by Steve Cook

Our government shall undertake a crash program to achieve the goal of the maximum attainable degree of national self-sufficiency in food.

The degree to which the nation is free from dependency upon outside nations or corporate entities determines the nation’s liberty and independence.

Locally gown and produced food leaves a smaller carbon footprint than food that has to be shipped in from all over the planet.

As an aside, the same above two principles apply to all goods and services. Any government truly concerned about our impact upon the environment will do everything in its power to promote, foster, encourage and reward national and local self-sufficiency.

The national program of self sufficiency in nutritious food shall  include but not necessarily be limited to the following:

A lower or zero rate of tax on organic products (see the essay on the abolition of all overt or covert taxes and replacing them with a single purchase tax.)

A import tax on all imported goods where such goods can be produced locally. There would be no import tax on goods that cannot be produced locally (for example bananas and coconuts that cannot be grown in our climate).

Low-zero or zero-interest loans to farmers and (grants where feasible) to help them achieve economic viability, pay off their existing high- interest loans from banks and other usurers and so forth. Priority to be given to assisting farmers to transition to more environmentally-friendly farming methods (such as phasing out glyphosate and other toxic chemicals). Farms owned by corporate interests and international financiers through share ownership shall not be eligible for such loans and grants – priority shall be  given to family-owned farms.

A ban on the buying up of farms and farmland by large corporations.

There will at the same time be a scheme to provide low- or zero-interest mortgages to people buying their own homes (ie homes  bought for the correct purpose of living in them) or paying off existing mortgages and this scheme will also help farming families.

It is expected that by playing midwife to a food [r]evolution that will see the phasing out of non-nutritious, chemically contaminated food from the nation’s diet and chemicals from the land and environment, we shall enjoy the improved health of a better-nourished populace, which in turn will reduce the cost of  the health services.

At the same time the government shall encourage the populace to get involved (on a voluntary basis) in growing their own food through information and educational campaigns using the internet and also encouraging local authorities to make more allotmenteering facilities available to their citizens.

As a benign environmental measure, local authorities shall be encouraged to foster the planting of trees on all available land. Priority shall be given wherever possible to trees and bushes  that bear fruit such as apples, pears, plums, cherries etc. Such fruit will be made available for all citizens to pick for themselves a no charge.

South Korea has evidently had success with recycling up to 95% of its food waste. Its experience in that regard shall be studied, lessons larned from it and if deemed practicable and viable a similar scheme piloted in the UK. If the pilot produces desirable results, the scheme shall be extended to  the whole UK.

The citizens’ inalienable right to own and humanely nurture livestock such as cattle, chickens, ducks, sheep, goats etc shall be upheld in perpetuity.

The citizens’ inalienable right to own, produce, use, exchange or sell any seeds they wish shall be upheld in perpetuity.

Genetically modified crops shall be phased out and eventually banned. Heavy penalties shall be imposed on any persons using, planting or growing genetically modified crops which contaminate neighbouring farms. Likewise toxic chemical fertilisers and pesticides which contaminate neighbouring land or waterways.

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