URGENT ~ Call Congress" NO" to Codex via CAFTA
ALERT - TIME-SENSITIVE
Please call your Congressman ...phone number and email at the following:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress
SAY "NO" to CAFTA Section 6 (Senate Bill 1307)
Keep freedom of choice for supplements
------------------------------------
CAFTA Section 6 (Senate Bill 1307)
July 12, 2005 11:36 a.m. PDT
This is a special ALERT - TIME-SENSITIVE public service message.
In 1994, I and millions of other Americans lobbied Congress to oppose
the legislation which would have given the US Food and Drug Authority
(FDA) power over our vitamins, minerals, and other food supplements.
In the last days before the final vote, I organized a group of concerned people for a protest rally in front of the FDA in Seattle to expose the fact that the bill opposing the FDA control of our food supplements was being locked up 1Cin committee 1D by the chairman of the House of Representatives committee, who just happened to be the second largest receiver of pharmaceutical industry PAC funds in the entire Congress!
With a week to go, I called the Seattle television stations for NBC, ABC, and CBS. NBC and ABC news offices in Seattle said they wanted to cover the issue of Americans losing their rights to freely purchase food supplements, but that they had not had a news event to cover regarding the issue. I told them we would be staging a protest one morning during the next week in time for them to film it and get it sent out to the national news desks for possible evening news coverage nationally.
Once I had ABC and NBC in Seattle committed, and I completed the
actions to get the demonstration permit, etc., I then called the member of the House of Representative, who was holding the bill 1Cagainst FDA control 1D by keeping it off his committee 19s agenda, and told his assistant that this House member 19s name and his huge pharmaceutical industry contributions would be the main topic of my remarks to the NBC and ABC reporters and film crews when we demonstrated in front of the FDA in Seattle! I told them we were doing our demonstration EARLY in the day so we could get the national evening news television shows to cover our demonstration!
Within 36 hours, the bill opposing FDA control of our food supplements
was voted out of committee and then passed by the House just hours
before the House adjourned. We WON that fight and we can win this fight too!
Americans must LOUDLY DEMAND that Congress SAY 1CNO 1D to the foreign influences that are now using a new, devious method to TAKE AWAY our access to food supplements, vitamins, and minerals!
The following overview explains 1Chow 1D this new effort is being done.
As you may know, the European Union has imposed the 1CCodex 1D which restricts Europeans access to vitamins, minerals, and food
supplements. The entire scheme is backed by huge, multi-national
pharmaceutical corporations who are trying to take away our ability to
have access to vitamins, minerals, and food supplements in our health food stores and other places, and to FORCE us to get a medical doctor 19s prescription for vitamins, minerals, and food supplements! It is GREED and control that are behind the entire scheme!
Remember, pharmaceutical companies only make money if YOU are SICK! They do not make money from healthy people.
This time, the pharmaceutical industry is using 1Ctrading treaties 1D and
trade organizations to push forward their devious scheme. There is a
treaty called 1CCAFTA 1D which has been approved by the US Senate, in a vote 54 for and 45 against on July 1, 2005. Now the House of Representatives must vote on 1CCAFTA 1D.
In the CAFTA bill, Section 6, is a provision which requires of all its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee
for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement basically requires that the European Union 19s
CODEX be accepted by all members of the WTO.
Using 1Ctrading organizations 1D and requirements of these trading
organizations and treaties, is HOW the enemies of freedom are trying
to FORCE Americans to LOSE their personal choices and freedoms in utilizing the God-given benefits of vitamins, minerals, and food supplements. We do NOT need nor do we want to have to get a prescription for vitamins, minerals, and food supplements from a medical doctor who has received less than 20 hours of education on vitamins, minerals, and food supplements in their entire eight years of college education! Most medical doctors are brainwashed to use pharmaceutical drugs by hundreds of hours of college education focusing on prescription drugs and hundreds of pharmaceutical corporation advertisements, sales people, free samples, and seminars 13 all designed to SELL DRUGS!
It cannot be over-emphasized how deceitful and Machiavellian these actions are to FORCE Americans and the world 19s people to USE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, and LOSE the ability to freely access vitamins, minerals, and food supplements!
Every American should be calling and writing their Representatives in the US House of Representatives and LOUDLY demanding that these requirements to 1Charmonize with the CODEX 1D be forbidden from any
legislation the US Congress approves. Every American should be demanding their rights to freely access what has been given to us from nature: vitamins, minerals, and food supplements. NO ONE has the right to take away our right to have free access to these natural substances!
You may find the US Representative who represents you by clicking on
http://www.house.gov - in the top middle enter your zip code and find your House Representative. Also on the left side you will see 1CRepresentatives Offices 1D and to the right of that there is a 1Cdrop-down 1D menu which you click to see the list of Representatives and their locations; when you click on your Representative 19s name in the drop down menu, it gives you their website and all their offices and phone numbers. I suggest you call them at their Washington, D.C. office TODAY if possible. You may also send them an email through www.house.gov/writerep .
I remind you, in 1994 through the BIGGEST lobbying effort by Americans ever in the history of the USA, even bigger than the anti-Vietnam war efforts, we WON Americans the right to continue to freely access vitamins, minerals, and food supplements.
I urge each of you to DO YOUR PART 13 tell your House Representative to vote 1CNO 1D on the CAFTA requirement which would impose the terrible CODEX restrictions on Americans!
If you know the name of your US Congressperson, you may call the Congressional switchboard number at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your House Representative 19s office. Then tell the staff person you are requesting the Representative vote 1CNO 1D on the CAFTA provision which TAKES AWAY from Americans the freedom to freely access food supplements by imposing CODEX on Americans.
In the meantime, YOU can do something useful by getting in the habit
of demanding your rights. We Americans have sat back and let Congress pass some terrible laws. It 19s OUR FAULT America is doing the wrong things and Congress is listening to the wrong people. We all need to TAKE ACTION and demand our rights. We need to make a habit of demanding our rights!
When I called my own House Representative today, his staff person said that the CAFTA bill is in the 1CWays and Means Committee 1D currently. You might contact the committee members as well if you wish to do more, and demand the Codex link be removed from the bill. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on this bill 1Csometime in the next few weeks 1D per my Representative 19s office.
When I called US Representative Ron Paul 19s office, his staff person said it is predicted that the House of Representatives vote on this CAFTA bill will be VERY CLOSE 13 possibly 3 to 5 votes (out of 435 votes) will make the difference! WE all need to CALL or email our Representatives and demand a big 1CNO 1D to this CAFTA effort to TAKE AWAY our food supplements freedom by the Machiavellian, devious CODEX connection.
Although not spelled out in the CAFTA bill, the FDA would be the 1Cimplementing authority 1D of taking away our food supplements! Remember, get a permit from the local city or police to do your demonstration 13 this is NOT hard to obtain and when you tell them what is happening, they will probably become behind-the-scenes allies. That was what I experienced when I called the television news people and the sheriff over the area of the FDA office in Seattle.
Most Americans have NO IDEA that their ability to buy Vitamin C and other food supplements WILL BE TAKEN AWAY by this devious CAFTA bill. CODEX goes into effect NEXT MONTH - August 2005 - in the European Union! It will be going into effect in the USA unless we STOP it NOW!
DO your demonstrations 13 contact the local stations carrying ABC, NBC, and CBS and tell them you will be doing demonstrations 13 when, where, what time - so they can show up to film and interview you. Let 19s get this issue on television and radio news 13 Americans need to WAKE UP to what their Congress is doing!
Stand UP for yourself! Call the Congressional switchboard number at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your House Representative 19s office now! and internationally.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
http://ahha.org/NHFPressRelease705.htm
July 2, 2005 Press Release
National Health Federation (a not-for-profit health organization)
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require the U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food laws and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force harmonization of our dietary supplements and regulations to international standards, overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modeled after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are typical bureaucratic monstrosities of "managed" trade that masquerade as free trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America and then the rest of the Americas in an economic "union." True free trade would take a few pages of written text to enact ("eliminate these barriers to trade and these tariffs," etc.); all three of these agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual garbage sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and special-interest benefits.
Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that text at the following website: www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html.
If you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will read the following words: "To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations." And as you all know by now, Codex sets the international standards for food safety including vitamins & minerals.
So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives when they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by treaty to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put a knife in the back of our health freedoms.
* CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st, 2005.
* Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.
* IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill 1307 (click here to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on without going to committee. It is on the House calendar and may be brought up at any time.
PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. Contact any member of the House of Representatives via www.house.gov/writerep
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2005/cr071105.htm
HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS [Speech]
BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 11, 2005
Henry Lamb- A Great Freedom Fighter Documents how your Dietary
Supplements are Under Attack
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to read "Your dietary supplements:
Under attack again" by Henry Lamb, which I am inserting into the record. Mr. Lamb explains the threat to American consumers of dietary supplements and American sovereignty by the Codex Alimentarius commission, commonly referred to simply as Codex. The United Nations created Codex to establish international standards for foods and medicines. Just last week, representatives of the United States government agreed to a final version of Codex's standards on dietary supplements which, if implemented in the United States, could drastically reduce Americans' ability to obtain the supplements of their choice. Members of the American bureaucracy may be hope to achieve via international fiat what they cannot achieve through the domestic law-making process--the power to restrict consumers' access to dietary supplements. American bureaucrats may gain this power if the World Trade Organization, which considers Codex "guidelines" the standard by which all other regulations are judged, decides that our failure to "harmonize" our regulations of dietary supplements to meet Codex's recommendations violates international trading standards! This could occur despite the fact that American consumers do not want to be subjected to the restrictive regulations common in other parts of the world, such as the European Union.
This article is typical of Henry Lamb's work. For almost twenty years, beginning at an age when most Americans are contemplating retirement,
Mr. Lamb has worked to expose and stop threats to American liberty, sovereignty, and prosperity. Mr. Lamb became involved in the battle for liberty when, as the CEO of a Tennessee construction company, he founded a state association of contractors to work against excessive regulations. In 1988, Henry Lamb founded the Environmental Conservation Organization to defend true environmentalism, which is rooted in the truth that there is no better steward of the environment than a private property owner, from those who used the environment as a cover for their radical statist agendas. Since 1992, Mr. Lamb and ECO have focused on the threat to economic liberty and self-government posed by the radical global environmental agenda.
Henry Lamb works to further the cause of liberty by giving speeches around the country, editing an on-line magazine, making numerous television and radio appearances, and writing a weekly column to inform his fellow Americans of the latest scheme to undermine their freedoms. Mr. Lamb is the model of a citizen-activist, and all who wish to become involved in the battle for freedom can learn from his example. In conclusion, I once again urge my colleagues to read Mr. Lamb's article to learn about the need to protect American consumers from Codex, and I thank Mr. Lamb for his tireless devotion to the cause of freedom.
YOUR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: UNDER ATTACK AGAIN
(from WorldNetDaily, June 11, 2005)
(By Henry Lamb)
The Codex Alimentarius Commission sounds like one of those shadowy,
sinister organizations conjured up by one-world-government nuts to scare people.
Truth: It is!
The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization created this commission in the early 1960s to set standards for food safety and to ``harmonize'' the laws of member nations. The commission was endorsed by U.N. Resolution 39/248, which says:
``When formulating national policies and plans with regard to food, governments should take into account the need of all consumers for food security and should support and, as far as possible, adopt standards from the ..... Codex Alimentarius. .....''
The Codex Alimentarius Commission consists of delegates from 163 member nations representing 97 percent of the world's population. It meets every two years, either in Rome or Geneva. Between meetings, the
commission is governed by an executive committee that directs the activities of its many committees.
Of immediate concern is the ongoing effort to bring dietary supplements in America under the control of standards set by this commission. Dietary supplements generate a $17 billion industry in the United States, which affects more than 150 million consumers, according to Congressional findings (H.R. 2485). Proposed procedures and standards could virtually destroy this market and deprive millions of Americans of the supplements they want to use.
The European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements, which becomes law in August, severely restricts the types and quantities of supplements
that may be legally sold. Most forms of vitamins C and E, for example, are not available, or are available only in extremely small doses. If current plans proceed on course, American consumers are in for a shock.
How can this little-known international commission control what
consumers buy in the United States?
An even less-known agency, deep within the bowels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsible for U.S. participation in the Codex Commission and designates delegates to each of the commission's committees. Barbara O. Schneeman is the delegate to the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses.
The effort to regulate dietary supplements has been under way for more than a decade. In 1994, Congress adopted the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which kept supplements beyond the reach of the drug police. In the past, Codex recommendations have been non-binding. Now, however, the Codex Alimentarius Commission is teaming up with the World Trade Organization to bring international enforcement to the dietary-supplement battle.
Ironically, it was primarily the U.S. that brought the WTO into existence in 1994, as the successor to GATT, the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade. The WTO agreement specifically requires that the member nations--including the U.S.--conform its laws to meet the requirements of WTO decisions. Failure to conform results in stiff financial penalties. The Codex Commission and the European Union want the WTO to enforce Codex standards, which fly directly in the face of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.
Pascal Lamy of France was just selected as director general of the WTO. Lamy served as a member of the French Socialist Party's steering committee and was chief of staff and representative of the European Commission for President Jacques Delors. Since 1995, he has served as a member of the Central Office of the Mouvement Européen (France) and as a member of the European Commission, responsible for trade.
The Codex Commission will be meeting in Rome July 4-9 to adopt the final rules on dietary supplement use. Dr. Carolyn Dean, president of Friends of Freedom International, will attend this meeting and return to the U.S. just in time to present her report to the Sixth Annual Freedom 21 Conference in Reno, July 14-16.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission's reach is much broader than dietary supplements. Its committees are also working on standards for pesticide residue, labeling of all kinds of foods, food additives and nutrients, veterinary medicine and drugs, as well as standards and methods for analysis. The function of this organization is to establish standards for all food worldwide and to enforce those standards through the power of the World Trade Organization.
Few people know that there is such a thing as the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It was created to promote food safety in international trade. It is on the brink of becoming an Orwellian bureaucracy--far worse than the worst fantasies of the one-world conspiracy theories.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is neither fantasy nor theory; it is
real.
Check out http://herbsplus4health.blogspot.com/2005/07/more-consumer-freedom-taken-away.html to see We Become Silent, The CODEX-CAFTA Documentary, produced by Kevin Miller, Narrated by Dame Judy Dench
Thank you Paula Perry for the information provide above.
Please call your Congressman ...phone number and email at the following:
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress
SAY "NO" to CAFTA Section 6 (Senate Bill 1307)
Keep freedom of choice for supplements
------------------------------------
CAFTA Section 6 (Senate Bill 1307)
July 12, 2005 11:36 a.m. PDT
This is a special ALERT - TIME-SENSITIVE public service message.
In 1994, I and millions of other Americans lobbied Congress to oppose
the legislation which would have given the US Food and Drug Authority
(FDA) power over our vitamins, minerals, and other food supplements.
In the last days before the final vote, I organized a group of concerned people for a protest rally in front of the FDA in Seattle to expose the fact that the bill opposing the FDA control of our food supplements was being locked up 1Cin committee 1D by the chairman of the House of Representatives committee, who just happened to be the second largest receiver of pharmaceutical industry PAC funds in the entire Congress!
With a week to go, I called the Seattle television stations for NBC, ABC, and CBS. NBC and ABC news offices in Seattle said they wanted to cover the issue of Americans losing their rights to freely purchase food supplements, but that they had not had a news event to cover regarding the issue. I told them we would be staging a protest one morning during the next week in time for them to film it and get it sent out to the national news desks for possible evening news coverage nationally.
Once I had ABC and NBC in Seattle committed, and I completed the
actions to get the demonstration permit, etc., I then called the member of the House of Representative, who was holding the bill 1Cagainst FDA control 1D by keeping it off his committee 19s agenda, and told his assistant that this House member 19s name and his huge pharmaceutical industry contributions would be the main topic of my remarks to the NBC and ABC reporters and film crews when we demonstrated in front of the FDA in Seattle! I told them we were doing our demonstration EARLY in the day so we could get the national evening news television shows to cover our demonstration!
Within 36 hours, the bill opposing FDA control of our food supplements
was voted out of committee and then passed by the House just hours
before the House adjourned. We WON that fight and we can win this fight too!
Americans must LOUDLY DEMAND that Congress SAY 1CNO 1D to the foreign influences that are now using a new, devious method to TAKE AWAY our access to food supplements, vitamins, and minerals!
The following overview explains 1Chow 1D this new effort is being done.
As you may know, the European Union has imposed the 1CCodex 1D which restricts Europeans access to vitamins, minerals, and food
supplements. The entire scheme is backed by huge, multi-national
pharmaceutical corporations who are trying to take away our ability to
have access to vitamins, minerals, and food supplements in our health food stores and other places, and to FORCE us to get a medical doctor 19s prescription for vitamins, minerals, and food supplements! It is GREED and control that are behind the entire scheme!
Remember, pharmaceutical companies only make money if YOU are SICK! They do not make money from healthy people.
This time, the pharmaceutical industry is using 1Ctrading treaties 1D and
trade organizations to push forward their devious scheme. There is a
treaty called 1CCAFTA 1D which has been approved by the US Senate, in a vote 54 for and 45 against on July 1, 2005. Now the House of Representatives must vote on 1CCAFTA 1D.
In the CAFTA bill, Section 6, is a provision which requires of all its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee
for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement basically requires that the European Union 19s
CODEX be accepted by all members of the WTO.
Using 1Ctrading organizations 1D and requirements of these trading
organizations and treaties, is HOW the enemies of freedom are trying
to FORCE Americans to LOSE their personal choices and freedoms in utilizing the God-given benefits of vitamins, minerals, and food supplements. We do NOT need nor do we want to have to get a prescription for vitamins, minerals, and food supplements from a medical doctor who has received less than 20 hours of education on vitamins, minerals, and food supplements in their entire eight years of college education! Most medical doctors are brainwashed to use pharmaceutical drugs by hundreds of hours of college education focusing on prescription drugs and hundreds of pharmaceutical corporation advertisements, sales people, free samples, and seminars 13 all designed to SELL DRUGS!
It cannot be over-emphasized how deceitful and Machiavellian these actions are to FORCE Americans and the world 19s people to USE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, and LOSE the ability to freely access vitamins, minerals, and food supplements!
Every American should be calling and writing their Representatives in the US House of Representatives and LOUDLY demanding that these requirements to 1Charmonize with the CODEX 1D be forbidden from any
legislation the US Congress approves. Every American should be demanding their rights to freely access what has been given to us from nature: vitamins, minerals, and food supplements. NO ONE has the right to take away our right to have free access to these natural substances!
You may find the US Representative who represents you by clicking on
http://www.house.gov - in the top middle enter your zip code and find your House Representative. Also on the left side you will see 1CRepresentatives Offices 1D and to the right of that there is a 1Cdrop-down 1D menu which you click to see the list of Representatives and their locations; when you click on your Representative 19s name in the drop down menu, it gives you their website and all their offices and phone numbers. I suggest you call them at their Washington, D.C. office TODAY if possible. You may also send them an email through www.house.gov/writerep .
I remind you, in 1994 through the BIGGEST lobbying effort by Americans ever in the history of the USA, even bigger than the anti-Vietnam war efforts, we WON Americans the right to continue to freely access vitamins, minerals, and food supplements.
I urge each of you to DO YOUR PART 13 tell your House Representative to vote 1CNO 1D on the CAFTA requirement which would impose the terrible CODEX restrictions on Americans!
If you know the name of your US Congressperson, you may call the Congressional switchboard number at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your House Representative 19s office. Then tell the staff person you are requesting the Representative vote 1CNO 1D on the CAFTA provision which TAKES AWAY from Americans the freedom to freely access food supplements by imposing CODEX on Americans.
In the meantime, YOU can do something useful by getting in the habit
of demanding your rights. We Americans have sat back and let Congress pass some terrible laws. It 19s OUR FAULT America is doing the wrong things and Congress is listening to the wrong people. We all need to TAKE ACTION and demand our rights. We need to make a habit of demanding our rights!
When I called my own House Representative today, his staff person said that the CAFTA bill is in the 1CWays and Means Committee 1D currently. You might contact the committee members as well if you wish to do more, and demand the Codex link be removed from the bill. The House of Representatives is expected to vote on this bill 1Csometime in the next few weeks 1D per my Representative 19s office.
When I called US Representative Ron Paul 19s office, his staff person said it is predicted that the House of Representatives vote on this CAFTA bill will be VERY CLOSE 13 possibly 3 to 5 votes (out of 435 votes) will make the difference! WE all need to CALL or email our Representatives and demand a big 1CNO 1D to this CAFTA effort to TAKE AWAY our food supplements freedom by the Machiavellian, devious CODEX connection.
Although not spelled out in the CAFTA bill, the FDA would be the 1Cimplementing authority 1D of taking away our food supplements! Remember, get a permit from the local city or police to do your demonstration 13 this is NOT hard to obtain and when you tell them what is happening, they will probably become behind-the-scenes allies. That was what I experienced when I called the television news people and the sheriff over the area of the FDA office in Seattle.
Most Americans have NO IDEA that their ability to buy Vitamin C and other food supplements WILL BE TAKEN AWAY by this devious CAFTA bill. CODEX goes into effect NEXT MONTH - August 2005 - in the European Union! It will be going into effect in the USA unless we STOP it NOW!
DO your demonstrations 13 contact the local stations carrying ABC, NBC, and CBS and tell them you will be doing demonstrations 13 when, where, what time - so they can show up to film and interview you. Let 19s get this issue on television and radio news 13 Americans need to WAKE UP to what their Congress is doing!
Stand UP for yourself! Call the Congressional switchboard number at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your House Representative 19s office now! and internationally.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
http://ahha.org/NHFPressRelease705.htm
July 2, 2005 Press Release
National Health Federation (a not-for-profit health organization)
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) Treaty will require the U.S., a member of the World Trade Organization, to revise our food laws and regulations based on Codex decisions. CAFTA would force harmonization of our dietary supplements and regulations to international standards, overriding the DSHEA Act of 1994.
The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) and the even-broader Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA) are both modeled after the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). These agreements are typical bureaucratic monstrosities of "managed" trade that masquerade as free trade and would expand NAFTA to include first Central America and then the rest of the Americas in an economic "union." True free trade would take a few pages of written text to enact ("eliminate these barriers to trade and these tariffs," etc.); all three of these agreements encompass thousands of pages of bureaucratic textual garbage sprinkled liberally with rules, regulations, and special-interest benefits.
Buried in the language of CAFTA is Section 6 that would require of all its members that they form a Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary (SPS) committee for the purpose of insuring ongoing harmonization under the terms of the SPS Agreement in the World Trade Organization (WTO). You can find that text at the following website: www.ustr.gov/Trade_Agreements/Bilateral/CAFTA/CAFTA-DR_Final_Texts/Section_Index.html.
If you then look at Article 3 of the WTO's SPS Agreement, you will read the following words: "To harmonize sanitary and phytosanitary measures on as wide a basis as possible, Members shall base their food safety measures on international standards, guidelines or recommendations." And as you all know by now, Codex sets the international standards for food safety including vitamins & minerals.
So, CAFTA, which is set for a vote in the House of Representatives when they reconvene July 11th, 2005, is another critical link by which health-freedom haters hope to bypass the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 and obligate the United States and Canada by treaty to harmonize to the harshly restrictive Codex vitamin-and-mineral standards. They cannot be allowed to succeed, and we at the NHF completely oppose these two treaties that would put a knife in the back of our health freedoms.
* CAFTA has already passed the Senate in a 54 to 45 vote on July 1st, 2005.
* Legislators have just recessed for one week, reconvening July 11, 2005.
* IMPORTANT- For House consideration, when they return, the Senate Bill 1307 (click here to view bill), ratifying CAFTA, can be voted on without going to committee. It is on the House calendar and may be brought up at any time.
PLEASE JOIN IN THIS EFFORT AND CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. Contact any member of the House of Representatives via www.house.gov/writerep
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2005/cr071105.htm
HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS [Speech]
BEFORE THE US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 11, 2005
Henry Lamb- A Great Freedom Fighter Documents how your Dietary
Supplements are Under Attack
Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to read "Your dietary supplements:
Under attack again" by Henry Lamb, which I am inserting into the record. Mr. Lamb explains the threat to American consumers of dietary supplements and American sovereignty by the Codex Alimentarius commission, commonly referred to simply as Codex. The United Nations created Codex to establish international standards for foods and medicines. Just last week, representatives of the United States government agreed to a final version of Codex's standards on dietary supplements which, if implemented in the United States, could drastically reduce Americans' ability to obtain the supplements of their choice. Members of the American bureaucracy may be hope to achieve via international fiat what they cannot achieve through the domestic law-making process--the power to restrict consumers' access to dietary supplements. American bureaucrats may gain this power if the World Trade Organization, which considers Codex "guidelines" the standard by which all other regulations are judged, decides that our failure to "harmonize" our regulations of dietary supplements to meet Codex's recommendations violates international trading standards! This could occur despite the fact that American consumers do not want to be subjected to the restrictive regulations common in other parts of the world, such as the European Union.
This article is typical of Henry Lamb's work. For almost twenty years, beginning at an age when most Americans are contemplating retirement,
Mr. Lamb has worked to expose and stop threats to American liberty, sovereignty, and prosperity. Mr. Lamb became involved in the battle for liberty when, as the CEO of a Tennessee construction company, he founded a state association of contractors to work against excessive regulations. In 1988, Henry Lamb founded the Environmental Conservation Organization to defend true environmentalism, which is rooted in the truth that there is no better steward of the environment than a private property owner, from those who used the environment as a cover for their radical statist agendas. Since 1992, Mr. Lamb and ECO have focused on the threat to economic liberty and self-government posed by the radical global environmental agenda.
Henry Lamb works to further the cause of liberty by giving speeches around the country, editing an on-line magazine, making numerous television and radio appearances, and writing a weekly column to inform his fellow Americans of the latest scheme to undermine their freedoms. Mr. Lamb is the model of a citizen-activist, and all who wish to become involved in the battle for freedom can learn from his example. In conclusion, I once again urge my colleagues to read Mr. Lamb's article to learn about the need to protect American consumers from Codex, and I thank Mr. Lamb for his tireless devotion to the cause of freedom.
YOUR DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS: UNDER ATTACK AGAIN
(from WorldNetDaily, June 11, 2005)
(By Henry Lamb)
The Codex Alimentarius Commission sounds like one of those shadowy,
sinister organizations conjured up by one-world-government nuts to scare people.
Truth: It is!
The Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization created this commission in the early 1960s to set standards for food safety and to ``harmonize'' the laws of member nations. The commission was endorsed by U.N. Resolution 39/248, which says:
``When formulating national policies and plans with regard to food, governments should take into account the need of all consumers for food security and should support and, as far as possible, adopt standards from the ..... Codex Alimentarius. .....''
The Codex Alimentarius Commission consists of delegates from 163 member nations representing 97 percent of the world's population. It meets every two years, either in Rome or Geneva. Between meetings, the
commission is governed by an executive committee that directs the activities of its many committees.
Of immediate concern is the ongoing effort to bring dietary supplements in America under the control of standards set by this commission. Dietary supplements generate a $17 billion industry in the United States, which affects more than 150 million consumers, according to Congressional findings (H.R. 2485). Proposed procedures and standards could virtually destroy this market and deprive millions of Americans of the supplements they want to use.
The European Union Directive on Dietary Supplements, which becomes law in August, severely restricts the types and quantities of supplements
that may be legally sold. Most forms of vitamins C and E, for example, are not available, or are available only in extremely small doses. If current plans proceed on course, American consumers are in for a shock.
How can this little-known international commission control what
consumers buy in the United States?
An even less-known agency, deep within the bowels of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is responsible for U.S. participation in the Codex Commission and designates delegates to each of the commission's committees. Barbara O. Schneeman is the delegate to the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses.
The effort to regulate dietary supplements has been under way for more than a decade. In 1994, Congress adopted the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, which kept supplements beyond the reach of the drug police. In the past, Codex recommendations have been non-binding. Now, however, the Codex Alimentarius Commission is teaming up with the World Trade Organization to bring international enforcement to the dietary-supplement battle.
Ironically, it was primarily the U.S. that brought the WTO into existence in 1994, as the successor to GATT, the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade. The WTO agreement specifically requires that the member nations--including the U.S.--conform its laws to meet the requirements of WTO decisions. Failure to conform results in stiff financial penalties. The Codex Commission and the European Union want the WTO to enforce Codex standards, which fly directly in the face of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act.
Pascal Lamy of France was just selected as director general of the WTO. Lamy served as a member of the French Socialist Party's steering committee and was chief of staff and representative of the European Commission for President Jacques Delors. Since 1995, he has served as a member of the Central Office of the Mouvement Européen (France) and as a member of the European Commission, responsible for trade.
The Codex Commission will be meeting in Rome July 4-9 to adopt the final rules on dietary supplement use. Dr. Carolyn Dean, president of Friends of Freedom International, will attend this meeting and return to the U.S. just in time to present her report to the Sixth Annual Freedom 21 Conference in Reno, July 14-16.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission's reach is much broader than dietary supplements. Its committees are also working on standards for pesticide residue, labeling of all kinds of foods, food additives and nutrients, veterinary medicine and drugs, as well as standards and methods for analysis. The function of this organization is to establish standards for all food worldwide and to enforce those standards through the power of the World Trade Organization.
Few people know that there is such a thing as the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It was created to promote food safety in international trade. It is on the brink of becoming an Orwellian bureaucracy--far worse than the worst fantasies of the one-world conspiracy theories.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission is neither fantasy nor theory; it is
real.
Check out http://herbsplus4health.blogspot.com/2005/07/more-consumer-freedom-taken-away.html to see We Become Silent, The CODEX-CAFTA Documentary, produced by Kevin Miller, Narrated by Dame Judy Dench
Thank you Paula Perry for the information provide above.
posted by Karen Herrmann-DeSantis, Herb Specialist, Natural Health Educator | 3:50 PM
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