by Thomas Corriher, Healthwyze

Over the past week, the Codex Alimentarius Commission has discussed the labeling of genetically modified foods at a conference in Quebec, Canada.  They decreed that they would make a decision within the year.  The question is, what bearing does this have on the United States, or Canada?

There should be no place in the civilized world for a product regulatory committee which is above public questioning and pressure, and whose representatives were never appointed by the people.  In fact, the founders of America would be rolling in their graves, if they knew that a superordinate agency had been created that could flippantly bypass the decisions made by the American government, and the people.

For now, rules which are produced by Codex Alimentarius are voluntary.  However, we can only speculate on how long this will be the case.  What sort of penalties will be in place for those who refuse the voluntary protocols?  The “voluntary recommendations” that are created by the Codex Commission have already quickly become law throughout most of Europe and Canada.  If you are wondering how Codex could possibly subvert the laws of apparently sovereign nations, then your answer lies with the World Trade Organization, which demands that nations comply with Codex policies, or they will automatically lose in all trade disputes.  This causes the penalized multinational corporations effected to encourage governments to be Codex team players.

Codex claims to protect the public, but its protection is something that no citizenry ever asked for.  By the way, it is prudent for us to always beware whenever a group is pretending to “protect” us for “our own good” without our consent or knowledge.  You can know that something insidiously evil is afoot.  The Codex members claim to be solving important problems, but these are not their problems, these are our problems.  The idea of outsourcing our health regulations to 3rd parties in other nations is the pinnacle of insanity.  If the F.D.A. were the frying pan, then Codex would be the fire that we are about to be thrown into.  Perhaps we’ll have to begin a ‘Support The F.D.A.’ campaign.  Well.. maybe not.

Is Codex intended to finally save us from the deadly side effects of Big Pharma’s wares, from the health frauds of orthodox medicine, the frauds of alternative medicine, or the multitude of toxins inside all the processed foods at all the major retailers?  Not exactly. Codex has long had plans to help protect us from dietary supplements and herbs.

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