http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/sedgwick-maine-declares-food-sovereignty/
Sedgwick Maine declares food sovereignty
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Painting by Cheryl Bartley. Click image to go to her website. (via Food Freedom blog)

“…On Friday evening, they became perhaps the first locale in the country to pass a “Food Sovereignty” law. It’s the proposed ordinance I first described last fall, when I introduced the “Five Musketeers”, a group of farmers and consumers intent on pushing back against overly aggressive agriculture regulators. The regulators were interfering with farmers who, for example, took chickens to a neighbor for slaughtering, or who sold raw milk directly to consumers.
The proposed ordinance was one of 78 being considered at the Sedgwick town meeting, that New England institution that has stood the test of time, allowing all of a town’s citizens to vote yea or nay on proposals to spend their tax money and, in this case, enact potentially far-reaching laws with national implications. They’ve been holding these meetings in the Sedgwick town hall (pictured above) since 1794. At Friday’s meeting, about 120 citizens raised their hands in unanimous approval of the ordinance.
Citing America’s Declaration of Independence and the Maine Constitution, the ordinance proposed that “Sedgwick citizens possess the right to produce, process, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing.” These would include raw milk and other dairy products and locally slaughtered meats, among other items.
This isn’t just a declaration of preference. The proposed warrant added, “It shall be unlawful for any law or regulation adopted by the state or federal government to interfere with the rights recognized by this Ordinance.” In other words, no state licensing requirements prohibiting certain farms from selling dairy products or producing their own chickens for sale to other citizens in the town.


http://internationalweek2010.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/bringing-it-home-global-to-local-food-sovereignty-movements/
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Bringing it Home: Global to Local Food Sovereignty Movements

 Podcast: Food Sovereignty Movements
Talk given on Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Eva Bogdan, Just Food Edmonton; Becky Lipton, Becky Lipton Research and Consulting, Ltd.; Angie Dedrick and Susan Roberts, Growing Food Security Alberta.
Food sovereignty is a global movement borne out of grassroots responses to the international food system and food injustices associated with it. Even kitchen table discussions across the country now focus on how to further food sovereignty nationally and personally. Explore food sovereignty from the global to the local and actively delve into the implications of food sovereignty here in Edmonton.
Podcast: Food Sovereignty Movements

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