{"id":2711,"date":"2014-06-23T15:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=2711"},"modified":"2014-09-16T07:04:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T12:04:37","slug":"maine-supreme-court-rules-on-dairy-licensing-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=2711","title":{"rendered":"Maine Supreme Court Rules On Dairy Licensing Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.maine.gov\/opinions_orders\/supreme\/lawcourt\/2014\/14me79br.pdf\">Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling<\/a> against Dan Brown (aka &#8220;Farmer Brown&#8221; in Blue Hill), upholding a lower court\u2019s decision that he had broken the law by selling raw milk from his unlicensed, un-inspected Gravelwood Farm. Here is the link to read the BDN story.<\/p>\n<p>This ruling lifted Mr. Brown&#8217;s crusade to the national spotlight with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/06\/19\/us\/maine-court-fight-pits-farmers-against-state-and-one-another.html\">a recent New York Times article<\/a> covering the history and outcome of his, and the supporters of municipal &#8220;Food Sovereignty&#8221; ordinances, fight against state regulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling against Dan Brown (aka &#8220;Farmer Brown&#8221; in Blue Hill), upholding a lower court\u2019s decision that he had broken the law by selling raw milk from his unlicensed, un-inspected Gravelwood Farm. Here is the link to read the BDN story. This ruling lifted Mr. Brown&#8217;s crusade to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,178,40],"class_list":["post-2711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-licensing","tag-milk-2","tag-regulation","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}