Codex Starts to Bite

[hagbard_celine]

From today's Headlines: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210369/Supermarkets-secret-talks-introduce-GM-foods-shelves.html

British supermarkets are meeting secretly to discuss how to bring Genetically Modified products onto their shelves. One wonders why they need to meet in secret!:eek::confused: This is four months before the Codex Alimentarius laws come into force on the 1st of January.:(

This is all the more reason to go to our supermarkets and demand organic non-GM food.:cool: Buy all the organic non-GM food you can from them so that they'll be more likely to stock it.:) For instance Coop do a very good organic butter called Yeo Valley; as you see they do other dairy products too: http://www.yeovalleyorganic.co.uk/index.php. I've written to them to ask about this.

[unusual_suspect]

From today's Headlines: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1210369/Supermarkets-secret-talks-introduce-GM-foods-shelves.html

British supermarkets are meeting secretly to discuss how to bring Genetically Modified products onto their shelves. One wonders why they need to meet in secret!:eek::confused: This is four months before the Codex Alimentarius laws come into force on the 1st of January.:(

This is all the more reason to go to our supermarkets and demand organic non-GM food.:cool: Buy all the organic non-GM food you can from them so that they'll be more likely to stock it.:) For instance Coop do a very good organic butter called Yeo Valley; as you see they do other dairy products too: http://www.yeovalleyorganic.co.uk/index.php. I've written to them to ask about this.

Thanks for this info :)

[anthony65]

Good post!

And write to Tesco to tell them that they will lose a customer if they go ahead with this.

[armoured_amazon]

Good thread. :)

[disorder2k8]

Good post!

And write to Tesco to tell them that they will lose a customer if they go ahead with this.

lol.. wow... seriously heavy threat there. I bet they are shaking in their massive corporate boots :p

Why not start a massive boycott campaign/petition type of thing and then recruit loads of people to agree to it. Thats at least better than being on your own eh?

[darreninnz]

Very good post indeed, This is so serious i reckon it warrants a sticky. If we all boycotted the major supermarkets we might just be able to make a difference.
I personally think we should all start collecting/storing seeds with the aim to spread them around this forum. We cannot let codex beat us!!!!!

[motleyhoo]

The supermarkets mine their data now to watch for trends in what people are buying. Do not boycott the stores. Instead, boycott the bad food. That will show up in their trends analysis and they won't stock what people are not buying. Grocery stores have low margins per item and rely on selling high volumes. They cannot afford to put things on the shelves that are not moving no matter what the NWO tells them to do.

EDIT: I have been tempted to put sticky notes on bad store items saying something like "Do not buy this. It is genetically engineered and may cause cancer." The store might remove them, and I'll just keep putting them on. Anyone else game for this idea?

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[jayhow]

I for one rarely use the supermarkets as I prefer to shop in the local organic shop, yes it costs a bit more but I feel its worth it. We had a Tesco metro open in our local high street ( Central London) and in just the 6 months that it has been open lots of good local shops ( inc 1 organic shop) has closed it doors as they are unable to compete.

Motleyhoo, you do have a good point about the mining of data driving the supermarkets decision on what to stock, as we know this is the real purpose of those stupid loyalty cards that they want us all to have. However, I feel that unless the general public wake up or become more educated about all the shit that really goes into mass produced, over processed food that they sell in these places, it won't make a lot of difference as they are more concerned about feeding their families the cheapest food available and not as they should be the best quality / healthiest options.

[hagbard_celine]

I've sent an email to Yeo Valley and they replied saying that they'd never heard of Codex Alimentarius. As Ian Crane says: "Never heard of Codex? That's what they want.":(:mad::rolleyes:

I'm sending Yeo Valley a link to Ian's Codex lecture.:cool:

[hagbard_celine]

lol.. wow... seriously heavy threat there. I bet they are shaking in their massive corporate boots :p

Why not start a massive boycott campaign/petition type of thing and then recruit loads of people to agree to it. Thats at least better than being on your own eh?

Yes, good idea.:) One thing that will scare them is losing customers! There even might be a competition to keep the most organics on the shelves.:cool:

Apparently there is mass distrust of GMOs thanks to people like Arpad Pusztai. Organic food suppliers can't keep up with the demand!

[hagbard_celine]

Very good post indeed, This is so serious i reckon it warrants a sticky. If we all boycotted the major supermarkets we might just be able to make a difference.
I personally think we should all start collecting/storing seeds with the aim to spread them around this forum. We cannot let codex beat us!!!!!

Yes, home agriculture!:cool: Do you know that for a few years in Britain, the early 1940's, rates of diabetes, tooth decay, cancer and other health problems decclined sharply. Why? Because for just a few years we all went baqck to organic back-garden agriculture during the "Dig for Victory" campaign. After the war of course we all went back to normal and doctors and dentists' waiting rooms filled up again.:rolleyes::(

[grenadene]

I've sent an email to Yeo Valley and they replied saying that they'd never heard of Codex Alimentarius. As Ian Crane says: "Never heard of Codex? That's what they want.":(:mad::rolleyes:

I'm sending Yeo Valley a link to Ian's Codex lecture.:cool:

Our local farm shop was organic until their feed supplier trebled the price of organic animal feed. I talked to their manager about Codex and she'd never heard of it either, ... so emailed her some information. Only last week I went into the two health food shops in Scunthorpe and asked them about Codex (blank expressions) and so I asked them about the dosages of the vitamins and minerals and if there were plans to alter them. Apparently the strengths have already been 'revised'...in order to 'harm'onise no doubt. In one of the shops the assistant told me that they only sell a fraction of their former stocks of vitamins and raw alternative ingredients due to 'decreased consumer demand' ....and now the space in the shops have been filled with body building supplements.... :( (thanks to the poster that coined the phrase....'chav potato-head army' - it makes me laugh! :D)