THE Tasmanian state government is preparing a raft of new national regulations to impose on all growers of leaf vegetables, berries, and melons – a move that looks very much like an attempt to impose greater corporate-government controls on food production.
Tasmanian market gardeners say anyone who intends to sell berries or leaf vegetables will have to fill out a mountain of paperwork, pay about $500 in fees, and be subjected to annual safety audits by bureaucrats.
“People starting out as market gardeners usually start very small, just selling a few bunches of vegetables at weekend markets for example. How will that work if they have to pay $500 in fees and get accreditation before they can even start?” a social media post by the growers states.
“What about the people who supplement their pensions, or help their families through times of unemployment, or cover the shortfall in a tight family budget, by selling a few vegetables or berries?”
The Liberal Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industries and Water, Gavin Pearce, says the new regulations will “enable Tasmania to adopt the new national Primary Produce and Processing Standards for berries, leafy vegetables and melons”.
“We are working hand in hand with our national counterparts to ensure Tasmania maintains a consistent regulatory framework for safe food production,” Pearce said. For “safe”, small growers are more likely to read “bureaucratic control”.
The growers say most of the full-time small market gardeners have very few resources in money, time, or energy, and even a few hundred dollars is a big stretch for some. Time is even more precious.
“For seven full months of the year, we work 12 to 16 hours every single day but Christmas day, (we have no weekends or other days off), and only sleep about four hours a night. We cannot take on bureaucratic burdens as well.
“The government is not clear about exactly what it will require growers to do in order to meet the regulations, but there are hints that they might be burdensome enough to drive small growers out of the industry.”
The growers say the risk from eating fresh produce in Australia is extremely low. “Plenty of people have a story about food poisoning due to fast food, for example, but how many people can say that they had food poisoning from fresh vegetables?
“We don’t need a burdensome and costly accreditation scheme. Ironically, the food poisoning cases that motivated the new regulations were due to washed and sanitised salad mix from a very big farm in Victoria, that had accreditation.”
They say the Tasmanian government (a coalition of Liberals, independents and Greens) has tried to avoid public scrutiny on the draft regulations, giving barely a month for comment, and have released them at the end of the year, when the public is distracted and market gardeners are extremely busy.
They have also not publicised the drafts. “Please help us by sending a submission on the draft regulations. You can copy and paste the sample submission shown below, (or use your own words), and send your submission to product.integrity@nre.tas.gov.au, and copy it to the Hon. Gavin Pearce, Minister for Primary Industries, gavin.pearce@parliament.tas.gov.au.
As small growers, we are deeply grateful to all who will help us in this way:
To Biosecurity Tasmania, and the Hon. Gavin Pearce, Minister for Primary Industries,
I am writing to comment on the draft regulations for leaf vegetable, berries, and melons. The potential cost and burden of regulation is not proportional to the risk of eating fresh produce. I am also displeased that the drafts have been released in an underhand way to avoid public scrutiny. I ask that:
1) In accordance with standard 4.2.8 of the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code, the regulations shall apply only to produce that is intended for raw consumption.
2) Licensing and accreditation shall only be required of very large growers who supply major supermarket chains. Growing food, and making a living from it, is a basic right.
3) In lieu of accreditation, small growers, including home gardeners, shall be provided with non-compulsory training and information on food-safe production practices.
4) All new regulations shall distinguish between produce that is sold as washed and ready to eat, and produce that is not. Produce that is not sold as ‘ready to eat’ shall be subject to no new regulations, other than clear labelling to show that it is not ready to eat, and in some cases with labelling to aid traceability. If home washing measures are deemed unsuitable, then supermarkets shall be required to stock sanitising solutions, and pamphlets on food safety.
5) Public consultation on the draft shall be extended to at least March.
Sincerely,
Name and address
The State government says submissions on the regulations must be made in writing and emailed to product.integrity@nre.tas.gov.au by 5pm Friday 5 December 2025.
True Bill
It’s obvious Trump-Puppet’s Operation Warp Speed, weaponising the U.N.-WHO. and U.N. climate-health policies are not about protecting anyone; they are about killing people and deliberately disrupting businesses and livelihoods worldwide.
Trump-Puppet’s tariffs are not about giving America a fair go, but are about weakening corporations worldwide, knowing collateral damage within the U.S. was inevitable, to allow elites, their bankster and corporate minions to pick the bones of their victims.
Europe, the Middle East and Africa appears to have been the intended targets of the trade war.
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-TRUMP/TARIFF-COMPANIES/movadjkmnpa/
If they can’t kill you off by ‘safe and effective’ vaccines, they will starve you to death by ‘safe and effective’ food growing regulations. One way or the other, the intention is to kill you, and hand the country to their globalist and corporate masters on a plate. We complain about immigration – which is a problem – but the biggest threat to the country and people comes from treacherous government and its bureaucracy, federal and State.
The social cost of Tasmania’s guesstimated predicted debt of AUD 10b in 2029, calculated at 2020’s theoretical evaluation of one tonne of CO₂ = USD 51 equalling AUD 79 today un-inflated, would be 126,582,278 tonnes of CO₂
That’s maybe not taking into account a near-term risk-free discount rate of X unknown damage risks and other climate model yr. 2000 countermeasure data input adjustments made to achieve 1971 futurists’ yr. 2030 limits to growth a prophecy fulfilled
Maybe if twenty of us sit on our arses for one week and do nothing thereby reducing our CO₂ emissions to a minuscule existential amount, then government can issue us carbon credits, hurray, hurray, that we can then on-sell back to the politicians to cover the tonnes of carbon emissions they create for us 🤔
Have they no shame.
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The debt owners, Tasmanians’ elected servants say that by 2029, they will have given each Tasmanian a debt of approximately $23,000; hurray for our recent self approved 20% pay rise and guaranteed fat pension!!!
“The Liberal government’s “interim” budget, delivered on Wednesday, forecasts a $1 billion deficit this year as net debt climbs toward $10.3 billion by 2028-29 – equivalent to $23,000 for every Tasmanian.” — Pulse Tasmania
The dividing issue in the recent Tasmanian election, that saw the Liberals scrambling for numbers to retain government, was the $1,000,000,000.00 + cost of a new stadium to house a Tasmanian, Australian Football League team.
The uniparty majority in the lower house supporting the stadium build, voted 24y-10n to further push the case to burden future generations with more debt, whilst 81,000 Tassie households worry where their next meal will come from.
The upper house decides the issue in December.
Burnie City Council sees the need for the local tip to go cashless, for security reasons, after forty plus years of plastic.
Annual jaunter heavyweight, Hobart Lord Mayor Anna Reynolds, has flown to Rio 💃🏼 de 💃🏼 Janeiro to attend the COP30 Climate Forum, raising questions of size of carbon footprints, having previously burnt extra fuel making an appearance at COP28 at Dubai in 2023 and a Bloomberg event at Harvard in 2024.
Bloomberg Philanthropies is funding the Brazil trip.
https://pulsetasmania.com.au/news/hobart-lord-mayor-anna-reynolds-flies-to-brazil-for-climate-forum/
Tasmania has the best produce in Australia by a mile, and they didn’t need some otherwise unemployable air head sitting in a parliament to achieve that, and still don’t. Stupidity from the traitors in our parliaments should be entire ignored a fought as one. They all need to get together as one a tell these clowns to stick it where it fits.
You will “eat ze bugz”.
The author quoted Liberal Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industries and Water, Gavin Pearce – “… We are working hand in hand with our national counterparts to ensure Tasmania maintains a consistent regulatory framework for safe food production…”
Safe & effective, folks, that’s all you need to know.
Can you feel the dragnet closing around you yet, folks? Can you feel the Satanic noose tightening around your necks? Can you FEEL it?
And the author mentioned in passing – “… The State government says submissions on the regulations must be made in writing and emailed to product.integrity@nre.tas.gov.au by 5pm Friday 5 December 2025…”
Sure, folks, TRUST them, even though you KNOW that they don’t work for us, nor do they answer to us, becauseALL of them are sitting in Treason, ALL of them have committed body and soul to OUR utter enslavement and destruction, ALL of them are Satanists, ALL of them are Luciferians, ALL of them have taken their Freemason DEATH oaths and are working diligently and coherently and patiently and RUTHLESSLY to bring in the New World Order for their Hell-spawned foreign benefactors, with neither the slightest hesitation nor circumspection, let alone any shred of regret or God forbid remorse. Because THEIR “god” has absolutley no tolerance for any such pointless worthless sentiment, nor any mercy whatsoever for the Useless Eaters, which just happens to be YOU.
And every little piece in the puzzle is converging to complete the prison into which we’re all being herded without our consent and without our knowledge, but you can be assured that THEY know because they’ve all taken their oaths and they’re all doing their secret signs and winks and handshakes, they’re enjoying their meritless unfounded success in life with all its privelege and perks because they’re all in the club, Lucifer’s club, it’s a big club but you ain’t in it folks, if you take a hard look around you might finally wake up one day and suddenly realise that you’re sleepwalking up the ramp to Satan’s abbatoir.
You KNOW that no matter how loudly you shriek “Harumph!” at them, they’re just gonna laugh at you and shit in your faces while they do whatever the Hell it is they want to do, whatever the Hell it is that they’ve been INSTRUCTED to do, and you can go pound sand or whatever else you feel comfortable pounding, because after all, being comfortable is the default isn’t it? Oh, and they’ll dance on your graves in celebration and scull a schooner of warm fresh baby blood when you finally croak under the burden of their Luciferian torture and persecution and tyranny.
Enjoy.
Today: “Victims of Tasmania’s historic anti-gay laws to be compensated”
Obviously the lawyers and parliamentarians will fund the compensation, from their assets and superannuation, won’t they ?
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I wonder if plant passports and phytosanitary certificates will be required for backyard gardeners, to allow them to gift some fruit and veg to family and friends?
I see where this could go.
Back before 1996 an A grade electrician in Tasmania on completing his indentured four years apprenticeship was awarded his trade certificate at no cost, for life; an electrical contractor’s licence $15.00 per year.
Then in 1996 the electrickery authority, who employed the electrical inspectors restructured their line crews, forming two men service crews.
Due to different training and electrical standards the linesman connected the service wires at the transformer on the pole and the electrician connected the other end of the service wires to the mains box connecting to the wiring from the dwelling or business; so legally the E.A. employed Inspectors could no longer inspect the E.A.’s own work.
The inspection role was farmed out and had to pay for itself, so through the ingenuity of the Department of Justice electricians were required to pay $180.00 for a three year licence and electrical contractors $130.00 per year, in addition have public liability insurance for a minimum of $10m at around $400.00 per year.
No idea what they would cost now.
A new body, Consumer, Building and Occupational Services (CBOS.) was formed within the DoJ. that since has grown into a toothless monster, seemingly always looking for an opportunity to justify its existence has now gobbled up electricians, plumbers, builders, gas fitters, second-hand dealers and pawnbrokers; imposing extra costs onto businesses with threat of licence non renewal, for not forking out thousands of dollars in lost work time and training by not keeping a record of their thought up control, Continuing Professional Development points (CPD.), now offering points for an eLearning course to architects, building surveyors and designers, plumbers and builders to encourage them to use electronic lodgement of applications in the administrative area of Hobart’s municipal corporation.
The monster cannot stop the public from purchasing cable, electrical or plumbing fittings and building materials from retail businesses for future unseen work, but penalises trained professionals as they should, for doing dodgy work.
I smell mandatory annual quotas of CPD. points for training in correct use of garden implements, water management, pesticides and PPE.
Dodgy doctors, nurses, lawyers and used car salesmen, growing the business, mmmm the power and 🤑🤑🤑 would be temping.
‘They say the Tasmanian government (a coalition of Liberals, independents and Greens) . . . ‘
Don’t tell me the growers voted for ‘far right’ party?
You get what sow [pun intended].
Loop hole, just tell them you’re growing organic. Regulations purely to feed a burdened bureaucracy.
Mandatory food safety standards: While not specific to organic production, new national food safety standards for the primary production and processing of berries, leafy vegetables, and melons are mandatory and came into effect on February 12, 2025. These standards aim to reduce foodborne illness and apply to all products, regardless of their organic status.
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Nothing to do with P Wongs signing us all up to the CDC’s total UN / WEF Emergency management control orders the other day? They are really into controlling food production relative to carbon output and mRNAing any livestock they fear ‘might’ catch some disease. Or just killing them by the hundreds of thousands to be sure. All that may tie in with a certain group who have killed the same amount of humans in the last century or two. Nothing to do with them removing their sins or any Kapparot ritual or anything, I’m sure. People are getting locked up now in the US and Canada for noticing such things now so we better not notice that misinfo. It would never ever happen here I’m sure they have only changed our laws to to save us from antiseptism as it’s bad for us as we could get locked up or vanished like poor Charlie was, for good. Their mRNA Big Pharma trains have just been gaining speed in the background all this time for the next execution station they choose we must board at. The provisions for protection of UN personel here are enschrined in our crimes act 95 and they will definitely need protection to force any jabs on a now suspicious and no longer trusting population. Refusal to comply in SA and WA now has a 47,000$ fine or jail so we all may have to do a Desi to be free man. Little Riley here will have no choice but to comply as they want us all dead. The ‘stupid people’ who side with them are always the first to go. Aussies that fight still have a chance.
The only way these vermin politicians will get the message is when they start having unfortunate accident,s
Sounds like Bolshevism to me.
The next thing to expect would be a famine.
It seems there is nothing the political class won’t do in order to sabotage the commoners. If I was a politician like this in a small place like Tasmania I would be concerned for my own safety.
LOOKS LIKE TROLL SAM HAS COME BACK AS RILEY, SAME WASTE OF SPACE..
Defend agriculture, industry, and mining or end in a cave, hungry, cold and in the dark.
TASMANIA IS AN EASY TEST PILOT FOR FOOD CONTROL AND FOR FARMERS MARKETS WHICH THE POLIS WANT TO ERADACATE, REMEMBER IF THEY CAN’T POISON US TO DEATH WITH INNOCUOUS JABS THEY WILL STARVE US TO DEATH.
I READ BACK IN 2006 THAT THE POWERS GIVEN TO NZ ARMED POLICE TO ALLOW THEM TO ENTER YOUR PROPERTY AND DESTROY ANY VEGETABLES, HERBS, SPICES, ALL PART OF THE UN PROGRAM.
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