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BurfordTJustice
May 8, 2013, 6:06:06 AM5/8/13
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A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to
"grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested,
approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety
Agency."
It's called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the
government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who
grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals
under this law.
The draft text of the law, which has already been amended several times due
to a huge backlash from gardeners, is viewable here.
"This law will immediately stop the professional development of vegetable
varieties for home gardeners, organic growers, and small-scale market
farmers," said Ben Gabel, vegetable breeder and director of The Real Seed
Catalogue. "Home gardeners have really different needs - for example they
grow by hand, not machine, and can't or don't want to use such powerful
chemical sprays. There's no way to register the varieties suitable for home
use as they don't meet the strict criteria of the Plant Variety Agency,
which is only concerned about approving the sort of seed used by industrial
farmers."
Virtually all plants, vegetable seeds and gardeners to eventually be
registered by government
All governments are, of course, infatuated with the idea of registering
everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:
Title IV Registration of varieties in national and Union registers
The varieties, in order to be made available on the market throughout the
Union, shall be included in a national register or in the Union register via
direct application procedure to the CVPO.
Gardeners must also pay fees to the EU bureaucracy for the registration of
their seeds. From the proposed law text:
The competent authorities and the CPVO should charge fees for the processing
of
applications, the formal and technical examinations including audits,
variety denomination, and the maintenance of the varieties for each year for
the duration of
the registration.
While this law may initially only be targeted at commercial gardeners, it
sets a precedent to sooner or later go after home gardeners and require them
to abide by the same insane regulations.
Government bureaucracy gone insane
"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control," says Ben Gabel. "All
this new law does is create a whole new raft of EU civil servants being paid
to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the seed supply
to home gardeners and interfering with the right of farmers to grow what
they want. It also very worrying that they have given themselves the power
to regulate and licence any plant species of any sort at all in the future -
not just agricultural plants, but grasses, mosses, flowers, anything at
all - without having to bring it back to the Council for a vote."
As a hint of the level of insane bureaucracy that gardeners and vegetable
growers will be subject to under this EU law, check out this language from
the proposed EU law:
Specific provisions are set out on the registration in the Union variety
register and with regard to the possibility for the applicant to launch an
appeal against a CPVO decision. Such provisions are not laid down for the
registration in the national variety
registers, because they are subject to national administrative procedures. A
new obligation for each national variety examination centre to be audited by
the CPVO will be introduced with the aim to ensure the quality and
harmonisation of the variety registration process in the Union. The
examination centre of the professional operators will be audited and
approved by the national competent authorities. In case of direct
application to the CPVO it will audit and approve the examination centres it
uses for variety examination.
Such language is, of course, Orwellian bureaucraticspeak that means only one
thing: All gardeners should prepare to be subjected to total government
insanity over seeds, vegetables and home gardens.
RealSeeds.co.uk warns about any attempt to actually try to understand the
law by reading it:
You cannot just read the first 5 pages or so that are an 'executive
summary', and think you know what this law is about. The executive summary
is NOT what will become the law. It is the actual Articles themselves that
become law, the Summary has no legal standing and is just tacked on as an
aid to the public and legislators, it is supposed to give background
information and set the proposed legislation in context so people know what
is going on and why.
The problem with this law has always been that the Summary says lots of nice
fluffy things about preserving biodiversity, simplifying legislation, making
things easier etc - things we all would love - but the Articles of the law
actually do completely the opposite. And the Summary is not what becomes the
law.
For example, the Summary of drafts 1, 2 & 3 talked about making things
easier for 'Amateur' varieties. But the entire class of Amateur vegetables -
which we have spent 5 years working with DEFRA to register - was actually
abolished entirely in the Articles right from the start. Yet the Summary ,
and press releases based on it, still talked about how it will help preserve
Amateur varieties! The Summary is completely bogus. Do not base your views
of the law on it!
So, be warned. By all means, read it yourself. But you have the ignore the
Summary as that is not the Law, and does not reflect what is in the Law.
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."
This is the ultimate wish of all governments, of course: To criminalize any
act of self-reliance and make the population completely dependent on
monopolistic corporations for their very survival. This is true both in the
USA and the EU. This is what governments do: They seize control, one sector
at a time, year after year, until you are living as nothing more than a
total slave under a globalist dictatorial regime.
An online petition has already been started on this issue and has garnered
nearly 25,000 signatures so far.
NOAH'S ARK and 240 other organizations from 40 European countries have also
initiated an "open letter" appealing to Brussels bureaucrats to stop the
insanity. Click here for a translated version of their petition.
I saw this coming
Mark my words: Seeds are about to become contraband. Anyone who grows their
own food is about to be targeted as a criminal. The governments of the
world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto, do not want any
individual to be able to grow their own food.
This is about total domination of the food supply and the criminalizing of
gardeners. And this is what big government always does after centralizing
sufficient power. All governments inherently seek total control over the
lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government
(i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms
and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.
"grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested,
approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety
Agency."
It's called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the
government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who
grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals
under this law.
The draft text of the law, which has already been amended several times due
to a huge backlash from gardeners, is viewable here.
"This law will immediately stop the professional development of vegetable
varieties for home gardeners, organic growers, and small-scale market
farmers," said Ben Gabel, vegetable breeder and director of The Real Seed
Catalogue. "Home gardeners have really different needs - for example they
grow by hand, not machine, and can't or don't want to use such powerful
chemical sprays. There's no way to register the varieties suitable for home
use as they don't meet the strict criteria of the Plant Variety Agency,
which is only concerned about approving the sort of seed used by industrial
farmers."
Virtually all plants, vegetable seeds and gardeners to eventually be
registered by government
All governments are, of course, infatuated with the idea of registering
everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:
Title IV Registration of varieties in national and Union registers
The varieties, in order to be made available on the market throughout the
Union, shall be included in a national register or in the Union register via
direct application procedure to the CVPO.
Gardeners must also pay fees to the EU bureaucracy for the registration of
their seeds. From the proposed law text:
The competent authorities and the CPVO should charge fees for the processing
of
applications, the formal and technical examinations including audits,
variety denomination, and the maintenance of the varieties for each year for
the duration of
the registration.
While this law may initially only be targeted at commercial gardeners, it
sets a precedent to sooner or later go after home gardeners and require them
to abide by the same insane regulations.
Government bureaucracy gone insane
"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control," says Ben Gabel. "All
this new law does is create a whole new raft of EU civil servants being paid
to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the seed supply
to home gardeners and interfering with the right of farmers to grow what
they want. It also very worrying that they have given themselves the power
to regulate and licence any plant species of any sort at all in the future -
not just agricultural plants, but grasses, mosses, flowers, anything at
all - without having to bring it back to the Council for a vote."
As a hint of the level of insane bureaucracy that gardeners and vegetable
growers will be subject to under this EU law, check out this language from
the proposed EU law:
Specific provisions are set out on the registration in the Union variety
register and with regard to the possibility for the applicant to launch an
appeal against a CPVO decision. Such provisions are not laid down for the
registration in the national variety
registers, because they are subject to national administrative procedures. A
new obligation for each national variety examination centre to be audited by
the CPVO will be introduced with the aim to ensure the quality and
harmonisation of the variety registration process in the Union. The
examination centre of the professional operators will be audited and
approved by the national competent authorities. In case of direct
application to the CPVO it will audit and approve the examination centres it
uses for variety examination.
Such language is, of course, Orwellian bureaucraticspeak that means only one
thing: All gardeners should prepare to be subjected to total government
insanity over seeds, vegetables and home gardens.
RealSeeds.co.uk warns about any attempt to actually try to understand the
law by reading it:
You cannot just read the first 5 pages or so that are an 'executive
summary', and think you know what this law is about. The executive summary
is NOT what will become the law. It is the actual Articles themselves that
become law, the Summary has no legal standing and is just tacked on as an
aid to the public and legislators, it is supposed to give background
information and set the proposed legislation in context so people know what
is going on and why.
The problem with this law has always been that the Summary says lots of nice
fluffy things about preserving biodiversity, simplifying legislation, making
things easier etc - things we all would love - but the Articles of the law
actually do completely the opposite. And the Summary is not what becomes the
law.
For example, the Summary of drafts 1, 2 & 3 talked about making things
easier for 'Amateur' varieties. But the entire class of Amateur vegetables -
which we have spent 5 years working with DEFRA to register - was actually
abolished entirely in the Articles right from the start. Yet the Summary ,
and press releases based on it, still talked about how it will help preserve
Amateur varieties! The Summary is completely bogus. Do not base your views
of the law on it!
So, be warned. By all means, read it yourself. But you have the ignore the
Summary as that is not the Law, and does not reflect what is in the Law.
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."
This is the ultimate wish of all governments, of course: To criminalize any
act of self-reliance and make the population completely dependent on
monopolistic corporations for their very survival. This is true both in the
USA and the EU. This is what governments do: They seize control, one sector
at a time, year after year, until you are living as nothing more than a
total slave under a globalist dictatorial regime.
An online petition has already been started on this issue and has garnered
nearly 25,000 signatures so far.
NOAH'S ARK and 240 other organizations from 40 European countries have also
initiated an "open letter" appealing to Brussels bureaucrats to stop the
insanity. Click here for a translated version of their petition.
I saw this coming
Mark my words: Seeds are about to become contraband. Anyone who grows their
own food is about to be targeted as a criminal. The governments of the
world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto, do not want any
individual to be able to grow their own food.
This is about total domination of the food supply and the criminalizing of
gardeners. And this is what big government always does after centralizing
sufficient power. All governments inherently seek total control over the
lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government
(i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms
and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.
Bill
May 8, 2013, 6:16:17 AM5/8/13
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On Wed, 8 May 2013 06:06:06 -0400, "BurfordTJustice"
<bur...@hubdub.mo> wrote:
> ... huge backlash from gardeners, is viewable here.
>insanity
>As you might suspect, this move is the "final solution" of Monsanto, DuPont
>and other seed-domination corporations
<bur...@hubdub.mo> wrote:
> ... huge backlash from gardeners, is viewable here.
>
>"This law will immediately stop
>"This law will immediately stop
>All governments are, of course, infatuated with the idea of registering
>everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:
>
>everybody and everything. Under Title IV of the proposed EU law:
>
>Gardeners must also pay fees to the EU bureaucracy
>
>
>Government bureaucracy gone insane
>"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control,"
>"This is an instance of bureaucracy out of control,"
EU civil servants being paid
>to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the
>to move mountains of papers round all day, while killing off the
>As a hint of the level of insane bureaucracy
>Such language is, of course, Orwellian bureaucraticspeak
> total government
>insanity
>As you might suspect, this move is the "final solution" of Monsanto, DuPont
>and other seed-domination corporations
>- 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
>food supply to powerful corporations like Monsanto.
>
>Most heirloom seeds to be criminalized
>Nearly all varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds will be criminalized
>This is the ultimate wish of all governments, of course: To criminalize any
>act of self-reliance and make the population completely dependent on
>monopolistic corporations for their very survival. This is true both in the
>USA and the EU. This is what governments do: They seize control, one sector
>at a time, year after year, until you are living as nothing more than a
>total slave under a globalist dictatorial regime.
>act of self-reliance and make the population completely dependent on
>monopolistic corporations for their very survival. This is true both in the
>USA and the EU. This is what governments do: They seize control, one sector
>at a time, year after year, until you are living as nothing more than a
>total slave under a globalist dictatorial regime.
>The governments of the
>world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto,
>world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto,
>This is about total domination
>. All governments inherently seek total control over the
>lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government
>(i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms
>and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.
So, not a happy bunny then...
>lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government
>(i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms
>and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.
Andy Wainwright
May 8, 2013, 6:17:35 AM5/8/13
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Catweazel
May 8, 2013, 7:11:08 AM5/8/13
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On May 8, 11:06 am, "BurfordTJustice" <burf...@hubdub.mo> wrote:
[snip]
authorisation.
[snip]
> I saw this coming
>
> Mark my words: Seeds are about to become contraband. Anyone who grows their
> own food is about to be targeted as a criminal. The governments of the
> world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto, do not want any
> individual to be able to grow their own food.
>
> This is about total domination of the food supply and the criminalizing of
> gardeners. And this is what big government always does after centralizing
> sufficient power. All governments inherently seek total control over the
> lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government
> (i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms
> and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.
..and with it the right to buy and sell without NWO govt.
>
> Mark my words: Seeds are about to become contraband. Anyone who grows their
> own food is about to be targeted as a criminal. The governments of the
> world, conspiring with corporations like Monsanto, do not want any
> individual to be able to grow their own food.
>
> This is about total domination of the food supply and the criminalizing of
> gardeners. And this is what big government always does after centralizing
> sufficient power. All governments inherently seek total control over the
> lives of everyone, and if you don't set boundaries and limits for government
> (i.e. the Bill of Rights), it eventually runs roughshod over all freedoms
> and liberties, including the freedom to grow your own food.
authorisation.
BurfordTJustice
May 8, 2013, 11:05:07 AM5/8/13
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"Betty" <howdy@all.y'all> wrote in message
news:8Y6dncJ8R8x59RfM...@texas.net...
for years, claiming patent infringement over seeds.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/cbwdea3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
--
Rubbish
DVH
May 9, 2013, 7:39:40 AM5/9/13
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First they came for the seeds, but I was not a seed and I said nothing.
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