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**Sarah**

Sunday, September 30, 2012
City of Toronto Workers Destroy Free Community Food Garden Amid Growing Food Crisis
Occupy Gardens plants in Queens Park destroyed without harvesting food

Workers destroying Occupy Gardens at Queens Park
Activist Post

Amid a growing food crisis, this morning workers from the City of Toronto were ordered by City of Toronto Parks Director Richard Ubbens that all live plants and food be removed from the People's Peas Garden in Queens Park. They were ordered to take the plants and food to the dump and lay sod overtop of this most beautiful free community food garden, without warning, without a chance to remove the rare heirloom plant species or harvest the food.

The garden was planted by Occupy Gardens and allies on May 1st, in defense of local and global food security. While the garden has been growing undisturbed for nearly 5 months, with the help of hundreds in the community, the city deliberately decided to have it removed upon the eve of the Autumn Jam: A Harvest Party and celebration of sharing, community and free local food, which is happening tomorrow from 12-6pm at the garden in Queens Park (northwest section).

The reason? The people did not have permission to grow free food on public land. I come from a city and country where one does not need permission to do the right thing. We are experiencing a "glocal" food crisis, where more and more people are lining up at food banks for kraft dinner and peanut butter, waiting lists for community gardens are growing, food prices rising, and our leaders are nowhere to be seen. Rather they are hiding behind their desk ordering the workers to destroy whatever hope we have left.

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**SimmerSam**

So seriously f*cked up. What harm was that garden causing. Something needs to be done about that Park Director, he needs to at least be fined. We need to have laws that prevent abuses of power such as this.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 124569 10-01-2012 02:12 AM

Total Control doomed

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 122075 10-01-2012 02:17 AM

Park director or whoever ordered this should be executed.
Destroying the people's food is a high order of tyranny and should not be tolerated.

**Sunny**

They should bring public shame to the parks director.

***WM*** · ***WM*** Use the Fluff User ID: 122383 10-01-2012 02:26 AM **Posts: 3,907**

It is not the first time the Govs have done this and it really freaking sucks every time they do this kind of BS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNiwIQLa7dU

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 116444 10-01-2012 02:36 AM

Burn down all of the parks maintenance buildings and destroy all of their machinery immediately.

When you destroy food while people are starving in the streets you deserve to die.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 84366 10-01-2012 02:40 AM

You hear about this type of thing happening way too often nowadays. This is not a good sign of things to come.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 98922 10-01-2012 02:58 AM

and nobody is dead over any of this yet? remarkable, must be something better on teevee tonight. Oh wait, tomorrow is food stamp day, they be okay. chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 77726 10-01-2012 03:01 AM

In a perfect world. Those people responsible for destroying the garden would be hanged.

And I would love to witness it.

**Intredasting**

toronto is a goddamn shit hole.
they should just annex it to detroit.

**Angry Chicken**

That hurt's my feeling's. S977

IT"S FOOD! WTF? what's wrong with these retards?

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 81913 10-01-2012 03:14 AM

Thou shalt not have any food except by Monsanto's hand.

Pi Infinity User ID: 3.14159265 10-01-2012 03:18 AM

Filthy Socialists growing their own food.

Humans should only be allowed to eat corporate manufactured food.

How are corporate owners supposed to make greater profits and bigger bonuses every year, if people aren't eating corporate produced food?

And just think of all the poor Wall Street speculators that aren't benefiting financially, when people grow their own food.

S977

**Angry Chicken**

Pi Wrote:

Filthy Socialists growing their own food.

Humans should only be allowed to eat corporate manufactured food.

How are corporate owners supposed to make greater profits and bigger bonuses every year, if people aren't eating corporate produced food?

And just think of all the poor Wall Street speculators that aren't benefiting financially, when people grow their own food.

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