A court decision in Maine over unlicensed sale of milk by a small farmer may carry implications for food sovereignty advocates. The New York Times says 11 towns in Maine, including the farmer’s hometown of Blue Hill, have a food sovereignty ordinance, “which grants an exemption from food safety rules to farmers selling directly to consumers.” Besides Maine, “similar measures have popped up in states including California and Vermont. Pete Kennedy, the director of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund, said this was the first litigation involving one of the ordinances, so advocates were watching closely,” said the Times. The court ruled against the farmer, Dan Brown.