Has the GMO Food and Drug Pushers Administration sent forth another volley in their war on whole foods and self-sufficiency?
We all know that the FDA is present to further the agendas of Big Food and Big Agri as opposed to protecting the best interests of consumers, and rumor has it that their most recent antic is a crackdown on LDS canneries.
If so, then we can all rest easy now, knowing that, at least east of the Mississippi, those scary Latter Day Saints can no longer provide the means to preserve food for people to take home with them.
Kellene Bishop of Preparedness Pro posted this update on Facebook on May 3:
While there have been rumors for several months that this would happen, it’s now official!
ALL LDS Canneries east of the Mississippi will no longer be canning any food. The FDA, in their infinite, expert opinions–said with the greatest of sarcasm–has managed to FINALLY create such a set of conditions which are impossible for the LDS Church to comply with. (Given the financial standing of the LDS Church it’s clear that this isn’t a monetary issue and since they have been seriously committed to helping others be self-sufficient at great sacrifice to themselves for decades, it’s clearly not a lack of commitment.)
I’m sure the FDA is mighty proud of themselves for FINALLY coming up with sufficient conspiring to get this done. They are clearly intent on stopping from ANY purchasing in bulk within two years in the LDS Canneries. At this point the LDS Canneries in SLC will need to pre-package foods and then send them East. So that means that more and more LDS members are going to need to volunteer to keep up with the workload.
Prepare while you can, folks, cause you never know when “They” will change your plans.
Interestingly, the Mormon newspaper Deseret News has denied that this is the case and says nothing of FDA regulations. In an article refuting the claims that the canneries were no longer going to be providing canning facilities, they said that the canneries were being “tweaked”. This is directly at odds to the story that Bishop posted on Facebook. Or is it? The LDS makes this confusing claim:
“Over time, we will be reducing the number of facilities where the packaging of dry goods occurs,” LDS spokeswoman Ruth Todd said Monday. However, she added, the church’s “home storage centers will offer the same or additional commodities in pre-packaged form, at no additional cost.”The church is not closing canneries and is not limiting the variety of goods available to church members,” she said. The only thing being reduced over time is the number of locations at which members can purchase bulk food and can it themselves onsite.
Bishop responded to the article with numerous first-person reports from LDS members across the country, who claim that they are no longer able to can food themselves at the canneries due to government regulations. The stories shared by the members are all very consistent, and point towards excessive regulations. Some canneries will lend the equipment out to people, but the canning is no longer able to be done on-site. You can read these comments HERE.
The LDS has long been admired in prepper circles for the teachings that people should have a years worth of food stored up, as well as helping church members and others make this happen, through websites, free e-book downloads, and famously, the LDS canneries. The LDS canneries are facilities across the US and Canada where people can go and use the equipment at no charge to preserve long term storage food.
There is a definite trend in recent years of people being regulated right out of the ability to be self-sufficient. Whether it is the harassment against those who grow their own food in their own front yard, the proclaimed illegality of collecting rainwater, or the crackdown on small farms, the FDA and other government agencies are there to keep us safe from these villains, complete with SWAT teams and armed raids. Meanwhile, they allow Big Food carte blanche to use neurotoxic additives and market the products containing them as healthy. They allow Monsanto to sell untested GMOs. Despite the fact that independent scientists have found plenty of evidence that GMOs cause organ failure, cancer, and death, they refuse to listen to our pleas for labels, at the very least, so we can know exactly what it is we’re consuming.
But by golly, they’ll shut down those raw milk dairies. They’ll put the lockdown on those canneries. They’ll destroy heritage livestock and pour bleach on organic food.
Do you feel safer yet?
I am so tired of being protected ( i.e. controlled ) by our government.
I noticed something when I visited Africa a decade ago. While there I was told to be very careful where and what I ate. Seems that food illnesses that would kill us U.S. visitors only made those natives very ill and (BTW, I don’t recall anyone who had allergies hay-fever either.)
If we have a massive collapse over here we are so screwed. We have been so over-protected from germs that our immune systems sucks. Besides the lack of medicine that will kill people because they suddenly run out of it (diabetes heart etc), the amount of deaths from minor food poisoning will skyrocket simply because we have had out ultra sanitized environments for so long and cannot tolerate the most minor food borne contaminates.
Now, please understand that I am not accusing the LDS canneries of providing contaminated food or food canning processes. In fact just the opposite. Were one near, I would have been using them or at least learning from them to do this myself.
Just saying that the idea that we need protecting from these folks is a load of BS of the highest order.
It’s merely as you mentioned in your article here, an avenue for the federal government to force control on us.
It’s quite that simple.
Thanks for the article.
Barlow ~
I completely agree with everything you said in your comment.
I know that my kid, playing out in the dirt and having to come in and use the nailbrush to get her hands clean, resists illness far better than the other kids in her class. She still gets sick sometimes but not to the same extent or for as long as the other kids. I believe it is because she is not as sheltered. There are a few kids that are into hunting, fishing and hiking and they are likewise, very healthy.
We’ve been coddled to the point of weakness.
Daisy
When they came out with those hand sanitizers and what was it, that Dawn ultra or something with the germ killing stuff? Then the media blitz went on and on and on for almost a year that the germs were going to kill us all!!!
My deceased husband came home with a bottle of the stuff and I went off on a tirade. “They’re trying to kill our immune systems with that junk and I won’t have it in our house! What! If they told you to jump off a bridge would you do it?”
I’m skeptical of just about anything the media or government says. It is usually NOT in anybody’s best interest.
And this crackdown on LDS canneries may also be a matter of their canneries being overloaded by people trying to prep…you’ve got to admit there are an awful lot of people trying to get prepared.
Barlow wrote: “I don’t recall anyone who had allergies hay-fever either”
My own experiment has shown allergies are simply a vitamin or mineral deficiency. Nothing more.
I only have two samples which show this is true, it’s enough for me, but not the FDA.
Speaking of the FDA, have you seen this run down of The Culture of Death at the FDA?:
https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/the-medical-cartel-too-big-to-fail-too-evil-to-expose/
I sometimes volunteer at the Lindon, UT cannery. We now have the FDA inspectors there all of the time. They are just looking for reasons to shut us down.
I wonder how often and how well they inspect commercial plants?
I would not doubt that they are taking photos with hidden cameras. I haven’t looked recently at DHS’s list(s) of things to look for regarding domestic terrorists…. missing fingers, paying with cash, …. etc. They have multiple lists for certain areas. But generally speaking, self-sufficiency puts you on “the list(s).”
Toss that in with the facial recognition and boom…. an instant database on-hand if they ever want to round up people.