Join Attorney Pete Kennedy and Maine farmer Deborah Evans on the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund's radio show this Saturday.  

UPDATE: Listen to the recording of this show.

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The Food Rights Hour
Republic Broadcasting Network (RBN)
Saturday, April 16, 2011 
8 pm - 10 pm Eastern; 7 - 9 Central; 6 -8 Mountain, 5 - 7 Pacific.

Listen Live www.republicbroadcasting.org

QUESTIONS? Be sure to call in during the Show: 800-313-9443

The Maine Food Sovereignty movement is gathering steam. Join this week’s host Pete Kennedy, attorney and President of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, with his guest, Deborah Evans, who operates Bagaduce Farm in Brooksville, Maine and is a primary advocate for the food sovereignty ordinance.

These are exciting times. A third Maine town has now adopted the food sovereignty ordinance. Read more here.

According to the Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance of 2011, “The purpose of the Local Food and Community Self-Governance Ordinance is to:

1. Provide citizens with unimpeded access to local food;
2. Enhance the local economy by promoting the production and purchase of local agricultural products;
3. Protect access to farmers’ markets, roadside stands, farm based sales, and direct producer to patron sales;
4. Support the economic viability of local food producers and processors;
5. Preserve community social events where local foods are served or sold;
6. Preserve local knowledge and traditional foodways.”

Be sure to call in with your questions. CALL-IN NUMBER: 800-313-9443

The Heart of the Matter - by Deborah Evans

It is beyond my comprehension that we must go to this effort to reclaim a right that the Founding Fathers assumed to be as natural as our right to take a breath of air. Many of them were farmers themselves. But here we are and fight we must. 

I constantly remind myself that the farms of my childhood, chickens in the barnyard, my grandmother's sour cherry pie with lard crust, the sound of warm fresh milk from Mr. Carpenter's cows being poured through the filter in the milk room, kitchen garden strawberries, on-farm slaughter of pigs and beeves in the fall and the resulting bacons and sausages, have NEVER existed in most peoples' lives regardless of their age. 

To not KNOW, and I mean really KNOW any part of your food at this most intimate level is to know nothing. Our ordinance re-asserts and protects our indefeasible right to KNOW our food - the over-ripe peaches of our neighbor's trees in summer, the fresh milk homestead cheese of another neighbor's stone cellar cave, Flossie's mouthwatering baked soldier beans at the Grange suppers. This nutrient-dense food I KNOW I know.

Missed the previous broadcast on April 9?  Listen to the recording for

Real Food's Role in Peak Performance, Gluten-free Diets,
Acid Reflux and Autism
With Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN, & Kathryne Pirtle