Michigan Residents Lose their "Right to Farm"

[amborin]

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Michigan residents lost their “right to farm” this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the new changes “effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers of animals.” Backyard and urban farming were previously protected by Michigan’s Right to Farm Act. The Commission ruled that the Right to Farm Act protections no longer apply to many homeowners who keep small numbers of livestock.

Kim White, who raises chickens and rabbits, said, “They don’t want us little guys feeding ourselves. They want us to go all to the big farms. They want to do away with small farms and I belie

[WhiteTara]

1. Michigan is a republican state

so vote blue, no matter who in November. Up and down the ballot.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. This is from the "limited gummint" crowd.

Lying corrupt fuckers, they are libertarian only toward their big donars.

[corkhead]

3. Yes, that is sad, but it is old news. This article was from 2014.

[mopinko]

4. clicked on it wondering

if something new had happened.
i hope this has been challenged in court.

[greymouse]

5. Just the opposite of what many places are doing

A lot of places have added okays for chickens and beehives.

[jwirr]

6. Damned glad me and my family do not live in MI. Most of us

are low income and we all have gardens and the animals live on one small farm. This is the way we help feed our families.

[glinda]

7. and WI for other reasons

[Blue_In_AK]

8. This is sad.

Here they're expanding the backyard farms. As of 2011 people in Anchorage can have chickens, goats, whatever, as long as there are no roosters (too noisy) and as long as their lot is above a certain size. Our local news has been running stories the past week about people and their farm animals.

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

9. I'd love to have a few chickens

but my snooty neighbors would have a cow if I did.

These laws protect the snooty folks who don't want chickens next door.

[Phil1934]

10. Get your chickens ..

and let them get their cow

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

13. LOL

nt

[Jopin Klobe]

11. 2014, you say ...

... isn't that about the time that Flint first started having its water poisoned? ... and having it kept secret? ...

... can you imagine what the poorer communities that are/were growing food are using to water their vegetables and fruits? ...

... does anyone think that Flint is the only city/town in Michigan that is having problems with clean water? ... and having it kept secret? ...

... as an aside ...

... anybody remember that Enron was starting to buy up water rights across this country right before it went belly-up? ...

... Enron, that is ...

[bjo59]

12. The brave new (corporate totalitarian) world continues to develop apace.