www.healthfreedomUSA.org. & nbs p; Whether your

motivation is global or local, professional or

personal, I ask that you take action now. FAX letters

supporting health freedom, a safe food supply and a

clean world: FAX letters to Congress and alert your

entire network to do that same.

 

Yours in Health and Freedom,

 

Rima E. Laibow, MD Medical Director, Natural Solutions

Foundation

 

Healthfreedom

 

www.healthfreedomUSA.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

>I hope it is ok to post this..

 

Actually...

 

While not directly related to raw vegan foods, GMO foods certainly

affects us. When topics are not directly related to raw foods, they

should be kept brief, with links offered to find more information or

" the whole article " etc. If there is no URL to find the information,

then offer to send more information (like you did) to those who email

you privately. With expecially long emails (like the one I'm replying

to,) this frees up member's IN boxes and, for those who receive the

Daily Digest, they don't have to scroll through the long text to find

the next email.

 

Similarly, when media articles are referred to from this list, the

email should just contain a summary and a link. This keeps it short

and honors the copyright of the company publishing it.

 

Thanks,

 

Jeff

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thanks!

 

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" Jeff Rogers " <jeff

<RawSeattle >

Saturday, April 09, 2005 9:53 AM

Re: [RawSeattle] May seem OT, but involves GMO food and ALL natural

health care

 

 

>

>>I hope it is ok to post this..

>

> Actually...

>

> While not directly related to raw vegan foods, GMO foods certainly

> affects us. When topics are not directly related to raw foods, they

> should be kept brief, with links offered to find more information or

> " the whole article " etc. If there is no URL to find the information,

> then offer to send more information (like you did) to those who email

> you privately. With expecially long emails (like the one I'm replying

> to,) this frees up member's IN boxes and, for those who receive the

> Daily Digest, they don't have to scroll through the long text to find

> the next email.

>

> Similarly, when media articles are referred to from this list, the

> email should just contain a summary and a link. This keeps it short

> and honors the copyright of the company publishing it.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Jeff

>

>

>