The new bill would strengthen Maine resident rights to cultivate their own food. By iStock
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The Maine Food Sovereignty Act passed the State Congress, and will be on a ballot in November.
The bill lets Maine residents cultivate and harvest their own food as an inalienable right, amending the state constitution.
Opponents voiced hygiene and animal rights concerns.
Following the passage of a new bill through both the State House of Representatives and Senate, Maine voters could decide whether or not food is a constitutional right.
LD 95, or the Maine Food Sovereignty Act, aims to strengthen the rights of Maine residents to grow and consume their own food. If it passes, the legislation would formally add in the Maine constitution that “all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily hea