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  • From: Thomas Shelley <tjs1 AT cornell.edu>
  • To: "fingerlakespermaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org" <fingerlakespermaculture AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Third Town In Maine Passes Food Freedom Law
  • Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:45:23 -0400

At 03:19 PM 4/22/2011, you wrote:
Third Town In Maine Passes Food Freedom Law

From:
http://www.naturalnews.com/032142_food_freedom_Maine.html

Blue Hill becomes third town in Maine to pass food freedom law
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer

(NaturalNews) Within the past several months, numerous towns in Maine, 
and one
in Vermont, have proposed or enacted food sovereignty laws that declare,
plainly, that the federal government has no business telling citizens 
what food
products they can and cannot buy or sell locally. Representing the 
third town to
successfully pass such an ordinance, Blue Hill, Maine, recently 
adopted a local
food and self-governance bill that asserts the freedom of local 
citizens to
choose their own food.

In a near-unanimous vote, Blue Hill residents successfully voted to 
pass the
food freedom ordinance on April 2. Besides declaring sovereignty from 
government
intrusion on local food policy, the bill exempts all direct sales of 
food from
having to comply with state and federal license and inspection 
requirement. In
other words, local residents who grow and sell produce, for instance, 
will not
be subjected to the tedious and expensive bureaucratic red tape that 
rightfully
applies to factory farm operations.

"[It] is a huge milestone in the struggle to protect the rights, not 
only of
farmers to sell their products, but also of all citizens to eat the 
food of
their choice," John Gandy, a local resident of Blue Hill and Master 
for the
Halcyon Grange, is quoted as saying in the Activist Post. "It is time 
citizens
start defending our rights against big government and big business."

In early March, two other towns in Maine, Sedgwick and Penobscot, both 
passed
their own food sovereignty laws. And the town of Barre, Vt., will vote 
on its
own food freedom resolution sometime in May
( http://www.naturalnews.com/031833_f...).

Based on the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, the federal 
government has
absolutely no authority to interfere with state and local food 
affairs. The
Amendment specifically prohibits the federal government from exerting 
any power
not specifically granted to it by the Constitution, and a group called 
the Tenth
Amendment Center is working hard to help states break free from the 
chains of
unlawful federal intrusion ( http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/).

You can also keep track of the status of food freedom legislation at the
following links:
http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com...
http://growninthecity.com/interacti...

Sources for this story include:

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04...

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