smallgovt1

In 1994, the Senate passed the DSHEA (Diet Supplement Health and Education Act) by a vote of 100-0 as a result of letters from 100 million Americans. This legislation prevents vitamins and other supplements from going on prescription.

Now DSHEA is under attack by CODEX. The FDA is attempting to impose CODEX standards which would reverse DSHEA, eliminate organic food standards by requiring all foods to be irradiated and all animals to be treated with hormones, and making complimentary medicine illegal. I believe this is wrong as we should make such choices and not the government.

I haven't heard any candidate address this except Ron Paul. I do believe 100 million Americans cannot be wrong but this time, the attack on our health freedom is not so public as issues like Iraq and immigration are all we hear about in the news.

I would like people to learn more about this on Stop Codex: Protect Health Freedom :: HealthFreedomUSA.org and if you have time, the video is outstanding. I also believe that this is an issue that will resonate with the American people and can be a winning issue
for a candidate or a party if they oppose CODEX.

What do you think?

emptypepsi

I catch your drift, but don't believe this is of the same magnitude of an issue as Iraq or Immigration. You'll have to do some grass roots work to get people moving on this one.

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Ygorl

I already heard about it and did what I could about it as an individual.

There ARE many of us that are aware of the growing bureaucrats power grabs in every facet of our society.

I don't think they'll be able to really pull this off. It's too obviously against everything that America stands for in SO many ways.

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smallgovt1

The previous post mentioned this is to un-American to do and I hope you are right. The thing is the government took away habeus corpus so what is to stop them from implementing CODEX.

Once the gov't steals something from us, it is much harder to take it back.

That is why we need activism on this like we did on DSHEA.

perdidochas

I believe you are wrong about what CODEX does.
Here's the actual link to CODEX (not a biased link that interprets CODEX for political reasons).

Official Standards List

For example, organically produced foods have CODEX standards:
Here's the link to it:
http://www.codexalimentarius.net/dow...0/CXG_032e.pdf

Considering how anti-hormone most Europeans are, I kind of doubt that CODEX will require hormones to be used. In fact, I think the controversy is the opposite. I think American dairy producers are against CODEX because it won't allow hormones in dairy cows.

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smallgovt1

I believe everyone should see the video on Stop Codex: Protect Health Freedom :: HealthFreedomUSA.org. Per the last comment, it is the option of a farmer if they want to be organic or not. That option is not taken away. In fact, organic standards will mean very little with CODEX.

There must be a reason why the drug companies and agriculture companies are big on CODEX. They know that competition takes away from their profits and we Americans should have the option of supplements if we want, complementary medicine if we want, and organic food if we want.

Another website is CODEX Action Alert.

Think about this. Over 50% of FDA employees own drug company stock and drug companies hire the most lobbyists. They gain the most when access to alternative medicine and supplements is restricted. Agriculture gains the most when organic food standards mean nothing. We must allow for free and fair competition and for individuals to make their choices and not government bureaucrats. We make better choices than they do.

perdidochas

There must be a reason why the drug companies and agriculture companies are big on CODEX. They know that competition takes away from their profits and we Americans should have the option of supplements if we want, complementary medicine if we want, and organic food if we want.

Another website is CODEX Action Alert.

Think about this. Over 50% of FDA employees own drug company stock and drug companies hire the most lobbyists. They gain the most when access to alternative medicine and supplements is restricted. Agriculture gains the most when organic food standards mean nothing. We must allow for free and fair competition and for individuals to make their choices and not government bureaucrats. We make better choices than they do.[/quote]

If I were a business, trying to sell overseas, I'd advertise CODEX compliance. It makes sense when trying to sell overseas to mention that you meet some international standard. Should the government enforce these? Probably not. Should the market place? Definitely so.

ALso, I just showed you the CODEX organic food standards. They do exist, and from what little I can tell, they aren't a whole lot different from our organic standards.

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smallgovt1

The FDA does intend to take away our access to alternative therapies. If you read this article you will see what few people are telling you.

They are just going to far and we have to stop them

FDA is trying to ban holistic medicines