Do you eat organic food, use supplements and natural herbs? Do you think it is important that food is labelled properly, that you know whether it is genetically modified, or irradiated? Do you value complementary medicine?
Well there is a plan to make sure that organic food is banned, supplement are only available in non therapeutic (ie useless) doses unless prescribed by a medical doctor, that fresh food is irradiated and that genetically modified foods get into everything without our knowledge because labelling of such things will be a thing of the past.
It's called Codex Alimentarius. Some folks in the US may remember this from the 1990s when it was attempted to bring it in there. Thousands of Americans protested and so the powers that be backed down and have been concentrating on the EU ever since.
What is interesting is that most people in the EU, partly because there are so many countries involved, speaking different languages, haven't heard of Codex and word hasn't got around like it did in the US. The result is that the European parliament has managed to sneak this legislation up on people.
According to Robert Verkerk from the Alliance for Natural Health, if he gives a talk in Australia or New Zealand he can fill a stadium with people. If he gives a talk in the UK he is lucky to fill a small room! There seems to be a great deal of apathy towards Codex here for some reason.
Here is a video by Ian Crane spelling out what Codex means to people in the UK. If you live on a diet of burgers and fries this is probably of no interest, but if you care about what you eat and want to continue eating food with any kind of nutritional value, please take note. This is me doing my bit to spread the word. Please do the same. If we don't oppose this then we will be stuck with nutritionally deficient, dead food to eat, and when we get sick, pharmaceuticals will be the only option.
For further information see the Alliance for Natural Health website. You can also write to your MP or MEP online.
