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a prescription for these and other related supplements. This could occur thanks to
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Craig Minowa, an environmental scientist for the Minnesota-based Organic
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Biodynamics CA for the last two years, a daunting task considering the massive size of the
document. Minowa observes: "At the moment, the Codex has a loophole phrase that Aloha Bay
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controlled by the scope of Codex. That phrase simply states that if the product is Himalayan Salts
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According to Steven Ferry, author of the book "Your Life as an Atom: The Planetary
Mad Cow Showdown Against Corporate Greed, Political Graft and Psychiatric Control," these
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In light of this, we should ask who stands to profit the most from the implementation
of CA before readily accepting it into our lives. Corporations such as Monsanto,
Dupont and dozens of bio-tech companies will vastly profit from CA since the laws
within the document will give them even more freedom to further develop and sell
"Frankenfoods," i.e., genetically engineered, cloned and otherwise artificially-grown Organic Valley
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industries that use them to hawk their goods that stand to profit the most from CA Organic Dairy
since it will become virtually mandatory to use their drugs instead of natural
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supplements and organic, non-irradiated foods will be profoundly curtailed. Keeping up to date on
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Protest song Codex Alimentarius: Here’s to your health

River Zydeco Band feat. Henk Mutsaers
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Basic right humanity is damaged: Right to healthy foods!

The Food and Pharmaceutical industry have both one item on their agenda: Trying to imitate nature
and patent the products that originate from that. With the Codex Alimentarius, soon high doses of
natural supplements are forbidden, and with that, the basic condition of the Maslow pyramid: Our
Right on Natural Food.

Step by step people got used to the use of artificial fertilizers with farming while far better free
alternatives are at hand with sea farming. After that followed by GMO patented seeds. At this
moment, 80 percent of the supermarket self’s are filled with at some extent unnatural products,
some of witch the word ‘food’ is a shame, because they don’t feed you! Lots of people still have the
idea they eat a healthy mix of vegetables and fruits while they traveled thousands of miles before
they land ‘fresh’ on your plate. Grown on depleted soil and sometimes even on rock wool! In our
‘cultivated’ Western society it’s very hard to escape the fact that we are all deficient with vital en
essential nutrients.

The Food industry and Big Parma agenda doesn’t know any borders. It’s time to ban natural
nutritional supplements with these dangerous high doses that ‘might’ keep people healthy. Now that
more and more people have discovered this fact, the big profits might come under pressure. The
new norm will be as low as two depleted carrots! This new law will rob a naturopathic doctor from
his most valuable tools: Essential nutrients. Food! Yours and My health have been made
subordinate to super profits.

Politicians have sold their soul and religion and are no more then marionettes, dangling on the
chalk lines of these multinationals with an unstoppable hunger for power and money. Never have I
caught a politician of guard talking about the Codex Alimentarius. Add up, all the decisions
politicians made over the years and they are nowhere near as important then what’s happening
now! Most people even don’t have a clue what’s going on. It’s a shame.

Most diseases from witch people suffer from are attributed to the aging process and science tells
us that it’s all in our genes. Nothing is more beside the truth! Almost everybody in the modern
civilized Western world is suffering from a lack of essential en vital nutrients. Do we have to illegally
import nutritional supplements ourselves in about a year or are we forced to grow our own
vegetables and fruits? You and Me, we’ve got a powerful tool to vote with; Our Wallet! Act Now.
More info and video: Here’s To Your Health.
http://www.uitdaging.net/Health_Protest_Song.html

Henk Mutsaers

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