Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Most of this is coming from the European parliament in recent years Paul but 
I have the impression that these regulations are also rife at least in the 
US and Australia. So far we can refuse to have our children vaccinated here 
although if an unvaccinated child should develop problems from a traditional 
disease the government probably will come down on the parents like a ton of 
bricks. Home schooling children is extremely difficult here for the 
government has the idea that children are the property of the nation and 
have little to do with the parents.
Then again it would be highly unlikely that a child would be removed from 
the parents by a squad team or that a gardener would have his allotment 
destroyed by military force as I see happening in the States almost daily.

I think all this is a symptom of globalisation and the super rich sucking 
regular people dry while trying to make them life long customers of the 
disease industry. As the banker said to the doctor : "I'll keep them poor 
and you keep them sick". What other reason could there be for our "Codex 
alimentarius" that makes it virtually impossible to purchase vitamins or 
food supplements while at the same time trying to exterminate medicinal 
plants.

I could say a lot more about all this but that might not be smart since 
everything we write is read by the powers that be. I  am not prepared to 
take all the sh't they throw at us and if need be I'll defend what I think 
is right with my life. In the last few years I have began to think it might 
really come to that.

John



I had no idea, John. Who made these laws - British parliament? Absentee
landlords? Same crowd that engineered the famous famine?

paul

On 5/29/2014 5:40 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> Insanity is right. And most definitely they are trying to destroy 
> everything people depend on because this makes you dependent on them and 
> forces you to become a good consumer.
>
> For instance : Spreading compost is illegal within 20 meters of any farm 
> track, any hedge or the smallest water course (of which we have many miles 
> on the land) but it is allowed to spread chemical fertilizer in all these 
> places. We make our own compost but chemical fertilizer we would have to 
> buy. I think that explains it all. But the same goes for almost anything. 
> It is now illegal to fell a tree with a chainsaw. You now have to go 
> follow a week long course costing $ 4 T. Then you get a license to go 
> felling any tree you want.
> You can no longer repair storm damage to your own house. First you have to 
> follow a course to get a license costing a few thousand and then you need 
> a plan made up by an architect. And after the repairs the architect needs 
> to sign that the repairs were according to all regulations. And that costs 
> more thousands.
> It is now illegal to have any plants on the land, even natives, that might 
> just possibly be used for medicinal purposes.
>
> It is obvious that the great idea is to make people completely impotent to 
> help themselves in any way.
> John
>
> Well I don't understand what's going on there. Is the govt trying to
> destroy everything people depend on? Trees & shrubs? A crime? Insane.
>
> On 5/29/2014 4:43 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> > I know Paul but being really organic is a war in the EU. Have been 
> > breaking regulations for a long time and we have severely suffered for 
> > it. We get fined (almost $ 10 T last year alone) for having trees and 
> > shrubs on the land as just one example out of hundreds. Most neighbours 
> > rectified that by setting fire to all their shrubs and trees and they 
> > don't get fined. Doing what is right makes it very difficult to survive 
> > financially.
> > Imo we (all of us) are in an ever faster race to the bottom and I have 
> > not been able to do much to stop that. I am absolutely certain that I 
> > have sequestered thousands of tons of carbon (while breaking lots of 
> > regulations) in my soil over the years but all around me I have seen 
> > millions of tons go up in smoke and more millions of tons being washed 
> > away by rain water.
> > John
> >
> >
> > Looking at the actual press release
> > http://rodaleinstitute.org/reversing-climate-change-achievable-by-farming-organically/
> >
> > Forget regulations; the govt program is DOA far as I'm concerned. The
> > actual organic practices are the key. Organic properly understood is the
> > right way and economically necessary and doable in and of itself. I do
> > it because it works, and go beyond it with intensive methods based on
> > agroecology. The methods are what sequesters carbon - not phony baloney
> > regulations.
> >
> > paul
> >
> > On 5/29/2014 3:26 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> >
> > _________________
> > > True Paul but as an organic farmer I saw first hand all the regulations 
> > > that make this impossible in practice.
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > > this is big.
> > >
> > > Organic Farming ‘Could Sequester All Carbon Emissions’
> > > http://www.environmentalleader.com/2014/05/27/organic-farming-could-sequester-all-carbon-emissions/
> > >
> > > Regenerative Organic Agriculture and Climate Change
> > > http://rodaleinstitute.org/regenerative-organic-agriculture-and-climate-change/

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