Tags: Food Policy

San Francisco's famed Forage Underground Market will shut down later this month. But the tracks laid by its founder Iso Rabins--and others around the country--mean that the choice to make and sell many foods locally is increasingly returning to small entrepreneurs.

Scientifically illiterate, business-hating media will always do scare stories.

PETA's lawsuit against a small California restaurant comes out of frustration that the state's foie gras ban isn't being enforced. But that's because the ban is unenforceable.

Don't even try to make sense of the rules

A New Deal price-fixing scheme reaches the High Court. Will the justices take the case?

New government research appears likely to help activists impose more restrictions on alcohol.

Much has been made of late of a "food movement" that would restrict our right to make our own food choices. But victories for food freedom in Denmark, California, and (hopefully) New York City show the true food movement is something else altogether.

Los Angeles City Council leaders have voted 14-0 in favor of endorsing the internationally led "Meatless Mondays" campaign.

Unnecessary regulations force a popular food entrepreneur to close its doors.

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting this morning that Proposition 37 that - on specious "right-to-know" grounds - would have required labeling foods containing ingredients from biotech enhanced crops has failed.

Bad research. Bad reporting on bad research. What's the deal with food-related public-health research and reporting?

A federal price-fixing case highlights the judiciary’s troubling deference to government regulation.

10 experts weigh in on federal food policies Obama and Romney should address.

Food cart cronyism

That's a lot of celiac

Here are 10 important federal food-policy issues the presidential candidates should be discussing but have ignored until now.

A new anti-soda video offers a welcome case for personal responsibility.