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Participants weigh tying a fix to a Supreme Court issue to a statewide 'right to grow food' bill
Summary
A working group discussed town-level mapping for agricultural tiers and whether to attach a proposed statewide "right to grow food" to legislation addressing an issue raised by the Supreme Court; no formal motion or vote was recorded. Members agreed to draft language and reconvene at 09:30 to continue work.
Participants in an Agriculture, Food Resiliency, & Forestry working session debated how to handle town mapping of agricultural tiers and whether to bundle a legislative "fix" for an issue raised by the Supreme Court with a broader proposal to create a statewide "right to grow food." Speaker 3, a participant, framed the central trade-off: attaching the right to a bill that might not pass could jeopardize passage, while attaching it to a broadly supported fix could increase the chance it moves forward.
The discussion focused first on tier…
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