Posted on 05/12/2013 5:00:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
How many of you have flower or vegetable gardens at your home? I know many people are growing their own herbs to use for cooking as well as indoor and outdoor vegetable gardens. Others have flowers in pots, window boxes, hanging baskets, in flower beds and outdoor gardens.
My wife and I have a number of vegetables and fruit growing outside which include apples (2 varieties), beans (purple and wax), broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cantaloupes, carrots, cherries, cucumbers (bush), grapes (5 varieties), onions (red), peas (green and snap), potatoes (3 varieties), sage, radishes, tomatoes (6 varieties), and watermelons (3 varieties). We also have about 70 different daylilies, along with some crocuses, tulips, marigolds and zinnias. If you can’t tell, my wife and I love to garden.
If America follows the ways of the Great Britain and the European Commission, my wife and I could be guilty of producing and cultivating illegal seeds.
I’ve learned over the years to watch what is happening in Great Britain and the European Commission because the US tends to follow them by 5-20 years depending. A couple of decades ago, I saw hundreds of churches in Great Britain close their doors because attendance had dropped off so much. The number of British identifying themselves as Christians also dropped significantly.
Look at America today. Church after church is closing their doors because of dwindling numbers. Church buildings are being sold and turned into bars, restaurants, apartments, homes and even mosques. The number of Americans identifying themselves as Christians is dropping and they have lost control of the nation.
Following this trend, I saw where a new law is being proposed by the European Union to register and regulate all plant seeds and vegetables used by anyone from farmers to a single flower pot. The Plant Reproductive Material Law will require all seeds to be tested, approved and accepted by the newly formed EU Plant Variety Agency. You can read the current copy of the proposed bill here.
Anyone who grows plants from non-regulated seeds would be guilty of committing a criminal act. I’ve collected seeds from the vegetables and flowers I’ve grown and have cultivated them. Under the proposed EU bill, I would be guilty of a crime for doing so, if it were to eventually come here to the States. I also know a family who has a business of raising and selling different varieties of daylilies. They work to cross pollinate different ones to produce new varieties and colors of these beautiful flowers. That too would be a crime unless they had a government inspector come in and test their new seeds and plants and then register them.
If you thought the idea of registering guns was absurd, can you image a government that wants to register and regulate all plants and seeds? If you think it would never happen here, let me remind you that Obama has taken control of healthcare, student loans, and is trying to control firearms, education, banking, religion and even our speech. Michelle Obama and Michael Bloomberg have been trying to regulate our diets and eating habits. Doesn’t it make sense that plant and seed control is next? We’re losing so many of our freedoms, that it wouldn’t surprise me to see us lose the freedom to plant a garden next. Remember, what happens across the Big Pond, generally makes its way here eventually!
/johnny
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Some wimpy little building inspector is going to come to my door and order me — demand! — that I pull up everything in my garden?
Then he’s going to knock on all my neighbors’ doors and demand the same from all of them?
Little peckerhead better be drawing “hazardous duty” pay because he won’t make it past two houses before he’s head-first into the compost pile. If he’s lucky he might still be alive to pull himself back out again!
As you might suspect, this move is the "final solution" of Monsanto, DuPont and other seed-domination corporations who have long admitted their goal is the complete domination of all seeds and crops grown on the planet. By criminalizing the private growing of vegetables -- thereby turning gardeners into criminals -- EU bureaucrats can finally hand over full control of the food supply to powerful corporations like Monsanto.
Most heirloom seeds to be criminalized Nearly all varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds will be criminalized under this proposed EU law. This means the act of saving seeds from one generation to the next -- a cornerstone of sustainable living -- will become a criminal act.
In addition, as Gabel explains, this law "...effectively kills off development of home-garden seeds in the EU."
Dec. 5, 1932 one of Stalin’s goons ordered “the mere possession of food is evidence of a crime.” Also I think about this time he made it illegal to harvest vegetables from your own garden without permission from a bureaucrat. Can someone help with this last statement? I think it could get you sent to a Siberian Gulag.
Had an old uncle who grew his own in Missouri. Took the the same crop and cured it several ways. Rolled his own most of the time. Smoked a pipe when he could sit. Chewed when in church or other formal event. Lived to be 96.
Be wary of strong drink. It cam make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss!
I should have made the distinction between commercial and private use. Thanks.
*Needs fixing*
Where ever the UK goes America and the rest of WestAmerican and Western liberals are certain to follow.
*Fixed* More descriptive and grounded in reality.
:-)
Oh they can, they just don't want to. It causes us to borrow money, which the lenders like just fine. We'll bail them out, while they get to call shots at Treasury auctions. What's not to like?
Or marijuana would be extinct in the US.
With printed dollars as the reserve currency of the dope business, why would they want the dope pipeline to dry up? Hell, don't you understand that Afghanistan and Kosovo/Albania are the two ends of the heroin pipeline into Europe? Do you want that to be euros or dollars? The whole point of the EMU was for Germany to print a global reserve alternative to the dollar. It's a license to print and lend money without consequence.
I currently steal all my cherries from public lands. In fact I might even steal a few apples and any other fruit or vegetable I find in my adventures. :)
Thanks for the ping!
In Missouri, you can buy all the raw milk you want as long as you visit the farm, and buy directly from an individual.
However, you can not then turn around and distribute that milk to the public, by putting it into your grocery store or restaurant etc.
Looking to start an heirloom seed exchange on FR? Currently, I am growing a few 30rd magazine bushes... looking to exchange hollow point rounds seeds.
Heads up!
Do you have a smart meter? They’ll just turn off your power and wait. In August when it’s 100 degrees, you’ll be pulling up your garden yourself. They won’t have to come within miles of your house.
The ROE’s here will be totally different from those currently in use in Afghanistan.
Bet on it.
Remember Lidice?
I remember Waco.
Good point. After a couple of those people will be pulling up their contraband tomato plants by the millions.
Well, the job that you used to have
They gave it to somebody down in El Salvador
The unions are big business, friend
And they’re goin’ out like a dinosaur
They used to grow food in Kansas
Now they want to grow it on the moon and eat it raw
I can see the day coming when even your home garden
Is gonna be against the law
said Bob Dylan in 1983
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