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- From: "Liz" <liz@allslash.org>
- To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Great News MAINE TOWN DECLARES FOOD SOVEREIGNTY(regardless of State regulations)
- Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 19:03:13 -0400
Wow, about time. Hope some more local communities
will get on the bandwagon. Don't have much hope for my own,
unfortunately.
Liz
"Sedgwick, Maine has done what no other town
in the United
States has done. The town unanimously passed an
ordinance giving
its citizens the right "to produce, process, sell,
purchase, and
consume local foods of their choosing." This includes
raw milk,
locally slaughtered meats, and just about anything else you
can
imagine. It's also a decided bucking of state and federal laws."
What does this mean? In the debate over raw milk, for example,
the law allows consumers and producers to enter into a purchasing
agreement without interference from state or federal health
regulators, regardless of current regulation that requires milk
to be pasteurized to kill pathogens such as salmonella and E.
coli. And, it relies on the consumer to educate themselves on
the risk of consuming local products of their choice.
For
those of you who like to follow the latest food movements,
"What's
better regulation or raw?", it is something to think
about and it will
be interesting to see how many other towns will
follow this movement
and if they can truly supersede federal and
state governments on food
safety.
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