Protect the Right to Grow, Share, and Sell Plants Freely as a Natural Human Right

Human beings are born with natural rights often called **God-given rights** including the right to sustain life. Long before modern economies, governments, or corporations existed, the Earth provided **plants that grow naturally from the ground** to nourish humanity.

Plants are not inventions.
They are not manufactured in laboratories.
They are not owned by nature they are **part of nature**.

This petition calls for the recognition that **plants grown naturally from the ground should be freely accessible to the public**, including the right to:

* Grow plants for personal and family use
* Access seeds for planting
* Share, trade, or sell what one grows
* Garden without punitive taxation

This is not a call to abolish markets it is a call to **protect access to natural food while preserving economic stability**.

🌱 What We Are Asking For

1. **Free access to seeds for personal food production**
2. **No taxation or licensing for personal or small-scale gardening**
3. **The right to sell or trade naturally grown plants and food directly to others**
4. **Protection against restrictions that criminalize subsistence growing**
5. **Clear distinction between natural plants and laboratory-engineered products**

⚖️ Why This Is a Rights Issue

Just as humans are born with inherent rights, we are also born into a world that **naturally provides food**.

Taxing or restricting the act of growing plants:

* Punishes self-sufficiency
* Increases food insecurity
* Forces dependence on industrial systems
* Disproportionately harms low-income families

Gardening is not an industry by default it is **a survival practice**.

💡 A Practical, Win-Win Solution for the Economy

This petition proposes **balance**, not disruption.

✅ What Remains Taxable (to protect the economy):

* Large-scale commercial agriculture
* Industrial food processing
* Corporate seed patents and lab-engineered crops
* Packaging, distribution, and retail sales
* Value-added products (jams, sauces, preserved goods, etc.)

🌿 What Should Be Free:

* Personal and community gardening
* Seed saving and sharing
* Direct sale or trade of whole, unprocessed plants and produce
* Small local growers feeding their communities

This ensures:
✔ Governments still collect revenue
✔ Corporations still operate
✔ Citizens regain food autonomy

🏛 Benefits to the Government

Granting these rights would:

* Reduce reliance on food assistance programs
* Lower public health costs through improved nutrition
* Increase community resilience during crises
* Reduce strain on supply chains
* Strengthen local economies
* Improve national food security

A population that can feed itself is **less expensive to govern**.

👨‍👩‍👧 Benefits to Citizens

For citizens, this means:

* Lower grocery expenses
* Greater food security
* Increased independence
* Healthier diets
* Cultural and agricultural preservation
* Freedom from unnecessary regulation

People are not asking for luxury they are asking for **access to survival**.

🌍 Impact on Non-Citizens & Other Countries

Recognizing the right to grow and share plants:

* Sets a **global precedent for food justice**
* Encourages humanitarian seed access
* Supports developing nations facing food scarcity
* Reduces global hunger and aid dependency
* Promotes environmental sustainability

When people everywhere can grow food, **migration driven by starvation decreases**, global stability improves, and international aid systems are less strained.

🌎 Environmental Benefits

* Less industrial farming pressure
* Reduced emissions from food transport
* Improved soil health
* Increased biodiversity
* Stronger local ecosystems

Nature thrives when people work *with* it, not against it.

⚖️ Core Principle

This petition does **not** oppose government, business, or trade.

It supports:
✔ Human dignity
✔ Natural rights
✔ Economic balance
✔ Food security
✔ Environmental responsibility

**Access to natural plants is not a privilege — it is a birthright.**

✍🏽 Call to Action

We urge lawmakers, agricultural agencies, and global leaders to:

* Protect the right to grow food
* Distinguish nature from manufactured products
* Ensure food access without criminalization
* Build economic systems that serve both people and prosperity

A society that allows its people to grow food freely is a society that **chooses life, stability, and shared abundance**.