Dr. Rima explains what Codex Alimentarius is, where it came from, and what it is doing.
Part Five
Think about this, in 2001, 176 countries including the United States, got together and said that there are 12 really bad organic chemicals. They're called POPs, persistent organic pollutants. There are a lot of them. But there are 12 that are so bad, that nobody could disagree, that those 12 pops had to be banned worldwide.
9 of the 12 worst organic chemicals known are pesticides. Not surprisingly because they kill things, and of course we have many processes and enzyme systems that are very much like insects and other pests. So they're not too good for us. But Codex has different ideas. Codex has brought back 7. 7 of the 9 forbidden pops, that 176 countries banned world wide. Dieldrin, aldrin, hexachlorabenzene, and the food that is imported from other countries that contains these substances cannot be stopped at our borders. Because otherwise it would be, god forbid, a trade violation. That's how Codex works.
Codex, according to the World Trade Organization and the Food and Agricultural Organization joint epidemiological projections, estimate that just the vitamin and mineral guideline alone will result in a minimum of 3 billion deaths.
One billion through simple starvation, those folks who die are not particularly economically successful from the point of view of the corporations. When you're starving to death how much good can you do, when the issue is how much can you buy. Not a lot. Forget them.
But the next 2 billion, they will die from the preventable diseases of undernutrition. Cancer, the single most profitable condition ever known to human kind. Cardiovascular disease a good second. Diabetes [is a] pretty good producer. And a whole host of other preventable diseases. Who will die? Who knows? Who will live? Probably those people who are wealthy enough and powerful enough to have their own pushers of clean food and nutrients. That's who will live. You and I probably not. Our children probably not. Our grandchildren probably not.
So we're talking about food regulations that are in fact the legalization of mandated toxicity and undernutrition. It will be illegal if there's a famine in, you know wherever there is a famine, to ship high nutrient density biscuits to that country. And it will be illegal to distribute them. That's what we are talking about.
Codex is big and it's bad. But it's not invulnerable.
So the point is that we have to protect ourselves and I believe that we have to regain global leadership which we have lost, surrendered, squandered, sold.
[Booing from the audience]No? No global?
However, parenthetically, I have a team of constitutional lawyers looking at the following question: Are we members of the WTO? Because if you remember from high school civics, the way you get a treaty to be a real treaty, is to have it ratified by two thirds majority of the senate. And the way we got into the WTO, was they passed a law allowing Bill Clinton to fast track us into the WTO.
This is the fifth installment of an original series from No Agenda News, read part four here.
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