Efforts to legalize the sale of raw milk for human consumption were stifled in the North Dakota House four years ago. At that time, the Agriculture Committee forced the raw milk portion out of a bill now known as “Food [read more…]
Back in September, we shed some light on a $90,000 legislative summit that some of our very own North Dakota legislators and Legislative Council staffers attended in Nashville, Tennessee. If you haven’t already, you can read about it here. For [read more…]
Exactly two months ago, we published an article in relation to current efforts by the North Dakota Department of Health to undermine our state’s Food Freedom Law and its associated cottage food industry. If you’re unfamiliar with the issue, I [read more…]
There’s a word often thrown around in politics that I think is worth defining as we begin this article— bureaucracy. According to Google, it is: “… a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state [read more…]
Back in February, I wrote that North Dakota’s Food Freedom Law was under attack again. This time it came in the form of Senate Bill 2269, which was sponsored by former grocer and current State Senator and Assistant Majority Leader [read more…]
A year ago, we published an article in which I expressed skepticism and displeasure with North Dakota’s needle exchange program. The program came into being as a result of the 2017 Legislative Session’s Senate Bill 2320. The basic premise behind the [read more…]
In April of 2017, the North Dakota Legislature passed Rep. Luke Simons’ (R – District 36) HB 1433. Initially, the bill was dubbed the “Raw Milk Bill”, because it included verbiage that would have permitted the sale of raw milk. [read more…]
Late last month, we reported that our state’s fourth branch of government – otherwise known as the North Dakota Department of Health – was overstepping its bounds and proposing rules that would basically gut the recently passed Food Freedom law. [read more…]
Last Legislative Session, State Senator Howard Anderson (R – District 8) introduced Senate Bill 2320. This bill proposed what is known as a “Needle Exchange Program” or a “Syringe Exchange Program”. The basic premise behind the bill is to reduce [read more…]
Just one year ago, the North Dakota Legislature was considering Rep. Luke Simons’ (R – District 36) House Bill 1433. This bill was originally known to many of its supporters as the “Raw Milk Bill“, but the actual content of [read more…]
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