Article from Keep Food Legal - a DC nonprofit advocating food freedom

[TalkingDog]

http://reason.com/archives/2012/06/23/i-say-tomato-you-say-no/1

Zoning is intended—say its proponents—to prevent nuisances from arising. But when zoning itself becomes the nuisance, and when it gets in the way of people using their own property how they’d like--and exactly no one is made better off, save for the bureaucrats who make and enforce the ordinances--then that piece of zoning must fall.

Decades before First Lady Michelle Obama planted a highly visible garden on the White House back lawn, then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s efforts to plant a similar garden met with resistance from her own husband’s Department of Agriculture, which Time magazine reported (subscription) at the time was “skeptical of amateur farmers.”

That attitude—having spread like a weed through zoning and code-enforcement rules that stretch across America—is one worth combating.

[IDemo]

1. The FDA needs to follow the FCC's lead

They need to make zoning laws illegal which prohibit the growing of food on one's own land. The FCC prohibited zoning laws against antennas and have actively enforced the policy.

Somehow, I don't see them doing so after witnessing their protection of the GMO industry.

[Comrade_McKenzie]

2. The day we arrest people for growing tomatoes is the day I root for anarchy. nt