Codex Alimentarius

majestikc

Any body heard of this yet?

It has been claimed by countless sources that Codex Alimentarius goes into global implementation on December 31 2009. It has also been claimed that when this happens, all of our food will be stripped of any real nutritional value while dietary supplements will either be outlawed or reformulated to be of little to no effect. The end result would be billions of people starving to death on empty calories.The ultimate tool for depopulation.

Check it out, it's pretty scary stuff.

......................for all you "conspiracy guitarists" on here

Riaan-Combrink

I think the issue is somewhat different.

Both sides:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alimentarius

vs

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?page_id=178

What bothers me most about the anti-codex lobby, is the following:

Disinformation Type 3: “Urban Legend”
Example: Snopes.com is a web site that traces the roots of urban legends, to dispel those that are false. But they are in fact creating their own urban legend when it comes to Codex Alimentarius. The urban legend snopes.com is guilty of creating says that “Codex Alimentarius is a hoax”.

Read more about Codex disinformation from Snopes.com

Now that immediately got me interested. Snopes.com is one of my favourite sites. great for debunking all those mass e-mails warning people of all kinds of imaginary evils and threats. My wife believes them implicitly, and I use Snopes to debunk the urgent warning of May 09 as an urban legend originating from 1977!

So when I clicked the link to Snopes, it took me back to the same page. Weird. Went to Snopes directly, and couldn't find any reference to Codex Alimentarius. Weirder and weirderer, me thinks:
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-q=Codex+Alimentarius+&getit=Go&sp-a=00062d45-sp00000000&sp-advanced=1&sp-p=all&sp-w-control=1&sp-w=alike&sp-date-range=-1&sp-x=any&sp-c=100&sp-m=1&sp-s=0

But anyhoo, check out Snopes - great site:
http://www.snopes.com/

Bob-Dubery

majestikc wrote Any body heard of this yet?

It has been claimed by countless sources that Codex Alimentarius goes into global implementation on December 31 2009. It has also been claimed that when this happens, all of our food will be stripped of any real nutritional value while dietary supplements will either be outlawed or reformulated to be of little to no effect. The end result would be billions of people starving to death on empty calories.The ultimate tool for depopulation.

Check it out, it's pretty scary stuff.

......................for all you "conspiracy guitarists" on here

It's a system for stating food constituents in a standardized way. Europe is a long way down that path with "E numbers" for various additives.

What it may outlaw is the marketing of chemicals or minerals that are claimed to have nutritional benefit in such a way that they are not classified as drugs. This is a good thing IMO as too many such products are sold with no or incomplete clinical testing having been done.