Comments E. Melanie DuPuis has made
let's get (creatively) geeky about it
Perhaps we should start by creatively using the tools the USDA already has for different goals. For example, look at the Northeast Dairy Compact, which set a regional milk market policy for a region based on "recognizing the cultural and economic benefits of a viable dairy industry in the region and facilitating the Constitutional rights of individual states to act collectively in order to regulate milk prices."
Can we make a similar argument for regional food compacts, using state constitutional rights and agricultural marketing rights gained in the New Deal? Can we apply dairy market order law to other forms of food localization?
I'm just throwing this out as a way for us to think about localization from a more national perspective.On Think locally, act infrastructurally posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago 15 Responses
let's get (creatively) geeky about it
Perhaps we should start by creatively using the tools the USDA already has for different goals. For example, look at the Northeast Dairy Compact, which set a regional milk market policy for a region based on "recognizing the cultural and economic benefits of a viable dairy industry in the region and facilitating the Constitutional rights of individual states to act collectively in order to regulate milk prices."
Can we make a similar argument for regional food compacts, using state constitutional rights and agricultural marketing rights gained in the New Deal? Can we apply dairy market order law to other forms of food localization?
I'm just throwing this out as a way for us to think about localization from a more national perspective.On Think Locally, Act Infrastructurally posted 10 months, 3 weeks ago 14 Responses