Readability score See also: Ballot measure readability scores, 2021 Using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL) and Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formulas, Ballotpedia scored the readability of the ballot title and summary for this measure. All individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to food, including the right to save and exchange seeds and the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being, as long as an individual does not commit trespassing, theft, poaching or other abuses of private property rights, public lands or natural resources in the harvesting, production or acquisition of food.
The following underlined text was added: The ballot measure added a Section 25 to Article I of the Maine Constitution. The ballot question was as follows: “ĭo you favor amending the Constitution of Maine to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being? Ĭonstitutional language See also: Article I, Maine Constitution Maine Question 3 was the first state constitutional amendment to provide an explicit right to "grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing." As of 2021, several states had constitutional amendments that contained some similarities, such as amendments related to a right to hunt and fish, a right to farm, and a right to sell garden and farm products. Were there similar constitutional amendments? See also: Background The constitutional amendment was added to the Maine Constitution's Declaration of Rights. Question 3 did not provide a right to harvest, produce, or acquire food in cases in which an individual commits trespassing, theft, poaching, or "other abuses of private property rights, public lands or natural resources." "the right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being".
"the right to save and exchange seeds" and.Question 3 declared that individuals have a "natural, inherent and unalienable right to food," including: Source Overview What did this ballot measure add to the Maine Constitution? See also: Constitutional changes 8.3 Constitutional amendments on Maine ballots.8.2.3 Right to hunt and fish amendments.8.2 Constitutional amendments on food, farming, and harvesting.2.2 Were there similar constitutional amendments?.