New England Town Declares Food Sovereignty

Farm-to-Table Agriculture

Sedgwick, Maine is first town to declare total food sovereignty, opposing state and federal laws

by  J.D. Heyes

naturalnews.com

March 25, 2013

There is a food revolution taking hold all over America, whether it is in the form of demanding labeling of GM foods, the right to produce and sell raw milk and other commodities, or - in the case of Sedgwick, Maine - declaring all local food transactions of any kind free and legal.

According to the website FoodRenegade.com, Sedgwick is the first city in the U.S. to free itself from the constraints of federal and state food regulation. Published reports say the town has passed an ordinance that gives its citizens the right "to produce, sell, purchase, and consume local foods of their choosing," regulations be damned. The ordinance includes raw milk, meats that are slaughtered locally, all produce and just about anything else you might imagine.

And what's more, three additional towns in Maine are expected to take up similar ordinances soon, said the FoodRenegade.com.

More Fraud? Yes, And It's On Your Dinner Plate

This is disgusting, unnerving and just plain scary.  The length to which profit-mongering food conglomerates have gone to deceive and potentially harm the unwary consumer has reached a new low.  Wow, at this point, how much integrity is remaining?  What is to be trusted as truthful and reliable?  Think twice the next time you see extra virgin olive oil on sale or frozen fish filets that look so appetizing.  Buyer beware!!  The good news, if you can say that, is this information being made public.  What grabbed my attention was the inception for this report was inspired by a program on Nation Public Radio.  Huh, go figure - Yahoo using alternative sources for their news.  Now at least that has integrity.  -S.C-

Food fraud in America: What are you really eating?

By Victor Paul Alvarez

For Yahoo News, March 11 2013

http://shopping.yahoo.com/

Rhode Island Rep. Joseph McNamara is currently trying to pass legislation that would make fried squid the official state appetizer. Since Rhode Island is the squid capital of the world – hey, they have to be good at something – chances are the fried rings served there are exactly what they claim to be. Elsewhere, however, they may be serving you deep fried pig anus and calling it calamari.

In January, National Public Radio told a story about a multi-state pork processing company selling pig rectum – referred to, by the industry, as “bung” – as imitation calamari. NPR’s Ira Glass did everything possible to refute his source on the story, but dozens of experts could not shoot down the possibility that people are ordering squid and getting pork bung instead. He went so far as to have his sister, a chef, serve a plate of fried bung next to a plate of fried calamari.

No one could tell the difference. 

37 Reasons Why California’s Prop. 37 MUST Pass

by Ethan A. Huff
for Natural News
September 19, 2012

Thanks to:  http://activistawake.com

In fewer than two months, Californians will have the unique opportunity to vote YES on Proposition 37, a ballot measure that will require retail food items made with or containing genetically-modified (GM) ingredients to be labeled as such. And in the face of concerted opposition to GMO labeling by Monsanto and the corporate food industry, which would rather keep the presence of GMOs in your food a secret, it is important that voters are aware of why passing a law requiring mandatory GMO labeling is crucial to food freedom.

As compiled by Hemi Weingarten over at the blog Fooducate.com, here are 37 reasons why California’s Prop. 37 ballot measure must pass:

1)  The alleged environmental superiority of GM crops is questionable at best, and GMO production still requires the heavy use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals.

2)  A popular misconception, selective breeding and hybridization are not the same thing as genetic modification. GMOs contain foreign genes for which the harmful side-effects are largely unknown.

3)  Contrary to popular belief, there has never been a single long-term safety study conducted on any GMO.

4)  Cultivation of GMOs leads to the proliferation of herbicide-resistant “superweeds,” for which there are no known solutions.

5)  Monsanto, the largest purveyor of GMOs, is responsible for thrusting Agent Orange on the world — can this chemical company really be trusted?

6)  Labeling GMOs will not increase food costs, as GMOs have been labeled throughout Europe for more than a decade without consequence.