Sara Gideon voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Amends State Constitution to Include a Right to Food
Vote to pass a bill that amends the Maine constitution to include a right to food.
Amends the Maine Constitution to add a section detailing that all individuals have a natural, inherent, and unalienable right to food, including the right to (Sec. 1):
Grow, raise, harvest, produce, possess, prepare, preserve, and consume the food of their own choosing; and
To save, exchange seeds, barter, trade, or purchase food from the sources of their own choosing.
Prohibits trespassing, theft, or poaching off of public lands or natural resources in the harvesting of food or other private property rights abuses (Sec. 1).
Title: Amends State Constitution to Include a Right to Food
Vote to pass a bill that amends the Maine constitution to include a right to food.
Amends the Maine Constitution to add a section detailing that all individuals have a natural, inherent, and unalienable right to food, including the right to (Sec. 1):
Grow, raise, harvest, produce, possess, prepare, preserve, and consume the food of their own choosing; and
To save, exchange seeds, barter, trade, or purchase food from the sources of their own choosing.
Prohibits trespassing, theft, or poaching off of public lands or natural resources in the harvesting of food or other private property rights abuses (Sec. 1).
Title: Amends State Constitution to Include a Right to Food