Baylen Linnekin, Executive Director of Keep Food Legal, Will be Guest-Blogging This Week at Hit & Run

I'm happy to introduce Hit & Run readers to a special guest blogger for this week: Baylen Linnekin, the executive director of Keep Food Legal, a nonprofit that argues in favor of "culinary freedom," the outrageous notion that individuals should be free to produce and consume whatever they want. For more information on KFL and to join or donate, go here. Full disclosure: I'm on the board of KFL.

Baylen is a regular contributor to Reason magazine and Reason.com. Read his whole archive, including his epic tale of New York City's "lobster underground" and eyewitness testimony from something called "the testicle festival," here. A former employee of the Drug Policy Alliance and a lawyer specializing in food-related issues, his blog entries will emphasize nanny state issues related to food and prohibition.

Here's Baylen taking with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Fox Business Network's Freedom Watch about raids on raw milk farms:

Comments

[SIV]

Unintended consequences of the de facto ban on horse slaughter in the US. Sen Mary Landrieu (D-LA) says "There is almost no market for horse meat in the United States". The lack of a market is the result of government intervention not from an absence of supply and demand.

[Michael Pack]

As a hunter who has shot and eaten every type of game locally hunted(rabbits,grouse,quail,dove,goose,ducks,deer frogs ect)Ive never understood this taboo here on which animals you can and cannot eat.I love seafood,snails and found rattle snake,turtle and alligator very good also.Morning dove is one of my favorites.

[John Spartan]

Hmmm, rat burger
http://www.shtfblog.com/rat-sn.....da-hungry/

[ClubMedSux]

I can understand people being upset with cats and dogs but don't understand the horse thing at all. Maybe it's because I grew up in an urban environment where I think of cats and dogs as being family pets but not horses. Regardless, intellectually I wouldn't even have a problem with cat and dog meat even though emotionally it would bother me (well, at least the dogs would... don't get me started on cats).

[SIV]

Culturally, we have plenty of references to old and lame horses bound for the "glue factory" and horsemeat as an edible animal protein. Horses have always been thought of more as livestock than dogs (IIRC, under common law, cats are wild animals)

[Somalian Road Corporation]

Charismatic megafauna.

[Michael Pack]

some of this has to do with the fact that meat eating land animals are not as tasty.Plant eating speices are more tender and tasty,including horses.I've never eaten horse but would try it if given the chance.Cats and dogs are tough( I've been told) and we,as humans,found better uses for the such as herders and pest control.In fact many spices ar deadly in high amounts,yet,used right,they impart flavor and other good qualities.Myself,I prefer rare meat,so,I whatch wat I eat.

[SIV]

Unintended consequences of the de facto ban on horse slaughter in the US. Sen Mary Landrieu (D-LA) says "There is almost no market for horse meat in the United States". The lack of a market is the result of government intervention not from an absence of supply and demand.

[SIV]

More on horse slaughter with a no registration comment system. The US would be the leading producer of cheval if not for government catering to the animal rights crowd at the expense of horse welfare and the American economy.

[SIV]

More "on-topic" links about food freedom.

A Belgian music festival that has snared Sister Bliss, Primal Scream and Roger Daltrey reprising The Who's rock opera "Tommy", has taken prized horse-meat sausage off the menu to honour vegetarian Morrissey's first appearance.

[Mister DNA]

Jesus. In honor of Morrissey's first appearance, they should be serving up knuckle sandwiches.

PS - Morrissey Rides A Cockhorse.

[WTF]

How much of a prissy douchebag do you have to be that you can't stand the thought of other people eating what they like?

[Michael Pack]

Your purity as a human is based on what you eat,drink,and drive.The earth is a living being infested with the virus of humanity

[Fist of Etiquette]

Full disclosure: I'm on the board of KFL.

I bet that means he knows what's in the Colonel's secret recipe.

[WTF]

Kentucky Fried Lynx?

[Mister DNA]

But is The Jacket on the board of KFL?

[Sinic]

Cool. I used to enjoy the To The People blog.

[SugarFree]

Will they warn him about us, or throw him to the wolves like the did the Other Steve Smith?

[Al Wayswright]

Of course the all-knowing technocrats and bureaucrats are right to impose rules on what Americans can eat.

As long as Americans are seeking and getting free medicine in Medicare, Medicaid, and soon Obamacare; and free food in SNAP ("food stamps"); government is right to dictate what Americans can eat, when they can eat and in what portion.

Since nearly every ailment is nutritionally driven, how else can bureaucrats, technocrats and politicians protect Americans who pay taxes to fund such programs?

[scarpe Nike Store]

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