More research ...

Since I am not good at just sitting, I have been doing some research while I sit with Min...

I have just discovered a video that sums up a lot of my concerns about the Codex Alimentarius -- it clarifies what it mans and what effect it will have on us and it also gives me some hope. However, I have to look further into the Health Freedom organization and find out what kind of credibility it has. That they invoke the Nazis in their discussion is cause for caution ... but that people use them as a last defense of an indefensible argument doesn't always mean that the reference isn't true.

Their explanation:

Codex Alimentarius was founded in 1962 by the UN to establish international free trade foods. It is jointly administered by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) through annual and regional meetings.

Codex sets advisory standards and guidelines which nations may adopt or modify. If they modify them without special protections, nations may be found guilty of setting up trade barriers by the World Trade Organization (WTO), and be assessed crippling financial penalties. If, on the other hand, countries deviate from Codex texts by creating a scientifically strong alternative guideline or standard, and pass enabling legislation (a process we refer to as "The Codex Two Step") they are free to deviate from Codex without being found guilty of creating barriers to trade. WTO has repeatedly refused to grant Codex a unique position as THE international food code, saying it is one of several such standards.

Codex decisions are, however, often perceived as inevitable by many developing nations which are not aware of the flexibility to protect the health of their people through the Two Step Process.

Codex' decisions are heavily influenced by the desires of multinational special interest groups who send representatives to sit on national committees and as NGO delegates. Because Codex is so heavily influenced by corporate interests, its decisions are, in our opinion, often helpful to corporate well-being but strikingly detrimental to human and environmental health.

Codex pertains to every bite - and kind of - food traded internationally and allows high doses of pesticides, veterinary drugs, synthetic hormones, contaminants, artificial sweeteners, and other dangerous compounds and processes (like mandated irradiation of food) while it forbids health claims for food.

A quick examination makes them look credible, but I want to hunt around a bit. That could be tricky, because, of course, they have an "alternative" view and that can make them unpopular even if -- maybe sometimes because -- they're onto something.

Oh well -- birds are singing, so it's obviously time to get up...er, um, I mean, get some sleep.

Oh, work on Monday is going to be fun...