The Telegraph: Michelle Obama’s organic garden angers US farming companies

“But every man should produce his own food. That is Vedic culture. You get a piece of land and produce your family’s foodstuff.”
Bhagavad-gita 13.35
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Geneva, June 6, 1974
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The Telegraph: Michelle Obama’s organic garden angers US farming companies
Michelle Obama’s decision to make her new White House vegetable garden entirely organic has angered America’s powerful agribusiness lobby who are urging the First Lady to consider the use of appropriate “crop protection products”.

THE TELEGRAPH
| 23 Apr 2009

Mrs Obama started work on the kitchen garden with a gang of schoolchildren last month. Media coverage of the first White House food plot since Eleanor Roosevelt “dug for victory” in the Second World War garnered media coverage across the world.

But to the consernation of Big Ag, Mrs Obama has said the project will not use chemical products to tackle pests or give her plants a boost, the Times reports.

Shortly after the digging began, Mrs Obama received a letter from the Mid-America CropLife Association (MACA), which represents the companies producing the pesticides and fertilisers underpinning “conventional” American agriculture, the paper said.

Addressed to “Mrs Barack Obama”, the letter congratulated the First Lady on “recognising the importance of agriculture in America”. Farming is America’s largest industry, generating 20 per cent of GDP and directly or indirectly employing 22 million people.

The letter avoiding the term “organic”, highlights the role of technological advances – technologies that can see a single acre produce almost 20 tonnes of strawberries of 110,000 heads of lettuce in a season – in modern agriculture.

“Today, an average farmer produces enough food to feed 144 Americans who are living longer lives than many of their ancestors. Technology in agriculture has allowed for the development of much of what we know and use in our lives today,” MACA wrote.

“If Americans were still required to farm to support their family’s basic food and fibre needs, would the US have been leaders in the advancement of science, communication, education, medicine, transportation and the arts?

“We live in a very different world than that of our grandparents. Americans are juggling jobs with the needs of children and ageing parents. The time needed to tend a garden is not there for the majority of our citizens, certainly not a garden of sufficient productivity to supply much of a family’s year-round food needs.”

The carefully-worded letter also “respectfully” encourages Mrs Obama to recognise the role played by conventional agriculture in feeding America’s growing population.

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  1. At the same time, the US bankster take-over dictating demonic gov’t is making so many moves to shut down small farming, including arresting people for selling whole cow’s milk and produce that is not within their control systems gridlock. For examples; They are harrassing the Amish. They are requiring so many honerous licenses, such as one needs a heavy duty equipment license now to drive farm machiney, a function normally covered by the farmers sons. These licenses can cost thousands to obtain. And, all such equipments will require regular inspections by gov’t agency now; making it virtually impossible for most small farms to survive due to the growing costs. All animals now require expensive licenses, for each and every animal. Making many home farming operations non profitable, but the big corporations, such as Thompson, have been exempted, in that they buy one license for their whole operation, a gift not allowed for the private farmers, making them uncompetitive, and thus they must sell their land to the big corporations. Large farming operations owned by globalist agents are exempt from many of these restrictions placed on individuals and small farms in America.

    In short, the powers that be want us all eating GMO, genetically modified foods, foods they have arranged for us, having taken over control of all food producing ands growing facilities. By the way, the Queen and other elitists never ever eat any GMO foods, strictly organic. Nor do they drink fluoride, which has been proven as poisonous as arsenic especially as it accumulates and causes cancer, thyroid problems, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, thus an early medecine requiring death, etc., this shown now by many studies. Your corporation farm food is coated in fluoride pesticides and has rich aluminum content.

    Monsanto is designing aluminum resistant crops while the UN is spraying alumimum all over the planet in the name of geo-engineering, this effecting the quality and growth of the crops and poisoning the population with Alzheimers-inducing, immune system-crashing, aluminum ions; chemtrails.

    Monsanto’s GMO DNA frankenfood genes have now spread to virtually all crops worldwide, and are recombining in unforseen ways. Many controlled studies show that animals fed GMO foods, the first generation sickens and dies young, the second generation is dumbed down, malformed, has reproductive difficulties, and is ill, dies young, the third generation is sterile and malformed, born with weird birth defects, and they cannot reproduce. They are all then dead. We expect the same results with humans, and are seeing some of the results now. It appears to be a madmans’ program of eradication.

    The same monied interests who starved tens of millions to death in Russia during the early days with Stalin etc, and similarly in India WW11 under British rule, have stated the need to reduce the world’s population to 500 million in order to control us. The UN has stated that control of the world’s food supplies is one of its intended methods to achieve the population reductions.

    So, one can say correctly we ARE ALL ALREADY MURDERED by Monsanto and the globalist demonic takeover agendas; the SAME BUNCH who issued agents and arsenic in 1977.

    None of this is imagination nor conjecture, but is factual and scientific-evidence based. I issue this warning to all the devotees; please note and act accordingly, may Lord Krsna help us all !
    Tamoharadasa, MSc.

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