Community | July 24, 2011 | 9 comments

Food Freedom Ordinance

source: http://www.stevenscountyassembly.com/blog-entry/farm/food-freedom-ordinance-final

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BE IT ORDAINED BY STEVENS COUNTY: That the people of the State of Washington, domiciled on Stevens county, have unalienable and fundamental rights and among those rights are the rights to choose the local foods they produce; process or prepare; sell, purchase, or distribute; preserve and store for extended periods of time; and consume, for food or drink, for people or other life forms.

BE IT FURTHERED ORDAINED BY STEVENS COUNTY: That the purpose of this ordinance is to:

1. Protect the unalienable and fundamental rights of individuals, families, and groups of people, who produce, process or prepare local foods, and thereby;

A. Provide producers and processors unimpeded access to patrons who want to purchase local foods.

2. Protect the unalienable and fundamental rights of patrons to purchase local foods from producers and processors of local foods, and thereby;

A. Provide patrons with unimpeded access to producers and processors for the purpose of purchasing local foods.

3. Protect the unalienable and fundamental rights of citizens to preserve as much local food as they deem necessary for themselves and their families; and

4. Protect the unalienable and fundamental rights of citizens to store preserved local foods for extended periods of time, as deemed necessary for themselves and their families.

5. Enhance the local economy by promoting the production and processing; and the selling and purchasing of local foods, and thereby;

A. Support the local economic viability of local food producers and processors.

6. Protect our rural way of life and our community cultural and social events.

7. Preserve local farming knowledge and traditional food ways.

8. Support local open pollinated seed banks, and to grow, process, store, sell, purchase or exchange open pollinated seeds.

Section 1. Name: This ordinance may by cited as, “Stevens County Local Food Freedom Ordinance.”

Read the full text at the link...... http://www.stevenscountyassembly.com/blog-entry/farm/food-freedom-ordinance-fina...
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