{"id":6003,"date":"2017-10-25T17:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=6003"},"modified":"2017-10-25T17:03:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T21:03:38","slug":"legislature-dodges-federal-meat-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=6003","title":{"rendered":"Legislature Dodges Federal Meat Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, October 23, the Maine Legislature met in an emergency special session in part <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2017\/10\/20\/lawmakers-propose-fix-to-maines-food-sovereignty-law\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to address the threat from the USDA to rescind Maine&#8217;s contract to provide State Inspection of meat and poultry<\/a>. This would have severely restricted Maine&#8217;s capacity to process any meat locally, potentially limiting the entire industry to a single slaughterhouse. This emergency was caused by the passage, in June of LD725 &#8212; which was passed and signed by the Governor in June &#8212; that allowed citizens to sell unregulated food products in towns that had passed ordinances stating that, often referred to as &#8220;Food Sovereignty Ordinances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luckily both houses of the Legislature <a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.maine.gov\/LawMakerWeb\/summary.asp?ID=280066837\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">voted to approve LD1648<\/a> altering <a href=\"http:\/\/legislature.maine.gov\/LawMakerWeb\/summary.asp?ID=280063572\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the language of LD725<\/a> specifically stating that all Maine meat processors had to comply with state and federal regulation regardless of local ordinances enacted by towns and cities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/MCG_Testimony_Alter_LD725.docx\">The Guild public testimony at that public hearing can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, October 23, the Maine Legislature met in an emergency special session in part to address the threat from the USDA to rescind Maine&#8217;s contract to provide State Inspection of meat and poultry. This would have severely restricted Maine&#8217;s capacity to process any meat locally, potentially limiting the entire industry to a single slaughterhouse. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":3925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-with-thumbnail","post-with-thumbnail-icon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}