State Departments Of Agriculture Are Attempting To Regulate Seed Banks Out Of Existence

SeedsInSeedBankLast year, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture officials sent ‘a friendly letter’ to a seed bank/seed exchange group in Mechanicsburg, telling them they need to test every variety of seed with extremely impractical and pointless tests to ensure that they are up to standards with regulations.

‘Agri-Terrorism’ was cited by officials as a reason why such regulations should be enforced on something as natural as the right to exchange and possess seeds.

There are laws in every state regulating the possession and exchange of seeds. The actual enforcement of these laws is spotty, because a lot of law is actually too complex most often to even decode, and just about any crazy thing that was once written in law can be enforced if law enforcement wants to. Also, who wants to enforce laws regulating and stifling such a productive, natural right?

“There’s almost no danger,” said John Torgrimson, the executive director of the Seed Savers Exchange. “This is not a risk to agriculture in any state. This is not a risk to our food supply.”

Pennsylvania is not alone in this fight. Regulators in Nebraska are also looking at local seed banks.

David Svik, the head of Nebraska’s ‘Seed Control Office’, says he will ‘see how to proceed’ with the many seed banks of the state who are not complying with regulations.

To quote a farmer from Nebraska on the issue, Betsy Goodman, on her opinion: “Regenerating your own seed is a human right.”

In other words, the recent development here is that Nebraska state bureaucrats being paid to enforce laws that only benefit big agriculture, wish to proceed with severely limiting the ability for the people to do what they should fundamentally have a right to: collect and exchange seeds. They’re trying to proceed with enforcing regulations at any cost. This is fundamentally a move to help stifle the empowerment of these people with their agricultural practices.

Will there be a standoff? Will anyone be arrested, fined, or feel the force of the state over saving and trading seeds?

Hopefully we will not see the state inflict violence on peaceful people exercising their rights.

The only real ‘Agri-Terrorists’ that exist are corporations like Monsanto who influence laws like this, and bureaucrats paid to enforce and deal with the laws that inhibit people from taking action to be well off with their agriculture. It seems Big Agriculture corporations support these laws so that farmers will have to annually buy seeds that are patented GM or hybrid, instead of harvesting their own seeds to plant.

Maintaining our natural right to simply possess seeds and freely practice agriculture is something we absolutely need to do.

It’s an overall dangerous position for a society to be in, where most of us don’t know how to possess seeds, grow food, and survive without a Wal-Mart or Taco Bell. I think in the future this will become more painfully apparent, and people will start cultivating crops again. But when they do, will these Departments of Agriculture try to stifle it with laws? We must be opposed to these laws to the fullest in order to guarantee our simple right to be prosperous.

Please share this with as many people as possible, as it’s fundamentally important to be aware of developments in bureaucratic efforts to stifle our natural, basic rights.

Cassius Methyl writes for TheAntiMedia.org, where this first appeared. Tune-in to The Anti-Media radio show Monday-Friday @ 11pm EST, 8pm PST.

2 thoughts on “State Departments Of Agriculture Are Attempting To Regulate Seed Banks Out Of Existence

  1. This from the same people who give GMO’s a blank check to poison and destroy our food supply is a joke to say the least . To grant permission to companies who knowly poison and destroy healthy seeds and demand ,that we be made to regulate natural nature made seeds is beyond belief. Its speaks volumes of there willingly allowing lab made poison to freely contaminate the real seed and so by are granting this murdering of real food to be shoveled off to the mass population while they stop good natural seeds to some phoney rules and false regulations. They are aiding these killer poisoners while demanding that we eat the crap.I bet they don’t eat GMOs . When they eat the crap then and only then should we allow ourselves to be bullied into willingly eating it.

  2. Here is the perfect example for the people to exercise their God given Rights under the U.S. Constitution and DEREGULATE the Regulators and PUT THEM OUT OF BUSINESS.
    And some of those employees, if not all of them, WILL face prosecution for the UNCONSTITUTIONAL Regulations they try to enforce against our will and our Rights on us.

    The evidence is overwhelming as to their treachery AGAINST our very lives and ecology.
    We the People had better do our CIVIC DUTY to take control of our OWN lives and remove this entire administration of employees, from the police officer up to and including the USURPER in the White House and his TRANSVESTITE “wife” and replace them with citizens of service to others.
    We have this POWER under the Declaration of Independence.

    No one will do this for us.
    Including our Galactic Brethren that is enforcing a ridiculous “Prime Directive” of non interference of our lives.
    Even though our DNA was corrupted by service to self entities long BEFORE the current Prime Directive was ever imposed unnecessarily upon us.

    Peace, Love & Light to All.

    Namaste.

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