Posted on 07/07/2012 11:31:23 AM PDT by JohnKinAK
This article was written by Cassandra Anderson and originally published at MorphCity.com
The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food is promoting the Utah Garden Challenge in order to collect information about independent food production for the USDA.
The Utah Garden Challenge is a voluntary contest to register 10,000 gardens. The data mining project has a broad interest in any "resource" who is growing food:
Whether you grow a tomato in a pot, a row in a community garden, have backyard gardens, a CSA or working fruit and vegetable farm, we want to hear from you because you are an important resource as a food producer.
While the contest paints a proud face on independent food production, it is important to remember that registering with the government sets up a system to track, tax, permit or confiscate the registered item. Gun ownership is a good example of this scheme.
According to a pop-up window on the official website, participants' gardens will be registered with the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS):
We need to know how much food is being produced in Utah. The Census of Agriculture is done every 5 years. Every agricultural operation in Utah, regardless of size, is vital to this question. If you produce $1000 of agricultural products, you can influence economic development and decision making by filling out a NASS survey. We will only share your information with NASS by your permission. Your response to the census of agriculture is protected by law. For more information, you can go to www.agcensus.gov.
In other words, people who produce $1000 or more worth of food have an impact on the food market, and the USDA wants to know about what you are doing in your backyard.
Victory gardens in America produced up to 40% of all vegetables consumed during World War II, with over 20 millon home gardens and community plots that produced over 9 million tons of food.
The USDA is notorious for its corrupt partnerships and revolving door business relationships with big commercial agriculture.
Government Crackdowns & Food Control
Food is under attack because if you can grow your own food, have access to water and shelter, then what use do you have for a government master?
The federal government has profoundly overstepped its constitutional authority on all fronts, and there are a number of examples of the USDA's outrageous control over food that include SWAT team raids on raw milk sellers and fruit tree confiscation.
The Food Safety Modernization Act expanded the power of the FDA and its sister agency, the USDA. The law is bad for many reasons and is an overwhelming burden on small and independent farmers due to over-regulation and increase in paperwork and reporting.
Additionally, the FBI identifies people who store food as potential terrorists!
Why Is Utah A Threat?
1. A few months ago Utah voted down a Food Freedom Bill that would have made it a crime for anyone, including Utah state agents, to enforce the Food Safety Modernization Act's unconstitutional mandates. It would have made farmers who trade only inside of state lines exempt. The bill was a direct constitutional challenge to federal overreach.
2. Highland City, Utah passed a Food Freedom ordinance that exempts residents from federal regulations on food that is produced, exchanged and consumed within city limits (state laws still apply).
3. Utah has the largest concentration of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as Mormons) who have an official policy of food storage, currently set at a 1-year minimum supply. This may be construed as a threat by the FBI, especially since a 1-year supply of food can cost as little as $225.
Conclusion
Survivalist.com points out that the Utah Garden Challenge is linked to the United Nations Agenda 21 Sustainable Development plan for totalitarian control.
The Utah Garden Challenge is enticing Utahans with meager prizes (a 1-in-1000 chance of winning a giftcard or free restaurant dinner) to register their gardens and subject themselves to invasive government data mining. But is your food independence worth it?
“First they came for the flower gardeners, and I said nothing.
Next they came for the vegetable gardeners.....”
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This was from about 3 weeks ago, but the story is a little bit older:
“Gov Criminalizes Self Reliance: Woman’s Survival Garden Seized and Destroyed by Authorities”
At a minimum, our benevolent ruler will have absolute control over all resources including food, energy, transportation, communication, and labor. He will decide who eats, sleeps, drives, keeps warm in the winter, has lights for the night time, and will decide where & when we will work voluntarily without compensation.
A situation more or less similar to the that experience by prisoners of war during WWII.
Those of us who saw, when they were first published in the newspapers, the pictures of thousands of Jews lining up and shuffling into gas chambers, wondered at the time why they didn't at least die fighting. Now we know.
The historical beginnings of an equivalent march into "a thousand years of darkest tyranny" are underway and now it U.S. citizens shuffling mindlessly along as if nothing was amiss.
For those who aren't disposed to shuffle for anyone, least of all a marxist megalomaniac, the purge-to-come guidelines to quickly identify and remove them are already being openly published and adopted by governments at all levels. Key identifiers/characteristics include:
Here is who voted this POS Legislation in:
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 690 (HR2751 Food Safety Bill/FDA Food Takeover Bill)
U.S. House of Representatives Website ^ | 1 Aug 2011 | House Clerk
Posted on 08/03/2011 11:53:02 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2758143/posts
Sorry, I messed up. Wrong bill was referenced. Same tactic reading into existing bill.
Here is the roll call for the correct bill:
FOOD SAFETY WINS ONLY BECAUSE OF DIRTY TRICKS (HR2751)
National Health Federation ^ | 12-21-2010 | news release
Posted on 01/05/2011 9:39:43 PM PST by Texas Fossil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2652160/posts
Our daughter and her family stopped at a roadside stand that has set up south of Eureka for years to sample the fruit to buy some and they told her the health department had stopped sampling because they do not have a certified kitchen.
Truth is, such activities are not able to be hidden, as there are even higher resolution "earth resources" satellites that can even identify which types of crops are growing, and somewhat of their condition/stress levels.
Thanks for that. Oddly enough this particularly egregious lame duck Pelosi POS got little attention at the time. This atrocity, along with Øbamacare needs to get the slash and burn treatment in the new congress. I can dream...
You guessed it. They now have control of the medical. now they are working on controlling the food supply.
It passed in the middle of the night at the end of the lame duck session. The vote was a voice vote. When they realized since it was an appropriations bill it had to originate in the House. They read the body of the bill into an existing bill that died. Making actual tracking nearly impossible.
Then when they passed the law there was no wording on House.gov or Thomas Register. I was only able to find the actual bill when it was sent to the General Printing Office, from the Public law number.
They were sold on voting for the bill by some real or perceived threat by foreign agents to our food supply.
The original bill was a horror. This one is not as bad, but still is horrible.
Well, since we turned our backs on Him and kicked Him out of our schools and public life, He's just giving us what we want: a world without Him.
And this is the reault.
ping
Well, those who wanted God are being punished for those who did not.
Only in this life.
And all we’re really doing is catching some of the fallout. We’re not really being punished.
Ack, I’d be rich if I had those kind of weeds.
“All good things got come to an end,
it’s the same with our wildwood weeds,
One day this feller from Washington came by
and spied ‘em, and turned white as a sheet.
Well they dug and burned and they burned dug
and they killed all of our cute little weeds,
Then they drove away.
We just smiled and waved,
Sittin’ on that sack of seeds.”
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