DEATH TRAP: GERMANY PUSHES FOR CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

Outlaw the "Business with Disease": The Chemnitz Program
The Rath / Pauling Manifesto
We also decided to inform the general public directly through the
media. At a press conference on July 2, 1992, we presented the
advances in vitamin research and the possible eradication of heart
disease to the world. If the information about this medical
breakthrough had not been suppressed by special interest groups for
six long years, the entire world would know today that vitamins
prevent heart attacks. If this information had been promoted instead
of sabotaged, more than 60 million lives could have been spared from
unnecessary, preventable heart attacks and strokes.

At this press conference we also introduced the Rath-Pauling
Manifesto to the world. With his last public appeal, Linus Pauling
supported the medical breakthrough of my scientific publications.
This historic appeal ended with the sentence, "The goal of
eliminating heart disease as the major cause of death and disability
is now in sight." This sentence marks a turning point in medicine.

A Historical Success for the People of America
The pharmaceutical companies reacted immediately through the United
States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A nationwide campaign was
started to prohibit all health claims in relation to vitamins and
other natural substances.

This does not surprise anyone who knows that essentially all
reviewers and advisors of the FDA are paid employees of
pharmaceutical companies. I recommend everyone to read Thomas
Moore's book, Deadly Medicine, revealing the fact that the FDA is
essentially controlled by the pharmaceutical industry. The
pharmaceutical companies, realizing that the information about the
eradication through vitamins could not be stopped any other way,
decided to achieve their aims by simply changing the law. 1993 was
also the year that my book, Eradicating Heart Disease was published
in the U.S.A. It summarized the medical breakthrough in vitamin
research and heart disease in popular language. Tens of thousands of
Americans used this book and other studies on the health benefits of
vitamins to convince their political representatives not to give in
to the unethical plans of the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA.
Newsweek described this fight for free access to vitamins as "the
largest movement since the Vietnam war" Again, the interests of the
people prevailed over apparently overwhelming economic interests.

In August, 1994, the US Senate and House of Representatives
unanimously passed the Nutritional Health and Education Act, a
monumental law preserving and guaranteeing free access to vitamins
and other natural health products. This law did not simply maintain
the status quo, it also allows truthful health information in
relation to vitamins to be distributed. From a historical point of
view, a popular movement of millions of Americans had just inflicted
the worst defeat in their history upon the pharmaceutical companies
and their interest groups. More importantly, millions of Americans
had won a historic victory from which all of mankind will benefit.

"Codex Alimentarius"
Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical companies did not give in, even
though America, the most powerful country in the world, had started
to liberate itself from the yoke of the pharmaceutical interests.
Led by the German pharmaceutical companies and under the political
auspices of the German government, the international pharmaceutical
consortium started its latest offensive. They activated a so-called
expert commission of the United Nations with the mysterious
name, "Codex Alimentarius."

This commission held a clandestine meeting under German presidency
and guidance in Bonn, Germany, in October 1996. The official
participation of high-level representatives of the German government
(Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture) showed
that the aims of this commission have the support of the German
cabinet and Chancellor, a case of highest priority for Chancellor
Kohl. Against the votes of the United States, Canada, the
Netherlands, and representatives of other countries, the German
delegation pushed the following decisions through:

All health statements in relation to the preventive and therapeutic
effects of vitamins and other natural substances shall be prohibited
for all member countries of the United Nations, that is, worldwide.

Only those natural vitamins and other natural products that meet the
much too low so-called daily allowances of the pharmaceutical
cartel, can be sold in the future.

Countries resisting the implementation of these decisions as binding
laws are to be punished by international economic sanctions
organized under the United Nations World Trade Organization and
other bodies.

The German government had taken precautions in case the activities
of this clandestine "Codex" Cartel were revealed prematurely: the
presidency of this Codex Commission was assigned to Dr. Somogyi: the
head of the German federal agency for consumer protection. The
politicians in Bonn were well aware of the explosive power of this
commission, and therefore decided to cover up this enterprise as "
consumer protection" in order to deceive the public about the true
nature of the "Codex" Cartel.

In January 1997 we talked about the goals of the Codex commission to
United States Congressman Peter de Fazio, an advocate for vitamin
freedom. Of particular interest was the threat of economic sanctions
against those countries that did not comply with the "Codex" Cartel.
By imposing economic sanctions the Pharma-Cartel wants to force all
other industries at its side. The motto of the Pharma-Cartel appears
to be "If you, Microsoft, Volkswagen, and Sony, do not support the
information boycott for vitamins, we will make sure that within the
framework of the Codex law, you will not be able to sell your
software, cars, and electronic products in other countries."

We have to realize that the Pharma-Cartel and its political
accomplices apparently declared war on the health and life interests
of all mankind. Because the interests of the Pharma-Cartel are
against the health interests of entire mankind, the battle will be
fierce; therefore, the Cartel tries to force other industries behind
its unethical plans by means of laws.

Our answer is clear: these unscrupulous and unethical plans are not
a sign of strength of the pharmaceutical companies, but a sign of
desperation. The news that animals don't get heart attacks because
they manufacture their own vitamin C will bring down a billion
dollar market in cholesterol-lowering drugs, betablockers, calcium
antagonists, and other cardiovascular drugs. Our determined "No" to
these unethical human plans is summarized in the Petition for
Vitamin Freedom. I encourage you to talk with friends, neighbors,
and colleagues about the Codex Commission, and let them sign the
Petition for Vitamin Freedom.

Together, we will prevent the unethical plans of the Pharma-Cartel.