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Codex Alimentarius
This concerns the right to use vitamin supplements and therapeutic
dosages of herbal remedies, food supplements and generally all forms
of healing methods based on non-pharmaceutical approaches! It is
NO JOKE. We are about to lose our hard won health freedoms RIGHT
NOW.
An insidious bill, called the CODEX LAW or CODEX ALIMENTARIUS,
has already been sneaked through both the Senate and the House of
Representatives in record time. It has been passed by both houses.
The Codex is a nutrition code to set worldwide standards for foods,
drugs, pesticides and their trade. The latest German proposal includes
the following provisions:
1.) No vitamin, mineral, herb or food supplement can be sold for
preventative or therapeutic use.
2.) None sold as a food can exceed dosage levels set by the Commission.
For example, 50 mg of vitamin C is the top dosage sold in Germany
today.
3.) CODEX regulations for dietary supplements would become legally
binding in the USA through the GATT Treaty, which would involve
enormous fines in America and all member nations of the United Nations
if they do not comply.
4.) All new dietary supplements will be banned unless they pass
the CODEX approval process. You can imagine what that means. The
wording in the Congressional Bill uses the term "harmonization"
which means that most senators and congresspersons are likely not
aware of the implications.
The delegates that make up and decide on the CODEX mandates are
made up of 90% of the giant Multi-national Pharmaceutical corporations.
The drug companies want to monopolize and create pharmaceutical
versions of the Natural health food and nutrient business throughout
the world.
Action page link at www.leggs.com/ or through www.netline-to-congress.com.
"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:
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 are 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 "e;....create a
set of international standards to guide the world's growing food
industry and to protect the health of consumers.& quote;
The drug company backed proposals call for the following:
No vitamin, mineral, herb, etc., can be sold for prophylactic (preventative)
or therapeutic reasons.
Natural remedies can be sold as food but they must not exceed the
potency (dosage) levels set by the commission. This means that consumer
access to dietary supplements will be limited to the RDA dosage
as a maximum limit for vitamins (vitamin C - 60 mg, vitamin E -
15 mg, etc.).
Supplements without an RDA (e.g. coenzyme Q10) would be illegal
to sell because they would all become drugs.
Codex regulations for dietary supplements would become binding,
eliminating the escape clause within the General Agreement of Tariffs
and Trade (GATT) that allows a nation to set its own standards.
This applies to all member countries of the U.N. Any nation that
does not accept and apply these new standards will be heavily fined
by the World Trade Organization (WTO) creating the potential of
crippling entire sectors of that nation's economy.
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 currely 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
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Aloe vera
Capsicum
Dong Quai
Feverfew
Ginkgo biloba
Gotu Kola
Licorice
Peppermint
Saw palmetto
Camomile
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Ephedra (Ma huang)
Cascara sagrada
Echinacea augustifolia
Garlic
Ginseng
Hawthorne
Milk Thistle
Psyllium
Yohimbe
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Astragalus
Cat's claw
Echinacea purpurea
Ginger
Golden Seal
Kava Kava
Pau D'arco (Taheebo)
Sarsaparilla
Bilberry
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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."
Codex proposals, contact:
John Hammell, Legislative Advocate, The Life Extension Foundation
2411 Monroe St. #2 Hollywood, FL 33020 USA
Telephone: 800-333-2553, 954-929-2905
Fax: 954-929-0507
E-mail: Jham@concentric.net
Internet web site: http://www/lef.org/lef/index.html
Why are primates in forests healthier than us?
We should wonder why monkeys and chimpanzees are not dying from
AIDS as much as the people that claim to be more advanced in every
sense of the word? They have the SV virus equivalent to HIV that
they have lived with for generations. The reason is that they eat
from the trees and herbs that are the source of life as we have
said.
Why is Mariandina banned, a preparation made out of herbs and natural
products from foods and vegetables. The National Drug Authority
and the Minister of Health that are the custodians of the government
means of looking after our health interests have failed to give
me a satisfactory explanation for maintaining the ban. They have
licensed products like AZT that carry severe toxic side effects
in preference for that of natural products from herbs that have
no toxic effects.
The multinational drug companies that are conspiring to ban the
use of vitamins and all herbal medicine with significant medicinal
properties are behind the activity and policies of our National
Drug Authorities in most of African countries.
In Kenya, the National Drug Authority of Kenya banned Dr. Kobel’s
discovery of Pearl Omega. In South Africa, a recent discovery of
an effective drug against AIDS was banned within days of its announcement.
In Zambia, the same thing happened. In Uganda, the National Drug
Authority banned Mariandina under the pretext that it has a few
milligrams of vitamin C more than what you find in a mango. In Ghana,
Dr. Drobo was murdered by multinational pharmaceutical companies
for his discovery for an effective remedy against AIDS.
Before introducing AZT and protease inhibitors in Uganda in 1997,
the Minister of Health placed a ban on Mariandina and then staged
a party to launch AZT in Sheraton Hotel. (Date 05.11.97)
He assured the whole country that Uganda is fortunate to get a drug
that costs 1.5m Uganda shillings a month at a good subsidised price
of 600,000 shillings a month, compared to Mariandina that costs
30,000 shillings a month.
The multinational drug companies, in corroboration with UNAIDS,
and the local health authorities, are placing a ban on natural herbal
products to monopolise the vitamin and herbal remedies as their
limitless source of revenue. These same multinational companies
have introduced diseases to destroy plants and herbs that we use
as source of nutrient so that we can become more dependent on their
products. The same people have monopolised the business of producing
the pesticides and herbicides that poison the environment and produce
changes in our foods so that they score a double purpose of selling
their products and reducing our population.
The people who ban locally invented products derived from vitamins
and herbs are just the front for these multinational companies.
It has become a society of man-eat-man just for the dollar.
First of all - volatile, synthetic pesticide poisons are the largest
group of poisonous substances purposefully being added or disseminated
throughout our environment.
All of the major poison producers are in the "health" pharmaceutical
business too - so as you become poisoned/polluted and sicken and
begin to die from their allopathic poisons - they will sell you
allopathic drugs to "survive".
These people are not "guardians" of the environment. They are the
destroyers of the environment - they are not in the "chemical or
health" industry - they are in the death or poison "industry"
In addition, approximately 250,000 to 300,000 acres of Roundup Ready
soybeans were planted in Argentina for the 1996/97 season. Since
1995, Monsanto has invested over US$200 million in glyphosate manufacturing
technology, and plans to invest another US$180million for 1997.
The Nature of the Pharmaceutical Industry
1. The natural purpose and driving force of the pharmaceutical
industry is to increase sales of pharmaceutical drugs for ongoing
diseases and to find new diseases to market existing drugs.
2. By this very nature, the pharmaceutical industry has no interest
in curing diseases. The eradication of any disease inevitably destroys
a multi-billion dollar market of prescription drugs as a source
of revenues.
Therefore, pharmaceutical drugs are primarily developed to relieve
symptoms, but not to cure.
3. If eradication therapies for diseases are discovered and developed,
the pharmaceutical industry has an inherent interest to suppress,
discredit and obstruct these medical breakthroughs in order to make
sure that diseases continue as the very basis for a lucrative prescription
drug market.
4. The economic interest of the pharmaceutical industry itself
is the main reason why no medical breakthrough has been made for
the control of the most common diseases such as cardiovascular disease,
high blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, cancer, and osteoporosis,
and why these diseases continue like epidemics on a worldwide scale.
5. For the same economic reasons, the pharmaceutical industry has
now formed an international cartel by the code name "Codex Alimentarius"
with the aim to outlaw any health information in connection with
vitamins and to limit free access to natural therapies on a worldwide
scale.
6. At the same time, the pharmaceutical companies withhold public
information about the effects and risks of prescription drugs and
life-threatening side effects are omitted or openly denied.
7. In order to assure the status quo of this deceptive scheme,
a legion of pharmaceutical lobbyists is employed to influence legislation,
control regulatory agencies (e.g. FDA), and manipulate medical research
and education. Expensive advertising campaigns and PR agencies are
used to deceiving the public.
8. Millions of people and patients around the world are defrauded
twice: A major portion of their income is used up to finance the
exploding profits of the pharmaceutical industry. In return, they
are offered a medicine that does not even cure.
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