According to the New York Times[31] Monsanto's brand of rBST, Posilac, has recently (March 2008) been the focus for a pro-rBST advocacy group called AFACT, made up of large dairy business conglomerates and closely affiliated with Monsanto itself. This group has engaged in large-scale lobbying efforts at the state level to prevent milk which is rBST-free from being labeled as such. As milk labeled as hormone-free has proved enormously popular with consumers, the primary justification by AFACT for their efforts has been that rBST is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and that the popularity of milk sold without it is damaging what they claim to be the right of dairy producers to use a technology that maximizes their profits.
Also, under Codex
Every animal on the planet, used for food, must be treated with sub-clinical antibiotics and exogenous growth hormones. Additionally, it mandates that all food by irradiated – unless eaten locally and raw
A break down of whats mandated, all information available Codex Alimentarius Official Standards Page
Veterinary Drug Residues in Food Standards – Maximum Limits
This section includes 50 drugs for which it has set maximum limits of the amounts that can make it to our food supply.
Food additives
This section includes well over 100 food additives that are allowed.
Pesticides
This section includes over 200 pesticides and their maximum residual limits.
In an ideal world, all of these sections would be riddled with ZERO for the amount allowed in our food supply.
Other Failures
Since Codex is recognized by the World Health Organization as a reference point in disputes over food safety, it is above the FDA in scope and power. 1 Thus, it is a failure of Codex that has resulted in the toxic food that we are practically forced to eat every single day.
I have covered many of these failures in my 2 other latest threads, 7 Things that Are Killing You! and 7 Things that Are Killing You! Part 2. For more information, I suggest reading both. But for now ill just list them.
Their failure has resulted in the addition of the following items into our food supply, which are all covered in detail on the official Codex site noted above. Artificial sweeteners and their numerous detrimental health effects. MSG, and it's addictive nature. Fluoride in our water supplies, both that we consume, and into creating the food that is manufactured by consumption. Aluminum in cooking ingredients. Genetically Engineered crops which have randomly mutating genes, causing adverse reactions including death in numerous cases. In-appropriate replacements of breast milk. A whole myriad of chemicals that have been added to manufactured food. Unsafe food and ingredients from China. Etc.
The worst, and most important for last
Vitamin and Nutrient Guidelines
In 1994 Congress passed DSHEA (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act), which labeled nutrients and herbs as foods. This meant that there could be no upper limits set. This includes things like Vitamin C, Lettuce, Ginko, lamb, echinacea, vitamin D etc. Additionally, access to all of these was free to anyone who choose to. It's whats called freedom. This, all under common law. Under the Napoleonic code, Codex will reverse this to a negative list. So what they set as allowable are the only things allowed, everything else is illegal. Source
On a side note, Big Pharma didn't like this, so they were sure to make it so foods could not cure, or treat any disease. That's why it is illegal to say that any natural treatment can cure someone. That's also why there exists a false common consensus that alternative treatments do not work and are not viable. It's also worth noting that a google search can find you a ton of information about how the Pharmaceutical has bought up a lot of supplement and nutrient manufacturers, these companies cut in to their bottom line. More Info.
Furthermore, in 2001, more than 170 countries, including the US, got together and decided that there were 12 POPs (persistent organic pollutants) that are so bad that no one could disagree that they had to be banned. 9 of those 12, just happened to be, pesticides. But, Codex has brought back 7 of those banned POPs, Dieldrin, Aldrin, Hexochlorobenzene, to name a few. Source
Under Codex, the use of these life giving foods will be restricted, and outright banned for many. Since they have labeled Nutrients toxins, and use pseudo science to set insane low limits on nutrients. Instead of using Nutritional Science which is a branch of Biochemistry, Codex uses Risk Assessment, which has no place in testing Nutrients. But it does have a place, testing toxins, thus, under Codex logic, this form of pseudo science is what their claims are based on. Risk Assessment Codex doesn't even use practical Risk assessment considering the fact that it would have to kill half of the test group of animals through the use of excess nutrients. Since this is an extremely hard task, due to nutrients having astonishingly low toxicity, Codex instead uses Risk Assessment on paper only. Source
For instance, under codex, a maximum of 200mg of Vitamin C would be set. Practically any supermarket right now, you can buy 1000mg vitamin C caplets, this would be illegal. Many people, even consume many times that amount daily.Source Vitamin C is completely harmless, and is extremely beneficial to our health. Scurvy, a killer in past centuries is simply a Vitamin C deficiency, and it goes to highlight how ludicrous this entire thing is. Because Vitamin C alone, literally cures scurvy and scurvy is causes by its deficiency, so why make limit it's consumption? This is where the danger of Codex really comes in, because once we start having beneficial nutrients become deficient in our society as a whole, we will see a new emergence of third world diseases effecting the first world.
Consequences
When one does the math in the WHO TECHNICAL REPORT – Diet, Nutrition and Prevention of Chronic Diseases They themselves project the following deaths:
3,000,000,000 Deaths.
1,000,000,000 from preventable diseases of malnutrition alone, such as Scurvy.
Similarly, in Canada, Bill C-51 defines nutrients, as drugs. And it is ILLEGAL and provides jail terms to those who take them for health benefits. All Canadians should write to their members of parliament about this issue. Keep in mind that most people in government do not really know much about Codex and its fallacies.
Furthermore,
Source
This objective could be on the move now with the ratification at the 2008 Codex Sessions of the FDA’s draft guidelines that defines any information about food and health as “advertising.” This new labeling rule dictates that the articulation of any relation between health and food constitutes advertising, whether it comes from an academic, a journalist, or even your own doctor.(10) In New Jersey, the Registered Dietician Licensing Act (A2933 in the Assembly and S1941 in the Senate) will limit the public’s access to education about natural health options to licensed dieticians (who wish to be known as “medical nutritionists”), with no training or interest in natural and holistic alternatives. One nutritionist calls this bill nothing less than a “Dieticians Monopoly Act.”
What Can be Done? Get Involved.
A good place to start is visiting Health Freedom USA learn more, and also look up more articles about Codex via google. I try to keep my articles relatively short and concise so that people can get a decent picture of the situation. It's up to every reader what they do with the knowledge, if they pursue more, and if they decide to educate those around them. There is also a great video which is approximately 45 minutes long that can be viewed on Google Video, entitled, Nutricide which is cited a few times in this article, and was a launch point for further investigation of Codex for this article.
Additionally, you can sign the Citizens Petition, send letters to your congressional Representative, tell friends, and conduct webinars.
As usual, please be kind on any spelling and grammatical issues I have overlooked while producing this.
Thanks for reading, Educate, Propagate, Survive.
[edit on 11-6-2009 by king9072]
[edit on 11-6-2009 by king9072]
