Dear Concerned American,
CODEX ALIMENTARIUS means “Food Rules” and is, without a doubt, the worst idea ever to come down the health pike. Created by the UN in 1963 to assure abundant food for the planet and remove barriers to international trade, CODEX has become a healthy planet’s killer nightmare. I won’t go into CODEX in detail: check out (What Is CODEX”) . Mostly, what CODEX is proposing is very, very wrong, indeed. Natural food production, preparation and packaging techniques will be outlawed in the name of “removing hidden barriers to trade” while expensive, inappropriate, dangerous and highly profitable techniques will become mandatory. Prices will go up, safety and quality will go down and more people will go hungry and be harmed while large corporations reap higher and higher profits.
But CODEX ALIMENTARIUS does have one thing right: Food does, indeed, Rule! Every general laying siege to a city, every expansionist monarch, every iron fisted dictator and every colonial power in history has understood that he who controls the food rules. CODEX not only controls just exactly what Parmesan cheese is and what it is not, how frogs’ legs are processed and what type of water supply the processing stations must have (yeah, right: two separate filtered water systems in countries where whole regions do not have running water. Can I interest you in the purchase of this bridge?) CODEX also sets up the conditions for massive collateral damage.
For example, food must be exposed to expensive and dangerous high energy gamma radiation supposedly to prevent E Coli contamination. Irradiation is necessary. It is touted to prevent 5000 deaths from E. Coli contamination world-wide per year. E. Coli contamination can be prevented by proper hygiene in the raising and slaughter, shipping and handling of foods. And if you do get sick, colloidal silver, safe, effective and cheap, will fix you up in no time.
But high dose radiation is a dangerous technology. Hand washing never killed anyone. How many workers in the third world will die of radiation poisoning because of lax security and standards in third world irradiation facilities? Irradiation causes very dangerous levels of free radicals in the treated food. Free radicals are the well established cause of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, neuro-degenerative disease, premature aging and premature death. The only protection we have against them is high doses of antioxidants. Remember, though, that nutrients to prevent, treat or cure any disease will be prohibited under CODEX. Bye bye, therapeutic or preventive levels of antioxidants!
How many unwitting consumers will die from the impact of the free radicals generated by the radiation in the food? How high will the cancer and other chronic disease rates have to go before the world come to its senses “No, I don’t want to buy contaminated food and I won’t let you control my life and death through your Food Rules.” As I see it, it’s not food that rules, it’s people who rule, at least when they take back their power.
CODEX? No, thank you, we prefer to make our own rules here in America where freedom is suppose to rule, not multinational greed.
Yours in health and freedom,
Rima E. Laibow, MD
Medical Director
Natural Solutions Foundation