 It
is popular today to pride ourselves on the level of personal liberty
and individual freedom that we have achieved. However, in the age of
unsurpassed electronic technology this is largely an illusion. From the
tracking and spying of governmental and non-governmental commercial
agencies we are the most surveilled, least private of civilizations in
human history. Additives to our foods from pesticides and chemical
fertilizers to GMO’s, all without our permission I might add, have been
embedded in the food chain with nary a whimper from the
citizen-consumers. Overhead satellites and drones record our every
individual move providing real-time tracking and observation so precise
that license plates and even ranks and name-tags of military personnel
can be read by the eyes in the skies. Truly, we’ve entered the age of the realization of the Orwellian Nightmare.
Now,
just when you think that the above has reached a pinnacle of
nightmarish intrusion into your personal affairs, another outrage
assaulting your human dignity arises. Indeed, we are being forced into a
“hive” mentality where all is uniform and well-regulated.
The
European Commission is changing the European Union’s plant legislation,
apparently to enhance food safety across the continent. This move has
sparked a heavy opposition from many, saying that the measure will
threaten seed diversity and favour large agrochemical businesses. This
new law creates new powers to classify and regulate all plant life
anywhere in Europe. You can view the entire proposal in the list of
sources at the bottom of this article.
The “Plant Reproductive Material Law” regulates all plants. It
contains restrictions on vegetables and woodland trees, as well as all
other plants of any species. It will be illegal to grow, reproduce, or
trade any vegetable seed or tree that has not been tested and approved
by the government, more specifically the “EU Plant Variety Agency.” This agency will be responsible for making a list of approved plants and an annual fee must also be forwarded to the agency if growers would like to keep what they grow on the list. The
new law basically puts the government in charge of all plants and seeds
in Europe, and prevents home gardeners from growing their own plants
from non-regulated seeds. If they did, they would now be considered criminals.
The draft text of the law has already been changed several times due to a large backlash from gardeners.
This
law will immediately stop the professional development of vegetable
varieties for home gardeners, organic growers and small scale market
farmers. Home gardeners have really different needs – for example they
grow by hand, not machine, and can’t or don’t want to use such powerful
chemical sprays. There’s no way to register the varieties suitable for
home use as they don’t meet the strict criteria of the Plant Variety
Agency, which is only concerned about approving the sort of seed used by
industrial farmers – Ben Gabel, Director of The Real Seed Catalogue
It
seems the government is taking over everything, virtually all plants,
vegetables seeds and gardeners are to be registered by the government. What’s
even more disturbing is that all heirloom seeds will be criminalized.
This means that saving seeds from one generation to the next will become
a criminal act!
This
law was written for the needs of the globalized farm seed industry, who
supply seed by the ton to industrial farmers. It should not apply at
all to seed used by home gardeners and small market growers. Freely
reproducible seeds should be (read: is; Editor) a human right, they are part of our heritage.
I
understand this is to protect the business of big agri-companies, but
registration and testing should be voluntary for all non GMO,
non-patented and non-hybrid seed.
The amazing aspect of this is that people will clamor for such draconian governmental intrusion based on a Bill of Goods
sold to them regarding permaculture, sustainability, green living, and
other nonsensical smokescreens and illusions of false environmental
concern under the UN Agenda 21 mandates. Folks, it is
time to take responsibility for your food security, the most basic of
human rights, into your hands. Buy, plant, grow, harvest, and become
adept at seed-saving to insure that no matter what the government
mandates and implements you will be able to grow and provide your own
food.
In
addition to plant regulation I predict that we will very soon witness
restrictions on backyard and smallholdings animal husbandry in the name
of food safety and animal rights. So begin now to raise chickens,
rabbits, goats and other unobtrusive and clandestine animal husbandry.
Learn, and learn quickly, how to raise, care-for, humanely dispatch,
process, and store small-scale livestock. Though seven years ago when CRS
was first published, such actions as this newly proposed EU regulation
would have seemed a paranoid speculation, we can see by similar actions
already instituted and enforced, these food regulations and compulsory
uniformity of the populous is well within the range of truth.
And
he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and
bondmen, to have a character in their right hand, or on their foreheads.
And that no man might buy or sell, but he that hath the character, or
the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Apocalypse 13:16-17
Here is the web citation:
Richard of Danbury, D.S.G.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014
European Commission to Ban Heirloom Seeds and Criminalize Plants & Seeds Not Registered With Government
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