United Nations - which created the Codex Alimentarius Commission as a trade committee
World Trade Organization - which can enforce Codex Alimentarius Guidelines, Regulations and Standards through coercive trade sanctions
World Health Organization - a UN body which is actively contributing to creating Codex Alimentarius regulations despite the fact that Codex directly and explicitly conflicts with WHOs own findings on global death through under-nutrition (the findings conclude that nutritional supplementation in high dosages are important to World health - Codex would ban these supplements in high dosages and thus goes against WHO’s own findings!)
Food and Agriculture Organization - another UN body, which is also going against the findings of WHO because of its support for Codex
Our FDA and USDA
We have been ingrained, mentally and emotionally, with the message that the above institutions are working “for the good of all”. Their involvement in the Codex problem may make it seem benign.

Welcome to the Codex Alimentarius 101, where you will find complete information about what Codex Alimentarius is, who is behind it, and why it is cause for serious concern.

Codex Alimentarius is a threat to health freedom and not benign “consumer protection” as deceptively claimed by its commercial sponsors.

What We Need to Protect: Health Freedom
The first question to ask is “what would Codex take away from me if nothing is done about it?” The answer is simple: Codex would take away your freedom of choice in your own health decisions, i.e. “health freedom”.

Next question: “what is health freedom?”

Health freedom means being free to choose your own health treatment modalities and natural health products such as nutritional supplements (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, etc.), herbs, homeopathic remedies, and clean food (such as organic food untainted by pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics) without government or corporate interference.

Codex stands to make virtually all of our natural health choices illegal.

How would it do that?

By applying a legal code that dates back to the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, by classifying nutrients as toxins, and by calling in the WTO to punish any countries that break the tyrannical Codex rules.

What’s in a Name?
“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their rightful names.” - Thomas Jefferson

What is Codex by its rightful name?

1 Codex Aims to Dictate Everything You Put in Your Mouth
Codex is a set of standards for food and nutrition, created by the United Nations (UN) and backed by the World Trade Organization (WTO). It aims to control how and what type of foods people can grow, sell, and eat, and what types of dietary supplement can be manufactured and sold. Dr. Laibow predicts that it will ultimately seek to control health treatment choices as well as food and supplements.

Codex was initially created in order to control every aspect of food production, packaging, preparation, preservation and presentation “from farm to fork”.

The plan behind Codex Alimentarius is to regulate, and thus control, every single thing you put in your mouth.

Deceptively Posing as “Consumer Protection”
Codex Alimentarius portrays itself as consumer protection. The official Codex web site states:

“The main purposes of this Programme [sic] are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade”.

That is a public relations ploy to make people believe Codex is for their own good. Codex is based on junk science and has nothing to do with “protecting the health of the consumers”. It is about trade practices, period.

The American people and Congress are being swamped with propaganda about Codex in order to prevent the truth from being revealed (the truth that Codex is about economic profit and not consumer protection). Congress is the gate-keeper in the American front of the Codex battle. It guards the legal doors to the future of health freedom in America and that’s why reaching Congress with the truth about Codex is such a high priority of the HealthFreedomUSA Campaign. We ask that Congress act to protect the best-interest of the American people, not the greed of self-serving corporations.

Those Who Say This is “Conspiracy Theory” Are Wrong
Some Americans have come to believe Codex to be a dismissible “conspiracy theory”. The reason many are dismissing it as a “conspiracy theory” is because of disinformation and self-soothing thinking (”no way, it just couldn’t happen. Not here in America”). For example, a web site called snopes.com has irresponsibly circulated a factually flawed article painting those who are raising awareness about Codex as perpetrators of an urban legend. This is shoddy journalism and utter nonsense!

The sponsors behind Codex are probably hoping that people will dismiss it as silly conspiracy theory.

Codex is a UN-created and WTO-backed program with global ambitions. It is creeping into country after country primarily through political and legal backdoors (i.e. through ignorant and/or corrupt politicians), without public awareness or democratic input.

How Did Codex Get Started?
Modern-day Codex Alimentarius was born when the United Nations established the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) as a Trade Commission in 1963. Its stated mission was to ensure clean and abundant food for the planet, and remove international trade barriers for that food.

Why has Codex Alimentarius been taken over by these corporations? The answer is simple: short-sighted and utterly selfish economic ambitions.

Codex Eliminates Competition to Pharmaceutical Drugs
Natural health products such as vitamins, minerals, and amino acids are a direct threat to the profits of pharmaceutical companies.

The reason is simple:

In general, the more natural health products people use for solving their health problems, the less pharmaceutical drugs they use. This is because natural health products are aimed to treat disease at the root, and don’t really have the negative side-effects of drugs. So they are more pleasant to use. Drugs, on the other hand, are designed to suppress symptoms, not cure disease. There is a difference between disease and the symptoms of disease. Drugs also always come with side-effects. These side-effects can often be horrible, often worse than the symptoms they are intended to suppress.

Thus, the more natural health products people buy, the less drugs they buy.

Bad for Natural Health - Good for the Pharmaceutical Industry
“Wouldn’t it be bad for people if vitamins and minerals were eliminated because of Codex?”, you might ask.

Think about it: if natural supplements were eliminated from the free market, and thus pharmaceutical drugs were the only option when people become sick, then more drugs would be sold. The more drugs that are sold, the more money that the pharmaceutical industry makes.

The primary reason for the push to implement Codex in the U.S. is the pharmaceutical industry.

The pharmaceutical companies are not intent on generating decent wealth through the free market. They are seeking to create a tyrannical monopoly out of people’s health needs, and then extracting people’s wealth for symptom-control (and horrible side-effects). This is how the tyrannical feudals of old-Europe used to treat the common people: tax them to the brink of starvation for the sake of their own wealth.

If Enron Could Do It, So Can the Pharmaceutical Industry
“… a single overarching conspiracy to enrich themselves…”

One of the best examples of corporate rampage is Enron. Remember Enron? Sure you do.

Enron, one of the largest corporations in the history of America (a titan in the energy industry and the second largest client of accounting giant Arthur Andersen), spectacularly wrecked the lives of thousands of employees by destroying the value of their investments. Enron, it is generally agreed, brought itself down by the sheer weight of the greed of its corporate executives.

The interesting thing is that Enron was being hailed as a success story by the mass media up to the last minute before its spectacular fall!

The pharmaceutical industry is far ahead of Enron on the greed-curve.

The Codex Alimentarius Vitamin and Mineral Guideline uses Risk Assessment to (supposedly) assess “safe” upper limits for vitamins and minerals. Risk Assessment is part of the science of toxicology which is properly applied to substances such as arsenic, lead, mercury, pesticides and other poisons.

But while Risk Assessment is the right science for assessing toxins, it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients!

Nutritional science is a part of Biochemistry, which deals with the metabolism of things like vitamins, minerals, fats, proteins and carbohydrates.

And because many people don’t know the difference between toxicology and Biochemistry, and most haven’t even heard of “Risk Assessment”, a lot of people have bought the nonsense that Codex is “scientific”. Codex is not scientific. It has nothing to do with science. It is all about short-sighted economic self-interest.

For example of the type of “science” that Codex is engaged it, the CAC treats Vitamin C with the same logic as arsenic, lead, mercury, mustard gas, or any other deadly poison. Any reasonable person can see that this is unacceptable.

Toxins are in large part products of the Industrial Revolution and thus they are very new to our bodies, and so cannot be handled properly by our detoxification mechanisms. That’s why toxins are toxic!

Comparing nutrients and toxins with the same assessment method is not even close to comparing apples and oranges. It is more like comparing crude oil and water! It is like saying that because drinking crude oil will kill you, therefore, drinking water will kill you too, and so let us, in our sheer arrogance and ignorance, put an upper limit on the amount of water you can drink - “to protect you from yourself”! It may sound absurd, but from a scientific point of view, that is exactly how absurd Codex Alimentarius is.

There is not one trace of reason, logic or science in how Codex treats nutrients as toxins.

Example of Vitamin and Mineral Guideline Harm: Forbidding Vitamin C Above 200mg/Day
Codex Alimentarius would make Vitamin C above 60-200mg per day illegal (the exact limits have not yet been set). If Codex is implemented in the U.S., Vitamin C of doses higher than a tiny amount would become as illegal as the hard drug heroin! And junk science (toxicology for nutrients) would be used to set the dosage.

Vitamin C is one of the most widely used anti-oxidants in the world. It has been proven effective in treating many health conditions. It is a highly affordable substance and is available in abundance on the marketplace. There are no known deaths from Vitamin C. There are well over 3500 scientific articles on the use of Vitamin C in the prevention and treatment of diseases and illnesses ranging from arthritis through cancer and scurvy to cardiovascular disease and a host of other serious conditions.

Are we doomed to Codex takeover? No. If we, the people, act decisively and in massive numbers, and our Congress acts to protect the people from Codex, we are not doomed at all.

Codex Brings Devastation to the Earth’s Environment
“Pesticides have often been studied for their links to cancer. Populations that are most at risk for pesticide-related cancers include workers with occupational exposure to pesticides, children whose parents have occupational exposure to pesticides, populations living in agricultural areas of heavy pesticide use and children whose parents use pesticides inside and outside of the home.”
- Samuel Epstein, M.D.

Codex would encourage the increased use of pesticides, veterinary hormones and other toxic drugs and unlabelled Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) in your food.

Codex would promote the increased use of toxins while responsible physicians and scientists the world over are calling for moratoriums and bans on pesticides, GMOs, and hormones and antibiotics in animals, due to the devastating carcinogenic effects of these toxins!

Our Responsibility is to Help Congress Protect America
We need to remind Congress of its duty, namely, to first and foremost protect the well-being and interests of the American people who have elected them. We need to make friends with our Congressmen and Congresswomen. They are going to suffer as much as any other American if our health freedoms are subjugated to the desires of the pharmaceutical industry.

We must remind Congress not to allow itself to be abused as pawns in this reckless chess-game of greedy special interest groups.

Our Enemies: Deception, Lack of Knowledge and Inaction

Falling for deception, produced by the Codex-sponsors, is our first enemy.

Lack of knowledge about Codex is our second enemy.

Inaction is our third enemy.

HealthFreedomUSA.org helps you neutralize and overcome the first two enemies so your path to effective action is crystal clear. We’ve made it easy for you to take action (see bottom of page).