As voters cast their ballots for the November 2 elections, Mainers will decide on three statewide referendum questions, including a possible constitutional amendment granting Mainers a right to produce and consume food of their choosing for their own well-being. 

Question 3 reads: Do 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?

If voters pass the constitutional amendment, Section 25, Right to Food, would be added to the State Constitution. 

That language would read: 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.