Food

• Is Advocating the Paleo Diet Against the Law? A New Institute for Justice Suit Stands Up For Free Speech Against Occupational Licensing Law, Brian Doherty, May 29, 2012
• Utah School Fined $15,862 for Accidentally Selling Soda at Lunch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, May 17, 2012
• Do Poor People Ignore the Government's Dietary Advice Because They Can't Afford Healthy Food?, Jacob Sullum, May 17, 2012
• How Food Truck Regulations Strangle Small Businesses and Stifle Competition, Damon W. Root, May 16, 2012
• School Junk Food Ban Study Loaded With Empty Calories, Scott Shackford, May 14, 2012
• Sympathy for the President, Jesse Walker, May 9, 2012
• "We have deregulated every single aspect of corporate behavior, so that killing people is perfectly legal”, Nick Gillespie, May 3, 2012
• Is Your Flab Imposing a Burden on Society?, Jacob Sullum, May 1, 2012
• NYT Dives Back Into the Food Desert Swamp, Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 27, 2012
• St. Louis Food Trucks Are Pretty Much Banned from Parking Anywhere Ever, Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 20, 2012
• NYT: Food Deserts Are Not Real. Also, We Can Fix Them., Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 18, 2012
• The Mirage of Blooming 'Food Deserts', Jacob Sullum, April 18, 2012
• "Does Anyone Know What It Feels Like to Open Fire on 20 Baby Piglets?", Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 18, 2012
• The Unsavory Alliance of Big Government and Big Pig, Damon W. Root, April 17, 2012
• Food Trucks vs. The Establishment: Attorney Jeffrey Dermer on the Legalities of Mobile Vending, Zach Weissmueller, April 14, 2012
• 4 Loko Tacos & Other Illicit Foods - Kennedy w/ Keep Food Legal's Baylen Linnekin, Joshua Swain, April 9, 2012
• Katherine Mangu-Ward Talks Happy Meal Toys and Lawsuits on Fox Business Network, April 6, 2012
• Brooklyn Parents Hate the Ice Cream Man, Want Someone Else to Do Their Jobs. Again., Katherine Mangu-Ward, April 2, 2012
• Michigan Legislature Wants to Kill Fancy Pigs, My Relatives, Katherine Mangu-Ward, March 28, 2012
• Harris Poll Reflects and Reinforces Incoherent Thinking About 'Public Health', Jacob Sullum, March 21, 2012
• Do People Eat Too Much Because They Enjoy It Too Little?, Jacob Sullum, March 7, 2012
• D.C. Food Trucks Don't Mind Paying Taxes, Would Rather Not Get Screwed, Katherine Mangu-Ward, March 7, 2012
• NYC Trade Group Wants to Ban "Ugly" Food Carts, Nick Sibilla, March 6, 2012
• Vending, Vidi, Vici: U.S. Vending Machines Get More Creative, Nick Sibilla, March 2, 2012
• Mark Bittman: Government Is 'on Our Side' When It Stops Us From Eating What We Want to Eat, Jacob Sullum, February 27, 2012
• Is It Steak Yet? No, But Vat-Grown Burgers Might Be Hitting Your Plate By Year's End, Nick Gillespie, February 21, 2012
• North Carolina Food Inspector Rejects Little Girl's Home-Packed Lunch in Favor of Chicken Nuggets, Jacob Sullum, February 14, 2012
• Is This the Sort of Chip Manufacturer Obama Has in Mind?, Jacob Sullum, February 13, 2012
• Puerto Rico Job Plan: Hunt Iguanas, Sell Their Meat, Nick Sibilla, February 6, 2012
• Oklahoma Moves to Ban "Food or Products Which Use Aborted Human Fetuses", Nick Sibilla, January 26, 2012
• Maybe Schools Don't Control What Kids Eat, Jacob Sullum, January 24, 2012
• Reason.tv: The Foie Gras Fight - Animal Cruelty or Animal Rights Propaganda?, Zach Weissmueller, January 19, 2012
• Will the Obesity Plateau Allow Us to Take a Breather From Paternalistic Panic?, Jacob Sullum, January 18, 2012
• Maker of Twinkies, Wonder Bread Going Bankrupt; Ho-Hos Will Work the Streets for Cash, Nick Gillespie, January 12, 2012
• The Raw Milk Party vs. the Party of Pot and Veganism, Jacob Sullum, January 6, 2012
• A Black Market in Cheetos in L.A. Schools, Katherine Mangu-Ward, December 22, 2011
• Rep. Paul Ryan Moves to Repeal Plan to Cover Moon with Yogurt, Saves $5 Trillion!, Katherine Mangu-Ward, December 21, 2011
• Norway Has an "Acute Butter Shortage", Seth McKelvey, December 13, 2011
• Wait, Honey Smacks Have a Lot of Sugar?, Jacob Sullum, December 8, 2011
• A Seafaring Farewell for Now, Baylen Linnekin, December 2, 2011
• Mega-Thanks to Culinary Freedom Fighter & Guest Blogger Baylen Linnekin!, Nick Gillespie, December 2, 2011
• Study: Food Choice Always an Illusion, Except When it's Not, Baylen Linnekin, December 2, 2011
• Caveat Venditor: Cottage Food Laws Great in Theory, Often Less So in Practice, Baylen Linnekin, December 1, 2011
• Hot For Teacher-Criminalizing Sex Between Legal Adults?! Nanny of the Month (November 2011), Ted Balaker, November 30, 2011
• My Subsidized Food Choices Superior to Yours, Baylen Linnekin, November 30, 2011
• McDonald's Jukes San Francisco's Toy Ban, Baylen Linnekin, November 30, 2011
• Aussie Gov't to Citizens: You Are So Fat, We Sank to the Bottom of the Map, Katherine Mangu-Ward, November 29, 2011
• "[T]he troubles began as soon as the dancing started", Baylen Linnekin, November 28, 2011
• Meet the Guest-Blogger: "Culinary Freedom" Fighter Baylen Linnekin of Keep Food Legal, Nick Gillespie, November 28, 2011
• Low Sodium: Sacrificing Flavor for...Higher Cholesterol, Seth McKelvey, November 10, 2011
• Fast Food Is Not a Poor Choice, Jacob Sullum, November 10, 2011
• Mark Bittman Corrects Fact-Resistant Food Policy Analysts...Such As Mark Bittman, Jacob Sullum, October 17, 2011
• Reason Writers Around Town: Katherine Mangu-Ward on 5 Myths About Healthy Eating—And Why Politicians Can't Make You Skinny in The Washington Post, October 17, 2011
• Bloomberg: Paternalism Is 'Government's Highest Duty', Jacob Sullum, October 3, 2011
• The Butter Battle Comes to Wisconsin, Katherine Mangu-Ward, September 21, 2011
• Meet the Cosmovores, Katherine Mangu-Ward, September 19, 2011
• Reason.tv: Michigan Bar Owners Ban Lawmakers for Banning Smoking! (Nanny of the Month, Aug 2011), Ted Balaker, September 1, 2011
• Cool New Nutrition Labels Will Never Appear on Actual Food, Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 31, 2011
• The Death of the Baggie, Or Why Parents Must Now Decant Their Kids' Cheetos, Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 29, 2011
• Portland, the Land of the (Food Truck) Free, Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 25, 2011
• The Federal Government Wants You to Know That Your Pizza Contains Between 1,840 to 3,740 Calories. You're Welcome., Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 9, 2011
• Is the Variety of Food Crops "Dwindling"?, Katherine Mangu-Ward, August 5, 2011
• Double-Shot of Matt Welch on Russia Today, Talking Raw Milk, Children's Politics, and teh Gay, August 5, 2011
• Reason.tv: Rawesome Foods Raided... Again!, Zach Weissmueller, August 4, 2011
• Reason.tv: Plant a Garden, Go to Jail for 93-Days?! Nanny of the Month (July 2011), Ted Balaker, August 1, 2011
• Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Food Trucks, Matt Welch, July 28, 2011
• Dispatches From the Food Truck Wars, Matt Welch, July 25, 2011
• Meddling in Other People's Diets Is 'Fun' and 'Inspiring', Jacob Sullum, July 25, 2011
• Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Debt Ceiling Politics Last Week, Food Trucks Today, July 22, 2011
• It's Not That We're Against Food Trucks, it's That They're "technically illegal", Matt Welch, July 21, 2011