2016 New York Laws
AGM - Agriculture & Markets
Article 1 - (Agriculture & Markets) Short Title; Definitions; Matters of Public Interest.
3 - Declaration of policy and purposes.

 3. Declaration  of policy and purposes. The agricultural industry is
  basic to the life of our state. It  vitally  concerns  and  affects  the
  welfare,  health,  economic  well-being  and  productive  and industrial
  capabilities of all our people. It is the policy and duty of  the  state
  to promote, foster, and encourage the agricultural industry, with proper
  standards  of  living for those engaged therein; to design and establish
  long-range programs for its stabilization and profitable  operation;  to
  increase  through education, research, regulation, and scientific means,
  the quantity, quality, and efficiency of its production; to improve  its
  marketing  system;  to  encourage  adequate  and  skilled assistance for
  agricultural enterprises; to maintain at  fair  prices  uncontrolled  by
  speculation the instrumentalities and products of agriculture; to remove
  unnecessary  or  unfair  costs  and  obstacles  in  the  transportation,
  storage, processing, distribution, marketing, and sale  of  agricultural
  products;  to  prevent  frauds  in  the  traffic  therein; to promote an
  expanded  demand  for  the  state's  agricultural   products   and   the
  intelligent  uses  thereof  by  consumers as pure and wholesome food; to
  protect  the   public   health   and   to   eliminate   the   evils   of
  under-nourishment;  to  encourage  the selection and consumption of food
  according to sound dietary and nutritional principles;  to  improve  our
  citizens' overall health and to combat the increasing incidence of adult
  and  childhood  obesity; and to make our people conscious of the bond of
  mutual self-interest between our urban and our rural populations.
Accordingly, all laws enacted concerning the agricultural industry and
  its allied subjects, whether included in this chapter or not, are to  be
  deemed  an  exercise of the police power of the state and a discharge of
  its obligations  for  the  promotion  of  the  general  welfare  through
  state-wide  laws  and  regulations,  local  initiative  and  government,
  cooperative action between groups and  localities,  home-rule  measures,
  individual enterprise, civic consciousness, and appropriate coordination
  with   the  federal  government  and  as  between  educational  research
  institutions within the state.
Such laws and  all  governmental  measures  adopted  pursuant  thereto
  should  receive  a liberal interpretation and application in furtherance
  of the aforesaid policy and purposes.