Yet another industry safeguarding for ’emerging threats’.

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NEW BIOSECURITY PLAN

A new plan has been unveiled to ‘strengthen biosecurity protections’ and ‘further safeguard’ the $32 billion Australian grains industry.

The Australian Grains Industry Biosecurity Plan was recently launched by grains industry leaders at the Australian Grains Industry Conference in Melbourne.

The plan will give industry, governments and stakeholders the “expert framework and focus needed to help prevent, prepare for, and respond to, grains-specific biosecurity incursions”.

‘Biosecurity incursions’?

Developed in collaboration with industry leaders and biosecurity ‘experts’, more than 1,300 different plant pests and disease threats have been identified in the plan.

It also details the specific programs and activities needed to take proactive action and protect growers, industry and the economy, from these biosecurity threats.

Plant Health Australia (PHA), the coordinator of the Australian plant biosecurity system, has led the process, supported by Grain Producers Australia (GPA) and stakeholders.

This collaboration provides the Australian grains industry and government, as the decision makers when it comes to biosecurity management, with a mechanism to deliver an effective plant biosecurity system.

“This will ensure both industry and government are able to make informed decisions about the growing biosecurity threat in Australia,” said PHA National Manager, Stuart Kearns.

“We’ve built on past efforts to identify current and potential plant pests with a practical guide that has identified where we need to focus surveillance, education and mitigation.

The plan develops a series of “Threat Summary Tables” that identified exotic pests known to affect grain crops overseas and assessed their overall risk to the industry based on four criteria: entry, establishment, spread potential and economic impact.

Is the United Nations included on that list??

It also includes current mitigation and surveillance activities being undertaken and identifies contingency plans, fact sheets and diagnostic protocols that have been developed for pests relevant to the grains industry.

More than 50 new and existing activities have been identified by PHA and the Grains Research and Development Corporation (GRDC) that will be the target of investment to strengthen biosecurity efforts. These include:

– Ramping up surveillance efforts and their coordination.

– Expanding the Grains Farm Biosecurity Program to drive plan activities.

– Increasing education, training and simulations to prepare industry for an incursion.

The plan positions the industry to use its available resources to implement a focused strategy that can meet the ‘future biosecurity challenges’ of the grains industry.

CENTRALISATION AND CONTROL

Since the ‘pandemic’ period, the word ‘biosecurity’ has become a word that manifests flashbacks of the extended arm of government control over ‘the spread of disease’.

I still remember first reporting on the passing of the Biosecurity Bill in 2015 that would become the underpinning of both the Ebola ‘outbreaks’ and COVID-19 saga.

New Australian law allows forced quarantine to ‘prevent suspected disease’

Under the guise of ‘disease protection’, the ugly iron fist of this legislation would manifest in unprecedented ways half a decade later. Now, ‘biosecurity’ orders and frameworks are everywhere.

Earlier this year, as part of the Varroa mite ‘containment strategy’, the NSW government signed a biosecurity surveillance order to further control beekeepers.

NSW varroa mite saga continues with biosecurity order

Could we also be witnessing a similar shift being introduced by the heavily-lobbied grains industry?

We are now also seeing similar ‘threats’ emerge in poultry with the ’emergence of H5N1/bird flu’.

UN warns ‘action is needed’ for avian flu spread in Asia-Pacific region

Combine this with the fact the very systems we depend on to survive have become heavily monopolised to the point ‘the big cats in town’ are calling the shots: And pushing us towards the era of ‘edited nature’.

How Our Seeds Became Privatised and Monopolised

Editing Nature: The rise of ‘smart plants’ and ‘smart seeds’

The very foundations of our food systems are being transformed, even to the point of soil, and it should come as no surprise that people are expressing concerns about the grains world now.

“GMO Doomsday”: Concerns over Bayer’s new engineered soil microbes

Could this be another example of ‘problem, reaction, solution’?

Is a future ‘crisis’ on the way that could shake the grains industry, subsequently leading to the introduction of heavy biosecurity restrictions?

Grains are strong and resilient, and have been around much longer than us.

Amaranth: The grain that has survived conquests, Monsanto

Are these orders meant to protect the grains, or protect further interests of the great food transformation? Am I just a ‘conspiracy theorist’, or could there be something here?

Let me know your thoughts in the comment section below!

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