Blue Hill, Maine Passes Food Freedom Law

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Blue Hill becomes third town in Maine to pass food freedom law

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

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 [2011]. 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, " 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_food_freedom_sovereignty.html

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.

The best in health, Bee