S.510 The Criminalization of Family Farms and of Self Sufficiency

H. R. 2749 The "Food Safety Modernization Act" has passed the House and is being considered by the Senate as S.510. Under the guise of "Food Safety" this act effectively would remove any right that any person has to grow and distribute food without going through a series of regulatory pay-offs which only the largest companies in the food industry could afford. A more appropriate name for this act would be, "The Criminalization of Family Farms and Self-Sufficiency Act".

Additionally, the Bill outlaws the keeping or distribution of any seed from which could grow any kind of food produce. It brings US food production and distribution into compliance with the World Health Organizations, "Codex Alimentarius", a codified system of control over global food production and distribution.

The key to whether this Bill will result in the ultimate centralized control of food production and distribution (the death of real self-sufficiency), or whether it is just a serious set-back in our ongoing struggle for freedom in America is this amendment: "To limit the traceback and recordkeeping requirements for facilities with adjusted gross incomes of less
than $500,000."

Here is what small farmers have to say about it, and this also.

Here is what is going on:

Somehow the sustainability people have caught onto something huge. Urban farming, sustainable, environmentally friendly agriculture, the organic foods movement- these movements are catalyzing a general self-sufficiency movement in the US. They have figured out that this huge, centralized, food distribution system is really inefficient, harmful to the environment, and not empowering to the average citizen, especially the lower classes. The movement is on the precipice of making self-sufficiency a centerpiece of 'social justice'. Read that again. Its really amazing.

Imagine that! Small family farmers (even in urban areas) being self-sufficient in terms of both finance and food, growing a product and selling it locally. From ghetto parasite to green entrepreneur in a single generation. I love it.

Those who benefit directly from the gigantic dysfunctional corpro-bureaucracy that is the centralized food production and distribution system are doing everything they can to kill the self-sufficiency movement before it really gains any ground.

That is what this Bill really is all about.

As Bob Marley sings: "Every time I plant a seed, He said kill it before it grow He said kill them before they grow..."



Listen to the lyrics, Bob Marley was a prophet....