This came up some time ago. It appears that parliament just won't let this go, DESPITE THE FACT THAT THERE IS OVERWHELMING PUBLIC OPPOSITION TO THIS INTERFERENCE!!!!

The lastest one is absolutely horrible, I don't have time to go into it right now, so here are some links:

This is the most important one, it covers the Bill itself:

Food Bill 160-2 (2010), Government Bill – New Zealand Legislation

And New food bill in New Zealand takes away human right to grow food - Ecobob Forums

Craving Fresh: What's wrong with NZ's Food Bill?

New Zealand Food Bill 160-2 | Family Integrity

We have had some "assurances" from "ministers", saying things like "but we won't really do that stuff" and "we might modify it". The answer to this seems to be that if they do intend to modify the Bill, why then are they presenting us with this horror, why not modify it FIRST? Actually, the big mystery remains: Why have this silly legislation in the first place? It is most certainly not needed. Maybe it provides justification for otherwise unemployable bureaucrats and control freaks.

For instance, the Bill provides for "officers" to smash their way into your house looking for .... gasp .... carrot seeds.

I have so many questions and there are NO answers out there at all.

Here is an on-line petition on this:

http://www.petitiononline.co.nz/peti...ill-160-2/1301

It already has nearly 24,000 signatures, it could have more. We're aiming for two million.

And here is the an EXCELLENT article on this:

Food, illegal? Not in my back yard. « NZ Food Security

The video is brilliant! Don't make the mistake of thinking "oh that won't happen here" - that sort of thinking is for people who live in "cloud cookoo land". It WILL HAPPEN EXACTLY LIKE THAT!!!!

Not this statement: If the bill is going to be passed anyway, what can we do? And, going by previous experience, it probably will be.

And here is an article pointing out that it is an international (for this read UNITED NATIONS) DEMAND!

(Why the NZ parliament thinks that we've got to always comply with the evil of the UN, I can never figure out)

» NZ food bill to make growing food a government privilege rather than a human right Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

NZ FOOD BILL TO MAKE GROWING FOOD A GOVERNMENT PRIVILEGE RATHER THAN A HUMAN RIGHT!

Eeek! "Government privilege", they've already tried to make driving, smoking, raising children, educating your kids, etc. etc. etc. a "government privilege. Are you going to put up with this as well?

Read the Bill itself and find out that it is really is just as horrible as I've said and there is no "storm in a teacup".