[quote=TheBreeze]So maybe this is how we get to partypup’s nightmare scenario where the grocery stores run out of food:
HR 875, was introduced by Rosa DeLauro whose husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto.
The bill is monstrous on level after level – the power it would give to Monsanto, the criminalization of seed banking, the prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers, the 24 hours GPS tracking of their animals, the easements on their property to allow for warrantless government entry, the stripping away of their property rights, the imposition by the filthy, greedy industrial side of anti-farming international “industrial” standards to independent farms – the only part of our food system that still works, the planned elimination of farmers through all these means.
This development doesn’t surprise me at all. Very few on this board want to acknowledge it, but our government – and perhaps ALL world governments at this point – are preparing for and even enabling a massive die off of humans on the planet. Food will very shortly become more valuable than anything you can possibly imagine – even my precious gold 😉
Now, the question is: will people stand by and take this? I, for one, can honestly say that Obama’s Agri-Clowns will have to ply my leafy vegetables from my cold, dead hands. I don’t expect much out of life at this point, but the right to eat what I grow seems pretty fundamental to me. I just can’t see how they think they are going to be able to enforce this legislation, given that family farms are often in remote areas and the government’s resources will be decidedly limited. They can’t throw ALL of us into camps. And if the early days of Obama’s presidency provide any guide as to how effectively he can carry out policy, I think it’s a good bet that his administration will be too broke and inept to enforce much of anything. Which is good news.
Also (at the risk of being mocked), I would just like to note out that this legislation points to one of the many advantages of having several years of dehydrated organic food on hand. I currently have 3-4 years worth. No, it won’t last the rest of my life. But I suspect we will soon be living in a world in which every day will bring new challenges and demand new strategies. When my food runs out, I will just have to make new plans. We’re in uncharted territory, folks. May just have to make this s*** up as we go.
Lastly, is there ANYONE who still doubts that the two parties (Democrat and Republican) are now merely headless puppets for big business? How much clearer can it possibly be?
