Codex Alimentarius and GM Food Guidelines, Pt. 6

Codex Alimentarius and GM Food Guidelines, Pt. 6







Updated excerpt from Codex Alimentarius -- The End of Health Freedom

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Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post

Over the last few weeks, I have written a number of articles
dealing with the dangers of the methods of analyzing the risks of
Genetically Modified (GM) food used by both Codex Alimentarius and the
FDA known as “substantial equivalence/substantial similarity” and the “risk assessment methodology
used in the evaluation process. In conjunction with the Codex document
“Foods Derived From Modern Biotechnology,” the Codex position on the evaluation and labeling
of GM food, I described the hypocrisy of Codex’s position towards
vitamin and mineral supplements and its position in regards to GM food
which is, interestingly enough, one hundred and eighty degrees
different.


However, there are even more dangers
to using the “substantial equivalence/substantial similarity” model in
conjunction with the “risk assessment” evaluation methodology in terms
of GM food.
Indeed, there exists a very real possibility that the Codex position on GM food as well as vitamin and mineral supplements
will be used to develop a food system in which GM food is the only
acceptable form of food allowed in the supply, while any other food may
be removed from the market. In addition, it is entirely possible that
once the standards are set by Codex and agreed upon by nations
participating in the WTO, that foods containing high levels (or
reasonable levels) of nutrition could be removed from the market simply
on the basis of their high nutritional content.
For instance, the damage to the food supply does not
end with the introduction of GM foods. In addition, because Codex
standards are enforced by the WTO, the Maximum Permitted Levels for
vitamin and minerals developed by Codex will remain in place.

So, because the risk assessment for GM food based on “substantial
equivalence” will inevitably determine the GM food itself to be safe,
the problem then becomes the nutritional value within the food.


The nutrition then becomes the enemy and must be removed.

While this might seem both improbable and impossible, it is, in fact, neither.

The
seeming improbability of a Codex declaration of nutrients as toxins has
already been realized and the genetic manipulation of the nutritional
properties of food is not an impossibility at all.

While the cover story for the introduction of GM food often involves the
alleged wish to bring about the end of malnutrition by increasing
nutritional properties of the food genetically (a blatant contradiction
if one accepts that nutrients should be treated as toxins), the ability
to decrease nutrition through genetic modification is just as realistic.

We then have a situation where nutritionally deficient GM food is not
only allowed, but required due to the “dangerous” amount of vitamins and
minerals that exist in the natural food. Codex even admits later on in
the Guidelines that nutrients will be focused on rather than the dangers
of the GM food. It says,
<blockquote class="tr_bq">To assess the safety of a food derived from a
recombinant-DNA plant modified for a nutritional or health benefit, the
estimated intake of the nutrient or related substance in the
population(s) is compared with the nutritional or toxicological
reference values, such as upper levels of intake, acceptable daily
intakes (ADIs) for that nutrient or related substance.[1]</blockquote>The question then is not the safety of the GM food, but of the amount of vitamins and nutrients included in it.

Continuing through the Guidelines, such a statement is cleverly made. It
says, “Rather than trying to identify every hazard associated with a
particular food, the intention of a safety assessment of food derived
from recombinant-DNA is the identification of new or altered hazards
relative to the conventional counterpart.”[2] Not only is this an
extremely limiting set of standards for assessing the safety of the
product, what is actually meant by “hazard”, although not explicitly
stated, is nutrients.

This is made even clearer in the next paragraph which states, “Upper
levels of intake for many nutrients that have been set out by some
national, regional and international bodies may be considered, as
appropriate. The basis for their derivation should also be considered in
order to assess the public health implications of exceeding these
levels.”[3] Clearly, nutrients are the focus of much of the risk
assessment methods applied to GM food.

This may initially cause some GM food products to be rejected by Codex
due to the higher level of nutritional properties being produced. That
is, until the food is modified once again to have a lower nutritional
value. When seen in this light, it becomes obvious that many of the
Codex Guidelines are intertwined with one another. However, none are
more important than those related to vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.

Returning
to the Codex Guidelines themselves, the organization leaves itself yet
another loophole by claiming that, in a situation where even the
unbelievably weak “substantial equivalence” method cannot allow the
approval of a GM food, that the food used as a conventional counterpart
may be changed in order to suit the GM product which is being evaluated.
It says,
<blockquote class="tr_bq">When the modification results in a food
product, such as vegetable oil, with a composition that is significantly
different from its conventional counterpart, it may be appropriate to
use additional conventional foods or food components (i.e. foods or food
components whose nutritional composition is closer to that of the food
derived from recombinant-DNA plant) as appropriate comparators to assess
the nutritional impact of the food.[4]</blockquote>In this statement
Codex is openly admitting that it will simply change the “scientific”
process that we are supposed to put our faith in, in order to
accommodate the GM substance being tested. Essentially, Codex is saying,
“If the conventional counterpart is not substantially equivalent,
change the conventional counterpart to one that is.”

Clearly, inasmuch as Codex guidelines are accepted, Codex is exercising
control over the food supply and the choice that every human being has a
right to make on their own. Unfortunately, it is a very real
possibility that if Codex Alimentarius is not stopped, we will live in a
much smaller world where starvation, sickness, and hunger are rampant
and where we must beg our multinational corporate masters for a bite of
the toxic mass that we will have no choice but to eat.

Source:-
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/02/codex-alimentarius-and-gm-food_18.html