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exactly my reason for starting this thread... whether Canadian, American, European.... whatever, no one should be able to legislate what I can and can not put into my face, my families face.... in my home and property.... if it isn't harmng anyone else!
There's a case for legislation that prevents us from doing something stupid that might, for example, harm ourselves or our families. That might include badly grown food or dangerous substances or objects in the home. However, what we may get is legislation that limits individuals inappropriately and misses the target. Sometimes its just bad legislation drawn up by people who don't understand the subject matter and at other times it amounts to no more than a ring fence to protect an industry by making it very difficult for new entrants to enter a market.
After WWII in the UK food was very short and so was money to buy it. For, I think, something like eight years after 1945 food was rationed and the government provided free school milk in an attempt to improve children's diets. During the war, families were encouraged to grow as much of their own food as possible. That continued and the wartime generation for decades after often turned over their gardens to growing fruit and vegetables and keeping chickens. Some rented allotments if they had no land of their own. I didn't hear of salmonella in those days - not until factory farms and supermarkets appeared on the scene. It makes just as much sense to do grow some of our own now as it did then.
