Napoleon’s dining etiquette

Living in France means living under the shadow of Napoleonic Law, as opposed to Common Law, the express difference being the former permits only what is deemed permissible and the latter allows everything unless forbidden.

The reason I mention this legal difference is that today’s the last day (Dec 31st 2009) you are what you eat, from tomorrow you are what someone else says you can eat, mostly big pharma and Monsanto (GM monster food creators) and thanks to Napoleon, the UN and the World Health Organization, there doesn’t look like there’s any getting away from it.

The Codex Alimentarius Commission (CA) was conceived in 1963 and using Napolionic Law aims to globalize food standards with regards to safety but really this means binding global rules will be applied to anything deemed food. This means unless the CA bunch say you can eat it you cannot. This includes supplements and vitamins – which you need when skiing (have to get that in).

You can forget food labeling as the only way they can get you eat genetically modified “food” is to give it to you in secret.

That’s not all, irradiation will be required for all foods not locally grown and sold raw and unprocessed, so there’s your vitamins and nutrients gone right there. Even talking about the curative qualities of food, such as a honey and lemon for a cough will be banned, as this moves food into the realm of “medicine”.

Don’t worry you will still be able to get vitamins, just with a prescription from your doctor, so that’s nice.

Anyway sorry to spring that on you so late, please don’t believe a word of this, but please check it out for yourselves (codex alimentarius).

There’s nothing left now but to wish you a happy 2010 and a fruitful New Year from the .Org team.