The Great Codex Alimentarius Conspiracy
By James Donahue
The battle to control big profits by the health insurance and health care industry has dominated the news in the United States almost since President Barack Obama first stepped foot in the White House.
What few people realize is that what is happening in the US is only the tip of a massive iceberg kind of a conspiracy linked to something known as Codex Alimentarius, a global plan hatched within the United Nations to establish controls on the production, sale and use of food, food supplements, vitamins and minerals everywhere.
Because the insurance lobby appears to have won a disguised version of the health bill battle in America, and if big pharma is successfully gaining state and federal legislation to enforce rules established under Codex Alimentarius, the people are now saddled with the high cost of health care and they are being skillfully pursuaded to use poisonous prescription drugs rather than natural home remedies in their quest to stay healthy. One major victory for big corporations and especially Monsanto has been laws prohibiting the labeling of genetically modified foods in our grocery stores.
The name Codex Alimentarius is a Latin phrase that simply means “food rules.” The concept had its origins in 1962 when the United Nations created the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) for the regulation and control of the production and sale of food and nutritional supplements to the consumer. At the heart of the commission was the interests of trade and the profits of multi-national corporations which were even then in the planning stages.
The plot thickened in 1995 when the United States and World Health Organization in conjunction with the then newly formed World Trade Organization named the UN Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) as one of the recognized standard-setting bodies.
Some world leaders involved in the scheme might claim that the CAC was created with the best of intentions, although Big Pharma has quickly managed to bore its way into the organization, helping to outline its so-called “scientific research” and establish the policies that are now beginning to thread their way throughout Europe, Canada, the United States and other participating members of the United Nations.
The rules, that have already become law in many European countries, are designed to protect Big Pharma profits by prohibiting natural health products and treatments used by many people as an alternative to facing big doctor bills and prescription drug costs.
In 2008 Canadians faced the threat of a proposed new law that would bring sweeping changes to the nation's Food and Drugs Act. The bill, known as C-51, would have prohibited the sale of up to 60 percent of natural health products and criminalize parents who gave herbs or supplements to their children. Fortunately, the bill was tabled and it never became law.
The Canadian proposal would have substituted the words “therapeutic product” for the word “drug,” and give the government broad powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements that would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances commonly used for thousands of years as natural remedies. Thus anyone caught using roots, leaves or stems from plants to prepare a home-produced treatment for asthma, burns, bee stings or other health issues could be arrested and charged for violation of Canadian drug laws.
If you think that is just a Canadian problem, think again. In 2010 U.S. Senators John McCain of Arizona, Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota, introduced the Dietary Supplement Safety Act. As it was written, the act would have had the effect of gutting key protections currently provided by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. It also would have restored unlimited control to the FDA to decide what supplements you can take and at what levels. The legislation, which fortunately was stopped after legislators were flooded with phone calls from angry citizens, was clearly an attempt to shut down the natural health industry.
People need to remain vigilent about the actions going on in the back rooms of government. What we hear from the media are the silly pre-election brawling, accusations and so-called "clown circus" among the candidates seeking the 2016 presidential office.
But there is a shadowy undercurrent of power figures still using big money to manipulate the actions of our sold-out legislators.
As with all bill proposals that go before the House and Senate, we must not let the positive sounding titles of these proposed bills lull us into thinking we can trust our elected legislators to do what is right for the people. Many bills are inappropriately named to sound as if they are designed to give the public something they want when in truth, they are designed to do just the opposite.
As they clearly demonstrated throughout the battle over President Obama’s proposed health care reform bill, most of our elected representatives . . . and especially the Republicans . . . are clearly sold out to Big Pharma.
If the organized criminals now running Washington get their way, it will soon be a crime in America to rub juice from an aloe vera leaf on a burn to ease the pain.
By James Donahue
The battle to control big profits by the health insurance and health care industry has dominated the news in the United States almost since President Barack Obama first stepped foot in the White House.
What few people realize is that what is happening in the US is only the tip of a massive iceberg kind of a conspiracy linked to something known as Codex Alimentarius, a global plan hatched within the United Nations to establish controls on the production, sale and use of food, food supplements, vitamins and minerals everywhere.
Because the insurance lobby appears to have won a disguised version of the health bill battle in America, and if big pharma is successfully gaining state and federal legislation to enforce rules established under Codex Alimentarius, the people are now saddled with the high cost of health care and they are being skillfully pursuaded to use poisonous prescription drugs rather than natural home remedies in their quest to stay healthy. One major victory for big corporations and especially Monsanto has been laws prohibiting the labeling of genetically modified foods in our grocery stores.
The name Codex Alimentarius is a Latin phrase that simply means “food rules.” The concept had its origins in 1962 when the United Nations created the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) for the regulation and control of the production and sale of food and nutritional supplements to the consumer. At the heart of the commission was the interests of trade and the profits of multi-national corporations which were even then in the planning stages.
The plot thickened in 1995 when the United States and World Health Organization in conjunction with the then newly formed World Trade Organization named the UN Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) as one of the recognized standard-setting bodies.
Some world leaders involved in the scheme might claim that the CAC was created with the best of intentions, although Big Pharma has quickly managed to bore its way into the organization, helping to outline its so-called “scientific research” and establish the policies that are now beginning to thread their way throughout Europe, Canada, the United States and other participating members of the United Nations.
The rules, that have already become law in many European countries, are designed to protect Big Pharma profits by prohibiting natural health products and treatments used by many people as an alternative to facing big doctor bills and prescription drug costs.
In 2008 Canadians faced the threat of a proposed new law that would bring sweeping changes to the nation's Food and Drugs Act. The bill, known as C-51, would have prohibited the sale of up to 60 percent of natural health products and criminalize parents who gave herbs or supplements to their children. Fortunately, the bill was tabled and it never became law.
The Canadian proposal would have substituted the words “therapeutic product” for the word “drug,” and give the government broad powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements that would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances commonly used for thousands of years as natural remedies. Thus anyone caught using roots, leaves or stems from plants to prepare a home-produced treatment for asthma, burns, bee stings or other health issues could be arrested and charged for violation of Canadian drug laws.
If you think that is just a Canadian problem, think again. In 2010 U.S. Senators John McCain of Arizona, Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota, introduced the Dietary Supplement Safety Act. As it was written, the act would have had the effect of gutting key protections currently provided by the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. It also would have restored unlimited control to the FDA to decide what supplements you can take and at what levels. The legislation, which fortunately was stopped after legislators were flooded with phone calls from angry citizens, was clearly an attempt to shut down the natural health industry.
People need to remain vigilent about the actions going on in the back rooms of government. What we hear from the media are the silly pre-election brawling, accusations and so-called "clown circus" among the candidates seeking the 2016 presidential office.
But there is a shadowy undercurrent of power figures still using big money to manipulate the actions of our sold-out legislators.
As with all bill proposals that go before the House and Senate, we must not let the positive sounding titles of these proposed bills lull us into thinking we can trust our elected legislators to do what is right for the people. Many bills are inappropriately named to sound as if they are designed to give the public something they want when in truth, they are designed to do just the opposite.
As they clearly demonstrated throughout the battle over President Obama’s proposed health care reform bill, most of our elected representatives . . . and especially the Republicans . . . are clearly sold out to Big Pharma.
If the organized criminals now running Washington get their way, it will soon be a crime in America to rub juice from an aloe vera leaf on a burn to ease the pain.