I am very concerned about Codex and the implications it can have on our Canadians rights and freedom. Under Codex all nutrients and herbs are labelled as toxic and will be illegal.(as illegal as heroin) Canada is required to comply with codex by DEC.31 2009 or the WTO which implements Codex will put up trade sanctions against Canada. We must not let Codex get implemented. We need to start sending letters and getting petitions signed NOW to stop Codexs standards from being implemented here in Canada and the rest of the world. I have added a Video which outlines what we must do to stop codex. Please Help and get the Canadian public to be aware of Codex and the horrible implications it could have on our lives.

video.google.ca/videoplay

Please watch this video it will inform you of exactly what Codex is and what it is trying to do and how we can fight it.

Again, we must stop this now before it's to late and our human rights to take nutritional supplements and herbs is taken away and our right to hormone free meat and milk and organic vegetables is taken away.

I need your help all Canadians need your help. Inform the Canadian Public about Codex and get the petitions started to stop them.

Sincerely,
Brittany
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Brittany
Canada
  • Here is a list of the foods that will be effected by this Codex, taken off their official site: www.codexalimentarius.net/gsfao...x.html
    • Affected in what way? Where? Not in the USA.
      • Hi from Brittany,
        So news for Canada about the war on natural health by big pharma C-51 if you haven't heard well wake up heres what is going on.

        ((((((POSTED BY : Byron Dreamweaver
        "Like your greens and vitamins? email your MP right away.

        I just learned about this. The site noted gives good directions and how to act on this.
        visit: www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp

        (NaturalNews) A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

        Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.

        The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved "therapeutic substances." Learn about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the Stop51.com website:www.stopc51.com

        New enforcement powers allow Canadian government to seize your home or business
        At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new "enforcement" powers to the thugsenforcement agents who claim to be "protecting" the public from dangerous unapproved "therapeutic agents" like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org website ((educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government's thugs enforcement agents to:

        • Raid your home or business without a warrant
        • Seize your bank accounts
        • Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
        • Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for the expense involved in storing all the products they stole from you

        C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized as a "controlled activity," and anyone caught engaging in such "controlled activities" would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other "controlled activities" include labeling bottles, harvesting plants on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving herbs or supplements would be criminalized...)

        There's more, too. C-51 is the Canadian government's "final solution" for the health products industry. It's a desperate effort to destroy this industry that's threatening the profits and viability of conventional medicine. Natural medicine works so well -- and is becoming so widely used -- that both the Canadian and American governments have decided to "nuke" the industries by passing new laws that effectively criminalize anyone selling such products. They simply cannot tolerate allowing consumers to have continued access to natural products. To do so will ultimately spell the destruction of Big Pharma and the outdated, corrupt and criminally-operated pharmaceutical industry that these criminally-operated governments are trying to protect.

        Join the rally to protest C-51
        On May 9th, 2008, Canadian citizens will be gathering at the Calgary Federal Court to protest C-51 and help protect their access to natural health products. Call 1-888-878-3467 to learn more, or visit the action page of Health Canada Exposed at:www.stopc51.com/c51/what_you_can_do.asp

        NaturalNews is looking to hire someone with a good video camera to film the event. We'll gladly pay you to video tape this and send us the resulting file, which we will edit and then post for NaturalNews readers. If you have a video camera (with good audio, hopefully) and can attend the May 9th rally, please contact us at (U.S.) 520-232-9300 for details. If you do film there, be sure to use the camera buddy system, where you have somebody in the distance filming YOU with the camera, so that if Canadian law enforcement thugs decide to assault you and steal your video camera in order to censor the event, then somebody else in the distance has THAT on video! You got that? So there are two cameras working, camera A is filming the rally, and it's very close to the action. Camera B is set back farther from the scene, and it's filming the person holding camera A. This is standard operating practice for filming such events, and it makes it very difficult for government thugs to shut down the video. Often, the person filming with camera B is in a car somewhere, or filming covertly so that they don't attract attention. Zoom lenses help a lot.

        In any case, if you manage to get some video of this event, then we'd be thrilled to share it with NaturalNews readers. And like I said, we'll pay for footage, so call us for details. Together, we can help spread the word about this important rally for health freedom in Canada.

        Learn more: www.stopC51.com "))))))))





        Feel free to e-mail him with your concerns, we have to start contacting our government more with e-mails.......We are the change we seek.

        I e-mailed Jack Layton of the NDP about this here is what he said: Layton.J@parl.gc.ca

        "Thank you for your e-mail expressing your opposition to the government’s proposed changes to the Food and Drugs Act set out in Bill C-51, and their possible impact on the production and availability of natural health products.
        As you can see from the attached speech by NDP Health Critic Judy Wasylycia-Leis, the NDP also has concerns in this regard. We will be pursuing the issue of the treatment of natural health products when the bill goes before the Health Committee in the coming weeks.

        C-51 is presently at Second Reading stage and will return for further debate in Parliament when a thorough Committee study is completed.
        Overall, the NDP has serious concerns with C-51. When it comes to drug safety and health protection, the NDP puts people and safety ahead of big pharma, large corporations, and global capital forces. We believe that the ‘do no harm’ principle is the best measure of safety and it is the measure we will be applying to this bill.
        Again, thank you for taking the time to register your concerns with me.

        Sincerely,

        Jack Layton, MP Toronto-Danforth
        Leader, New Democratic Party of Canada"


        <<2008-04-30 - C-51 - Food and Drug Act.pdf>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you want a cope just e-mail me :)
        • This is a ridiculous non issue that has wasted a lot of time. It takes a little digging to educate yourcellf about this, but please do, before passing on this mis information. Big herbal supplement industry, much of which is big pharma in drag, does not want to be regulated. The regulations are actually a very good thing, not so much for those of us living in developed countries, but for the people living in nations that are totally unregulated in these regards. There has been a lot of misrepresentation of supplements, contamination, and other problems. The codex does not mean that all nutrients and herbs will be labeled as toxic and be illegal. Instead, this warning about the codex is a toxic meme that has been spread all over the internet for years by well meaning people, like this poster, who are carrying water for some people who are not so well meaning.
          • Do you wil have some educated facts to show me other than your opinion??????

            Don't bother to comment because I'm not looking for personal opinions but FACTS.

            Have you contacted your political party and read the act?....................... Obviously not.

            Stick to the facts.

            I have seen you on a lot of boards you sure do go out of your way to stop people from talking about this................WHY?

            Your personal opinion on the subject does not matter but what is actually going on.

            Why stay ignorant to the issues at hand, by mearly putting it down but showing no FACTS otherwise?
            • Discuss away to your hearts content. I certainly have no vested interest in this, and have spent a lot of time researching it to come to the conclusion i have come to. Spend your own time and come to your own conclusions.
              peace. out.
              • The Canadian C-51 issue is a different issue than Codex, and including it under this thread is misleading. The Stopc51.com website at least does not seem to be another front for Laibow and Stubblebine. However, it does appear to be a front for something. The domain is registered with "godaddy" which is an anonymous domain registration. It does show the registrant's name as Ian Stewart. A search shows that he is a director of the Canadian Health Foods Association, a trade group that appears to fear that regulations will cost them money.

                I scanned the bill itself... and I'm not Canadian, so have only a limited knowledge of Canadian legal process... and I do see some things that I would be concerned about. The bill seems to be proposing a "Czarist" form of regulation... just as the USA has a "Drug Czar" who has wide ranging powers to schedule drugs and so on, this would create a ministry with similar powers. It's a fucked up form of government...

                On the other hand, most of the bill seems to be standard regulation of products prohibiting false claims and so on, much like the US DSHEA law. While these might raise costs for unscrupulous supplement vendors, one would hope that above-board vendors are already providing clean products and not making undue claims.

                It's a political issue more than a health one, really.

                But really... why not make this its own thread, rather than lumping it under the entirely bogus Codex heading?
                • Thank you very much for that, Phil.
                  • This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded.
                    Well I am Canadian and C-51 is threat to me as a Canadian on the same issue as natural health as well as Codex for the nations under the WTO.
                    The first topic of the board was yes Codex which if you do the research and provide me more than just your opinion you will see that it is a problem for natural health plants and people.

                    But Again I asked for facts if anyone has some concrete facts on why it is bad to talk about issues pertaining to natural health and food and our right and privilege to have free access to them..................We should be free to have clean food and herbs at our own leisure without them being threatened by certain laws that are trying to come into play.

                    But I believe if we all start educating ourselves and getting involved with our government proactively and sticking to the facts real facts of the issues we can make a difference.

                    If you two don't want to help and stay educated but mearly want to state your opinions they are not welcome here.

                    Lets stick to the facts people, and stay on the right path.

                    ************Read what the Codex website has to say www.codexalimentarius.net/mrls/...-e.jsp
                    Read what the C-51 Canadian natural health bill is saying actually read the bills and the bureaucrat legal documents pertaining to the acts.
                    ********If any Canadians want a copy of the C-51 Bill let me know. Feel free to contacts Jack Layton or your MP as well.
                    Stay up on Facts Learn for yourself don't let other people just say hey thats a none issue with their no facts just opinion attitude...well don't believe them look for yourself.
                    • Natural Health Discussion our Rights

                      Sat, May 24, 2008 - 9:48 PM
                      I'm glad to see you looked in to C-51 Phil............it could have been another post topic all together but I did deiced to lump it into natural health and discussion as such since this thread has continued on so well with a wide range of discussion and opinions. I'll title the board accordingly......... for further discussion on issues pertaining to natural health
                    • "The first topic of the board was yes Codex which if you do the research and provide me more than just your opinion you will see that it is a problem for natural health plants and people. "

                      Brittany, we already did that. Read it, commented, done. Even you posted here showing the inaccuracies in the NSF website material about Codex that you were reposting. It's still here on the thread.

                      If C-51 is a real issue, then you would serve it better by separating it from the NSF/Laibow/Stubblebine hype about Codex, which is a viral marketing scam and nothing more. That's not just my opinion. Concrete facts posted galore on this and other threads. Read 'em. You were also challenged here to post info about Codex that DID NOT come from NSF. When you did - as is evident on this thread - YOU demonstrated the inaccuracies.

                      Really, if you want to continue to argue about Codex, the burden of proof remains in your court. Post some research that does originate or come copied from an NSF website. A link to Codex is fine... but only if you can quote the pertinent material to make your argument.

                      No one has said it's bad to talk about natural health or health freedom issue. I think we all agree that's a good thing... but the Codex issue is a diversion from it, a scam designed to channel well-meaning folks such as yourself away from the real issues. Maybe C-51 is one of those real issues... but it's hard to take you seriously after you've cried wolf too many times over inflated nonsense.