(NaturalNews) Increasingly, when Americans "dare" to color outside the lines of government food regulation, those who seek to rule us label them extremists and, now, even "agri-terrorists."As noted by Daisy Luther at, officials in more than one state have turned into food Nazis:Yes, that's right: aFor those who are not familiar with seed libraries, they permit consumers to walk in and take home Heirloom seeds -- for free. The "borrower" plants the seeds and then, when harvest time comes around, he/she saves seeds and then returns them to the library, where they can then be loaned out to others.But apparently, Luther writes, that practice is in violation of the "Seed Act of 2004." Yes, America, there is actually a law that makes seed lending and replacementIn commenting on the ludicrous nature of the law, Luther wrote that, "luckily for the Cumberland County Library System, the state D of A [Department of Agriculture] decided that SWAT was not necessary and instead sent a high-ranking official and a team of lawyers to shut down the seed library."Alas, another national emergency averted.Luther noted that Jonelle Darr, the executive director of the library, said that 60 local residents had signed up to participate in the seed library. She added, however, that continuing the project is not possible now, due to the overly restrictive requirements from the state department of agriculture.According tonewspaper, prior to having its seed library shuttered, the library system had spent a great deal of time working in partnership with the Cumberland County Commission for Women and obtaining information from the local Penn State Ag Extension office in order to create the pilot seed library project."The effort was a new seed-gardening initiative that would allow for residents to 'borrow' seeds and replace them with new ones harvested at the end of the season," the paper said in its online version.Mechanicsburg's effort was launched April 26 in conjunction with an Earth Day festival, however, a number of similar efforts had already begun across the state before that local initiative was launched.In researching the project, Darr said that no one had come across any information indicating that there were problems with the idea, the paper reported:"We did talk to the county extension office before establishing the seed library," Darr told Cumberland County commissioners at a recent meeting. "We were never apprised of the Seed Act."Commissioners were equally stunned about learning of the law and the change of events, as well as the manner in which the state agriculture department handled its investigation -- sending high-ranking officials and lawyers to the library.But one of them commissioners, Barbara Cross, excused the heavy-handedness by labeling folks interested in this program as extremists."Agri-terrorism is a very, very real scenario," she said. "Protecting and maintaining the food sources of America is an overwhelming challenge ... so you've got agri-tourism on one side and agri-terrorism on the other."The agriculture department told the library that it could not set up a seed program until its staff tested each seed packet for germination and other data. Darr said that was not obviously not something the library staff was capable of handling."This is not our core mission," she said. "We thought we were doing a good thing in helping the Cumberland County Commission for Women (who requested the idea and the library's participation)."