Sunday, April 24, 2011

Food Movement Meets the Tea Party

Partly due to the rise of the tea party, there have been a number of laws passed and more bills proposed which have the effect of exempting a state from some sort of federal regulation, whether or immigration, health care, or whatever.  Now the food movement has gotten into the action, passing local ordinances exempting locally grown food from state and federal regulation, as in this  Maine case 

On the anniversary of the start of the Civil War, it's a good reminder that Americans have a deep rooted impulse to secede from government, whether the subject is slavery or food.

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