Dr. Laibow and Gen. Stubblebine continue their trip through several African nations, bringing the natural solutions message to opinion leaders and decision makers. Her Internet connection is sporadic, but she sent me this message for her blog, while her connection lasted.

Here is her report:

We met with a direct underling to the Minister of Health in this poor African country who is responsible for all preventive health in that country. She is very excited about the fact that concerted action by Health Conscious Nations (HCNs) can turn Codex Alimentarius (the World Food Code) to the advantage of food consumers, especially in areas like Africa. Codex responsibility is shared by several Ministries.

This is really astonishing and heartening. Here in this developing country they really understand what is going on and believe that a meeting needs to be organized by them to develop a coordinated strategy for the HCNs before the meeting of CAC (the Codex governing body). Recalling that last week in Accra, Ghana, it was the African nations that pushed back against the US – successfully – I have reminded them that the game of GM labeling is FAR from over and they need to attend CCFL (food labeling committee) in full force with an effective strategy in place to win this battle.

Our contact has risked his whole career for this so he is really counting on us to come through for him. She is fantastic.

I do not want to announce publicly which country we are in to prevent the likelihood of extreme pressure by the US and others on this struggling nation but we do want to tell our Netroots it would appear that the Natural Solutions Foundation interventions and connections on the ground here in Africa over the last 3 years are bearing fruit in helping to change the mindset of Codex delegates and therefore the will of the countries in the developing world to take the power back to protect their people.

These countries banded together, for the first time in our knowledge of Codex since 1963, to stand together to counter the chess moves being set up by the US.

Let me repeat that: these countries banded together for the first time, to stand together to counter the Big Agra/Big Pharma agenda last week at the Working Group on Labeling of Foods Derived from Biotech and BioEngineering in Accra, Ghana.We were there for you and so we saw the African nations decide to work together – just as we have been urging them to do for the last 3 years!

Realizing that the seemingly innocuous language used by the US to create a heading that would ordinarily seem quite innocent (“foods are considered safe if they are on the market”), would mean that, in an international trade dispute, say before the WHO, the refusing (or labeling) country could be found to be creating “a barrier to trade” because they were keeping out foods that were already known to be “safe.”

But GM foods are NOT known to be safe and are on the market in ever increasing numbers. The FDA prevents their labeling in the US and wants to do the same all over the world.

Presuming their safety once on the market might be allowable IF the US actually either established their safety (which it does not) or reviewed the safety characteristics and studies by the companies that own the patent on the food (which it does not). Therefore, just because the food is on the market in the US or elsewhere merely indicates that the FDA is such a broken institution that it has absolutely no will or ability to protect the health of the consumer or the wholesomeness of the food (or drug) supply. It is truly time to divest the FDA!

Africa got it and led the revolt that took the “safety” words out of their proposed heading!

The US Delegate, Barbara Schneeman, PhD, head of the FDA Office of Dietary Supplements, was suave at first. I assume that she assumed that the force of the US position and economic strength would carry the day as it usually does in Codex. When that did not happen, she became more and more strident until, after a dozen repetitions, she wound up petulant, red faced and with what sounded to me and to other observers, like a shaking voice.

Barbara Schneeman is probably a great neighbor and would bring you a bowl of chicken soup (with MSG and aspartame in it) if you were sick. I can hope she loves kids and may even be a very nice grandmother. She is, none the less, through her work as the US Delegate at many Codex meetings, perpetrating huge disasters on the peoples of the world (US included) through her corporate service via her employment at the FDA and her deployment by it to attend numerous Codex meetings. I have yet to hear Barbara, and hence the US, come down on the right side of any issue. I am still waiting.

Nutrients? Treat them as if they were dangerous industrial chemicals and subject them to “risk analysis” to select clinically meaningless doses that cannot be increased above. Now that one is great for Big Pharma. It will help it get much bigger since it eliminates the single greatest economic competitor to the pharmaceutical profit structure: Natural health and supplementation.

Unnatural Hormones: Treat them as if they were benign or even, absurdly, good for us, the animals raised on them and the environment suffering the ill effects of drug-laced excrement in the downstream waterways of industrial factory farms, now spreading to every country in the world for poultry raising in order to deal with ‘Avian Flu’ (of which there were 26 cases among birds, not people) in India. You see, the game is close your eyes to reality, turn around three times and yell out “avian flu” and then kill all the birds that belong to the poor peasant or subsistence farmers. Then you can put all the remaining birds indoors under the roofs of factory poultry farms and grow high tech, low taste, high drug, low safety barely edible birds. (And, speaking of hormones, the FDA is in the process of banning the use of the same hormones created by every woman’s body leaving the field clear for a monopoly of synthetic ones so dangerous that a huge US study on them was halted prematurely because of the increased risk to the women taking the synthetic hormones!)

Codex wants to let the farmers of the world know that their cows need to be treated with Monsanto’s Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), that there is no upper limit to the amount they can use, but not tell them that their cows will become chronically ill and will need expensive and, in many places, unavailable antibiotics and other drugs, that they will not be able to use the milk they take from their animals unless they follow this and so they, like the chicken farmers before them, will be driven off the land and will be forced to gravitate to the slums of the world where abject poverty and hopelessness for themselves and their children await them in place of the independence and pride that they once had.

Overused Antibiotics ? see Hormones. Good for Big Pharma. Disaster for humanity.

Irradiation? All fruit and veggies imported into the US must be irradiated. Perhaps, and I say only “Perhaps” that does indeed kill agricultural pests.

How about all the nutrients it kills (disrupts) too, and the fact that it engenders huge populations of lipid peroxides (rancid and dangerous molecules, causing untold misery through the creation of both acute and chronic diseases and disorders) and those molecular terrorists, ‘free radicals.’ Known for decades as the source of cancer, diabetes, macular degeneration and a host of other serious diseases, this electrical terrorist steals from one neighbor to balance another nearby atom with the electron it just stole from the first. Sounds like the political process…

Irradiation increases free radical populations hugely. Free radicals are a causative agent, as I said above, in many of the world’s deadliest (and expensive) diseases.

But the FDA, although it knows this as well as it knew BEFORE IT APPROVED GARDASIL, the vaccine for girls to “prevent” cervical cancer is active (to the extent that a vaccine can act against any virus effectively) against 4 strains of HPPV which the FDA admits in its own documentation, have little or nothing to do with cervical cancer and that the vaccine actually increases cervical cancer in girls and women who receive it! Repeat: they knew the vaccine causes the cancer they claim it prevents. Dr. Mengele anyone?

Unlike even the FDA, which robs the public to pay the (Pharma/Big Food) piper (if you will allow me a mixed simile) Codex sets no upper limit on the amount of radiation a food can receive in packing, shipping, importation, processing, etc. If a little radiation is “good” a lot must be… better? Like multiple, untested vaccines?

With each go-round of irradiation, the problems in the food, the free radicals and lipid peroxidase, which have no flavor or color you can detect, get worse as the irradiation gets to a higher cumulative dose.

Health Claims? Nah, forget it. Even the provision of information which is accurate and science based cannot be given to the public. The Codex Food Labeling Committee Meeting determined in 2007, with the abundant help from the US, that any communication which gave the consumer information about what he could expect through the taking of foods (or food supplements) was to be banned as “advertising”.

Advertising is just fine when it is used for fluoridated toothpaste (Colgate commercial just seen on TV two hours ago on a French channel in this African Country: “Pour La Monde san dental caries!”, or, in English, “For the world without dental cavities” and for the unnatural Baby Formula and children’s food in Africa but apparently it’s not fine at all when it comes to health groups giving the truth to those who are interested.

No, as I told the health conscious civil servant in this developing country, the war is not over yet. And our side has just begun to fight!

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