They can screw themselves. We've been growing our own produce for the last few years, it saves tons of money and we have fresh ORGANIC lettuce, tomatoes, beans, carrots, onions, leeks, peas, beets, even potatoes, all grown at home in the yard, in containers, piles of fresh herbs, cucumbers, green peppers, melons, etc. Does anyone really think that I would go back to PAYING for crappy inferior stale shitty GM produce trucked from hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away????

Sure, we get some bugs on our plants and you know what happens? An army of other bugs (ladybugs) arrives to eat them. We made no effort whatsoever (apart from prudent pruning) to get rid of so-called "pests" - because really, there weren't any. And, just growing wild in the neighborhood are apples, pears, plums, loads of blackberries, strawberries, raspberries that no one trims or looks after, they are just around (the area I live in which is in a city used to be a huge orchard about 50 years ago, so there are remnants of the fruit trees and bushes everywhere throughout the neighborhood). So, we eat fresh all summer and save a pile of cash and for the winter, we just freeze as much as we can of the rest of the "crop" (except lettuce, which we then grow inside) so we have tomatoes and fuit and other veg from the garden in the wintertime.

If we have to buy any of that, we go to local greenhouses and by from them, never from a big store. And we look around for organic meats and free range eggs and chickens, if you buy locally and spend some time looking around you can find amazing deals of REAL unadulterated food for a lot cheaper than you might believe.

And it really is true, you get an amazing amount of satisfaction from eating something you grew yourself, knowing what soil you used, how you watered and with what, and just watching the plants grow - you really feel like you're looking after yourself. We aren't a "farm", just a yard in a house in a city neighborhood. But all the neighbors all around have gardens of veg and fruit, all of them. In fact there isn't one house on this street that does not have a vegetable garden.....

How are "they" going to stop people from doing this? We don't sell any of our food. We do, however, share with friends and neighbors, but how would they know?

Everyone should do this. Even if you live in an apartment, you can grow lettuce, herbs and tomatoes if you have windows. The investment of $$ is very small, but you do have to do a little work. Start off small, that's what we did. Eventually you get the hang of it and it gets easier, then you want to do more. Now we compost all our kitchen scraps and have wonderful organic fertilizer to use, so we don't have to buy any. We have seeds from our own plants, or we get seeds in the winter from the dollar stores for real cheap (you just have to make sure they aren't "modified").

We started off for fun and because we like fresh herbs and it kind of mushroomed from there. This isn't work, folks, it's much easier than it seems.

But most of all, you don't have to worry about what's on or in your food because you KNOW.

Sorry, I guess this turned into a rant, but no "Codex" imposed by some poobah will stop me from doing exactly what I want and how I want to. End of story.