“Some small farms and organic food growers could be placed under direct supervision of the federal government under new legislation making its way through Congress.
Food Safety Modernization Act

“House Resolution 875, or the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., in February. DeLauro’s husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for Monsanto – the world’s leading producer of herbicides and genetically engineered seed…”

…The blogosphere is buzzing with comments on the legislation, including the following:

*Obama and his cronies or his puppetmasters are trying to take total control – nationalize everything, disarm the populace, control food, etc. We are seeing the formation of a total police state.

*Well … that’s not very ” green ” of Obama. What’s his real agenda?

*This is getting way out of hand! Isn’t it enough the FDA already allows poisons in our foods?

*If you’re starving, no number of guns will enable you to stay free. That’s the whole idea behind this legislation. He who controls the food really makes the rules.

*The government is terrified of the tax loss. Imagine all the tax dollars lost if people actually grew their own vegetables! Imagine if people actually coordinated their efforts with family, friends and neighbors. People could be in no time eating for the price of their own effort. … Oh the horror of it all! The last thing the government wants is for us to be self-sufficient.

*They want to make you dependent upon government. I say no way! already the government is giving away taxes from my great great grandchildren and now they want to take away my food, my semi-auto rifles, my right to alternative holistic medicine? We need a revolution, sheeple!

*Wake up! They want fascism … can you not see that?

*The screening processes will make it very expensive for smaller farmers, where bigger agriculture corporations can foot the bill.

*If anything it just increases accountability, which is arguably a good thing. It pretty much says they’ll only confiscate your property if there are questions of contamination and you don’t comply with their inspections. I think the severity of this has been blown out of proportion by a lot of conjecture.

*Don’t waste your time calling the criminals in D.C. and begging them to act like humans. This will end with a bloody revolt.

*The more I examine this (on the surface) seemingly innocuous bill the more I hate it. It is a coward’s ploy to push out of business small farms and farmers markets without actually making them illegal because many will choose not to operate due to the compliance issue.

It’s time to Go Galt and grow your own food!

“A couple weeks ago I was asked by the local Mormon church to teach a class on cheese making. Mormons, in case you don’t know, are big on self-sufficiency. They are counseled to keep at least a year’s worth of food and other provisions stored up. Whatever your views on the Latter Day Saints, I’ll admit this is a spiffy concept.

I was happy to teach what I know about making cheddar and mozzarella, and I included how to make butter and yogurt as well. Preceding my class, the group had a lively discussion about garden seeds. After the class, a local woman displayed some products of her cottage industry: reusable feminine hygiene items (a huge hit with the largely female audience). The next day, my daughter’s violin teacher called to reschedule lessons for the next eight weeks because she’s attending a Master Gardening class.

We had dinner with neighbors the other night, and the subject of borrowing each others’ tractor implements came up in order to drastically expand everyone’s gardens. One woman commented, “It’s like we’re living on a commune but in separate houses.” That’s because there happens to be a broad range of useful skills represented among our circle of neighbors and friends, and we’re all willing to pitch in and trade knowledge, equipment and labor.

Welcome to Flyover Country, where we know darned good and well a depression is looming. People are preparing like crazy.”

From Patrice Lewis at WND: I’m depressed … but preparing
I’m NOT depressed and I am already prepared…
Our friends in Iraq are also looking at Seed Nazis controlling their family gardens…barf, gag, bleech…

“Iraqi Order 81 was implemented in 2005 by Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA). It promptly made criminals and terrorists of Iraqi family farmers. The order is pre-emptive seed legislation written by and for American agri-business. It prevents Iraqi farmers from saving their seed, which they have done for generations. Instead, all of their saved seed was confiscated or bombed, and the CPA used American troops to pass out genetically modified seed (GMO) with American patents. From now on, Iraqi farmers must pay giant American agribusiness for the right to plant any and all seed. When the family farmers protested this undemocratic move, they were labeled terrorists and hauled off to an undisclosed location.”

I completely supported the American Military freeing the Iraqi people from Sadaam the tyrant…but now they will answer to Monsanto the tyrant…wonder who will come up worse in the history of that new democracy???
barfing again…

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