BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 16, 2024
In an effort to thwart a legal effort by a Readfield couple to use the Right to Food amendment to overturn Maine’s ban on Sunday hunting, the state of Maine argued that the new amendment did not grant constitutional protection to hunt in our state. Although the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled against the Readfield couple, and held that the Sunday hunting ban was not contrary to the amendment, the court held that the amendment DOES protect legal hunting. In other words, for purposes of the constitutional amendment, as voted by Maine residents in the 2021 referendum, the constitutional word “harvest” includes hunting. ~ V. Paul Reynolds