I’m a Fan of Nutritional Products and Codex Should be Stopped
by Anonymous Guest blogger, Don
The Codex Alimentarius, which will regulate food and supplements on an international basis, will become international law on December 31, 2009 unless it is somehow stopped. The Codex is being promoted by the U. N. through the World Trade Organization, and the WTO will have many legal advantages over its opponents if the Codex becomes law.
Treaty law tends to supersede even Federal law, and the United States is already obligated by the Uruguay round of GATT to harmonize its trade laws (including those regulating food and supplements) with international standards. Even the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DHSEA) of 1994 may not be a sufficient defense against the encroachment of international regulations. If the provisions and guidelines of the Codex are implemented in the U. S., the natural food and supplement industries will — simply put — become illegal overnight.
I am not prepared to make the case that the mainstream pharmaceutical industry and certain government agencies will benefit enormously by the implementation of Codex provisions and guidelines. The logic of the argument, however, is familiar and self-evident to those who have followed the legal history of “alternative” foods, supplements, and medicine. The Codex is based on “science,” and therein lies the conundrum: Whose science are we talking about? The history of natural food and supplements extends to the dawn of history, yet the resulting body of knowledge will not be considered science by the bureaucrats who implement and enforce Codex guidelines. Codex documentation plainly demonstrates that the science behind this document is the exclusive domain of medical and pharmaceutical industry insiders, of those who have developed the Codex itself over decades.
A Google search turns up about 924,000 entries for “Codex Alimentarius.” Bing churns up 338,000. The quantity of information out there is daunting…almost as much as a congressional bill in our era. My own suggestions would be:
1. Go to www.HealthFreedomUSA.org
2. Go to Natural-health-information-centre.com
3. Contact the aides of concerned legislators.The office of Senator Orrin Hatch might be a good place to start. Senator Hatch has backed the right horse over and over again.
As the website specified in “2.” above will indicate, the protest against the Codex is global.
The question is whether it is enough and soon enough.
Don is a Hartke is Online! reader with an active interest in his health.
The picture on this post is not of Don, just a reasonable facsimile for artistic purposes only.
Love your blog, by the way. What a great, centralized resource for all real food and local farm info.
6 Comments
Yes…it will. Foods and food supplements were redefined as drugs in July 2005 at the Codex Alimentarius meeting in Rome. It is just a matter of time.
Man this is worrying…especially for people like me who are in the process of overcoming serious illnesses only because I was able to find the right supplements to do so. If supplements someday really became illegal overnight, I at least hope the entire country goes ballistic and produces some serious backlash…
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We are also working to regain health with good food plus necessarily supplements,
and my child has a genetic defect and must have supplements to rebalance the biochemistry.
Opposition needs to be organized… is there someone doing so?
We are all looking for an organized effort but none seems to be in progress. This thing will become law before we know it. We are just too complacent and too busy. I would ask everyone out there to contact their congressmen. I did sign the petition on Health Freedom- they have an organized effort which makes it easy to do so. Dr. Rina Laibow has an interesting presentation on youtube explaining Codex. It seems unbelievable but it is not–it is happening. And we have to get serious about losing this incredible path to health and healing. In addition to supplements, foods are also considered drugs so they can easily be the next object of attack. Broccoli by prescription!
Does this mean that all countries who are member of WTO are bound to implement the Codex? in other words, this will result in a virtual world-wide ban on supplements and even foods?
If this passes Dec 31st 2009, I consider it an act of aggression against the people.