European
Commission to criminalize all seeds and plants: European
Commission to criminalize all seeds and plants not registered with government;
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 bureaucratic speak 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: By the way,
I am on the record predicting this exact scenario. Read Chapter Three of my
fiction book, «Freedom Chronicles 2026.» (Read it FREE, online.) It depicts a
seed smuggler living in a time when seeds are criminalized and people earn a
living as professional seed smugglers.
In my book,
a woman uses a specially-crafted breast prosthesis to smuggle seeds to
«underground gardeners» in full defiance of laws crafted by Monsanto. A vast
underground network of grassroots gardeners and scientists manage to put
together a «seed weapon» to destroy GMOs and take back the food supply from
evil corporations.
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.
by Mike
Adams in TERRA PAPERS
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