1) Started in 1962 by UN, Imposed by WTO Sanctions

Codex Alimentarius was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN
to control the international trade of food. 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.

Codex Alimentarius is backed up by the crippling trade sanctions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Any
non Codex-compliant nation would face huge economic punishment since
they would automatically lose in any food-trade dispute with a Codex
compliant country.

2) "Nutrients are Toxins" Is Junk Science

Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition.

One of them, the "Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special
Dietary Uses" (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the "top-guy" for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that "nutrition is not relevant to health".

As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared
nutrients to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology
(Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans
who take supplements! It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus
happens to own the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex
on this issue. This company makes money when its toxicology services
are used for the "assessment" of nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call
that a "conflict of interest".

Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline
(VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and
minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the
VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment
(toxicology) to assess nutrients.

While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science.
Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for
assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins,
which is literally insane.

Nutrients are not toxins - they are essential for life.

No
matter what Codex Alimentarius officials say to convince you that Risk
Assessment is a "science-based" approach to nutrients, it is not.

And it is worth repeating that Dr.
Grossklaus, the head of Codex Alimentarius, owns the Risk Assessment
company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on the "benefit" of using Risk
Assessment to assess nutrients.

3) Not Consumer Protection - That's Propaganda

Contrary to the propaganda, Codex Alimentarius has nothing to do with consumer protection. Nothing! Codex is about the economic ambitions of multi-national corporations, in particular, the pharmaceutical industry.

Using their multi billion-dollar marketing budgets, these industries have launched a massive media propaganda campaign to paint Codex Alimentarius as a benevolent tool of "consumer protection", as well as to negatively taint the image of natural health options and mislead people to fear them as "dangerous", so they will take drugs (which really are dangerous). Natural health products and options have an amazing safety record and are remarkably effective, especially when compared to pharmaceutical drugs.

Unfortunately, one-time defenders of health freedom such as National
Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) and Council for Responsible
Nutrition (CRN) have joined the propaganda bandwagon and are spreading false information saying that Codex Alimentarius is either "harmless" or benevolent "consumer protection". Neither is true.

The membership of these one-time defenders of health freedom has become
permeated by people from the pharmaceutical industry (for example, CRN
counts as its members corporations such as Monsanto® and Bayer®).

4) Codex: Serious Threat to Health and Health Freedom

If Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America,
therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals (and all other nutrients
soon to follow) will become unavailable because they will literally
become illegal.

Here's how it would work, in a nut-shell:

Due to the junk science use of Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess supposedly toxic nutrients, a false belief is being engineered saying that "nutritional supplements are dangerous to people's health".

Using this false belief generates calls to "protect" people from these "toxic" nutrients. After the calls come the bills to set ultra low permissible dosages (remember, nutrients are deemed "dangerous toxins" under this false belief).
If enough of us and our Congressional delegates buy this nonsense, we
and Congress would blindly comply with Codex Alimentarius' VMG. And
blind compliance is what the industries behind Codex Alimentarius
intend.

Blind compliance goes hand-in-hand with lack of activism.
This lack of activism allows our protective laws, classifying nutrients
as foods with no upper limits (such as DSHEA), to be easily repealed
and replaced with draconian laws to classify nutrients as toxins. And
"harmonization" with the pro-illness, pro-pharmaceutical industry
Vitamin and Mineral Guideline is there to fill the void.

Only intentionally ineffective, ultra low dose supplements would be
legal, with or without a prescription, on the VMG list. If enough
people do not take action, we can expect
to watch nutritional supplement manufacturers and, thus health food
stores, to go out of business, in a domino effect. The only player left
standing would be Big Pharma.

Therapeutic
grade vitamins, minerals, and amino acids would be eliminated from the
marketplace (although a few low-dose supplements would be allowed by
Codex, as a symbolic measure to avoid suspicion about their ulterior
motive).

Natural health professionals would
lose the tools of their trade (nutritional supplements) and health
conscious people would be unable to choose natural health options for
health promotion and disease treatment.

And
that is, in a nutshell, how Codex Alimentarius is poised to make
Natural and Nutritional Medicine (NNM) disappear from the legal health
world and go underground. Who benefits? Big Pharma.

It would take a few years for the above scenarios to be feasible (Codex
Alimentarius is meant to go into full global effect by 2010). The
slower the process takes, the less alarmed people will be. That's
probably the logic of the architects of Codex Alimentarius.

5) Serves Economic Interests of Sickness Industries Through WTO and Napoleonic Code

More and more people are turning to natural health products globally.
The "wellness" trend is a major trend in today's society. The more
natural health products people use, the fewer drugs they buy. The
pharmaceutical industry, which is part of the "Sickness Industry",
fears the inevitable shift toward natural health care.

Instead of accepting the will of the people and rethinking the future
of the pharmaceutical industry, the industry has decided upon an
unethical course of action: the use of deception and deceit to
eliminate natural health products completely.

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.

Codex
Alimentarius is the resistance of the dinosaurs to inevitability: the
burgeoning desire of humanity for a healthier, saner, and more
sustainable way of life.

The World Trade
Organization (WTO) intends to force Codex Alimentarius upon the nations
of the world, including the U.S. This would be done under the threat of
massive economic sanctions if WTO-countries do not comply with Codex
Alimentarius.

Furthermore, Codex is based in the Napoleonic Code, not Common Law. That means that under Codex Alimentarius, anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden.

Under Common Law, we hold that anything not explicitly forbidden is
permitted. The difference is the difference between health freedom and
health tyranny. Codex Alimentarius would be able to ban supplements by
default.

6) DSHEA Protects America From Codex Alimentarius

The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act
(DSHEA, 1994), an American law classifying our supplements and herbs as
foods (which can have no upper limit set on their use), was passed by unanimous Congressional consent
following massive grass-roots support organized by health food stores.
Millions of American activists told Congress, in no uncertain terms:

"Protect nutritional supplements as foods or we will remove you from office".

Congress listened and carried out the will of the people.

DSHEA appropriately classifies nutritional supplements as foods
which can have no upper limits set on their use. DSHEA recognizes that
people use nutrients safely to deal with their individually differing
needs for nutrients. The concept of biochemical individuality means
that people have different needs for nutrients at different times. Are
nutrients toxins? No, they are not toxins. They are substances
essential to prevent, treat and cure any chronic condition, in
differing doses at different times in different people.

DSHEA protects the US from Codex Alimentarius' deadly Vitamin and
Mineral Guideline. We must reach our Congressional members, educate
them about the facts on Codex Alimentarius and direct them to vote
against anything that would threaten DSHEA.

Congress holds the keys to our health freedom. And it is their job to
listen to us. Let's not allow cynicism to tell us otherwise. We did it
for DSHEA in 1994. We can do it again in 2005.

7) Your Action is Needed Now!

DSHEA is under significant legislative attack
right now. Your letter-writing is crucial: if the members of Congress
know that voting against health freedom means losing their jobs come
election time, they will listen. Our job is to make sure they get the
message loud and clear. Take action via our 3 easy steps and send personalized emails to Congress right now.

After taking action on HealthFreedomUSA.org, consider getting together
with others in your area and visit your Congressional members in their home offices.
If we wait, we lose our health freedoms. Once we "HARMonize" with
Codex, by the way, we no longer have the right, while we belong to the
WTO, to repeal or change that "HARMonization"!

Conclusion

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 "HARMonize" to Codex
Alimentarius, as long as we are in the WTO, we cannot amend or change
what we've been "HARMonize" to.

Codex
Alimentarius will go into global implementation by December 31, 2009,
unless We, the People, avert it. We must act now because right now,
with $758 Million spent on declared Congressional lobbying by Big
Pharma last year, there are members of Congress who are trying to
overturn DSHEA and allow Pharma-friendly free reign for Codex. If
protective laws like DSHEA are destroyed, the sanctioning power of the
autocratic WTO kicks in, and it will be impossible to get out from
under Codex Alimentarius. We can protect our access to high potency
nutrients and stave off an adulterated food supply only by putting
pressure on Congress.

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About Codex Alimentarius:

• Who is Behind Codex Alimentarius?


• Codex Alimentarius is Unscientific


• How Codex is Formulated and Imposed on Nations


• Codex Alimentarius and the Napoleonic Code


• World Health Organization Chastises Codex

Consequences:

• Consequences for Human and Environmental Health


• How Codex Alimentarius Promotes Dangerous GMOs


• How Codex Alimentarius Promotes Pesticides


• Codex Alimentarius Violates Liberty

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