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tl;dr - leave my chickens alone

It goes without saying (which always precedes the saying) that the entire strategy of sovereignty transfer from national and notionally elected authorities to a centrist unelected and unaccountable authority is not merely wrongheaded but in fact a central plank of the one world totalitarianism ideology. But I want to pick out a niche concern that this proposed draft gives rise to.

The concern regards the power grab relating to control over animal husbandry and smallholders.

I appreciate that this appears at first to be of minor and minority concern to most of us when set against the entirety of the proposed transfer of control to nefarious transnational bodies. It is a minority concern but as an intentional “unintended” consequence of the proposal I think it’s significant. It is at least to me/us and to people like me/us. And it should be of concern to people who are not in our particular situation but might subsequently come to rely, or hope to, on people like me/us for food.

I’m pasting the three relevant sections extracted from the proposed EU amendments set out by James here…

B. Surveillance

Article B.1. - Pathogen surveillance and identification

1. Each Party shall within its territory develop, strengthen and maintain the capacity to detect, identify and characterize pathogens presenting significant risks, including pathogens in animal population presenting a zoonotic risks, and vector-borne diseases, and to assess as much as possible their likelihood to cause spread in human and animal populations and serious diseases leading to pandemic situations.

For this purpose the Parties shall ensure the cooperation and exchange of information among national and regional authorities responsible for surveillance. Such surveillance shall encompass livestock, companion animals, high-risk wildlife and vectors as defined by the Conference of the Parties.

Additional article to be introduced in Chapter IV expanding on Article 12(2):

Article I.1 - Enhancing and coordinating emergency preparedness and response measures

1. Parties shall endeavor to establish or designate emergency health teams at national and where appropriate regional level. Emergency health teams should be multi-disciplinary, based on a One Health approach, and ensure the essential functions and capacities for responding to a pandemic situation. Emergency health teams should include public health expertise and logistics support. The role of emergency health teams shall be to improve the timeliness, quality and coordination of health and emergency services.

Please indulge me for a moment whilst I outline our circumstances in order to add context to my ‘selfish’ concerns. In 2020 the origins of the food crisis were beginning to emerge. We (wife + me) made the decision to move away from our suburban life and lifestyle sustained economically through traditional employer/employee relationships to near complete independence on a remote off-grid homestead. In another country. To call what we bought an off-grid homestead is rather a grand exaggeration. It was a remote farmhouse needing extensive renovation with zero amenities but it did come with quite a large garden. A 950+ acre garden. Full of wild boar and deer.

Fast forward three years and we have electricity, water, heating, a functioning septic system, a roof that doesn’t leak (much), a growing vegetable garden with automated irrigation and a work-in-progress chicken rearing facility. It is this last feature, one that adds a particularly robust level of protein independence, that I believe is threatened by the proposed regulations in the WHO Treaty.

In this tiny part of the planet community collaboration and informal bartering is not just possible, it is baked into the culture. Everyone here is to a large extent self sustained, particularly when you factor in the collaboration. Hunting, fishing, cultivating, sheep, pig, chicken rearing all contribute to a healthy lifestyle for a large group of people and this is reflected elsewhere in similar clusters around the country. I suspect around the world.

The EU’s proposed amendments and additions to the treaty are carefully crafted. Whilst encompassing extremely broad and completely new powers with provision for those to be delegated to as yet undefined regional agency with unclear boundaries of authority they do not explicitly call out the specifics or scope of the regulatory control and interference they are intended to facilitate. For that you need to read between the lines.

They are going to come after my chickens. Before I even have chickens. Incidentally, they will, I suspect, eventually get around to coming after my guns. In the meantime ammunition is becoming more difficult to secure.

Around the world the egg shortage and subsequent market price hike highlights how significant this source of protein is to the majority, and how easily it can be manipulated. And the reasons for it are strangely disparate yet coincidental; a PCR test justification for mass culling, supply chain issues, laying efficiency decreases (I’m looking at you, BigAg and Big Pharma commercial animal feed suppliers).

Never before has the smallholder faced the prospect of regulatory interference at the local level predicated on a fake crisis, or potential crisis, being unilaterally and arbitrarily called by Tedros Ghebreyesus. And by regulatory interference I mean drone surveillance, forced entry and confiscation/destruction of private property on pain of criminal sanctions for non-compliance.

I fear we will never get to taste our own chicken or eggs, nurtured safely, happily and humanely through hard work and dedication to a sustainable lifestyle that hurts nobody. Instead we will be carolled towards the empty state run distribution centre where expensive nutrient free gruel will be rationed and exchanged for CBDC tokens. If we have been good.

Do not comply. Reject the treaty.

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Marguerite Rothe's avatar

The world plutocracy knew very well what it was doing by propelling a Tedros A. Gebreyesus to head the W.H.O.

I am reading the 47 pages of the French translation of the 100 reasons for: stopping the treaty, the amendments, leaving the WHO, and I am deeply shocked; it is neither more nor less a declaration of war against the peoples, against the human race.

Thank you James for the great work you are doing. God bless you.

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