Farms without Borders
by Kathy Czar
The Feb 26/09 article “Sale of Prairie Land to Foreigners” by East Central AB Review Editor BP Schimke, asked several important questions about off-shore farms in Canada.
One of the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency’s (ALMA) stated objectives is to “attract foreign investment that helps secure the long-term commitment of international customers.” Unfortunately, foreign countries are not interested in helping Albertans gain wealth at their expense.
As Schimke pointed out, most foreign countries are only interested in leasing or buying agriculture lands and controlling food production for themselves. This has been the path of agribusiness for some time: vertically integrate and control production from start to finish. This objective has become even more prominent since recent food shortages have shocked many densely populated countries, reminding them that feast and famine are only days apart.
ALMA, in my opinion, is only one of many fascist programs being implemented world-wide under the guidance and encouragement of the OIE (Organization International Epizoology or the World Organization for Animal Health): www.oie.int/eng/Edito/en_edito_apr08.htm [quote “New technologies in animal production, such as animal cloning and transgenic animals, will create a need for additional arrangements to trace animals. Under certain circumstances authorities would have to trace every individual animal and animal product derived from these novel production methods.”
The OIE is an organization of 172 member countries, including Canada and the USA; who have abandoned their nation’s sovereignty and given-over their animal health standards to this international body.
The OIE maneuvers in tandem with the Codex Alimentarius Committee. Most understand how the Codex laws will severely restrict consumer access to nutritional supplements; it is time consumers recognize that ALMA, with its OIE standards, could severely restrict access to animal protein.
The newly proclaimed Alberta Animal Health Act and its last minute regulations were not developed by Albertans for Albertans. They are OIE objectives which will enable member countries to increase their agricultural land base by controlling land within other nations, creating “farms without borders”.
Premise Identification (PID) is an OIE tool for removing control and possession of property from land and livestock-owners. Our property, our livelihoods, and our ability to feed ourselves are now restricted. Section 2 (5) of AB Regulation #200/2008 removes our God-given right to raise livestock on our private land without Government approval, (a standard OIE list of 28 recordable species).
Other issues surrounding ALMA and its USA counterpart, NAIS, are discussed in the article “Our Land Collateral for the Nation’s Debt” by long-time agric. radio host Derry Brownfield, http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield59.htm
Eventually all agricultural lands must be registered with a “unique premise identification number”, not just home-quarters. In the future whole townships of land may be turned over to faceless foreign corporations under their own unique PID. Their livestock, animal by-products, and their private vehicles to transport same, will flow seamlessly from one country/continent to another, with no concern about local economies.
While many cherish globalization, they neglect to realize that during a food crisis, we may find ourselves going hungry while the livestock and other food raised here in Canada/USA, is shipped off-shore for another population to consume. This may not happen tomorrow, but with the world population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, such scenarios are not unfathomable.
Schimke proposes many good questions about off-shore farm development on the prairies. Personally, I believe these important decisions have already been made, and strategies, like ALMA, have been implemented without our full understanding or informed consent, to better enable this foreign ownership.
Daniel Estulin’s book “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” has many answers.
Who’s making these decisions? Shouldn’t Canadians become better informed? Damn straight we should; better late than never.
YVT,
Mrs. Kathy Czar
Hanna, AB
by Kathy Czar
The Feb 26/09 article “Sale of Prairie Land to Foreigners” by East Central AB Review Editor BP Schimke, asked several important questions about off-shore farms in Canada.
One of the Alberta Livestock and Meat Agency’s (ALMA) stated objectives is to “attract foreign investment that helps secure the long-term commitment of international customers.” Unfortunately, foreign countries are not interested in helping Albertans gain wealth at their expense.
As Schimke pointed out, most foreign countries are only interested in leasing or buying agriculture lands and controlling food production for themselves. This has been the path of agribusiness for some time: vertically integrate and control production from start to finish. This objective has become even more prominent since recent food shortages have shocked many densely populated countries, reminding them that feast and famine are only days apart.
ALMA, in my opinion, is only one of many fascist programs being implemented world-wide under the guidance and encouragement of the OIE (Organization International Epizoology or the World Organization for Animal Health): www.oie.int/eng/Edito/en_edito_apr08.htm [quote “New technologies in animal production, such as animal cloning and transgenic animals, will create a need for additional arrangements to trace animals. Under certain circumstances authorities would have to trace every individual animal and animal product derived from these novel production methods.”
The OIE is an organization of 172 member countries, including Canada and the USA; who have abandoned their nation’s sovereignty and given-over their animal health standards to this international body.
The OIE maneuvers in tandem with the Codex Alimentarius Committee. Most understand how the Codex laws will severely restrict consumer access to nutritional supplements; it is time consumers recognize that ALMA, with its OIE standards, could severely restrict access to animal protein.
The newly proclaimed Alberta Animal Health Act and its last minute regulations were not developed by Albertans for Albertans. They are OIE objectives which will enable member countries to increase their agricultural land base by controlling land within other nations, creating “farms without borders”.
Premise Identification (PID) is an OIE tool for removing control and possession of property from land and livestock-owners. Our property, our livelihoods, and our ability to feed ourselves are now restricted. Section 2 (5) of AB Regulation #200/2008 removes our God-given right to raise livestock on our private land without Government approval, (a standard OIE list of 28 recordable species).
Other issues surrounding ALMA and its USA counterpart, NAIS, are discussed in the article “Our Land Collateral for the Nation’s Debt” by long-time agric. radio host Derry Brownfield, http://www.newswithviews.com/brownfield/brownfield59.htm
Eventually all agricultural lands must be registered with a “unique premise identification number”, not just home-quarters. In the future whole townships of land may be turned over to faceless foreign corporations under their own unique PID. Their livestock, animal by-products, and their private vehicles to transport same, will flow seamlessly from one country/continent to another, with no concern about local economies.
While many cherish globalization, they neglect to realize that during a food crisis, we may find ourselves going hungry while the livestock and other food raised here in Canada/USA, is shipped off-shore for another population to consume. This may not happen tomorrow, but with the world population expected to reach 9 billion by 2050, such scenarios are not unfathomable.
Schimke proposes many good questions about off-shore farm development on the prairies. Personally, I believe these important decisions have already been made, and strategies, like ALMA, have been implemented without our full understanding or informed consent, to better enable this foreign ownership.
Daniel Estulin’s book “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” has many answers.
Who’s making these decisions? Shouldn’t Canadians become better informed? Damn straight we should; better late than never.
YVT,
Mrs. Kathy Czar
Hanna, AB