Snippet from the article showing how much the USDA cares...
Case in point: In December 2020, a scientific committee, composed of 20 academics and doctors, recommended cutting the limit for added sugars in the diet to 6% of daily calories from 10% in the current guidelines. The group compiled a massive trove of data and presented this request to the USDA citing rising rates of obesity and the link between obesity and health problems like Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.
To be clear, you need absolutely 0% of your diet to be comprised of sugar but this panel seemingly knew the USDA — who hands out billions of taxpayer dollars to companies who specialize in addicting Americans to sugar — would never get behind a recommendation against all sugar. So, they offered a slight concession.
This scientific committee asked for a measly 4% drop in the USDA's recommended sugar intake in foods — providing 835 pages of evidence showing the horrifying effects it is having on children and adults — and the USDA refused.
“The new evidence is not substantial enough to support changes to quantitative recommendations for either added sugars or alcohol,” Brandon Lipps, deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the USDA told the Wall Street Journal at the time.
In December of 2020, it was clear that excessive sugar intake was connected to comorbidities like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and obesity — all of which drastically increased complications from a COVID-19 infection. Yet the USDA — who pretends to care about your health — refused to budge in the slightest.
Now, this same organization is claiming that it wants you to register your vegetable garden so it can place you in a database and put your healthy food source on a map — for your health, of course. You also get a cool sign for your front yard too.
Anyone stupid enough to register their garden deserves to starve. Remember when stores pulled seeds off the shelves, even in "essential businesses" during Cohen 19?
USDA in 2yrs: "You gotta license for those green beans? I noticed you didn't pay your crop tax last year so we'll be foreclosing your back yard and turning it into a shelter for underprivildged drug addicts"
Sorry; I lost my garden in an unfortunate boating accident.
Why does the USDA want you to add your local vegetable garden to a national database?
Same reason they want you to register your guns: they plan on coming after you at some point. I'm not giving the government any information voluntarily because it's always used against you. It wouldn't surprise me if they made growing food illegal. Or they want to know where they can steal vegetables when the infrastructure collapses. These fucks are our enemy. The sooner the sheep realize it, the better off society will be.
Fuck you USDA!
People who garden, typically are independent individuals who don't require government assistance. The government would surely like this list.
It would not at all surprise me if they start to monitor garden-related purchases made with credit/debit and or online transactions if they do not do this in secret already. The garden registry is likely to gather the info on those who will actually comply (easy targets with a consistent food source for the taking). I agree with you, and I would not willingly give any info either; the fable of the grasshopper and the ant comes to mind. If you work hard while those assholes choose to slack, then by all means they can starve.
Murderous fucking assholes.
Carbon footprint and equity taxes and adjustments. "Come on," they say, "we just want to know who's using an unfair amount of rainwater and who to blame for this excessive nitrogen runoff. It's only a few inspections and forms per year. You'll hardly notice the drones and surveyors. Our 10% is a pittance for peace of mind that you're on the right side of this pesky climate issue. It'd be a shame if someone were to report that gasoline-powered lawn equipment..."
I'll give you my zucchini when you pry it from my cold dead hands
I'd like to see their definition of vegetable garden.
My definition is Washington, D.C.
A number of folks have a great deal of experience planting clandestine gardens on federal and state lands.
Save your seeds. They might come in handy.
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