The presidential election wasn’t the only thing being voted on this week. Millions of Americans also voted their voice on state and citywide issues affecting food policy and the food industry; minimum wage, grocery bag bans, and farming rights were on the table Election Day, here are the results as reported by the website Eater.
See their helpful chart here.
Some of the changes in the ballots affecting producers and consumers:
Indiana: Make hunting, fishing, and trapping wildlife a constitutional right
PASSED
Kansas: Make hunting, fishing, and trapping wildlife a constitutional right
PASSED
Massachusetts: Ban certain methods of farm animal containment
PASSED
Montana: Ban using animal traps and snares on state lands
PASSED
Oklahoma: Make farming a constitutional right
NOT PASSED
Oregon: Ban sale of products from 12 species of endangered animals
PASSED
California: Continue to ban plastic grocery bags
PASSED
California: Redirect proceeds from grocery bag sales to Wildlife Conservation Board
NOT PASSED
Oklahoma: Grocery/convenience stores may sell full-strength beer and wine
PASSED
In Indiana and Kansas, controversial amendments to make it a constitutional right to hunt and fish passed in both states. According to the latest National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, Indiana enumerated some 842,000 outdoor sportsmen while Kansas had 453,000.
Voters in Boulder, Colorado and the voters in San Francisco, Oakland, and Albany, California approved taxes on soda.