Are we going to let corporations and governments own our food supply?

In Europe, a new battle looms over the availability and free exchange of seeds, joining the worldwide struggle against genetically modified (GM) organisms. What’s it all about? To paraphrase a famous saying, “It’s control of the food supply, stupid”.

Is there anything the EU won’t regulate?

We spend a lot of time looking at European uniion (EU) legislation here at ANH-Intl, so we’re well aware of just how numerous – and pervasive – the EU’s tentacles are. But even we were surprised at the scope of new legislation announced earlier this week. Put simply, what the European Commission (EC) is currently calling the ‘Animal & Plant Health Package’ (APHP) will regulate everything “from farm to fork”. In the EC’s own words: “This body of legislation is a complex, integrated system of rules which takes care of all the links in the food chain from: the protection of plants from pests, the protection of animals and humans from animal diseases (and from such diseases which are transmissible to humans) and the protection of human health from all the hazards that might arise along the agri-food chain. It also includes all those rules which allow the Single Market to function smoothly in this area and provides rules for the protection of consumers.”

Many of you will by now know that legislation that claims to protect the public is often more about governments developing a system of rules that effectively gives a handful of companies something close to a monopoly......................
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