California's New Food Waste Law Is Backfiring
Compliance is proving to be expensive and confusing.
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New Investigation Finds FDA's Food Side Is 'Broken'
Among experts on food safety, the consensus is that the FDA's food division isn't functional.
Innovation Can Bring Food Prices Back Down to Earth
In time, demand for poop and ash may offset the fertilizer crunch.
SCOTUS Could (and Should) Strike Down California's Animal-Rights Law
Proposition 12 threatens the national food economy.
California's Terrible Price-Gouging Law Puts Markets at Mercy of Ambitious Prosecutors
Higher egg prices are not a crisis in the middle of a pandemic full of supply problems.
Does Boston's Mayor Hate the City's Restaurants?
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu seems hellbent on making things difficult or impossible for city restaurants.
A High School Banned Students From Selling Snacks. Predictably, a Black Market for Snacks Emerged.
A sociologist spent 112 days tracking students' illicit deals for chips and other goodies.
Blame Insane Government Spending for Inflation
Some want to solve the problem with subsidies for gas, housing, child care, and more. That only risks greater stagnation.
Veggie 'Meat' Maker Tofurky Wins Free Speech Challenge to Food-Labeling Law
Plus: Meta's campaign to smear TikTok, new research on immigrants and welfare, and more...
Maintaining Biofuel Mandates Worsens Global Food Crisis Caused By Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Turning food into fuel has always been a dubious proposition.
Supreme Court Takes Up California's Attempt To Control How Other States' Farmers Treat Pigs
Do California's rules violate the dormant commerce clause?
Connecticut Should Let Small Farmers Slaughter Their Rabbits on Their Farms
A cost-efficient and humane method for processing rabbit meat is preferable to the state's current system.
Got Roadkill? Now There's an App for That
Wyoming is now encouraging drivers to report roadkill casualties for harvesting.
Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Threatens Further Hikes in Food Prices
Among his other crimes, Putin’s war increases the suffering of the world’s poor and hungry.
The Fake-Meat Revolution Has Stalled
Consumer trends suggest a meatless near future is increasingly unlikely.
Trade Restrictions on Oysters Get Shucked
After more than a decade on ice, trade in shellfish between the European Union and the United States is about to pick up steam.
How Drug Cartels and Federal Import Restrictions May Cancel Your Guacamole Plans
Almost all of America’s avocados come from a single Mexican state. A threatening message threw it into disarray.
Study: Seattle's Soda Tax Has Been Great for…Beer Sales?
The substitution effect is real.
More Non-Meat Choices Are Better Than Meat Taxes or Bans
More choice can decrease meat consumption without coercion of regressive taxation.
It's Time for New York City To Scrap Its Cap on Street-Food Permits
Despite shifting enforcement away from cops, NYC is still ticketing the dickens out of New York's street-food sellers.
The FDA Finally Liberates French Dressing from 72-Year-Old Ingredient Mandates
Why? A better question was why they were ever involved in the first place.
Biden's Plan To Address Meat-Price Inflation Ignores That Federal Intervention Caused the Problem
The president can't fix a problem he doesn't understand.
Mandatory GMO Disclosure Doesn't Sway Shopping Habits (But Will Drive Up Costs)
Plus: Questioning paranoia about smartphones and attention spans, new small business creation is thriving, and more...
Food Costs Likely To Rise as Farmers' Expenses Shoot Up
Bad policy and unpredictable nature are sending food prices through the roof.
Animal-Rights Laws Are Coming Back To Bite California and Massachusetts Voters
State food laws shouldn't apply to producers and consumers across state lines.
Cities Undermine the Holiday Spirit with Unconstitutional Bans on Sharing Food with the Homeless
Do you, like many Americans, feel especially charitable this time of year? Enjoy helping those in need? Better buy a permit.
California Promised Street Vendors More Freedom. Instead They Got More Rules.
The state’s “reforms” have saddled merchants with oppressively expensive permitting demands.
Newark's Scrooges Want To Ban Giving Food to Homeless People
Donating to the needy, in addition to being a generally nice thing to do, is a protected First Amendment activity.
The Great Libertarian Gift Guide of 2021
It's time to spread cheer. Reason is here to help.
Mexico's 'Junk Food' Warning Labels Are Junk
Government mandates have not resulted in a drop in sales of unhealthy snacks.
Food Trucks Still Being Squeezed Out by Local Governments
Detroit leaders throw around words like "fairness" and "equity" while shielding big restaurants from smaller competition.
That Time Mikhail Gorbachev Appeared in a Pizza Hut Commercial
There may not be a more striking metaphor for capitalism's victory over the Soviet Union than a 60-second Pizza Hut ad that originally aired more than 20 years ago.
Rachel Laudan: Why Thanksgiving Dinner Is Served All at Once
The Cuisine and Empire author dishes on the anti-French origins of Turkey Day, why she hates "organic" food, and the genius of Julia Child.
Will Massachusetts Make Life Sweeter for Home-Cook Entrepreneurs?
It's oppressively hard, if not impossible, to sell homemade food in the Bay State. One lawmaker proposes massive regulatory reform.
To Fight Climate Change, Los Angeles Bans Restaurants From Giving Out Unsolicited Ketchup Packets
Businesses that give customers condiments without them first asking for them could receive fines totaling $300.
Communism Destroyed Russian Cooking
Soviet rule promised abundance. Instead it brought misery and starvation.
Government Officials Hunger for More Revenue Through Food Taxes
Inflation isn't the only reason some folks may be paying more for dining and groceries.
Thank the Government for the High Price of Holiday Meals
But also be thankful that Americans have been spared the worst of soaring food costs.
United Nations Official Suggests Elon Musk Donation Could Solve Global Hunger (Kinda)
How much good can $6 billion really do?
Congressional Report Confirms Trump's USDA Food-Box Program Was a Huge Waste of Money
Replacing parts of SNAP with a poorly overseen food delivery program turned out to be an expensive disaster.
NIMBY New Yorkers Sue City Over 'Proliferation of Outdoor Dining'
The Open Restaurants Program spared much of New York's restaurant industry from the ravages of COVID-19 shutdowns.
It's Time To Kill the Mandatory Beef Tax That Underwrites "Beef, It's What's for Dinner"
The beef checkoff problem raises prices without benefiting ranchers
South Korea Considers Banning Dog Meat
Talk of a ban follows declining popularity of dog as a restaurant dish.
