Although
written by a prominent Canadian M.D., the article below, one of the BEST we have
read on the topic, was distributed by a U.S. group seeking to stop the CODEX in
the U.S. The CODEX affects the U.S., Canada, and all member nations of the U.N.
We URGE you to read it and decide if maybe, just maybe, it's finally time for
you to use the democratic process TODAY to preserve the future of you and your
family TOMORROW.
We have reported on this a number of times already. Some
of you have sent us messages indicating that you understand the importance. Some
of you may be too cynical -- or perhaps too healthy..? -- to care. But that may
change. You have to appreciate how close to collapse our current medical
paradigm is. New "bugs" are appearing every day, many of which are
resistant to conventional medicine. In fact, as of last week, there is only one
true broad-spectrum antibiotic left in the entire arsenal of modern medicine,
and new bugs which it cannot kill are already appearing! [Have doubts? Check
with your own doctor!] A study JUST released in Canada last week tested hundreds
of pre-schoolers (children in day-care centers) and found that 1 in every 3
(33.3%) were on some form of antibiotic at any given point in time! Further
research found that 1 in 4 had at least ONE FORM OF BACTERIA PRESENT IN NASAL
TISSUE that was 100% drug-resistant. [Source: CBC TV]. This data can safely
(there's a misnomer!!...) be extrapolated to ANY COUNTRY in the western world.
And hospitals in the US and Canada are now routinely enforcing VOLUNTARY
QUARANTINES to deal with outbreaks of drug resistant bugs that thrive ONLY IN
HOSPITALS. One top US virologist recently suggested that MORE DRUG RESISTANT
BUGS HAVE APPEARED IN THE LAST 24 MONTHS THAN IN THE LAST TWO DECADES. Taking
this as a mathematical progression, it doesn't look good for us. Or our
children. What does this have to do with the UN CODEX -- which, BY THE WAY, IS
ALREADY IN FORCE IN GERMANY AND NORWAY? Simply this -- as medical paradigms
collapse (and they ARE collapsing), the greatest defense you have against these
bugs is a HEIGHTENED IMMUNE SYSTEM. A good trick in these "toxic
times."
NOTE: see
http://www.thesho.com/health/alternatives.htm
for ways to heighten immune system response, NOW!
Many of the vitamins that the Codex wants to ban are the ONLY way
we see to keep your immune system up in the times ahead. And, another reminder,
the OLDER you get, the MORE problems you are likely to have...
If you value freedom of choice in health care, it may still not be too late for you to help stop the pending world wide suppression of Complementary Medicine. If the Codex Alimentarius (Nutrition Code) Commission has its way, then herbs, vitamins, minerals, homeopathic remedies, amino acids and other natural remedies you have taken for granted most of your life will be gone. The name of the game for Codex is to shift all remedies under the prescription category that would be controlled exclusively by the medical monopoly and its bosses, the major pharmaceutical firms. This scenario, predictably, has been denied by both the Canadian Health Food Association (CHFA) and the Health Protection Branch (HPB or Hocus Pocus Bunch). Do not for one second believe these people. Let me explain.
No, Codex is not a new sanitary napkin. Nor is it a benign group of boring bureaucrats. It is officially known as the United Nations/World Health Organization (WHO) Codex Alimentarius (Nutrition Code) Commission. It meets every 2 years, usually in Rome, and very little has appeared about it in the media. Nevertheless, documentation supports the possibility that Codex is the greatest threat to health freedom in the world today. Most of the information we have on this secretive group can be found on the Internet. Codex is empowered by governments to set standards of operation for the health industry. Over 90% of the international organizations "allowed" to send delegates to the meetings represent giant multinational pharmaceutical corporations. The only "consumer" organization is the "International Organization of Consumer Unions". Neither the natural health care industry nor the general public has any representation at Codex meetings.
In October, 1996, Codex met in Bonn, Germany to make radical changes in the rules governing dietary supplements for member nations. The proposals of greatest concern were those made by the German delegation ("Proposed Draft Guidelines for Dietary Supplements") and is being sponsored by Hoechst, Bayer and BASF. These are the three drug companies formed when the Nurenberg War Trials disbanded IG Farben, manufacturer of the poison gas used in Nazi concentration camps. This is not the first time that the U.N. has been linked closely with Nazi war criminals. Ostensibly, their purpose is "....create a set of international standards to guide the world's growing food industry and to protect the health of consumers." If you really believe that, I have some ocean front property for you at half price in Saskatoon.
The drug company backed
proposals call for the following:
The Codex proposals already exist as law in Norway and Germany where the entire health food industry has literally been taken over by the drug companies. In these countries, vitamin C above 200 mg is illegal as is vitamin E above 45 IU, Vitamin B1 over 2.4 mg and so on. Shering-Plough, the Norway pharmaceutical giant, now controls an echinacea tincture which is being sold there as an OTC drug at grossly inflated prices. The same is true of ginkgo and many other herbs and only one government controlled pharmacy has the right to import supplements as medicines which they can sell to health food stores, convenience stores, or pharmacies. According to Dr. Matthias Rath, researcher and author who discovered a correlation between vitamin C deficiency and heart disease, the three Nazi-linked drug companies pushing so hard for the German proposal, Hoechst, Bayer and BASF, are also manufacturers of heart drugs. Obviously, with the vitamin competition gone, nothing will stop their profits.
Yes, very much so.
According to John C. Hammell, legal advocate for the U.S. based Life Extension
Foundation, the Nazi-linked proposals have the backing of Canadian and French
Codex commission representatives. In June of 1996, the Codex Executive committee
will be creating an "expert panel" on herbs which is likely to
generate a "negative list" to prevent public access to certain herbs
internationally (see the list below). The formation of this "expert
panel" was advocated by none other than the Canadian representatives. Why
then are the HPB and the CHFA denying that the Codex proposals will have no
impact on the availability of nutritional supplements in Canada? Either
spokespersons for these two groups are ignorant about the proposals or they are
lying to the public in order to protect drug company profits. After all, several
voting members of the CHFA are owned by or are subsidiaries of major drug
manufacturers or pharmaceutical chains. Neither group can be trusted to give the
public straight answers about the Codex scam. They are in a clear conflict of
interest since they stand to gain financially when the supplement prices are
boosted out the roof. Further evidence of Canadian involvement is the HPB (Hocus
Pocus Bunch) position on what is or is not a food or a drug. This bunch is
either cleverly devious about their support of pharmaceutical concerns or just
plain dumb. For example, garlic, ginger, licorice and peppermint are considered
to be foods when sold as spices. If a grocery store manager makes claims for
their therapeutic effects, they then become drugs via a hocus pocus mechanism
which remains to be defined. As it now stands in Canada (and this changes on a
regular basis given the current mood, blood sugar level or whims of officials at
the HPB) the following list of currently available health food store nutritional
supplements are considered nebulously to be either "a drug", "a
drug even in the absence of claims" or "a new drug with claims":
This list is likely to expand over the next two years.
If the Codex and the HPB have their way, your favorite supplements will be replaced by expensive, patented, over-the-counter or prescription drugs. Just look what has already happened to amino acids like tryptophan. Once available for under $20 for a bottle of 100 tablets of 500 mgs. at your local health food store, the same tablet is now only available by prescription at a cost of over $120 at your pharmacy. On top of that, in order to get a prescription for tryptophan, you will have to convince your doctor to give you one. This is easier said than done simply because most medical doctors have no clue what tryptophan does or believe it to be toxic. Project this shallow thinking on to the herbs listed above and it becomes quite clear that public access to natural remedies will be a thing of the past.
An important letter to the
Commission on Dietary Supplement Labels
CODEX: INTERNATIONAL THREAT TO
HEALTH FREEDOM by John Hammell