AUTHOR’S NOTE: The WinePress has been reporting on how the governments and other regulators are trying to control and manipulate the food and water supply. This report by the BBC, released on February 15th, 2020, further validates this, and makes it clear it is a crime to produce and sell your own food. Pay attention to how this report from the BBC is worded and persuasive language used to manipulate your opinion.
The following is from the BBC:
There has been a “concerning” rise in food businesses operating out of people’s homes during lockdown, according to the food safety watchdog.
Many of them are selling food through social media, putting further pressure on a hygiene inspection system that is under strain because of the crisis.
And other experts are also worried.
Little food businesses are popping up like mushrooms in lockdown.
There are rank outsiders operating off the radar, who think, ‘Oh, my mum can cook’, and confuse cooking with catering.
Julie Barratt from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
They sell to locals on apps such as Whatsapp, Instagram and Nextdoor.
Many are failing to register as food businesses, meaning their hygiene arrangements are not checked by local authorities.
But even those that do register are often not getting an inspection – despite new businesses usually being a priority – because the system is struggling to keep up during the pandemic.
Hygiene inspections ceased completely during the first lockdown and since then a scaled-back operation has focused on high-risk cases.
Local authorities are using video calls in a bid to clear the backlog. They allow basic issues to be resolved and reduce the time environmental health officers need to spend on-site. They could be used, for example, to ensure there is a separate sink for washing hands.
But these video calls can never be as effective as in-person, surprise inspections, says Ms Barratt.
They are unable to reveal things such as ingredients past their use-by date, or rat droppings under the cooker.
Indeed, a challenge posed by the new legion of at-home businesses is that even if a physical inspection is required, a 24-hour warning has to be given because it is a private address, so the surprise element is lost.
Resources ‘Stretched’
About 44% of new food businesses started since the first lockdown are home-based, according to a new centralised online registration system used by nearly 200 local authorities, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has revealed.
The full picture will be clearer when all local authorities report their registration figures in the new financial year in April.
The growth of at-home food businesses is a concern.
FSA
Local authority resources are already stretched and many are finding it difficult to keep on top of the workload [these at-home food businesses] are generating.
Michael Jackson. The FSA’s head of regulatory compliance.
Some people are starting food businesses from their home because they have lost work and need to generate income – including professional chefs who have been hit by the closure of restaurants.
Others are on furlough and have time to set up “side hustles”. Takeaway eating and the idea of cooking for neighbours in need has also become more common in lockdown.
As well as social media platforms, websites such as Olio and Cook My Grub also now allow this new army of at-home food entrepreneurs to find customers, selling everything from cakes to Sunday roasts.
Inspection Rules
Every new food business must register before it starts selling food. Once registered with the local authority, an environmental health officer can visit in person and this eventually leads to an official food hygiene rating of 0-5 (or pass-fail in Scotland). The business can still trade prior to gaining its rating.
However, the rating is a vital tool for customers to gauge the safety of an establishment and can be a selling point.
Indeed, many new at-home food businesses that are well-run and take hygiene seriously are frustrated that they haven’t been able to secure a rating yet, due to the backlog.
The FSA described the situation with inspections as “at the edge of our risk appetite” back in early December, before the current lockdown was announced.
There have been no reported outbreaks of food poisoning connected to new at-home businesses so far. However, the FSA wants the public to be aware of the risks.
Our advice to people when ordering food online is to check that the business has a food hygiene rating and choose only those with a rating of 3 or above, this can be checked on our website.
If a consumer has any doubts about a food seller or a food product, they should report them to the local authority.
Where sellers do not follow the rules, they may be fined, imprisoned for up to two years, or both.
Michael Jackson
However, others think the system itself needs an overhaul to protect the public.
The law should be changed so that food businesses of any type cannot trade until they have been inspected and rated, says the CIEH’s Ms Barratt.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.Revelation 13:16-18
When the mark of the beast is in place, all of this draconian regulation of FOOD will be complete. This is further laying the ground work for that. News like this also relates to what The WinePress discussed in its study about the black horse of Revelation.
[5] And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. [6] And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.Revelation 6:5-6
But do you understand what is going on here? Growing a garden, for example, and making recipes and selling them to your friends, neighbors, and other customers – something has been done for thousands of years – is now being labeled as a crime, and now you are being told by the news media to snitch on your neighbors and report them to the police!
[23] Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. [24]For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? [25] The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. [26] The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. [27] And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens. Proverbs 27:23-27
[10] Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. [14] She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar. [16] She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. [18] She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night. Proverbs 31:10, 14, 16, 18
He that tilleth his land shall have plenty of bread: but he that followeth after vain persons shall have poverty enough.
Proverbs 28:19
Reader, when the government starts to conflict with the scriptures, YOU OBEY THE SCRIPTURES. The “churches” and the vast majority of professing Christians websites are going to tell you to sit down, shut up, and accept this tyranny. When the government becomes wicked and tyrannical, and you remain steadfast with the scriptures hoping in the Lord, he will bless you (Exodus 1, Daniel 3, Acts 5:29).
Take note also of the absolute hypocrisy in the article. The government regulated and approved GMO and chemically induced food and beverages are fine, but growing a garden and making a casserole or cookies and selling them, you know, NORMAL REALITY, is illegal! This is the wicked world we live in.
Thank you to The WinePress contributor who sent me this. Let this be a wake up call. As I have advocated in other reports, you need to seriously start preparing if you have not already. You will need to stock up on the essentials. The grocery stores will become less and less viable as more Covid passes, inflation, and tighter regulation is/are enforced.
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Painfully absurd. But I thought that foods grown at home were healthier because they don’t have the toxic additives they put to processed foods? And are they concerned for health? Same with masks! It has always been said “take some fresh air”, now it’s “put a cloth over mouth and nose”. And people go along with all this! It’s insanity!