CTers and this Codex Alimentarius thing

[bob_cadaver]

Sorry if this has been covered somewhere else before and I did not see it, but this is nagging at me--what is the deal with this Codex Alimentarius thingie? I thought it was just some banal govt way of regulating herbs, etc, between countries and a recently CT-leaning friend of mine is all up in arms over it and convinced it means you won't be able to buy your own garden seeds anymore, etc.
What am I missing (besides a drive to believe in CTs) and how does a boring bit of govt regulation turn into a massive, global conspiracy?

[Aidoneus]

Codex Alimentarius is a WTO-recognised independent assessor of food standards.

There is some genuine (Non-CT founded) concern over the way Codex Alimentarius treats vitamin supplements among other things, and in the way it is often introduced to a country with very little public knowledge of it.

However, the CTs, are, as usual, complete rubbish. The most frequent claims I've seen are that the groundwork for it was laid by a Nazi scientist, and that it introduces poisonous chemicals into food to dumb down the sheeple. Once these accusations are proven I'll... Actually, they won't be, so I don't need to finish that sentence.

The thing to point out to anyone voicing these CTs that whatever they may have read, Codex Alimentarius, is, always has been, and will remain, completely voluntary. There's no obligation for any country to sign up to it.

Of course, that'll just be met with the usual shtick about Ron Paul being Anti-Codex.

[bob_cadaver]

The thing to point out to anyone voicing these CTs that whatever they may have read, Codex Alimentarius, is, always has been, and will remain, completely voluntary. There's no obligation for any country to sign up to it.

Of course, that'll just be met with the usual shtick about Ron Paul being Anti-Codex.
*sigh* And I'll probably get called a government shill for even :)mentioning it. But thanks,though! The bit about poison to dumb down the sheeple, that's class CT comedy.

[hamelekim]

Codex Alimentarius is a WTO-recognised independent assessor of food standards.

There is some genuine (Non-CT founded) concern over the way Codex Alimentarius treats vitamin supplements among other things, and in the way it is often introduced to a country with very little public knowledge of it.

However, the CTs, are, as usual, complete rubbish. The most frequent claims I've seen are that the groundwork for it was laid by a Nazi scientist, and that it introduces poisonous chemicals into food to dumb down the sheeple. Once these accusations are proven I'll... Actually, they won't be, so I don't need to finish that sentence.

The thing to point out to anyone voicing these CTs that whatever they may have read, Codex Alimentarius, is, always has been, and will remain, completely voluntary. There's no obligation for any country to sign up to it.

Of course, that'll just be met with the usual shtick about Ron Paul being Anti-Codex.

The argument that CT's make is intent. It was started by a "former" NAZI, and it does favour the big drug corporations over natural food growers.

One thing they specify is growth hormone and anti-biotic shots for all animals to be sold non locally.

Most meat likely already has both of these, unless you buy from a local or organic store. But the right to choose would be taken away if this was passed.

[Zorglub]

Another CT-twist on this is that C.A will stop the practice "alternative medicine" (in CT that is non-goverment sponsored medicine therefore better, ie: homeopathy and suchlike).

[Horatius]

The Ottawa Skeptic have had some good articles and threads on thi stopic, and related topics. See:

http://www.ottawaskeptics.org/forum?func=view&catid=2&id=1279

for one such example.