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European Commission to criminalize nearly 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.' ... Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.

     "This law will immediately stop the professional development of vegetable varieties for home gardeners, organic growers, and small-scale market farmers....  Nearly all varieties of heirloom vegetable seeds will be criminalized under this proposed EU law. ...saving seeds from one generation to the next...will become a criminal act." See From Freedom to Servitude

Monsanto Has Taken Over the USDA: "Monsanto is, of course, the world's largest biotech corporation. These are the people who brought us Roundup weed killer and the resulting superweeds and superbugs, along with growth hormones for cows, genetically engineered and patented seeds, PCBs, and Agent Orange.... This chemical company... has monopolized our food system largely by taking over regulatory agencies like the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ...

      "The takeover has been thorough. Monsanto's growth hormones for cows have been approved by Michael Taylor, a former Monsanto lobbyist turned USDA administrator and FDA deputy commissioner. ... Islam Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist, wrote the USDA's food standards, allowing corporations to label irradiated and genetically engineered foods as 'organic.'"

Federal Land Grab in the Works: "Sen. Jim DeMint....chairman of the U.S. Senate Steering Committee [said]: "To my chagrin, I have not known about this: "A secret administration memo has surfaced revealing plans for the federal government to seize more than 10 million acres from Montana to New Mexico, halting job-creating activities like ranching, forestry, mining and energy development. Worse, this land grab would dry up tax revenue that’s essential for funding schools, firehouses and community centers. See Agenda 21

July 2011

Execuctive Order 13575 "RURAL COUNCILS" Agenda 21 NWO: "...the Executive Order states that the council will 'make recommendations to the President, through the Director of the Domestic Policy Council and the Director of the National Economic Council, on streamlining and leveraging Federal investments in rural areas...." See  The Habitat II Agenda

FDA Says: Drinking This Natural Food is a Crime: "'If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?' [Ron] Paul was talking about the FDA ban on the interstate sale of raw milk... milk that has not been pasteurized" [-the kind we always drank in Norway and which never made us ill]

Does The New ‘White House Rural Council’ = UN’s Agenda 21?: "On June 9, 2011, President Obama signed his 86th Executive Order....E.O 13575 is designed to begin taking control over almost all aspects of the lives of 16% of the American people. [Ponder the new policy:]

      '"Section 1. Policy. Sixteen percent of the American population lives in rural counties. Strong, sustainable rural communities are essential to winning the future and ensuring American competitiveness in the years ahead.... The Federal Government has an important role to play in order to expand access to the capital necessary for economic growth, promote innovation, improve access to health care and education, and expand outdoor recreational activities on public lands.'

     "Warning bells should have been sounding all across rural America when the phrase 'sustainable rural communities' came up. As we know from researching the UN plan for Sustainable Development known as Agenda 21, these are code words for the true fundamental transformation America." But how will burdened farmers and other tax-payers pay the extra costs -- especially in light of our government's massive debt?

May 2011

FEMA to confiscate food from local farms in emergencies? "Since our nation's founding the federal government has, in times of emergency, claimed extra-constitutional powers and authority. Under the guise of acting in the public's best interests, Washington has taken away privacy rights, free speech, and habeas corpus, among others....With that in mind, would it surprise you to find out that if disaster strikes in your part of the country, the federal government is prepared to take over local food supplies, in part by confiscating farms?" See The UN Plan for Food

February 2011

FDA claims walnuts are drugs: "The FDA warned Diamond that [b]ecause of these intended uses, your walnut products are drugs... Therefore…they may not be legally marketed....Additionally, your walnut products are offered for conditions that are not amenable to self-diagnosis and treatment by individuals who are not medical practitioners; therefore, adequate directions for use cannot be written so that a layperson can use these drugs safely."

October 2010

Food crisis forecast: "Rising food prices and shortages could cause instability in many countries as the cost of staple foods and vegetables reached their highest levels in two years, with scientists predicting further widespread droughts and floods.... Although food stocks are generally good despite much of this year's harvests being wiped out in Pakistan and Russia, sugar and rice remain at a record price."

August 2010

More regulation-happy Obama czars: "Obama has appointed another czar from Chicago: the new food czar, Sam Kass.... Everybody laughed when Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., asked Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan if it would be constitutional for Congress to order Americans 'to eat three vegetables and three fruits every day.' Kagan declined to give a straightforward answer, maybe because she knew that exactly that type of dictatorial mandate was coming....

     "Czar Berwick is on record as saying, 'Excellent health care is by definition redistributional.' He used this favorite Obama term in the context of praising Britain's socialized medicine system as 'a global treasure.'" See Unalienable Rights?

How Obama Is Locking Up Our Land: "White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. ... 'Property owners have every reason to be worried." The UN Plan for Food and Land

July 2010

Raids are increasing on farms and private food-supply clubs: "When the 20 agents arrived bearing a search warrant at her Ventura County farmhouse door at 7 a.m.... Sharon Palmer didn't know what to say. This was the third time she was being raided in 18 months, and she had thought she was on her way to resolving the problem over labeling of her goat cheese that prompted the other two raids. (In addition to producing goat's milk, she raises cattle, pigs, and chickens, and makes the meat available via a CSA.) ...

     But her 12-year-old daughter, Jasmine, wasn't the least bit tongue-tied. ...'She said, 'If you take my computer again, I can't do my homework.' This would be the third computer we will have lost. I still haven't gotten the computers back that they took in the previous two raids." See SWAT Team conducts food raid in rural Ohio

Europe's scrambled-egg policy -- Label laws are evidence of the nanny state gone wild: "The EU is in the midst of revising requirements for food labels across its 26 member countries so that various weight-based nutritional information would be available on all packaging. The changes are being made in the name of forcing the public to 'eat healthy' and to 'combat obesity.' Early proposals also called for a traffic light to be printed on food packaging on which a green light would represent good food, and red would represent a disfavored item."

EU to ban selling eggs by the dozen: "British shoppers are to be banned from buying eggs by the dozen under new regulations approved by the European Parliament. For the first time, eggs and ­other products such as oranges and bread rolls will be sold by weight instead of by the number contained in a packet."

May 2010

Congress just getting warmed up: "...Democratic lawmakers promise the best is yet to come. S.510, the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2010, requires federal definition of 'food,' federal certification of 'food' before it can be sold (even from a farmers' market), federal licensing of food growers (formerly known as farmers), processors and sellers – all in the name of 'food safety,' of course, and funded by a new food tax (VAT tax?).... According to Obama, you only have the right' to food the government chooses." But apparently we continue to import unchecked contaminated food and medicines from China.

New 'safety plan' would control what you eat: "Critics say a bill pending in the U.S. Senate would do for Americans' food supply what 'Obamacare' is doing to the nation's supply of health-care resources. And it's generating a surge of alarm among small-farm operators and natural food advocates. 'S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the U.S.,' writes Steve Green..."

March 2010

Bubbles Boil Into Trouble: "Like many of his neighbors, farmer Tony Goltstein has to deal with the aftermath of the dairy bubble. But besides his mounting financial troubles, Mr. Goltstein also must contend with bubbles the size of small houses that have sprouted from the pool of manure at his Union Go Dairy Farm. Some are 20 feet tall, inflated with the gas released by 21 million gallons of decomposing cow manure. But he has a plan. It requires a gas mask, a small boat and a Swiss Army knife.”

February 2010

Feds move against farmer – for having cows! "U.S. Food and Drug Administration agents have demanded to inspect a Pennsylvania farm described by its owner as private, arguing, 'You have cows. You produce food for human consumption.' The confrontation developed just days ago at a farm near Kinzers, Pa., belonging to Amish farmer Dan Allgyer.... The agents 'drove past Allgyer's 'No Trespassing' signs and up his driveway almost to his barn, where Allgyer happened to be outside.'....After Allgyer said, 'This is a private farm, I do not sell anything to the public,' the agents accused him of refusing an inspection....

      "...in a previous U.S. case, Mennonite farmer Mark Nolt of Maryland had his farm raided by SWAT-type agents. He was fined more than $4,000 and had his equipment confiscated for providing raw – or unpasteurized – milk to participants in his program. ....a participant concluded, 'The food produced on that farm is probably far safer than anything you get at the grocery store.'

     "As someone that lives in Pennsylvania in the Amish farmland, I find this story to be horrifying. Our state legislator is working very hard to protect and encourage organic farming in Pennsylvania and then this … happens which totally undermines all his hard work."

November 2009

Summit disappoints UN food chief: "The head of the UN food agency, Jacques Diouf, says he is not satisfied with the final declaration of the UN world food summit in Rome.... Mr Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said he ....regretted the absence of a deadline for the total eradication of world hunger - referring to the UN Millennium Development Goal deadline of 2025. ... 'I am not satisfied that some of the concrete proposals I made were not accepted. There was no consensus on this and I regret it."

      How can a firm deadline be set when the outcome depends on numerous uncertain factors: African politics, corruption, the global economy, weather, China's African ventures, etc.?

October 2009

Food production 'must rise 70%': "Food production will have to increase by 70% over the next 40 years to feed the world's growing population, the United Nations food agency predicts. The Food and Agricultural Organisation says if more land is not used for food production now, 370 million people could be facing famine by 2050.... Climate change, involving floods and droughts, will affect food production.....

      "Food production would also have to deal with 'the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures [now proven to be crisis propaganda].... Climate change would reduce water availability and lead to an increase in plant and animal pests and diseases."

      [Actually "global warming" would cause more ocean water to evaporate, which would produce clouds and rain -- which in turn would hide the sun and cool the earth. That's the normal cycle -- which is separate from the 11-year cycle of sun spots and other natural cycles. Humans have nothing to do with it -- except to use deception to create a useful crisis.]  See Food Tactics

Media Bias. Time's lack of objectivity glaringly apparent in food article: "...Walsh’s story, 'Getting Real about the High Price of Cheap Food' is a classic case of stretching and bending the truth to prove a point. Walsh’s article purports to show that America’s abundant supply of cheap food comes at a high price to the environment, animals and humans. What it shows is how little Walsh and others who share his views know about farming and the economics of feeding a growing world population. ... The article concedes that Americans spend less than 10 percent of their incomes on food, but Walsh gives little credit to innovations by farmers. He claims a transition to more sustainable, smaller-scale production methods could be possible without a loss in overall yield....

      "...Walsh said Time is going away from objective reporting and moving toward becoming part of the conversation. He said he had heard opposing views to the opinions expressed in the article, but chose not to include them.

SWAT raid on food storehouse heading to trial: "A lawsuit brought by an Ohio family whose children were held at SWAT-team gunpoint while their food supplies were confiscated is scheduled to go to trial this week....The Stowers and their 10 children and grandchildren were detained in one room of their home for six hours while sheriff's officers confiscated 60 boxes of fresh farm food, computers, phones and records, including USDA-certified meat from the children's mini-farm, according to lawyers for the plaintiffs." S

September 2009

This month's set of links deal with regional food planning and control -- a local/national/international project justified as needed because of potential famine, social injustice, health safety, environmental threats, and need for more solidarity.

 

Mayor Newsom Announces Regional Food Policy for San Francisco and Several New Food Initiatives: "San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom today issued the first ever comprehensive food policy for San Francisco, and a sweeping action plan to make improvements to food that is available in the region. The plan, which Mayor Newsom issued through Executive Directive, aims to ensure that all regional residents have access to healthy food, and will have far reaching impact throughout Northern California..."

 

The American Planning Association [APA]: Our Mission. The American Planning Association is an independent, not-for-profit educational organization that provides leadership in the development of vital communities by advocating excellence in community planning, promoting education and citizen empowerment, and providing the tools and support necessary to meet the challenges of growth and change. ....

    "Our vision is of a nation of vital communities, fully accessible to all people, with: comprehensive plans implemented to create healthy, safe places to live and work; social, economic, and racial equity and integration; good public services are provided; decisions based on sustainability at all levels; good jobs available close to home; a quality education available to all students; quality, affordable housing available to all people."

  

APA Green Team: "...the American Planning Association has the opportunity to be a leader in promoting the sustainable use of Earth's resources. Practicing and demonstrating environmentally sound business practices can and should become an intrinsic part of APA's organizational culture that is apparent to our employees, members, and surrounding communities. The Green Team — an APA staff committee — wants to reduce APA's consumption of energy, natural resources, and manufactured materials, as well as its contributions to greenhouse gas emissions, other air and water pollution, and landfills."

 

Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning: "Food is a sustaining and enduring necessity. Yet among the basic essentials for life — air, water, shelter, and food — only food has been absent over the years as a focus of serious professional planning interest....The following are a few converging factors that explain the heightened awareness among planners that the food system is indeed significant:

~ Recognition that food system activities take up a significant amount of urban and regional land

~ Awareness that planners can play a role to help reduce the rising incidence of hunger on the one hand, and obesity on the other

~ Understanding that the food system represents an important part of community and regional economies

~ Awareness that the food Americans eat takes a considerable amount of fossil fuel energy to produce, process, transport, and dispose of

~ Understanding that farmland in metropolitan areas, and therefore the capacity to produce food for local and regional markets, is being lost at a strong pace

~ Understanding that pollution of ground and surface water, caused by the overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture adversely affects drinking water supplies

~ Awareness that access to healthy foods in low-income areas is an increasing problem for which urban agriculture can offer an important solution

~ Recognition that many benefits emerge from stronger community and regional food systems.

 

Teaching Food: Agriculture, Food and Society Syllabi and Course Materials Collection: "A Publication of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and the Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society....WEEK 13 A. 18 April, Preserving the Four F’s: Farmland, Farming, Farmers, Farms Guest: Adesoji Adelaja, Dean for Research, Cook College, Rutgers and Director, Regional Food Policy Research and Outreach Institute See ARTICLE

 

Cities Farming for the Future Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities: "The livelihood of a large number of people in cities in developing countries, especially the poor and women, depends completely or partly on urban agriculture. These agricultural activities take place in various parts of cities, both in the built-up area (in back yards, along streams and railway reservations, on vacant public or private land) as well as in the rapidly changing sub- and peri-urban areas.... Research undertaken in the last two decades indicates that urban agriculture has multiple roles and functions and plays an important role in:

• enhancing urban food security, nutrition and health;

• creating urban job opportunities and generation of income especially for urban poverty groups and provision of a social safety net for these groups;

• contributing to increased recycling of nutrients (turning urban organic wastes into a resource);

• facilitating social inclusion of disadvantaged groups and community development; and,

• urban greening and maintenance of green open spaces.....

     "For United Nation agencies and other international donor organisations, this publication provides some important directions to consider regarding the role of urban agriculture in the context of achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015. Experiences documented in this publication provide evidence of how local authorities deal with urban agriculture in the context of food security for the urban poor."

 

Food Systems Planning (scroll half way down the page): Food Systems Planning - Burnham Conference Center at APA • 122 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1600, Sponsor: American Planning Association Free event CM 1.0 For planners there is no better time than now to start thinking about where our food comes from, beginning with the farm and ending on our plates. With a global food crisis gaining momentum what role can planners play in both preservation and improvement of the food system? Lynn Peemoeller, co-chair of the Chicago Food Policy Advisory Council, will discuss the environmental, health, social justice, and policy implications of food, and she will share her perspective on how APA's Community and Regional Food Policy Guide informs the planner's role in the complex food system."

July 2009

Food Cops: Coming Soon to a Restaurant Near You? "Jacobson doesn't suggest you will die from drinking soda, but he does say you could get fat, and fat costs money: 'Americans spend about $90 billion a year in direct medical costs related to obesity, of which half is paid with Medicare and Medicaid taxpayer dollars.'... Soda also is bad... because 'we all need food, but no one needs soda' -- a product he calls 'liquid candy' and therefore 'uniquely worthless.'...

       "Solution? Tax them. A soda tax 'would promote health and reduce health care costs.'... The health-care angle rescues the soda tax from what otherwise might seem remarkable arrogance; without the cost argument, food cops like Jacobson sound as though they are setting themselves up in judgment over other people's personal choices. The cost argument transforms those personal decisions into public-policy questions: If you make poor dietary choices, then you are effectively raising taxes on other citizens by raising medical costs through Medicare, Medicaid.... Therefore, you should not be entirely free to make your own dietary choices. ...

       '"Hyper-palatable food,' as Kessler calls it, is carefully engineered toward the 'bliss point,' the point at which we get the greatest pleasure.... The food industry is 'design[ing] food for irresistability,' Kessler says. 'It's been part of their business plans.' In short: Food companies and restaurant chains work hard to make sure their offerings taste as good as possible. Shocking, isn't it?...  Big Government stepping in to protect the little guy from an evil industry that takes advantage of his ignorance and weakness.

      "The difference, of course, is that while Big Food can lure, entice, cajole, and seduce, it cannot coerce as government can.... Because government is taking care of your health, it has the right (they will say) to tell you how to eat. And you have a duty to obey." See The Pizza Choice Game

June 2009

The rising cost of health care explained: "I am a just retired Prof of Medicine from UCLA. .... When I started in Medicine there were few meds for high blood pressure and cholesterol, and type 2 diabetes was called 'maturity onset diabetes' because we only saw it in patients 50 years old. The American diet and Big Pharma have changed all that....

      "What’s to be done? ... For starters, every place that sells prepared food (both restaurants and deli’s) must have Heart Healthy® items identified. Let’s eliminate all trans-fats in the food supply.... Put a weight limit on people who can be admitted to restaurants and grocery stores. (imbed scales in the floor at all entrances) No ordering fast food by phone unless you have been certified by your doctor. Charge care-givers who continue to feed people who are too obese to get out of bed with felonious life endangerment.... You all will wear GPS bracelets to monitor compliance." See The Pizza Choice Game

A charity can't sell a pie? "Lawmakers introduced bills in the House and Senate recently that would prevent Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture inspectors from citing churches and other community groups for serving food that was prepared in home kitchens, a practice against the law in Pennsylvania. 'If church members can't prepare a home-cooked meal or dessert and take it to the church for fellow members or the local community to enjoy, what's next?" Remember: SWAT Team conducts food raid

April 2009