Your external source had this:
The current crop of international criminals wishes to reduce the world to one large feudal system. Such a notion endured for many centuries before. Could they really believe such is possible? Could they really pull it off? In this last regard, history does not speak in our favor.
Can they pull it off? They are certainly trying.
The IMF and the World Bank blackmail debt-ridden governments into eliminating high tariffs and systematically dismantling government support of family farming, thereby sacrificing national food self-sufficiency. The new regulations imposed upon governments, originate with the WTO's AoA, and involve traceability, “Good Farming Practices”, "depopulation" and “disease free status”. The "Global Diversity treaty" and life patents lets Transnational Ag steal and patent food. These regulations are designed to complete the demise of privately owned farms. A member of the World Bank executive board described this as “unprecedented thoroughgoing interventionism.” Deborah Bryceson of Oxford calls it “de-peasantization”–the phasing out of traditional family farms to make fertile farmland available for intensive capital accumulation using large-scale commercial farming.
excerpts from “The Battle to Save the Polish Countryside” by Sir Julian Rose
“....Jadwiga and I were able to address a meeting with the Brussels-based committee responsible for negotiating Poland’s agricultural terms of entry into the EU....
After clearing her throat and leaning slowly forward, the chair-lady said: “I don't think you understand what EU policy is. Our objective is to ensure that farmers receive the same salary parity as white collar workers in the cities. The only way to achieve this is by restructuring and modernising old fashioned Polish farms to enable them to compete with other countries agricultural economies and the global market. To do this it will be necessary to shift around one million farmers off the land and encourage them to take city and service industry jobs to improve their economic position. The remaining farms will be made competitive with their counterparts in western Europe.”
There in a nutshell you have the whole tragic story of the clinically instigated demise of European farming over the past three decades. We protested that with unemployment running at 20 percent how would one provide jobs for another million farmers dumped on the streets of Warsaw? This was greeted with a stony silence,...a lady from Portugal...remarked that since Portugal joined the European Union, 60 percent of small farmers had already left the land.
“The European Union is simply not interested in small farms,”... Jadwiga and I felt desperate to try and avert this tragedy. An uphill struggle ensued, which involved ... risking the wrath of the agribusiness and seed corporations who were gleefully moving-in behind the EU free trade agreements while a bought-out government stood aside. What these corporations want... is to get their hands on Poland’s relatively unspoiled work force and land resources. They want to, acquire their capital cheaply and flog the end products of Polish labour to the rest of the world for a big profit....
Farmers, however, stand in the way of land acquisitions; so they are best removed. Corporations thus join with the EU in seeing through their common goals and set about intensively lobbying national government to get the right regulatory conditions to make their kill. Farmers...suddenly find themselves heavily controlled by EU and national officialdom brandishing that most vicious of anti-entrepreneurial weapons: ‘sanitary and hygiene regulations’ - as enforced by national governments at the behest of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. These are the hidden weapons of mass destruction of farmers and the main tool for achieving the CAP’s aim of ridding the countryside of small- and medium-sized family farms and replacing them with monocultural money-making agribusiness. Source: www.i-sis.org.uk...
In January 2009 American farms will be forced to register Premises ID and give GPS land coordinates with the government. Then comes Animal and Veggie tagging and tracking systems. "Good Farming Practices" are already incorporated in some livestock contracts that shift all liability and court costs from the meat processor to the farmer. The Safe and Secure Food Act of 2005 (failed) was the first attempt to get Good Farming Practices" made law. It failed so now we have food scares and a NGO of "concerned citizens" (only those who can pay very high dues) to try again.
