Codex Aotearoa
This sort of thing has been blogged on before. What we have is an activist who talks of his PhDs at the beginning and is given to “absolutely”s and predictions of the direst consequences, a gilding-the-lily style of journalism I can’t abide … and then there is the issue itself.
The bottom line is that with the Codex Alimentarius, we have an attempt to regulate something where there is no desirable reason to regulate. At its most benign, it’s an attempt to corner the market in food – at its worst it is indeed an attempt to command and control. The wording is both meticulous, comprehensive and at the same time vague – i.e. it allows for interpretations by ministers of state.
The formula never seems to change. Create some minor or artificial crisis or if necessary, an outrage, bring in draconian legislation, leave it on the statute books until people have long forgotten it, quietly implement provisions you really wanted, using these statutes for your justification, notwithstanding your disdain for legitimacy anyway. You’re obsessed by legality but not legitimacy.
So while this emotional, almost hysterical reaction by the pundit ascribes all manner of horrors as a result of the legislation, thereby turning off a large proportion of the populace before he begins, it’s probably going to be this legislation plus all subsequent amendments which are really going to hit home long after it’s too late to change them.
Therefore, the time to change it is, as the author quite rightly says, now, whilst still in the implementation stage.
The greatest obstacle for the ordinary citizen is the tone and level of scholasticism of the pundit and the difficulty of the document itself:
How to stop the bastards? We just can’t and as Rossa says, it will tried out in this backwater first and if successful, will be rolled out in more mainstream nations – the globalists will be observing carefully and as dispassionately as a Dr. Mengele. One commenter wrote:
The key thing is seeds, as we’ve said many times. The bill bans the sharing of seeds as it stands, and Kate Wilkinson confirmed this (amazingly), she promised to amend it, but she has not it and will not. Why?
Yes, why do seeds need to be regulated? for whom? In practical terms, how can people formally protest and go through the process of hearings and court judgments to get it reversed? Then they bring in another raft and it starts all over again. There was success against the NAFTA and SPPNA but they’re now going the backdoor route, via the states. They never give up if temporarily stymied. Look at the regional assembly legislation in the UK.
There is only one answer and that’s to remove these people. Yet they’re legion, are they not and it runs right down into society and various people’s misguided ideas that it’s for the common good.
Depressing.
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I have recently bought some “heritage” seeds from a specialist supplier in Wales. These seeds come with instructions for taking and preserving seeds for future use, so the supplier appears to be encouraging seed sharing. Will this become illegal? What if I gave someone an apple from my tree and they threw the core into their garden and a tree subsequently grew? Would I be sued or could I sue them?
Oh, this is a wonderful opportunity to further criminalise everyone. John Cooper-Clarke wasn’t far wrong when he said “They’ve brought back hanging for everyone”. Bastards.
“Will this become illegal?”
It already is. I have also bought seeds from the same place and they are not supposed to sell their seeds to the general public because of EU regulations banning open pollinated and other heritage seeds that are not on the ‘approved’ list. They manage to get aound this by using 1p from your order to join their members’ club and that appears to get round the problem.
In view of the above post I decided to get in now and save my own seed rather than find that the hybrid versions and GM stuff impacts on our ability to grow our own. Be interesting to see if our own government/EU takes on the many back garden/patio and balcony food growers and allotmenteers. With things like Landshare which involves the National Trust encouraging people to grow their own food, they will have a steep hill to climb.
Yet another battleground to fight over.
Selling seeeds of varieties that have not been agreed is already illegal in the UK.
People have to share them to keep some older less commercial varieties going. There is nothing wrong with those seeds. just it is not worth anyone spending the money to get them certified because of the yeild.
Because of that law the UK law already massively threatens genetic diversity of its food plants.