Codex Alimentarius and the Food Industry
During the late 1950s Montsanto Corporation joined the Codex Alimentarius Commission and started building their own lobbying organization. In stead of forming nonprofit support group associations to promote their sales as the pharmaceutical companies did, they built the largest company of attorneys in the world.
These attorneys wrote legislation for states to protect the food supply. That's not what they did, that's what they said. What they were really doing was creating an extremely profitable monopoly for Montsanto.
It works like this:
1. They genetically modify plant seed so the female part of the plant is sterile and the male pollen is not.
2. They genetically modify the plant to kill insect pests that try to eat the plant.
3. They sell this patented genetically modified seed (GMO) to farmers at cut-rate prices the first year. Thereafter the price increases but the farmer has no seed from last year's crop and has no choice except to keep buying new seed from Montsanto year after year. All that new seed is also a GMO patented seed.
4. They buy state politicians and convince them to protect the food supply by passing laws to prosecute farmers who allow their crops to be pollinated by their patented plants.
5. Since pollen is distributed literally around the world by the wind, it's almost impossible to protect a field of any crop from being pollinated by pollen from patented plants within tens to hundreds of miles away. (Crops in Europe have been pollinated by Montsanto patented crops growing in the American West.)
6. They file civil lawsuits against farmers who harvest crops containing GMO seed which is against the law. They win these lawsuits as a matter of law. Most farmers cannot pay these lawsuits because their crops have already been confiscated as illegal contraband. So Montsanto takes their farm away from them as settlement.
7. The few farmers who survive this legal onslaught either become Montsanto customers or sell their land.
8. As a consequence, Montsanto is the largest land owner in the world and the most profitable food company in the world. And all they did was create laws the politicians on their payroll passed that legally entitled them to take away farmers rights and use nature to make them extremely rich.
In 1963, after seven years of lobbying, Montsanto succeeded in convincing the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) -- a division of the United Nations -- and the World Health Organization -- also a division of the United Nations -- to ratify and adopt the Codex Alimentarius Commission.
During the Spring and Summer of 1964 FAO became controlled by the Codex Alimentarius Commission -- which is controlled by the pharmaceutical industry and the bioengineering industry. Montsanto is the giant in the bioengineering industry that dominates the other companies in their field.
By the end of 1965 the Codex Alimentarius Commission -- under the unrelenting control of the pharmaceutical and bioengineering industry -- was in full control of WHO as well. Since then the Commission has taken complete control of the international food trade under the guise of protecting the health of world consumers and ensure fair practices in international food trade.
This sinister plan is implemented by the largest cadre of lawyers ever assembled. These attorneys work with prosecutors and judges bought and paid for by the Commission. In the last 70 years they have won thousands of cases around the world without a loss.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission absolutely sets the national and international standards for food labeling, food hygiene, food additives, pesticide residues and food safety procedures. They also set the world standards for assessing the safety of GMO crops and foods containing GMO crops.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission has a stranglehold on the world food supply. Members of the Commission are enjoying unprecedented profits from this venture. That would be the drug companies and Montsanto.