RE: CODEX - Euro/Urban myth or ????

[Guest guest]

Hi rod,

This IS a real threat .... It's been perking since the US joined the WTO and

about to come to fruitition ... from what I can find/read/hear tell our only

options at this point is massive letter campaigns. Our office (by the end

of this week) will have a one page synopsis with sample letter to the

federal legislators.

At this point, I don't know that that effort will achieve anything but it

certainly can't hurt. At the same time, I am having trouble fitting my mind

around a fact that this could INDEED eliminate 98% of my supplement choice.

Almost makes me catch my breath just to think of it.

So, our office has/is gearing up to alert our patients. Hope the rest of

you are doing the same. Sunny ;'-))

Sunny Kierstyn, RN DC

Fibromyalgia Care Center of Oregon

56 Oakway Center

Eugene, Oregon, 97401

541-683-5600

>From: " rod jackson " <rjacksondc@...>

>< >

>Subject: CODEX - Euro/Urban myth or ????

>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:58:49 -0800

>

>Anybody found validity to this? Should we be doing something about this if

>it is a real threat?

>

>Rod , DC

>

>http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/Events/codex2004a.html

>

>

>Codex - The Greatest Threat to Health

>in the History of Mankind

> a..

> Read what happened

> at the meeting in Bonn

> in November 2004

>

> What is Codex?

> b.. What is it planning to do?

> c.. Why is this dangerous?

> d.. What can YOU do to stop it happening?

>Introduction

>The Codex Alimentarius Commission (Codex) will come to be seen by future

>generations as the greatest threat to the basic human right of health the

>world has ever known. Never before in history has a special interest group,

>the pharmaceutical industry, so shamelessly tried to compromise the health

>of billions of people for no other reason than its desire to maintain

>multi-billion dollar markets for prescription drugs.

>

>What is Codex?

>Codex was established under the heavy influence of the pharmaceutical

>industry in 1963, following resolutions passed at the Eleventh Session of

>the Conference of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United

>Nations in 1961 and at the Sixteenth World Health Assembly in 1963, as a

>standard setting body for global food regulations. From its very

>beginnings, Codex has been manipulated by corporate interests in the global

>pharmaceutical and food markets.

>

>What is it planning to do?

>In the wake of the recent Vioxx scandal (and earlier scandals such as

>Baycol ) and in a last desperate attempt to delay its own demise under an

>avalanche of lawsuits, the pharma-cartel is trying to use its influence

>within Codex to set standards that will outlaw all non-patentable natural

>therapies threatening its global markets for patentable, synthetic drugs.

>

>Why is this dangerous?

>It is clear that the effects of the implementation of these standards

>(called the: 'Codex Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements')

>would include:

>

> a.. Removal of access to a large number of the most effective forms of

>safe micronutrients

> b.. The prevention of sale of all natural supplements without a doctor's

>prescription

> c.. Delivery of human healthcare exclusively into the hands of the

>pharmaceutical industry

> d.. Consequent increases in unnecessary deaths from diseases that should

>long ago have been eradicated and from the side effects of the drugs

>themselves

>In contrast to the proposed Guidelines, the Dr. Rath Health Foundation

>applauds the position taken by some delegations at last year's Codex

>meeting to support open access to natural health remedies, instead of

>restricting access. We have campaigned for many years for the right to:

>

> a.. Unrestricted access to information about the health benefits of

>vitamins and other natural therapies as the key to a long and healthy life

>without risks

> b.. Dissemination of life-saving natural health information worldwide so

>that every human being has the chance to gain control over his/her health

> c.. The eradication of cardiovascular disease, cancer and many other of

>today's common health problems via scientifically proven, safe, effective

>and affordable natural remedies.

>Any ban on natural remedies would mean the continuation of common diseases

>such as cancer and cardiovascular disease almost indefinitely and result in

>the unnecessary deaths of many more millions of people worldwide.

>

>What can YOU do to stop it happening?

>YOU AND EVERYONE YOU KNOW has a vital part to play in opposing the Codex

>plans.

>

>Every visitor to this webpage should do two things, NOW:

>

> a.. Email your protest to every delegate to the Codex Alimentarius

>Commission (click here)

> b.. Send a copy of the email protest tool to everyone you know and urge

>them to do the same (click here)

>Sitemap

>

>

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