Veg&FlowerPlot9🌻

Kitchen sink thinker. Allotmenteer. Keen baker.

[Baa Ram Ewe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑🐷🦃🚜 @ShepherdWales]

Dynamic alignment means that when the EU lowers its standards then we will have to follow.

When the EU finally capitulates and allows in hormone fed beef, we will have to follow.

If you don’t think it’s possible then I have the EUs change to animal feed to sell you…

A move we haven’t followed but will now be obliged to.

A continent with foot and mouth and African Swine Fever - what could possibly go wrong?

Reason they lowered their standard - competition.

[Veg&FlowerPlot9🌻 @VFlowerplot9]

@Paulih0 @grok Maybe…

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

UK Ofcom's "crisis protocol" mandate kicked in yesterday.

To wit, when the British government determines a "crisis" is occurring, platforms have to censor their platforms more aggressively.

None of this is constitutionally permissible in America
https://t.co/LGGIzJrfc7

[Great British Business Council @GBBC_UK]

Even small local bakeries that do not trade with the EU will have to adopt EU rules on everything from food production and food marketing to nutrition labelling and packaging materials.

The total cost of compliance for British industry is estimated between £2 to £3 billion.

UK taxpayers will also have to pay the EU for its policy work, which could cost up to £3 billion each year, every year.

[Great British Business Council @GBBC_UK]

The @BBC listed this as a potential benefit of the draft SPS agreement with the EU: "It should also end the need for £25 Phytosanitary certificates, which show that plants or plant products are free from pests and diseases."

But why in the world would that be considered a good thing??

The EU is full of animal diseases. The map of African swine fever outbreaks in pigs and wild boar cases alone looks like this : 👇

[Veg&FlowerPlot9🌻 @VFlowerplot9]

@TimPreston93673 We await the birth of The Daily Black Labrador!

[House Of The People @HoTPOfficial]

IT’S LIVE 🚨 If you saw this earlier, the wait is over !

Read what Parliament’s voting on, have your say and compare your views with your MP.

Download here 👇
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[Farmers Weekly @FarmersWeekly]

Gene-editing regulations face High Court remedy hearing - Farmers Weekly https://t.co/5j2ckLp2ga

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The way DEFRA, and the wider British state, has treated the farming community is utterly unacceptable - particularly over the recent SFI debacle.

On behalf of all British farmers, I just told the head of DEFRA exactly that.

[Veg&FlowerPlot9🌻 @VFlowerplot9]

https://t.co/11nWBL96pk
Constitution Committee
Wednesday 14 October 2026 Meeting started at 10.36am, ended 12.08pm

The UK’s constitutional safeguards
Dominic Cummings as witness landing the hard hitting truths.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Exactly as I warned over a year ago …

Labour has confirmed that from January 2027, imported fertiliser will have a UK carbon tax. (Moronic)

This will push up the cost of growing British food, hurting farmers and consumers.

I predict Burnham will then say rejoining the EU would solve the problem!

But remember… This is a tax imposed by the BRITISH GOVERNMENT. They are doing it to us.

Labour has CHOSEN to impose this tax and will use it as a reason to rejoin.

They really do think we’re stupid

[Veg&FlowerPlot9🌻 @VFlowerplot9]

@MattPinner_ In the 70’s they would throw wooden blackboard chalk erasers ‘duster’ at unruly pupils. Hard to believe now what we considered ’normal’ back then.

[Dr Clare Craig ✝️ @ClareCraigPath]

I AM SO HAPPY!

[Emma Wilson @Emma529796]

Apparently the Food Standards Agency has nothing to do with folic acid being added to flour.

The are passing people onto the Dept of Health & Social Care.

[Protect Western Heritage @DigitalVagrant]

I have been looking into the routine addition of folic acid to everyday food, and the more I read, the harder it is to set aside.

It is now in a wide range of products. Crumpets are one example. Some bottled waters are another. If you assume the things you buy regularly are unaffected, it is worth checking rather than guessing.

I built a simple site so anyone can look a product up, including by scanning the barcode on their phone. The information is there. Most of us have simply never been invited to look at it.

I'll put the link in the comments.

[Radmore Farm @Radmore_farm]

We are going to be having some of our Radmore wheat (we didnt use glysophate) made into foods you can eat and buy.
Including flour, pasta and biscuits.
No folic acid. No additives. No nastys. Just pure as it should be.
Express your interest by emailing
[email protected]

[Robbie Moore MP @_RobbieMoore]

After the absolute shambolic handling of the Sustainable Farming Incentive this week by Labour Ministers, the Shadow DEFRA team and I, have written to Dame Angela Eagle, the Secretary of State demanding answers and urgent action.

Over 100 Conservative colleagues have co-signed this letter, on behalf of their many farming constituents who have been severely impacted by this Labour government’s decisions.

This Labour government must urgently get a grip and understand the financial consequences of their actions on food security, resilience within the farming sector and its impact on nature.

Their narrative of ‘food security is national security’ is just headline propaganda without actual policy which backs it up.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Today is Michaelmas, the autumnal feast of the mighty St Michael the Archangel - in medieval tradition the guardian of high places, weigher of souls after death, heavenly warrior against the forces of evil, and defender against the dark. https://t.co/UxIhZ85fO0

[Dr Clare Craig ✝️ @ClareCraigPath]

The US government warns that 100 micrograms (0.1mg) of folic acid can be harmful.

That is less than a sandwich in the UK now!

No-one has thought this through.

Sign the petition below.

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

Ursula von der Leyen announced this week that everyone in the EU must use the official EU age verification app to verify their age before they can log into or post on social media and other digital services.

As an expert in online child safety, I'm here to expose the disinformation in each von der Leyen's statements. See below.

🇪🇺 The EU Kids Act is a pretext designed to enforce mandatory digital identity verification on everyone in Europe. The proposed legislation applies to any digital service featuring feeds, user generated content, or messaging:

Social media networks, video platforms, online gaming services, AI tools, and media streaming apps like Spotify. (@TimSweeneyEpic)

Under the proposal, digital services must enforce age restrictions across strict tiers. Tech companies must mandate age verification across all accounts to enforce these tiers legally.

When Australia introduced its social media ban, the government conceded it failed because platform level age checks weren’t reliable. They now reject age estimation as inadequate and shifted to demanding "robust" age checking.

💡 If you eliminate every unproven estimation method, you’re left with exactly 1 functional mechanism: identity verification. There's not other way to ensure age checking is "robust".

No government wants to admit citizens must prove their real identity just to access apps and basic streaming services like Spotify, so they hide behind the ambiguous phrase "robust age checking". This language is now used across Australia, the US, and Ireland to mandate identity checks while avoiding the public backlash of calling it what it is. I will research to see where else it’s being used.

Below is what Ursula von der Leyen told the European Parliament in Strasbourg along with my analsyis:

🇪🇺 "Today, much of this power has been taken out of the hands of parents... What our children need is time... But when a child has a smartphone, all of this is taken away."

💡 This framing falsely presents smartphones as uncontrollable. Apple and Google built free OS controls into iOS and Android settings, covering virtually every smartphone on the market.

These controls achieve every legitimate safety objective without collecting personal data or processing state credentials.

💡 Millions of parents use these parental controls to enforce screen time curfews, block app installations, and restrict communication.

💡 These settings operate at the device level. Teens can't bypass them when protected with a passcode.

To bypass this technical reality, the European Commission uses public grief to shut down logical analysis:

🇪🇺 "Day and night, parents see the costs, loss of sleep, anxiety, even self-harm, and in a growing number of cases, even fatal tragedies… a 14-year-old girl living in Belgium who took her life exactly one month ago, victim of bullying online... Honourable members, enough is enough."

💡 Citing personal tragedies replaces software engineering facts with emotional rhetoric. State laws and age gates don’t alter human behaviour or prevent online harassment. Regulators exploit grief to pass surveillance legislation without explaining how the underlying software mechanisms operate.

The Commission outlines specific age tiers to restrict access:

🇪🇺 "In sum, no social media under the age of 13. No personal account under the age of 15. That means from 13 to under 15, only mini accounts set up and supervised by parents or guardians with limited features and time restriction to one hour a day. And between 15 and 18, safe design will be an obligation for the platforms."

💡 Enforcing age tiers forces tech companies and service providers to rebuild their architecture around total access control. The must disable self-service account creation, purge unverified accounts, build supervised parental workflows, strip algorithmic feeds, and enforce strict session cutoffs.

💡 Social networks operate on open interaction algorithms that inherently expose people to unvetted content. Because software can’t dynamically filter these risks for minors, tech companies must block access for everyone until a person proves their real identity.

💡 It’s not just about social networks. They want the same bans for almost everything, including games and stream services. Even Spotify because it’s possible for customers to message people.

The Commission claims its proposed zero knowledge proof app protects personal privacy:

🇪🇺 "Age will be verified using EU certified tools like our age verification app. This app is built on zero knowledge proof. That means that the platform only learns one single thing, and that's whether you're old enough to allow access or not."

💡 This framing describes what an app or service receives while hiding what everyone must give up. A zero knowledge proof provides a mathematical confirmation, but that confirmation requires an authoritative issuer. Before the app generates a proof, a state approved entity must verify the person's real identity.

The Commission frames this shift as a victory against tech corporations:

🇪🇺 "I am aware that many perceive the power of Big Tech as overwhelming and impossible to roll back. I disagree... So we do not accept this. We are reversing the burden of proof. Now platforms will have to prove to us that they are safe. Because this is not about our minors accessing social media. It is about when and how we allow social media to access our minors."

💡 Social networks don’t access children; parents hand smartphones to children. Reversing the burden of proof forces everyone to verify their identity.

The European Commission confirmed the broader scope of this mandate:

🇪🇺 "We also know that not only minors are at risk. Addictive design, for example, are harming everyone. This is why we need a wider framework too, the Digital Fairness Act that we will propose in autumn."

🚨 Child safety is merely the initial wedge. The Digital Fairness Act expands state mandated identity verification to adults across all online services. Binding real identities to online activity permanently eliminates pseudonymous access, private communication, and democratic accountability.

🚨 Senior state officials and regulators know their demands have nothing to do with child safety. They work closely with tech companies and understand that iOS and Android already provide complete authority to restrict devices locally without collecting personal data. State officials deliberately ignore well established parental controls because they keep internet access under family control. Child safety is a public pretext.

🚨 Governments and regulators use child safety to establish mandatory identity verification across every app and digital service, eliminating online anonymity. When tech companies and state agencies link every social media post, private message, search term, geographic location, and financial transaction to a verified identity, they create a permanent digital dossier on every citizen with a global social graph that makes Cambridge Analytica look like a 2nd grade school science project.

💡 Binding people’s identity to daily activity enables predictive behavioural modelling too. By feeding identity data into automated predictive AI, governments, intelligence agencies, law enforcement, and tech companies move beyond surveillance past behaviour. They can map political affiliations, predict individual actions, flag dissent before it occurs, and control public opinion at scale. Eliminating online anonymity ends free speech, private communication, and democratic accountability.

As Larry Ellison stated at Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting in 2024:

"Citizens will be on their best behaviour, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on".

🙏🏻 Share this to expose how governments use child safety as a false pretext to force mandatory digital identity verification on everyone.

https://t.co/euLnd0qfhK

[Dr Clare Craig ✝️ @ClareCraigPath]

Folic acid is being sprayed onto the leaves of crops while they are still in the ground.

It does not have to be listed as an ingredient in that case.

It is unclear how much remains on the finished products.