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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Codex Alimentarius Natural Health Freedoms Threat

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.

Her website: Health Freedom USA

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?

Filed under: Herbs, Law, Videos — Linda @ 7:36 am



Sunday, February 24, 2008

Vegetarian Broccoli Cream Soup

I work at the local pizza restaurant during the lunch hour when we usually stay busy serving pizza by the slice, breadsticks, sandwiches, wraps, fajitos, and on Fridays, enchiladas.

This winter, soup was added to the menu. My co-worker is a marvelous cook and prepares these soups a couple times each week, varying between potato soup, chicken noodle, pizza soup, and broccoli soup. Unfortunately none of these soups are intended to be vegetarian so I don’t eat them.

A few weeks ago I took her broccoli soup recipe home and adapted it to my vegetarian diet. I still use milk products so I added whole milk to my soup; if you’re vegan, you can eliminate that and substitute water or broth instead. (Yes, more adaptions, but I’m sure you can handle it.)

Here’s my version of our Broccoli Cream Soup without the chicken broth!

In a large soup pan heat three cups of water while you’re chopping veggies.

Chop one cup of carrots and toss them in the water.
Then chop one cup of celery. Toss it in.
Next, the broccoli. You’ll need four cups of that. Toss it in and let it boil for about three minutes.

Hint: chop the carrots and celery in small pieces, not large chunks.

Next you’re going to drain the water from the veggies. But save the broth! I put the broth back into my four-cup pyrex measuring cup and put the veggies in my strainer which sits in the sink until I need them again.

The next thing you’ll need is an onion. Chop about 3/4 of a cup of onion and put it into the large soup pan with six tablespoons of butter. Heat the onions, stirring, stirring, until they are tender.

Add six tablespoons of flour, and stir until creamy. Work it all in.

Now gently and slowly, add back in your three cups of vegetable broth, stirring it into the floury onion-butter mixture so that everything is even and not lumpy.

Next add two cups of milk if you use milk. If not, stir in two cups of water.

Heat it up! You need for this to boil for at least a minute, and if you’re using milk, you’d better stir constantly.

Next add back in your veggies (remember, the ones you boiled earlier?)

To this mixture add one tablespoon parsley, one and a half teaspoons of salt, and half a teaspoon of garlic powder.

Simmer covered for 35 to 40 minutes.

Serve with warm tortillas, quesadillas, buttered french bread, or whatever you have that sounds and tastes good to you!

We get about four servings out of this soup.

Filed under: Broccoli, Vegetables, Vegetarianism — Linda @ 12:15 pm





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Hi, my name is Linda. This is my personal home and hearth journal.

I am a self-trained herbalist. I became a vegetarian when I was a teenager in the 1960s. I was a San Francisco Bay Area hippie in the 60s and early 70s. Then I became a mom - the most important job I've ever had.

Now I live in a very small mountain community. The nearest fast food restaurant is more than forty miles during summer, and more than seventy miles in winter when the pass is snowed under. I've never owned a cell phone, but I talked on one once.





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