Right time to challenge Misconstrued Entitlement: Right to Farm Ordinance

Right time to challenge Misconstrued Entitlement.

The primary beneficiary of right to farm amendments would be large corporately-controlled, industrial operations. At the very least, a constitutional “right to farm” would lead to endless, costly litigation which corporate agriculture believes they could win. The corporations’ commitment is to their stockholders, not to consumers, farmers, or rural communities. Corporate agriculture does not provide food for the 20 percent of American children who live in “food insecure” homes or hungry people developing countries, many of whom have been driven from their subsistence farms by agricultural industrialization.”

 

  1. The right to farm law in California The article in the June issue of the Agricultural Law Update entitled Iowa’s Right to Farm Law Declared Unconstitutional questions the constitutionality and enforceability of the right to farm laws across the country.
    1. 10 Reasons to Oppose ‘Right to Farm’ Amendments | Civil Eats

      Jul 17, 2014 · People in rural communities who have the greatest concern for the future of family farms and rural communities are opposing right to farm amendments. National organizations, such as the Humane Society of the U.S. and the Sierra Club , support rural opponents because they don’t think agriculture should be exempt from public accountability for their actions.

    2. Right-to-Farm means in cases of ‘nuisance’ farms …

      www.witf.org/state-house-sound-bites/2018/06/rightto-farm-means-in-cases-of-nuisance...

      Jun 05, 2018 · Every state some form of Right to Farm law. Rusty Rumley, an attorney with the National Agricultural Law Center, said Pennsylvania’s is somewhere in the middle in terms of strictness.