Growing Your Own Food Not Allowed revised extended updates
Article by Justin Doody
Growing your own food not allowed While you might think this is old news,(dont be foolish and forget the rights of Americans they want to slowly take away and hope the general public forgets about it next year later) It is already passed in America and now other countries are following suit or already have had these laws in place to control the population’s freedom to provide food for ourselves. After you read these things I hope that an Emergency Seed Bank seems more of a must have thing before we no longer have the freedom to buy seeds or storage food.
New Zealand Food Bill 2011
I was shocked to learn from a friend that a new food bill is being brought into in New Zealand. The new bill will make it a privilege and not a right to grow food.
Here are some highlights from the bill:
- It turns a human right (to grow food and share it) into a government-authorised privilege that can be summarily revoked.
- It makes it illegal to distribute “food” without authorisation, and it defines “food” in such a way that it includes nutrients, seeds, natural medicines, essential minerals and drinks (including water).
- By controlling seeds, the bill takes the power to grow food away from the public and puts it in the hands of seed companies. That power may be abused.
Growing Your Own Food- Growing food for distribution must be authorised, even for “cottage industries”, and such authorisation can be denied.
- Under the Food Bill, Police acting as Food Safety Officers can raid premises without a warrant, using all equipment they deem necessary – including guns (Clause 265 – 1).
- Members of the private sector can also be Food Safety Officers, as at Clause 243. So Monsanto employees can raid premises – including marae – backed up by armed police.
- The Bill gives Food Safety Officers immunity from criminal and civil prosecution.
- The Government has created this bill to keep in line with its World Trade Organisation obligations under an international scheme called Codex Alimentarius (“Food Book”). So it has to pass this bill in one form or another.
- The bill would undermine the efforts of many people to become more self-sufficient within their local communities.
- Seed banks and seed-sharing networks could be shut down if they could not obtain authorisation. Loss of seed variety would make it more difficult to grow one’s own food.
- Home-grown food and some or all seed could not be bartered on a scale or frequency necessary to feed people in communities where commercially available food has become unaffordable or unavailable (for example due to economic collapse).
- Restrictions on the trade of food and seed would quickly lead to the permanent loss of heirloom strains, as well as a general lowering of plant diversity in agriculture.
- Organic producers of heirloom foods could lose market share to big-money agribusiness outfits, leading to an increase in the consumption of nutrient-poor and GE foods.
So as you can see its spreading around the world, the notion that we as humans must rely on BIG government, and Big companies to stay fed and dumb.
This is why I buy seeds and storage food before it’s too late. If growing your own food is not allowed anymore, we will all be building camouflaged,doberman protected greenhouses?
Every nation in the world is marching forward to a completely integrated and globalized society, the control of our food supply is an absolute necessity for those who seek to accelerate amalgamation. It is for this reason that we see an increase in domestic legislation that mirrors the guidelines and demands of international standard-setting organizations. These attempts at harmonization of national laws, specifically those regarding food, are coming in daily from every country in the world
Whether it’s the GMO fight in the United States, Mexico, and Europe, or the question of the level of vitamins and minerals in supplements, the Biotech Corporations are continually winning most of their battles with the help of mass ignorance, national governments, the World Trade Organization and similar entities. Indeed, when one begins to examine many of the debates regarding food and food regulation, one name appears over and over – Codex Alimentarius. For those who may be unaware of what Codex Alimentarius is, Codex is an agency created under the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO)and thereby functions under direction of the United Nations (UN).
Codex Alimentarius sets the standards by which the World Trade Organization implements its dispute settlements and international trade policies. Codex Guidelines, once agreed upon, are enforced by the WTO and other related treaties. Essentially, Codex sets the standards for the world regarding food, vitamins and minerals, GMO’s, and almost everything else that humans consume. Codex Alimentarius can be seen the world over, New Zealanders appear to be the latest targets of the international standard-setting organization via a food bill titled Food Bill 160-2. Similar to legislation recently passed in the United States, the New Zealand Food Bill essentially turns the right to grow food and share it with others into a regulated and controlled privilege. Food Bill 160-2 would also allow for the control of seeds (specifically heirloom seeds), and the creation of Food Safety Officers that would serve to police the newly designated and loosely termed “food producers.” It would also effectively end the ability of individuals to become and remain self-sufficient. For instance, the bill defines food so as to include any plant or animal (living or dead by the definitions set forth in the bill) intended for human consumption, as well as: Any ingredients or nutrients or other constituent of any food or drink, whether that ingredient or nutrient or other constituent is consumed or represented for consumption on its own by humans, or is used in the preparation of, or mixed with or added to, any food or drink; and anything that is or is intended to be mixed with or added to any food or drink. Furthermore, giving broad and alarming levels of power to the Governor-General, “anything that is declared by the Governor-General, by Order in Council made under section 355, to be food for the purposes of this Act” will also fall under the jurisdiction of Bill 160-2. Herein, food is defined literally as anything that can be consumed by humans and it retains this definition at whatever the stage of its development. As a result of the new policies to be implemented as a result of Food Bill 160-2, anyone then engaged in producing and distributing food would be subject to the regulation and monitoring of the new authorization program. Of course, the classification of “food producer,” applies to individuals who grow two or three tomato plants for their own consumption as much as it does to major Agri-businesses. That being said, there are clearly financial concerns with the new bill as well. Obviously, Big-Agra would easily be able to pay the monitoring fees for the new Soviet program while small farmers, where they still exist, could not. In addition, individuals would certainly no longer be able to continue selling their food at the local farmers market, local restaurants, or even to other individuals. Last year, when the United States Congress was busy passing S.510, a bill that was very similar if not identical in scope to the New Zealand Food Bill, Anyone who raised questions about the bill was labeled as anti government/conspiricy theorist. Now, in late 2011, after the U.S. government has publicly raided organic food shops, raw milk distributors, and the Amish. Are you kidding me the Amish? kind of squashes any dream of being able to live off your own land and provide for yourself.
The similarities between the law in the United States and the one being proposed in New Zealand are quite striking, so much in fact that they can scarcely be considered a coincidence — especially when both of these bills are themselves disturbingly similar to Codex Alimentarius Guidelines and recommendations. Indeed, upon closer examination it appears that there is more of a pattern than some members of national governments would have us believe. No doubt this is almost always the case. They openly admit that seeds can and will be controlled under the new food bill. Hardly a conspiracy theory when the antagonist actually admits it to be true. National laws such as S.510 and Food Bill 160-2 are merely the domestic ground-level implementation of international policy handed down from Codex Alimentarius, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations, entities that are themselves nothing more than tools in the Great Work known as the New World Order.
I would encourage everyone to start a garden and buy as many seeds as you can before your no longer able to. I believe that if everyone in a city started a garden no one in that city would be hungry including the homeless. If one household had a backyard garden it could grow enough food for the four surrounding houses, so if two out of four homes had back yard gardens more people could be fed better food and for cheaper. I think cities should start more bartering markets where cash isnt accepted and we could show the food industry we dont need it. We have the means these days to grow just about anything and make it into viable food for our families and friend.
It would be nice to see someone in power that actually sees the big picture in the long run for the greater good of the population, to let everyone grow for themselves and save the government huge money in foodstamp benfits, importing food from other countries, all the ways the government has thier hand in the food industry. It doesnt make sense to me why these greedy corperations