Dr. Rima E. Laibow, MD is a a spokesperson for the protection of natural health freedom. She’s also a doctor who has practiced natural, drug-free medicine for more than 35 years.
In these videos Dr. Laibow gives a speech explaining what Codex Alimentarius is and how it threatens our natural health freedom rights. This speech was given in 2005 at the annual conference of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals (NANP).
If you don’t have time or means to watch these videos, you can read my notes and supplementary research at the end of this blog posting.
Most of what follows are my notes taken directly from the videos above. I added a small bit of my own research with website links. In particular I wanted to know the current status of this issue. (It is ongoing at this time.) I also looked for Codex Alimentarius on Snopes.Com - it isn’t there, so I’m guessing this information hasn’t been deemed a hoax.
After WWII at the Neurenburg Tribunals twenty-four executives and board members of a large German company called IG Farbin were sentenced to prison. IG Farbin produced steel, munitions, poisonous gases, pharmaceuticals (including Bayer) and chemicals. The president of that company, Fritz derMeer, was convicted on July 29, 1948. When released he went to friends in the UN and suggested they take over food in order to have power over everyone.
In 1963 they created a trade commission called the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It isn’t a governmental organization; it is about turning a profit. Their goal is to have total global implementation of Codex Alimentarius by 12/31/09. Codex is a huge bureaucracy now and has created over 4000 guidelines, standards and regulations over every type of food imaginable. Pharmaceuticals are not included in these guidelines. Herbs, vitamins and minerals are.
Their standards have no legal weight, but here’s how they got into power anyhow.
First a bit of history: The Austro-Hungarian government decided they needed rules for courts to use in cases regarding food. Around 1893 they put these regulations in place and called them Codex Alimentarius. It lasted until the country ended at the end of WWI.
Fritz derMeer apparently liked the idea of rules so he started promoting his food rules using the same name. His rules were voluntary guidelines. The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) was formed in 1963 and is supervised and funded by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), at the request of the United Nations.
The Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements were presented to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for ratification on July 4, 2005. They were approved by consensus and are now mandatory over all countries that are members of the World Health Organization. They expect all members of the World Trade Organization to “harmonize” with Codex Alimentarius rules.
If two countries are involved in a dispute resolution process ruled over by the World Trade Organization, if one country is Codex compliant and the other isn’t, the Codex compliant country automatically wins no matter what the facts of the case are. Therefore every county in the world wants to “harmonize” with Codex Alimentarius rules.
Codex, however, doesn’t serve health. It serves pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnical, agricultural, and medical industry interests.
Though Codex rules are said to be “voluntary” they are not actually… countries are coerced by the WTO dispute resolution process into following them. However after 12/31/09 they will be totally mandatory - at least that is the plan.
Here in the USA in 1994 the Dietary Suppliments Health and Education Act (DSHEA) classified nutrients and herbs as foods. By this act and common law, anything not forbidden is permitted, and we’re allowed to have as much of these things as we want. Codex, however, is not ruled by common law - it is ruled by Napoleonic Code law which states that anything not permitted is forbidden.
In 1994 Codex declared that nutrients are toxins.
Via toxicology risk assessment animals are given these ‘toxins’ until they die to figure out how much would be poisonous for human beings. It is expected that eighteen of these ‘nutrient toxins’ will be approved, one of them being fluoride (a real poison! Fluoride makes people complacent so it was first used in WWII concentration camps to control people there. Read more about fluoride here: Fluoride Poisoning.)
There have been multiple attempts to destroy the USA legislation, DSHEA. The Coalition to Preserve DSHEA website states “Congress may soon consider new legislation that would trump DSHEA and put consumer access to dietary supplements at risk.” This watch-dog organization is working to preserve our health freedoms.
Codex would make most of the food supplements we use illegal.
Codex would force every dairy cow on the planet to be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone.
Codex would force every food animal on the planet to be treated with sub-clinical antibiotics and growth hormones. (including fish and fowl)
Codex mandates that all food be irradiated unless eaten locally and raw, including organic food.
Codex organic standards allow farmers to use growth hormones and antibiotics on animals.
Codex sets amazingly high limits for dangerous industrial chemicals.
You can do a Google search for Codex Alimentarius and look through their pages to find information on toxic chemicals allowed in our foods including pesticides.
Codex has brought back seven toxic chemicals that over a hundred countries have banned. And any country that is Codex compliant will not be able to refuse imports of foods with these toxins.
According to Dr. Laibow, the World Health Organization’s own statistics project that if Codex’s vitamin/mineral standard becomes mandatory, over three billion people will die, one billion from simple starvation. These people are considered expendable because starving people can’t contribute much to the world economy. The other two billion will die from under-nutrition and health conditions that can’t be treated properly without the right foods and supplements. She says those who will live are the wealthy and powerful who can afford clean food sources. The rest of us are apparently to be intended victims of toxic foods. Even if we eat natural, homegrown foods at home, children in public schools are eating government-supplied foods for school lunches.
This doctor has been working with a team of lawyers to create a strategy to fight Codex in court.
She is asking us to sign her Natural Solutions Foundation Citizen’s Petition and to tell people about it.
Well, now I’ve told you about it. What can you do to spread this information to others?
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