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From everything I hear, Codex Alimentarius is going live December 31st 2009. Have you ever heard of it until this time??? My guess is most of you will not have heard about it. I have read many articles and have seen videos about a lot of things regarding Codex Alimentarius and some of the changes that might come down on us. Most are filled with bad news and gloom and doom situations. Quite frankly I get sick of gloom and doom and like to hear solutions instead of problems, so I decided to start looking into it for myself because of all of the bad things I have seen. If they are true then it seems that this will be a very rough road for most people, if not then these people are just doing what people do, which is freak out about big change.
Codex on the surface is basically a giant international catalog of standards for food production and trade. This includes standards for things like food growing, food handling, food packaging, food processing, food labeling, food transport and food trade. A giant collaboration between consumers, food producers, food processors, and governments have met time after time and have come up with a set of “standards” for the entire world to eventually go by once this thing becomes active and everyone jumps on the boat, or may be forced to jump in one way or another.
According to them, the highest priority of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, as stated in Article 1 of its statutes, is to protect the health of consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade. This also means they will have complete control of the food systems and trade systems. As the front cover of this book might suggest, all of this is geared towards protecting the population against everything from unsanitary food conditions to unfair trade. Quite honestly this is all fine and dandy BUT this does again mean that 1 body “Codex Alimentarius” will have complete control over it all. That will present a problem and we will be at the mercy of Codex if they make guidelines that aren’t for the better good, and if they use junk science along with this power in creating food guidelines.
Now, on to some of the things that I have heard about and what they could mean.
RUMOR – CODEX IS GOING LIVE AT THE END OF 2009
I have heard that this Codex “system” is going to go live at the end of the year. I have not heard anything about this on the news or while generally browsing the web. This seems to be following the typical pattern of things being these days, bills being swept under the rug while the people are not told what changes are going on. All I can go by is what I find elsewhere, and they all say the same thing. The end of 2009 is when it will begin.
RUMOR – IF NATIONS ARE IN A DISPUTE, THE ONES BELONGING TO CODEX AUTO WIN
No fair system to judge who is correct and who is not. It sounds like Codex will use harsh tactics to get countries to comply if they are not following the rules. I don’t like the sound of this, but it almost has to be like this if a global standard is ever to come to be. . It just shows that if this were to happen that the Codex is “the law” no matter what in the countries that commit to it. I don’t care what the initial intent was, this type of power could be eventually used in bad ways. When power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then that may be the fate of an international all mighty power like Codex will be.
If there is to be this global system called Codex, and this system does a good job and actually shows positive progress, and Codex is not abusing its power, then this is fine with me
RUMOR – REQUIRED IRRADIATION OF MOST FOODS
Zero nutritional status and damaged toxic products in your foods. I have heard that Codex is going to force mandatory Irradiation of most foods. Take off the IR and what do you have… the word Radiation!!! This is food that has been put through radiation treatment to “kill the bacteria” on or in it, making it safer to eat. This presents 1 major problem, it damages the entire product!!! Radiation not only kills bacteria and enzymes but it destroys vitamins and minerals and the very cell structure of the product. This would also produce thousands of times more free radicals in the radiated product, promoting much more disease then we already have. If this is true then get ready to make plans to buy locally grown foods directly from your local farmer. All other foods will slowly kill you, through a slow diseased process. You could also start a garden now and get used to growing your own foods. This will not be irradiated and you will reap the benefits.
RUMOR – ALL VITAMINS / MINERALS WILL BE CLASSIFIED AS “TOXINS”
No more buying supplements without a doctor’s order, and all over the counter vitamins will be very at very low dosage. I have heard that codex is going to classify all nutrients as “Drugs” making them illegal without a prescription. Things like Vitamins, Minerals, Omega Fatty Acids, Antioxidants ALA, EPA, DHEA, CLA… EVERYTHING will be classified as a drug. This means that you will not be able to get them as you would freely be able to do so now. You will be able to get very low doses of vitamins and minerals off the shelf, but the doses will be so low that there really won’t be a point in taking it unless you take half a bottle as a serving. The FDA wants to classify anything it can get its hands on as a drug if there can be a claim that it can have any health benefits, and I am guessing that this is where this one came into play. Why not make everything a “drug” so we can change the money chain and make money off of it!
RUMOR – NO MORE “HIGH DOSE” SUPPLEMENTS
Less nutritional value and much higher cost for you. I have heard that Codex is going to implement a ban on all High Dose supplements. They will use “toxicology” research to make a declaration of what is a safe amount to take for each substance. The will take the least amount that affects you in a negative way, and then divide that figure by 100 for the new “correct dosage”. If it happens then they may say that it is “scientifically proven” all of a sudden that the levels that they were previously at are toxic to your health and that lowering them puts it into a safe dosage. They also might not use the natural forms of vitamins in their studies, which will provide a much lower “safe” dosage as the baseline. This will drive the calculated amount even lower. This is just sad to even think about. Vitamins and minerals in low doses are not enough to keep your intake at therapeutic levels. This means that it won’t be enough to stop disease from coming to be, and not nearly enough to treat disease. You may be saying “Well ok then, just take more of it then!” Well this also means that to get to a therapeutic level you would have to consume more then the amount of servings that we can at this time. I would think that this would cost you quite a bit more to take the same amount that you take now if Codex were to implement something like this. Prices most likely will not go down for the stuff so that means more for them at your expense.
RUMOR – BRINGING BACK SEVERAL OF THE MOST DANGEROUS BANNED PESTICIDES
More toxicity in the food chain and the planet. I have heard that Codex is bringing back several of the most dangerous pesticides. These were classified and banned by 176 countries all at the same meeting! I don’t know why they would do such a thing, but I would not be surprised if they did. One reason I would think they would do this is to help out the chemical companies that make the stuff. Another, although very highly unlikely, is that they found that they are not as dangerous as once shown to be. Most people don’t yet care enough, but I am one of those people that don’t want any chemicals in my food because I know of the effects these chemicals have. This move would only show me and make me believe that we are even further going backwards from the end solution of ultimate health and not towards it. Banning more chemicals would be a step in the right direction, not bringing back more.
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All in all, I can see Codex as being a good thing IF and only if the above things do not happen. If these things do happen then I can say with full confidence that we will face a lot of health challenges in the years to come that far surpass the current health problems of today’s ignorant society. These changes would all go completely against their “highest priority” stated directly in their first article. There are a lot of fishy things going on, but I cannot imagine that they will put up a face until this goes live, and then suddenly shift position and implement all of these things. Maybe they will but it will take 50 years before it actually happens. Maybe they will created situations that merit going with these solutions, while having junk science to back up the claims. Maybe nothing will happen and this will slowly evolve into what it really should be.
Requiring irradiated foods across the board would kill hundreds of millions of people over time due to disease because no nutritional value would be left in foods. Demonizing supplements and labeling them as drugs would indirectly kill people because people will stop having access to them, and the ones that do have access will be taking far less then they need to be. I think uneducated people would even stop taking them simply due to the label “drug”. Making doses of supplements a fraction of what they are now will stop supplements from having any health effects on us, thus promoting disease and death. And if they were to bring back the most dangerous previously banned pesticides from out current time then it must be because they are all of a sudden safe to your health, right?
I can say that if it is a ploy to get mass control for profits at the expense of everyone’s health then it won’t last forever no matter what they think. Every empire has fallen, and this one will surely fall in due time.
You can start to browse the many pages of Codex at www.CodexAlimentarius.net. At least familiarize yourself with what they claim on their site because who knows, it may actually be the real deal! I hope so, and I hope all of the rumors are people just freaking out.
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