{"id":3566,"date":"2018-12-15T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2018-12-15T15:00:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T22:00:27","slug":"maines-food-sovereignty-law-is-a-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Maine\u2019s Food Sovereignty Law Is a Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s behind the FSO movement? Mainers&#8217; fervor for food sovereignty began to solidify in the state at the beginning of this decade, in the wake of the state&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/civileats.com\/2017\/11\/01\/maines-new-food-sovereignty-law-gets-a-last-minute-overhaul\/\">prosecution<\/a> of a raw milk farmer. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2013\/05\/28\/186955163\/farm-free-or-die-maine-towns-rebel-against-food-rules\">key impetus<\/a> for the movement was a state exemption for farmers who wanted to sell less than $1,000 in poultry annually. Those who wished to sell poultry under the so-called exemption first had to spend tens of thousands of dollars to comply with state regulations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/archives\/2018\/12\/01\/maines-food-sovereignty-law-is-a-hit\">Maine\u2019s Food Sovereignty Law Is a Hit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s behind the FSO movement? Mainers&#8217; fervor for food sovereignty began to solidify in the state at the beginning of this decade, in the wake of the state&#8217;s prosecution of a raw milk farmer. Another key impetus for the movement was a state exemption for farmers who wanted to sell less than $1,000 in poultry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=3566\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maine\u2019s Food Sovereignty Law Is a Hit<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}