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Congress
Enacts Law
to Outlaw Nutrition Products
| Today
the U.S. House of Representative joined the U.S. Senate in passing
Codex Alimentarius, massive legislation that makes
illegal over 80% of the nutritional supplements currently to be
found in the U.S. marketplace. This draconian measure follows a
strategy of "harmonization" with the Codex strictures already in
place in the European Union. |
That's
a headline and introduction to a story that might well be written just
a few short months from now. If you were to know me personally, you'd
know that I'm not a conspiracy theorist or an alarmist, you'd know that
I'm actually a pretty laidback character. But Codex is such a real threat
to your health freedom, to your consumer rights, and potentially to
you health and longevity, that you really need to read on. Codex is
so outrageous that to contemplate it can take you directly into a state
of total incredulity — too
absurd to be true, couldn't happen to us here in the good old U.S. Uh-uh
friend, don't go there, there's a real monster on your doorstep. For
starters, contemplate the following:
- The U.S. will
be forced to follow the European CODEX model in which it will be illegal
to manufacture, buy, sell, recommend, or use any but 28 ultra-low
dose nutrients whether you are a consumer of natural health care or
a licensed health professional. 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.
- Dietary supplements
could not be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use.
Already in the U.K., some 300 of 420 vitamins and minerals now sold
will be banned as of August 1.
- Potencies would
be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the drug companies and the
big pharmaceutical companies would have the right to produce and sell
the higher potency products (at inflated prices).
- Prescriptions
would be required for anything above the extremely low doses allowed.
The Codex proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where
the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the
drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal,
as is vitamin E above 45 IU, and niacin above 35 mg, as just a few
examples.
- Common foods
such as garlic and peppermint would be classified as drugs or a third
category (neither food nor drugs) that only big pharmaceutical companies
could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can
be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water.
A Codex clause called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to selling
illegal drugs.
- CODEX mandates
that all animal feed must be treated with antibiotics, hormones and
growth stimulants worldwide. Organic, free range and biodynamic farming
will become illegal.
- CODEX sets permissible
upper limits for pesticide residues, toxic chemicals, hormones in
food and other environmental contaminants that are many times higher
even than the levels advocated by chemical and pesticide industry
lobbying groups.
- CODEX makes the
un-labeled use of GMOs legal in all foods under all circumstances,
therefore genetically altered food would be sold worldwide without
labeling.
- 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.
- Shamanic and
energy based medicine (e.g., Reiki and acupuncture) are forbidden
forms of treatment.
- All new dietary
supplements would be banned unless they go through Codex testing and
approval.
This
gives you a taste of Codex, which in its entirety runs to 15,000 pages.
What's it all about? John Hammell, a legislative advocate and the founder
of International Advocates for Health Freedom (IAHF) said it well: "If
Codex Alimentarius has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic
remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for
granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex
is to shift all remedies into the prescription category so they can
be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the
major pharmaceutical firms."
The
Codex threat is real, imminent, and, when you consider the forces behind
it, almost overwhelming. But I said "almost" — collectively, we are
not powerless. So what do I suggest?
- Inform yourself
further by reading the article below.
- Then go to http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/whatcan.htm
(website for The Natural Solutions Foundation), an excellent site
devoted to fighting Codex, where you will find the help you need to
take action.
We
can beat this monster if we wake up and take ACTION! And that means
NOW, as you'll learn at the Natural Solutions Foundation website. (More
resources are posted at the end of this page
for those with the inclination to delve deeply into the matter.)
CODEX:
Vital Info About Your Health Freedom
this article was
originally published in
Alternative
Health & Healing
Year 5 Issue
5
published
by
Global Healing
Center, Inc.
http://www.ghchealth.com
Urgent
information! "The single most virulent
assault on human freedoms in recent times." Believe it or not, your
right to obtain vitamins, minerals, herbs, homeopathics, aromatherapy
-- even information about them -- is genuinely threatened. You'll
be amazed at how far this extremely powerful campaign has already progressed.
Don't hesitate a moment: read the article below, then take action!
The
Sinister Truth Behind Operation Cure-All
by Ruth James
What's
really behind Operation Cure-All? Is it just the FDA and FTC taking
their power too far? Or is there a deeper, more sinister purpose to
this campaign?
How
could a country that prides itself in its freedom of speech, freedom
of choice, and freedom of information be facing such severe restrictions
in health freedom and dietary supplements? Haven't the people made their
will known? Didn't our government pass the Dietary Supplement Health
& Education Act of 1994 to insure our right to health supplements?
Indeed,
our government did. But the FDA and FTC have found ways to get around
that. The laws put in place to protect us are being ignored. And what's
worse is that those laws are about to be superseded, if the powers that
be have their way.
OPERATION
CURE ALL IS JUST ONE MEANS TO AN END
You see, Operation Cure-All is just a tactic, a vehicle, in a much bigger
overall plan. It is a result of "Codex Alimentarius" (meaning food code)
-- a set of regulations that aim to outlaw any health information in
connection with vitamins and limit free access to natural therapies
on a worldwide scale.
WHAT'S
BEHIND CODEX?
Behind the Codex Alimentarius Commission is the United Nations and the
World Health Organization working in conjunction with the multinational
pharmaceutical cartel and international banks. Its initial efforts in
the US with the FDA were defeated, so it found another ally in the FTC.
Now Codex, with the FTC and the pharmaceutical cartel behind it, it
threatens to become a trade issue, using the campaign of Operation Cure-All
to advance its goals.
Codex
began simply enough when the U.N. authorized the World Health Organization
and the Food and Agriculture Organization to develop a universal food
code. Their purpose was to 'harmonize' regulations for dietary supplements
worldwide and set international safety standards for the purposes of
increased trade. Standardize labeling and regulatory requirements between
countries to facilitate increased international trade. Pharmaceutical
interests stepped in and began exerting their influence. Instead of
focusing on food safety, Codex is using its power to promote worldwide
restrictions on vitamins and food supplements, severely limiting their
availability and dosages.
REAL
GOALS OF CODEX
This is to bring about international 'harmonization.' While global
harmony sounds benign, is that the real purpose of this plan? While
the stated goal of Codex is to establish unilateral regulations for
dietary supplements in every country, the actual goal is to outlaw health
products and information on vitamins and dietary supplements, except
those under their direct control. These regulations would supercede
United States domestic laws without the American people's voice or vote
in the matter.
HOW CAN IT BE
POSSIBLE?
Americans gasp at the thought. It goes against everything America stands
for. Many believe this can't be possible. The truth is, it's not only
possible, it's required by the Codex agreement.
In fact, under the terms of the Uruguay Round of GATT, which created
the World Trade Organization, the United States agreed to harmonize
its domestic laws to the international standards. This includes standards
for dietary supplements being developed by the United Nation's Codex
Alimentarius Commission's Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special
Dietary Use.
The Uruguay Round Agreements carry explicit language clearly indicating
that the U.S. must harmonize to international standards:
"Members are fully responsible under this Agreement for the observance
of all provisions.... members shall formulate and implement positive
measures and mechanisms in support of the observance of the provisions....
by other than central government bodies." [WTO TBT Agreement at Article
3.5]"
In other words, the federal government must NOT ONLY CHANGE FEDERAL
LAW, but must ALSO require state and local governments to change their
laws as well to be in accordance with international law.
Not only that, but Codex is now enforceable through the World Trade
Organization (WTO). If a country disagrees with or refuses to follow
Codex standards, the WTO applies pressure by withdrawing trade privileges
and imposing crippling trade sanctions. Congress has already bowed to
this pressure several times and so have the governments of many countries.
While the exemption clause (USC 3512(a)(1) and (a)(2) was created to
supposedly protect our laws from harmonization to international standards,
it has proven to be totally ineffective. The United States has already
lost seven trade disputes despite the exemption clause. Due to the enormous
pressures put on them by lobbyists from multinational corporations (who
contribute millions to congressional campaigns), Congress bowed to pressure
and changed U.S. laws.
It appears our government
is being manipulated one way or another to serve the goals of the UN,
the World Health Organization and the World Trade Organization. Food
control equals people control -- and population control. Is this beginning
to sound like world government and one-world order? Could this be the
real goal behind Codex?
The United States, Canada, the Europeans, Japan, most of Asia, and South
America have already signed agreements pledging total harmonization
of their laws including food and drug laws to these international standards
in the future.
WHAT CODEX WILL BRING
What can we expect under Codex? To give you an idea, here are some important
points:
- Dietary supplements
could not be sold for preventive (prophylactic) or therapeutic use.
- Potencies would
be limited to extremely low dosages. Only the drug companies and the
big phytopharmaceutical companies would have the right to produce
and sell the higher potency products (at inflated prices).
- Prescriptions
would be required for anything above the extremely low doses allowed
(such as 35 mg. on niacin).
- Common foods
such as garlic and peppermint would be classified as drugs or a third
category (neither food nor drugs) that only big pharmaceutical companies
could regulate and sell. Any food with any therapeutic effect can
be considered a drug, even benign everyday substances like water.
- Codex regulations
for dietary supplements would become binding (escape clauses would
be eliminated).
- All new dietary
supplements would be banned unless they go through Codex testing and
approval.
- Genetically altered
food would be sold worldwide without labeling.
According to John
Hammell, a legislative advocate and the founder of International Advocates
for Health Freedom (IAHF), here is what we have to look forward to:
"If Codex Alimentarius
has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino
acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of
your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex is to shift all
remedies into the prescription category so they can be controlled exclusively
by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms.
Predictably, this scenario has been denied by both the Canadian Health
Food Association and the Health Protection Branch of Canada (HPB).
The Codex proposals
already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food
industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these
countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45
IU, vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical
giant, now controls an Echinacea tincture, which is being sold there
as an over the counter drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is
true of ginkgo and many other herbs, and only one government controlled
pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they
can sell to health food stores, convenience stores or pharmacies."
It is now a criminal offence in parts of Europe to sell herbs as foods.
An agreement called EEC6565 equates selling herbs as foods to selling
other illegal drugs. Action is being taken to accelerate other European
countries into 'harmonization' as well.
Paul Hellyer in his book, "The Evil Empire," states: "Codex is supported
by international banks and multinational corporations including some
in Canada, and is in reality a bill of rights for these banks and the
corporations they control. It will hand over our sovereign rights concerning
who may or may not invest in our countries to an unelected world organization
run by big business. The treaty would make it impossible for Canadian
legislators either federal or provincial to alter or improve environmental
standards for fear of being sued by multinational corporations whether
operating in Canada or not.
This will create a world without borders ruled by a virtual dictatorship
of the world's most powerful central banks and multinational companies.
This world is an absolute certainty if we all sit on our hands and do
nothing."
This is the future the FDA and FTC are striving to bring us via Codex
harmonization. Is this a future we are going to willingly accept or
prevent?
WHY TARGET THE INTERNET?
It is no accident that the FDA and FTC are targeting Internet health
sites through Operation Cure-All. We are standing in the doorway of
an unprecedented revolution -- the information revolution brought about
by the Internet.
Now all people everywhere have the ability to learn about anything that
interests them with just a few clicks. History has shown that informed,
educated people change civilizations -- they change the flow of thought
and they change the flow of money. They can even change the direction
of a country. When similar transitions have happened in the past, the
powers that existed did not give up willingly. The Catholic Church fiercely
protected its practice of selling 'indulgences' as a forgiveness of
sin. When the practice was abolished, the Catholic Church lost a great
deal of power and money.
When the printing press was invented, books were banned and printers
were imprisoned by the authorities, who feared an educated public could
not be governed. In the same way, the medical monopoly (and the UN)
now fears that a public educated in health and privy to the shortcomings
of modern medicine could not be controlled. Loss of control means loss
of revenue and loss of power. And they are doing everything they can
to stop progress so they can contain their losses and strengthen their
power.
The printing press changed the world. Can you imagine what life would
be like today if the book banners had their way? But because the printing
press won out, society progressed and freedom was embraced. The Internet
is changing the world in an equally significant way. While the entire
Internet can hardly be suppressed, the pharma-cartels and their backers
are looking to protect their interests by restricting as much information
as they can on the Internet.
Will we, the people, win out again -- or will the UN and the World Health
Organization agenda and the pharmaceutical cartel change the course
of history and take us back to the "dark ages" of medicine?
WHAT CAN WE DO?
Step number one is learn as much as possible about this issue. Here
are some websites where you will find a great deal of information:
Signing petitions
is fine, but not nearly as effective as writing to your congressmen
and congresswomen. Write to them insisting we hold a PROPER Oversight
Hearing on Codex. An oversight hearing was held in March, but the truth
was not allowed to come out. Witness who could have exposed what was
going on, and who wanted to testify, were denied the opportunity to
testify. Congress is strongly resisting another Codex hearing, telling
their constituents it is not necessary. This could not be further from
the truth.
Contact information
for representatives: http://www.house.gov
Contact information for senators: http://www.senate.gov
Copyright 2001 Ruth
James, rjames@therealessentials.com
http://www.therealessentials.com
CTM Comment:
Codex is of course the single most virulent assault on human freedoms
in recent times. The desire to control of vitamins, minerals, herbs
and other nutritional factors has ironically come about as a result
of the inability of orthodox medicine to destroy the practice of the
public practicing health without drugs. Now government and the chemical
industry will seek to control and profit from that which was available
directly to the public in times gone by.
Overturning the
Codex by a mass public backlash is CTM's sworn goal. This can be accomplished
only with large numbers of the public all committed to this endeavor.
As the above article states, the Internet itself has been able to grant
access to information freely to anyone seeking it, and this has destabilized
the flow of money and profits to institutions which have traditionally
believed their highly lucrative monopolies to be safe. There can be
no more pressing reason to join the Campaign for Truth in Medicine for
FREE than to assist us in pressuring for the scrapping of Codex.
For more information go to: http://www.campaignfortruth.com
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