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
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.
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