Vedic City Leaders Reviewing Non-Organic Food Ban

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Organic only: Vedic City suggests ban

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from FAIRFIELD LEDGER - Top Stories

By Matt Mullenneaux, Ledger staff writer

December 02, 2002

 

Town would likely be the first to enact such a restriction.

 

VEDIC CITY -- Officials in Iowas newest city want to outlaw the sale of

non-organic food inside the towns borders. The city council unanimously passed a

resolution requiring all food items sold in the city to be organic through its

first reading at Wednesdays meeting.

 

"Vedic City doesn’t endorse poisoning its citizens," Vedic City Mayor Bob Wynne

said. Wynne stated the resolution was prompted by an outbreak of allergic

reactions in city residents. He believes the allergic reactions were related to

recent crop dusting on nearby farms.

 

If passed, the resolution make the sale of any food that is genetically modified

or not grown organically illegal inside Vedic City. It would still be legal for

someone to purchase non-organic food from outside the city limits and consume it

within the city, Wynne said.

 

The resolution would apply to restaurants and grocery stores in the city. Vedic

City currently has one restaurant, located at the Raj resort, and no grocery

stores.

 

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Vedic City Leaders Reviewing Non-Organic Food Ban

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Vedic City’s leaders want to ban all non-organic food from being sold within the

city limits.

 

Last week, the City Council passed the first reading of an ordinance that

outlaws non-organic food in grocery stores or restaurants that are expected to

be built in the town. There are no grocery stores in the town yet, and one

restaurant there is at the Raj hotel and health spa.

 

The food served at the Raj already complies with the new ordinance, but any new

grocery stores or restaurants that set up shop in Vedic City would have to bear

the stamp of organic foods. Most Vedic City residents commute into Fairfield to

buy organic groceries that are not grown or made in the town already.

 

Even though it may be illegal soon to buy genetically modified food in Vedic

City, the law is not as strict as it seems. The ordinance will allow residents

to eat non-organic food in the town brought-in from somewhere else.

 

Since being incorporated in July of 2001, the government of Vedic City has

passed a few unconventional laws. The official language of the town is ancient

Sanskrit, and all buildings must face east to follow Vedic architecture rules.

 

There will be two more readings of the ordinance before it officially hits the

books.

 

 

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