Local Officials Are Coming for Your Garden
Local regulatory busybodies are zoning away your right to grow food in your garden.
Local regulatory busybodies are zoning away your right to grow food in your garden.
Awful Obama administration-era reforms are being scaled back slightly. School lunches will still stink.
You got a permit for that ice cream machine?
Expensive calorie count mandate set to begin on May 5. Is delay or repeal possible?
The right to sell what you make without overwhelming government regulation affirmed.
Should advanced permission be required, or should land owners post signs?
The Mississippi catfish cartel vs. the Chesapeake invader-eaters
A farmer in Kansas who wants to sell his property challenges the state's law.
The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals dealt an important ruling for food freedom this week.
A decision so plainly obvious must have roots in intrusive government regulations.
Against all common sense and fairness, some states continue to tax grocery purchases.
A new bill not surprisingly has several Wisconsin lawmakers' support.
New studies blame Instagram and gluttony as causes of food waste.
And why these class-action endeavors are on the rise. (Hint: it's not consumer protection.)
Michigan lawmakers and the Twenty-First Amendment stink.
New bills in Montana and California would make it easier for small food entrepreneurs to thrive and for consumers to have more choices.
Existential threats from meddlesome rulemakers
The push for legalization-particularly farming-is being hampered by in a number of ways.
"If DNA is a drug, then all life on Earth is high."
It's time for Virginia's restrictive regulation of alcohol sales to go.
Virginia and other states force receipts to equal a high percentage of food sales. That's foolish.
The "Dairy Pride Act" calls for the FDA to crack down on cow-dairy alternatives that use terms like "milk" or "yogurt."
Food safety-just like food production and sales-is an increasingly global effort.
Outlaw quinoa runs rampant in Tampa.
Lawmakers try to further restrict who can use the term 'milk.'
"When celebrities-and celeb chefs like Jamie Oliver-render Spain's beloved dish unrecognizable, our culture suffers."
The year that was and the year that will be.
An exclusive post-election interview with the culinary celebrity host of Parts Unknown.
'Montreal has one of the highest restaurant per-capita ratios in North America and the amount of places to eat is worrying local politicians.'
Producers prohibited from sharing information with consumers about the year their apples were harvested.
What happens when a food's link to salmonella is proven false? Nothing.
Large farms have been stung by two recent setbacks. What's next?
Treat people as individuals not just as members of an undifferentiated public health herd
A controversy highlights the need to get the USDA out of organic food altogether. (Even a major newspaper thinks so!)
Food historian Rachel Laudan on why we never add truffles to our turkeys.
Should we expect a scaling back of regulations or even repeals?
New book Biting the Hands that Feed Us says too many dumb laws get in the way of a sustainable, freer, better food system.
"Food Freedom" advocate Baylen Linnekin says fewer, smarter laws would make our food system more sustainable.
Prosecutor: 'I don't write the laws, I enforce them.'
As the presidential race drags into the home stretch, food issues don't even rate as a blip on the polls.
USDA's diet guidelines are a mess because the information it uses is suspect.
As an ongoing lawsuit makes clear, the regulations are a joke. How do we fix them?
WHO's proposal that countries enact steep fees globally is wrong and unjustified.
Some federal label mandates drive up prices without making us safer.