Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff Proposes Jail for Feeding Homeless

by Meryl Williamson
The Hive
Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff has created regulations around giving food to the homeless that few could meet and that would apply a fine and imprisonment to anyone trying to do so in the old fashioned way: “Here is a little something to tide you over. We wish you the best.” Try […]

Minnesota Dept of Ag seizes entire inventory of Traditional Foods Minnesota buying club, including coconut oil!

by KATHRYN NIFLIS JOHNSON
Optimal Health Connection
Last night, I wrote only about my own experience, as a way for me to process the events of yesterday, with my farmer, Alvin Schlangen, and the MN Department of Agriculture (MDA). This was much easier for me, than trying to report hard facts, especially when I am tired. I […]

Minnesota Department of Agriculture Continues Attacks Against Small-scale Farmers

by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient
“I’m new to this community and…get food from Alvin (Schlangen),” writes Elisa on a listserve. “I’m so upset they have done this, as is my whole family.”
Welcome to Minnesota, Elisa, where official interference in ordinary people’s access to food has become a major public initiative, along with paving roads and […]

“Food Sovereignty” law passed in small Maine town to allow sale of locally produced food without interference of regulators

Town Hall in Sedgwick Maine

Update March, 2013: Brooksville Becomes Ninth Maine Town to Pass Food Sovereignty Law
Here’s a Way to Eliminate the Regulators and Lawyers, and Build Community At the Same Time: Organize and Declare “Food Sovereignty,” Like Sedgwick, Maine
by David E. Gumpert
The Complete Patient

Maybe the citizens of tiny Sedgwick on the Maine coast were […]