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Subcommittee tables proposed ‘food choice’ constitutional amendment after divided testimony
Summary
The House Privileges and Elections constitutional amendment subcommittee tabled House Joint Resolution 452, which would add a constitutional right to acquire food “from the source of their choice,” after public testimony that split small producers and consumer advocates from agriculture and food-safety groups. The motion to table passed 5–3.
The House Privileges and Elections constitutional amendment subcommittee at its first meeting heard hours of testimony and voted 5–3 to table House Joint Resolution 452, a proposed constitutional amendment that would add a right “to acquire food of their choice from the source of their choice with mutual consent.”
Sponsor Delia Freitas, the bill’s patron, told the committee the amendment was intended to establish a broad, constitutional principle protecting people’s ability to buy, grow or raise food and trade it by mutual consent. “What this would do is it would add, to section 15B food choice to the Virginia Constitution that the right of the people to acquire food of their choice from the source of their choice…
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