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Good News on the Codex Front

One of the most successful battle fronts in Codex is the adamant determination of much of the rest of the world NOT to allow either any GM food (like Benin, for example) or unlabeld GM food (like Norway, Switzerland, the EU, Japan, Russia and many other countries. The US has been fighting to impose its anti-consumer policies of forbidding any labeling of GM foods because consumers reject it if they know they are eating genetically modified "Franken Foods". So when the African nations laid the ground work for inactivating the mine field the US was setting for them in the wording of a document it was proposing, things were looking quite hopeful, at least on that front.

After the meeting was over we went to Benin, a country with a moratorium on GM foods. We brought advanced technology to see if it would increase the crop yield, increase the nutrient density and decrease the water use in that dry and hungry country as part of the Natural Solutions Foundation's effort to reclaim healthy, sustainable food production. This is part of our International Decade of Nutrition. Of course, we were working with government people as well as private ones to make this happen.

The head of the Beninese food safety and security program is a remarkable veterinarian trained in human nutrition in the US. He has a limited staff but a huge commitment to protecting his country's food. He asked if we could provide information in French giving him reasons that his position opposing GM foods makes scientific sense (which Benin will need to follow the Codex Two Step Process on GM issues) and I said, "Yes!"

That's why we started the Natural Solutions Foundation GM Files.

Here are the links to the GM Files I have compiled so far, starting with Dr. Mae Wan Ho's excellent summary:

Making the World GM Free and Sustainable

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=519

Fundamental Weaknesses in the GM Concept

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=543

GM, Fish Oil, Protein and Brain Power for Kids

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=539

Russian Studies Show Rats Fed GM Feed Fail to Thrive, are Infertile

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=538

GM Contamination Set to Worsen: London Guardian

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=537

Another Extinction: Public Land Grant Colleges

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=521

New Zealand Scientists Urge PM to Show Sanity re: GMOs

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=500

Seeds of Destruction

http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/index.php?p=495

This is a big (and very important) project and your help is both needed and most welcome! If you can do the research to supply documents that we can add to the GM files in electronic format (or if you can translate these documents into French), please write to Kathy Greene, my assistant, at kathy.greene@usa.net to volunteer your help. Just put "GM Files" in the subject line and let her know if you are interested in research or translation (or perhaps both!)

If you already know about the dangers of eating (and growing) GM foods, please pass these data on to others. In case you think that GM foods are tested for safety by the FDA (they are not) or are not part of your food supply (they are found in 60-80% if all US prepared foods unless you eat an all organic diet), please take some time to read these GM Files. The good news is that more and more people at home and abroad are "getting it" about GM foods and don't want to be part of the largest experiment in human history - without benefit of informed consent or insurance.

dr.laibow@gmail.com

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