2010 Sep 24                                            from G. Edward Griffin

A Hornet's Nest!
Obama's executive order and Codex

© 2010 by G. Edward Griffin

In the 2010 September 17 issue of Unfiltered News, we linked to a story relating to President Obama’s Executive Order #13544 that established a vastly expanded federal health-care bureaucracy. Taking the lead from the publisher of the article, we said in our headline that it “lays the legal framework for giving the UN complete control over all food, vitamins, and natural products sold in the U.S. The UN authority is called Codex Alimentarius.”
(Click here to access the story.)

Unknowingly, we had touched a hornet’s nest of contention. Our good friends, Scott Tips, President of the National Health Federation, and John Hammell, President of International Advocates for Health Freedom, strongly disagreed with our headline and urged us to issue a retraction. The thrust of their position is that there is nothing in the executive order that directly relates to Codex Alimentarius and to claim it created a legal framework for it was, not only a misstatement of fact, but repeating such “false sightings” could damage our credibility.

A contrary point of view was sent to us from Barbara Peterson, publisher of Farm Wars. In a spirited rebuttal published on her web site, she argued that, although it is true that the executive order does not directly create a framework for Codex, it does so indirectly because it gives federal agencies the power to control food, vitamins, and natural products provided only that they claim their decisions have a “scientific basis,” which is a standard that defies objective definition. She also points out that the federal agencies that will be making these so-called scientific decisions are populated by people who openly are committed to implementing the guidelines of Codex Alimentarius. There can be no doubt that whatever Codex says will be embraced as “scientifically based” by these federal agencies. Therefore, the executive order greases the wheels for the implementation of Codex without ever mentioning the word.

So, who is right? In my view, there is truth in both points of view. I agree that it would be best not to say that the executive order lays the legal framework for Codex, because that is a precise statement that, technically, in not true. However, the sense of the original headline is accurate in that the executive order definitely is part of the administrative framework designed ultimately to place control over food and nutrition into the hands of the UN. Therefore, we hereby issue a retraction of the original headline and replace it with this one:

Obama's Executive Order #13544 expands the administrative framework for giving the UN complete control over all food, vitamins, and natural products sold in the U.S.
Rense 2010 Sep 13 (Cached)