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Mr. Freeze
01-03-2014, 12:15 PM
One of my favorite resources to find out information about how agri-business is guiding our food regulations and trying to tell us how to eat, what to eat, and limit our food choices.

http://www.keepfoodlegal.org/


Many of the so-called Food Safety Laws have been written by Smithfield and Monsanto's lobbyists and reflect not food safety, but their desire to limit your choices in what you eat.


One of the lawyers that runs the blog is Baylen J. Linnekin, resume here:


Baylen J. Linnekin, Executive Director
B.A., American University
M.A., Northwestern University
J.D., Washington College of Law
LL.M., Agricultural & Food Law, University of Arkansas School of LawBaylen Linnekin, a licensed attorney who holds an LL.M. in agricultural and food law, is the founder and executive director of Keep Food Legal. Linnekin’s writing on food and law has appeared in scholarly publications like the Chapman University Law Review, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Northeastern University Law Journal,Nexus Journal of Law & Policy, and the Journal of Wine Economics. His writing on food and law also appears regularly in popular publications, including the New York Post, Reason (where he writes a weekly online food-law column), the Huffington Post,Baltimore Sun, Washington Times, and elsewhere. He is co-author of a chapter on food and the law in the Routledge International Handbook to Food Studies, an academic textbook, and author of the entry on “food bans” in the second edition of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.Linnekin has presented his research on food and food law at University of Chicago School of Law, Harvard University School of Law, Tulane University School of Law, Chapman University School of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Suffolk University School of Law, Washington College of Law, New York University, Boston University, University of Arkansas, American University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, the La Cocina National Street Food Conference, and elsewhere. Linnekin has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, New York Times, Voice of America, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, Wilson Quarterly, Bloomberg News, Washington City Paper, and numerous other print and online news outlets. He has appeared on Fox Business Channel, Al Jazeera, BBC Radio, Fox 5 WTTG TV (Washington, DC), ABC-7 TV (Washington, DC), Minnesota Public Radio, KCRW, the Laura Ingraham Show, the Rita Cosby Show, the Dennis Miller Show, and many other radio and television outlets. Linnekin is an adjunct faculty member at American University, where he taught Foodways 2.0, an undergraduate class on the many ways emerging social media tools have quickly revolutionized the ways we buy and sell food.Linnekin enjoys a variety of foods. He kept an organic garden plot in Washington, DC’s best-known Victory Garden for six years. He lives with his partner of two decades, Roxanne, in the Washington, DC area.D

Calypso Jones
01-03-2014, 01:26 PM
Look at that resume would you....I wonder if it means anything at all. Sorta like how the Kennedy Profiles in courage award has been reduced to a laugh.

Mr. Freeze
01-03-2014, 01:33 PM
Look at that resume would you....I wonder if it means anything at all. Sorta like how the Kennedy Profiles in courage award has been reduced to a laugh.

If you'd like to contribute to the topic of food laws and regulations I'm happy to read what you write.

Codename Section
01-03-2014, 02:09 PM
You should get straight right away that the law of political forums is to avoid the topic and kill the messenger.

donttread
01-03-2014, 04:55 PM
One could even argue that what Monsanto sells is more chemical than food.




One of my favorite resources to find out information about how agri-business is guiding our food regulations and trying to tell us how to eat, what to eat, and limit our food choices.

http://www.keepfoodlegal.org/


Many of the so-called Food Safety Laws have been written by Smithfield and Monsanto's lobbyists and reflect not food safety, but their desire to limit your choices in what you eat.


One of the lawyers that runs the blog is Baylen J. Linnekin, resume here:

Peter1469
01-03-2014, 04:56 PM
One could even argue that what Monsanto sells is more chemical than food.

True, chemical or genetically modified, or both.

donttread
01-04-2014, 10:09 AM
Here's a conspiracy theory for you. Maybe Monsanto is killing the honey bees on purpose and engineering a pollinator specific to crops with their genetic modifications.
While I don't believe they are doing it on purpose, I do believe they'd love to have yet another monopoly


True, chemical or genetically modified, or both.

Mr. Freeze
01-04-2014, 10:11 AM
Here's a conspiracy theory for you. Maybe Monsanto is killing the honey bees on purpose and engineering a pollinator specific to crops with their genetic modifications.
While I don't believe they are doing it on purpose, I do believe they'd love to have yet another monopoly

I have had these same suspicions. They are an unscrupulous lot. Do you remember the Fox expose on them that got those Fox reporters fired? They hold an incredible amount of cache in Washington to the point where if farmers crops have DNA alignment with Monsanto they can be fined.

countryboy
01-04-2014, 10:29 AM
I have had these same suspicions. They are an unscrupulous lot. Do you remember the Fox expose on them that got those Fox reporters fired? They hold an incredible amount of cache in Washington to the point where if farmers crops have DNA alignment with Monsanto they can be fined.
Right. How are the farmers supposed to keep GMO pollen from drifting through the air.

I personally don't think the GMO alarmists have made their case very well, but by the same token why are GMO crops allowed to grow out in the open air where the pollen drifts willy nilly? Eventually, all crops will be GMO because of this. This shit should've been tested for years in complete isolation. Yep, not a fan of Monsanto. But they did have a cool ride at Disneyland when I was a kid.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-4-RUuuqQw

Mr. Freeze
01-04-2014, 10:37 AM
Right. How are the farmers supposed to keep GMO pollen from drifting through the air.

I personally don't think the GMO alarmists have made their case very well, but by the same token why are GMO crops allowed to grow out in the open air where the pollen drifts willy nilly? Eventually, all crops will be GMO because of this. This shit should've been tested for years in complete isolation. Yep, not a fan of Monsanto. But they did have a cool ride at Disneyland when I was a kid.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-4-RUuuqQw


Exactly this. I am doing my best to safeguard my own garden by green housing my crops at certain times keeping happy bees and birds that don't want to leave, but I will eventually see "taint".

What assholes!

donttread
10-24-2014, 06:39 PM
I have had these same suspicions. They are an unscrupulous lot. Do you remember the Fox expose on them that got those Fox reporters fired? They hold an incredible amount of cache in Washington to the point where if farmers crops have DNA alignment with Monsanto they can be fined.

Worse is coming the megacorps have their sights on controlling water

PolWatch
10-24-2014, 10:06 PM
Worse is coming the megacorps have their sights on controlling water

I think you are referring to the ownership of water rights, but they are also controlling laws regarding run off of chemicals into the waterways. This is a concern in my area (the Gulf Coast) because it is adversely affecting the wetlands and then, the oceans. We have periodic fish kills in the Gulf because of algae bloom caused by fertilizer run-off:

'Algal blooms are caused when excessive amounts of nutrients enter slow-moving bodies of water. Nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous, act as fertilizers that help algae grow in water. Algae use dissolved oxygen to fuel night-time growth, when sunlight is unavailable for photosynthesis. When dissolved oxygen levels fall beneath certain levels, fish and other aquatic creatures can no longer survive.'

http://www.nccwep.org/stormwater/effects/algae_blooms.php