Michael Taylor, executive and lawyer at a multinational pesticide company - Monsanto - is waiting to control the US food supply. http://www.postcarbon.org/monsanto_planting_seeds_white_house
Monsanto's Robert Fraley: " What you are seeing is not just a consolidation of seed companies, it s really a consolidation of the entire food chain."
Codex is wedged into the "food safety" bills and as one can see below, it will mandate pesticides, even banned ones.
Will Michelle Obama's organic garden be included?
... Most of the chemical "tools" taken for granted by modern agribusiness are products of warfare. Is this merely an indirect consequence of the tragic history of the 20th century, or does it suggest that the currently dismal state of our soils, fresh water supplies and rural economies is an outgrowth of agribusiness' emergence from wartime in some important ways? ...
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Some Codex standards will take effect on December 31, 2009 and once initiated are completely irrevocable. They include (a truncated list):
* All nutrients (vitamins and minerals) are to be considered toxins/poisons and are to be removed from all food because Codex prohibits the use of nutrients to “prevent, treat or cure any condition or disease”
* All food (including organic) is to be irradiated, removing all toxic nutrients from food (unless eaten locally and raw).
* Nutrients allowed will be limited to a Positive List developed by Codex which will include such beneficial nutrients like Fluoride (3.8 mg daily) developed from environmental waste. All other nutrients will be prohibited nationally and internationally to all Codex-compliant countries [2].
* All nutrients (e.g., CoQ10, Vitamins A, B, C, D, Zinc and Magnesium) that have any positive health impact on the body will be deemed illegal under Codex and are to be reduced to amounts negligible to humans’ health [3].
* You will not even be able to obtain these anywhere in the world even with a prescription.
* All advice on nutrition (including written online or journal articles or oral advice to a friend, family member or anyone) will be illegal. This includes naturalnews.com reports on vitamins and minerals and all nutritionists' consultations.
* All dairy cows are to be treated with Monsanto’s recombinant bovine growth hormone.
* All animals used for food are to be treated with potent antibiotics and exogenous growth hormones.
* The reintroduction of deadly and carcinogenic organic pesticides that in 1991, 176 countries (including the U.S.) have banned worldwide including 7 of the 12 worst at the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pesticides (e.g., Hexachlorobenzene, Toxaphene, and Aldrin) will be allowed back into food at elevated levels [4].
(Thanks to Abu Ahmed for this compilation.)
NPR - India's "cancer train"
by Daniel Zwerdling/NPR
Each night, "the cancer train," as locals have dubbed it, departs from this platform at the station in Bathinda, in India's Punjab state. It travels overnight to the town of Bikaner, where the government's regional cancer center is located.
"... People say they never used to see so many cancer patients in this farm region. Cancer was considered an urban disease, suffered by people who lived in cities choked with industry and pollution.
But research by one of the most respected medical institutes in India recently found that farming villages using large amounts of pesticides have significantly higher rates of cancer than villages that use less of the chemicals..."
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