URGENT! Codex Commission Action Item: educate decision makers - demand that our voices be heard!
August 9, 2010 http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4279
To all supporters of food and health freedoms:
The Natural Solutions Foundation has attended 18 Codex Alimentarius Committee and Commission meeetings and US Codex meetings and submitted position papers and contributions to the Codex deliberations and debates. We attend because you, as a food-affected stakeholders have asked us to do so on your behalf. We have visited numerous Codex Contact Points and others around the world, and they have, and continue to, come to the Natural Solutions Center in pursuit of understanding and equitable food policy, preserving and protecting the interests of consumers, in keeping with the main purposes of Codex, as enumerated on the Codex website.
Despite this active contribution to the Codex process, or perhaps because the interests of consumer stakeholders are so different from the commercial interests which are heavily represented at Codex, the delegation fielded by our organization, made up of the Trustees of the Natural Solutions Foundation, have been repeatedly, and increasingly met with unique discrimination and increasing difficulties as we attempt to represent your interests.
These abusive practices include assigning armed guards to them to keep us away from meetings, sequestering us in inappropriate areas during meetings to prevent us from reasonably observing the meeting or talking to delegates, and other humiliating and degrading treatment must stop. The Natural Solutions Foundation is the largest health freedom organization in the world, representing the interests of food-effected stakeholders like you from the greed, dangerous non-food, corporate agendas and politics of the agenda as promulgated without their input. The current "Health Freedom Group" has a tiny membership and may purport to speak for you, but is not willing to cooperate with us, as the Codex rules would seem to require.
We trust the Natural Solutions Foundation has earned your respect and should be treated with the same respect by the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Please take the Action Item below and help educate decision makers about the need to grant formal Observer status to the Foundation at Codex meetings.