Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs

  Imagine going to the pharmacy for Vitamin C to ward off an oncoming cold, only to learn that you now need a prescription to buy it, or to buy the vitamins you take to keep your energy level high and immune system strong. Natural supplements, formerly classified as proven and safe, are now being classified as 'medical drugs' and nutrients are now classified as toxins under a World Trade Organization (WTO) code called

Codex Alimentarius

due to go into global implementation by December 31, 2009.

Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "food code" or "food book") was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN to control the international trade of food.  It is a compilation of food standards, codes of practice and guidelines that specify all requirements related to foods (whether processed, semi-processed, genetically engineered, or raw). Their stated purpose is to protect consumers’ health, ensure fair business practices within the food trade, and eliminate international food trade barriers by standardizing food quality. Sounds good in theory, right?  
  

“Its initial intentions may have been altruistic but it has been taken over by corporate interests, most notably the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotechnology and chemical industries,” says Dr. Rima Laibow MD, from the Natural Solutions Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about how to stop Codex Alimentarius from taking away their right to freely choose nutritional health. “Any non Codex-compliant nation that is a member of the WTO faces huge economic punishment in any food-trade dispute if they ae not Codex compliant,” she said. “Codex Alimentarius is a shrewd vehicle for protecting the pharmaceutical industry from the loss of income it stands to suffer due to the inevitable growth of natural healthcare.”
 

Furthermore, Codex is based in the Napoleonic Code, not Common Law. Under Common Law, anything not explicitly forbidden is permitted. Under Napoleonic Code, anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden, meaning that Codex Alimentarius would be able to ban supplements by default.
  

Codex pertains to every kind of food traded internationally and allows high doses of pesticides, veterinary drugs, synthetic hormones, contaminants, artificial sweeteners, and other dangerous compounds and processes (like mandated irradiation of food) while it forbids health claims for food.
 

A predecessor to Codex, the European Food Supplements Directive on dietary supplements, passed in 2002, has thusfar been gingerly implemented and only irradically enforced, resulting mostly in price increases on vitamins and herbs. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA, 1994), an American law classifying supplements and herbs as foods (which can have no upper limit set on their use), recognizes that nutrients are not toxins and provides grounds for fighting Codex standards. But Doctor Laibow, a successful natural medicine physician since the 1970s, who has studied the 16,000 pages of Codex documentation, warns that those who say that Codex is consumer protection, voluntary, or harmless are, at best, seriously mistaken.
  

“The objective of the pro-Codex Alimentarius multi nationals is to 'boil the frog slowly' so that we do not wake up to it in time to avoid Codex. Once we have 'HARMonized' to Codex Alimentarius, as long as we are in the WTO, we cannot amend or change its regulations, and $758 million was spent on declared Congressional lobbying by Big Pharma last year, in an attempt to overturn DSHEA.”
  

“More and more people are turning to natural health products globally and “wellness” has become a major trend in today’s society,” said  Kundalini Yoga & Meditation Instructor, Rhonda Hudson, a California now living in southern France. “Hippocrates said: 'Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.' “Even in France where food is such an intricate part of the culture, we don't hear enough about the benefits of natural anti-oxidant foods that will keep us healthy. Instead we are taught to take pills and curative treatments after we become ill,” she said.
 

Remarking that the US obesity epidemic and illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes are now starting to emerge in Europe, she claims that the increase of processed and nutrient void foods is a large part of the cause. “The benefits of natural preventions and cures have been changing peoples lives in such significant ways. Losing the ability to purchase safe, natural, side–effect free solutions to your health problems by banning supplements, vitamins, minerals and herbs will have devastating effects on people's health.”

More information:  

Codex Alimentarius  summarized in 7 points:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=157

Ian Crane on Codex Alimentarius

We Become Silent - The Last Days of Health Freedom