BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government

BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government


(NaturalNews) 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.

source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/040214_seeds_European_Commission_registration.html