Codex Threatens Our Health Freedoms
By Nancy Lee Bentley, Co-Author, Dr. Mercola's Total Health Program
There's
a plain and simple fact about your health and health care choices you
won't find covered in any of the mainstream media today: Your health
freedom is under attack!
Codex
is a threat to your healthy lifestyle and your ability to access what
you need to maintain it. Your rights have not been taken away … yet. But, if we don't act right now, here's what will happen:
1) Your access to nutritional supplements to prevent, treat or cure health problems and diseases will vanish.
2)
Your access to clean, uncontaminated food, which hasn't been
genetically modified, treated with hormones, antibiotics, growth
stimulants or irradiation, including organically grown food, will
disappear.
3) Your access to alternative, complementary or holistic treatment practices will disappear.
Don't
panic, but now is the time to become concerned, get educated quickly
and take action immediately. You may be asking yourself, “What is this
threat? Where is it coming from? I've never heard of it!” Keep reading.
What is Codex?
The origin of Codex Alimentarius (CO-DEX' AL-A-MEN-TARE'-Y-US): A stealthy foreign threat that means:
Food rules that are about to be imposed upon you.
An
international regulation designed to control food trade and food
standards all over the world, created by the United Nations more than
40 years ago.
A hidden
danger to your health and freedom, masquerading as food safety and
protection, the U.S. Congress is going to pass into law in a few weeks
unless we act now!
Where is it Coming From?
Codex,
part of the attempt by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to
“harmonize” the world's food and edible health products, has been
moving with increasing speed toward its culmination on January 1, 2010.
Attempts at “HARMonization” have already made inroads through backdoor
politics in the European Union, Canada and Australia. Already, zinc in Germany costs $54 a bottle and three to four days worth of synthetic Vitamin E costs close to $200!
A final,
unchangeable ratification of restrictive vitamin and mineral standards,
preceding all its food-unfriendly, health-unfriendly provisions, is
virtually assured at the Codex Alimentarius Commission meeting this July 4-9 in Rome, unless we act now.
The United States is Next!
Here in the United States, “HARMonization”
legislation, which will trigger the implementation of Codex, has been
defeated by a narrow margin in Congress several times. This year, drug companies are boasting that they will make sure Codex gets through.
Passage of Codex, per the WTO treaty, may take place through stealth
legislation in Congress as early as this month or early June, i.e. in a few weeks!
At the
same time, there is a concerted effort here in the U.S. Congress to gut
the Dietary Supplement Health Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), our legal
assurance that food supplements are classified as foods, not drugs.
Canada and other countries already have provisions that make
supplements drugs, and therefore inaccessible.
What Can I Do?
Don't wait. Become educated and take action against Codex. If you want to retain your right to make your own health choices, go to healthfreedomUSA.org right away to learn what you can do. Go to the “What Can I Do” Section.
Use the link provided on the site to find the names and fax numbers of
your Congressional delegation. Download all three sample letters, sign
and fax (do not mail or e-mail) all three of these letters to everyone
in your Congressional Delegation.
(Click here to read the complete article.)
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