As coincidence would have it, WND's news breaking headline this morning was this:
Lose your property for growing food?
Big Brother legislation could mean prosecution, fines up to $1 million
...and jail sentences up to 10 years...for each separate infraction. Interesting, huh? And guess who the culprits are in submitting this legislation in the first place...
"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.
DeLauro's act has 39 co-sponsors and was referred to the House Agriculture Committee on Feb. 4. It calls for the creation of a Food Safety Administration to allow the government to regulate food production at all levels – and even mandates property seizure, fines of up to $1 million per offense and criminal prosecution for producers, manufacturers and distributors who fail to comply with regulations."
DId you get that? DeLauro's husband, Stanley Greenburg, works for none other than that lovely, altruistic, looking-out-for-everyone's-best-interest...Monsanto!
OK and let's see which other highly-begrieved-over-our-food-safety Congress person introduced a similar bill...
"Another "food safety" bill that has organic and small farmers worried is Senate Bill 425, or the Food Safety and Tracking Improvement Act, sponsored by Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.
Brown's bill is backed by lobbyists for Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland and Tyson. It was introduced in September and has been referred to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee."
So our very concerned Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-OH is backed by whom..??? Let's see.. Monstanto, ADM, and Tyson. Minor detail. Hmmm. Does anyone smell a rat here..or several rats? Or is it just me?
Well, it doesn't end there. Please read the rest of the article. And please also understand that this is NOT about "food safety" here...or food "modernization"...give me a break. This is about controlling the food supply on a global scale that already allows these global corporate giants to poison us, hide it, and treat animals abominably. It's a cowardly coup is what it is. And we need to wake up and smell the coffee...or the rats.
And for those of you who think this is only about small farmers and so what? Our small farmers are our meal ticket to safe food. They're our only ticket to safe food...that is if you don't want to grow and harvest everything yourself. Backyard gardening and self-sufficiency is where our true security lies in this country. This is a Biblical precedent and it is fundamental to our Constitution and our liberty. Don't get wrapped up in the political spin and jargon. It's meant to scare, placate, and confuse...and they're very good at it.
Moving on..
I found another excellent article by Linn Cohen-Cole relating again to this HR 875 and our "food safety" issue... or crisis...or whatever it's being termed at the moment. She states:
The "food safety" bills in Congress were written by Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc. All are associated with the opposite of food safety. What is this all about then?
In the simplest terms, organic food and a rebirth of farming were winning. Not in absolute numbers but in a deep and growing shift by the public toward understanding the connection between their food and their health, between good food and true social pleasures, between their own involvement in food and the improvement in their lives in general, between local food and a burgeoning local economy.
Slow Food was right - limit your food to what comes from your region and from real farmers, and slow down to cook it and linger over it with friends and family, and the world begins to change for the better.
And as we face an unprecedented economic crisis, and it is hard to be sure what has value, one thing that always does is food. Which is why the corporations are after absolute control over it. But what obstacles to a complete lock on food do they face? All the people in this country who are "banking" on organic farming and urban gardens and most of all, everyone's deepening pleasure in and increasing involvement with everything about food.
Farmers markets. Local farmers. Real milk. Fresh eggs. Vegetable stands.
Those are things we not only all want, but things we are actively getting involved in, and things we very much need. And where they are truly good, they are growing.
The international financial corporations which have wreaked havoc around the world with astounding nonsensical "solutions" that are destructive of everyone but them, are brothers to the international agribusiness giants (Monsanto, Cargill, Tysons, ADM, etc.) which are just as aggressively after their own form of "taking." Just seeds, animals, water, land.
And freedom.
Read the rest of Goodbye farmers markets, CSAs, and roadside stands
And more of Linn Cohen-Cole's articles
If you simply can't imagine these corporations being capable of such cut-throat insidious practices, then please just view the video below. It's less than 5 minutes and is 4-5 minutes well worth watching.
Also see Monsanto Monopoly
Action Against NAIS (National Animal Identification System)
Outlawing Organic Farming HR 875
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