...only outlaws will have gardens.
Posted on 12/30/2010 8:29:09 AM PST by opentalk
Amidst the hustle and bustle of the “lame duck” Congress, another law was passed that didn’t quite get the same media coverage as the Bush tax extension “package,” the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and the new START treaty. The Food Safety Modernization Act was not steeped in the same level of popular controversy as these other pieces of legislation. Nevertheless, its passage may affect our daily lives even more than these, and in a rather stealth manner.
Yes, the week before Christmas, the 111th Congress of the United States gave Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), quite extensive authority over food production in our country. That’s food- from the seeds that grow the plants and the animals that provide the meat and milk, to the Lean Cuisine you had for dinner.
...How will the type of food we grow and produce be controlled?
This is probably the most important issue affecting us with this new legislation because the new law is vague in its language of what constitutes a “farm” (Is a garden a “farm?”), and how the Secretary of HHS can regulate the types of seeds that are planted and fertilizers used.
....The bill was supported by huge food companies like Campbell’s Soup and Cargill, and industrial seed companies like Monsanto, which spent millions of dollars lobbying for its passage. Large industrial seed companies are big producers of genetically modified seeds and, in recent years, have become increasingly threatened by the presence of small organic farms, farmers’ markets, and the local food movement which celebrates the benefits of heirloom and genetically true vegetables and fruits, as well as organic farming methods and fertilizers. For the latter, the direct farmer to consumer relationship is what matters, and the government will be in the way.
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
Thank you. It’s mine-feel free.
Rip freedom in the USA 2010 if the new "laws" stand...
Some of them might take it as a suggestion instead of a warning.
The left uses “1984” in the same way...
Thanks for the tip. My mailman turned me on to Oil of Oregano. I used to get terrible chest colds every other year like clockwork. I started dosing with Oil of Oregano at the first sign of trouble and have not had one in 9 years or so. I can see why they want it banned. I used to purchase a ton of cold remedies and now nothing.
We take 4,000 units of D3 everyday for the last 12 months and we have not had a sniffle. We have stopped getting the flu vaccines. At the first sign of sickness we take the oil of oregano and by the next day we are back to normal. We have the Colloidal Silver for bacterial infections and we also use the food grade Hydrogen Peroxide. The MMS (Miracle Mineral Supplement) is like a system cleanse which we do a couple of times per year.
Good information.
I’m waiting for them to ultimately control the vegetable seek market. Those found with “illicit” seeds with the intent to grow their own food will be arrested and tried.
Try legumes, like several varieties of beans, for protein. Not a complete substitute for meat, but will tide you over until the ravaging gangs of nihilists finally expire.
I’m waiting for them to come and confiscate the food that is stored in people’s homes.
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I read in the Baker Creek seed catalog that Monsanto lost 40% of their income to heirloom seeds companies.
article about Monsanto aggressiveness toward organic farms
Monsanto to fight potential lawsuit by organic farmer whose land ruined by GMOs
Wikileaks cable reveals U.S. conspired to retaliate against European nations if they resisted GMOs
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