b'sion of it, which revealed some shockingby the Aspire Food Group, with anotherone bit of good and instead might well food categories envisioned by Codex.to follow in northern New Brunswick.harm us all.(See two photos on the left) A smaller cricket-processing plant is lo- InagreeingwiththeEUandthe Alarmingly, the food categories forcated in Ohio. Swiss, the NHF told the delegates that which Codex standards would be ad- They call crickets The Food of thewe should be careful not to rush to opted are for meat from the followingFuture, the Superfood, and even Mi- judgment with these environmental in-animals: dogs, rats, opossums, capyba- cro-Livestock; but its hardly yet on thehibitors. We could make the problem ras, kangaroos, wallabies, swans, frogs,Western palate. The politicians are soworse and cause much harm. Any time lizards, dolphins, and whales. Reassur- keen on getting us all to switch over toyou tinker with Nature you run risks. ingly, I did not see any food categoriesbug eating that they have even found ce- $nd Ze do need to claUify the deonition for cat meat or human meat. lebrities to push this new agenda. Nicoleof these compounds, as the EU said. However, the document was repleteKidman, for instance, ate a four-courseThe EWG for this review was charged with insect food categories such as formeal of bugs on camera in an attempt towith further study.spiders, ticks, earwigs, lice, and numer- promote eating insects as a new normal.ous others. As the document says, Sev- 6o,CodexhasMustconfirmedthatThe Pesticide Industry eral stages of the insects and spiders canbugs and other such previously off-lim- Is Impatientbe consumed: eggs, caterpillars, puppetsitsconsumablesaredefinitelyontheTheycannotpoisonusquickly [sic] and adults.The entire commod- menu planned for our future. By cre- enough. Not enough of their pesticides, ity may be consumed. No, thank you!ating Codex standards for these foodfungicides,herbicides,andacaricides ou oUst. commodities, they plan on establishingare being reviewed by the Codex science Keep in mind that at the very momentand growing an international marketgroupFAO/WHOJointMeetingon that this discussion was taking place atin these foods. NHF objected to anyPesticide Residues (JMPR), particularly Codex, Dutch farmers were protestingdolphin or whale meat and fat standardafterthetwo-yearslowdownduring and rioting in their country after thebeing created at Codex and intends tothe COVID-19 pandemic, to permit the out-of-touchDutchgovernmentde- object to a large number of other foodindustry to put those products on the clared a war on livestock farming, withcategories as well. market. Plus, they have great plans to its firm but nonsensical goal of reducingintroduce three times as many products nitrogen emissions by 50 percent in eightThis Has Disasterin the near future; therefore, the slow years.Thismeansdrasticallyreduc- Written All Over It JMPR reviews just wont do.ing dairy herds, forcing large numbersAmong other issues then discussedSo, CropLifeon behalf of the entire of farmers out of business, and cuttingwere environmental inhibitors, withpesticide industrypresented a short back on meat, pork, poultry, and dairyWarrenHughesoftheNewZealandseries of PowerPoint slides to the CCPR foodforhumanconsumption.Thesedelegation giving a PowerPoint presen- delegates outlining its plan to reduce the idiots plan to reduce the 50,000 Dutchtation about their urgent need due tobacklog with a JMPR study. Disgust-farms by one-third by 2030. Right now,Climate Change. Environmental in- ingly, many delegates actually thanked the small country of the Netherlands ishibitors are compounds applied to cropsCropLife for presenting a plan on how a net exporter of foods, but after \x15\x13\x16\x13,or pastures or to animals (directly or viato poison the World faster!if the government is successful with itsfeed)toreduceproductionofgreen- The U.S. delegate, David Miller, cor-goals, what will the country be then? Ahouse gas or reduce nitrate leaching intorectly noted that JMPR could not be country of bug-eaters if they are lucky. waterways. taken away from its own backlogged One needs to see all of this in the con- TheEuropeanUnionchallengedreview process in order to study how text of two recent occurrences\x1d (1) overwhether these compounds were withinto reduce the backlog; and he proposed 90 livestock plants in the U.S. and Can- the scope of the Committees work andan alternative review through an EWG. ada have mysteriously burned down inalso said that the definition needed to beMost countries, and NHF, agreed with the first half of \x15\x13\x15\x15, with the U.6. De- clarified. The 6wiss delegate noted thatthe American suggestion, but NHF went partment of Agriculture also claimingthese inhibitors can be toxic to humans,further by reminding the delegates that millions of chickens are infected withand we should go slowly in reviewingCropLife is an industry group. Its not a avian pu and must be destroyed\x1e and atthem, to which Mr. Hughes trotted outconsumer protection group, so of course the same time (2) insect-food manufac- the age-old clich that We arent in athey want to eliminate the backlog, but turing facilities are springing up in Can- position to wait given Climate Change.we do not want to eliminate or weaken ada, the United States, and elsewhere.Yes, by all means New Zealand, letsthe reviews simply to clear the backlog.In London, Ontario, a new cricket-pro- just rush these new compounds to mar-cessing food facility is being constructedket without any proof that they will do H EALTHF REEDOMN EWS /S UMMER2022 9NHF_Summer40-2_2022_Linda_08-09-2022.indd 9 8/10/22 11:10 AM'