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Lab Grown Meat

We will probably be eating lab-grown meat one day soon. So long as it can withstand a few hours in…
Food Law and Policy Weekly Review, February 23 -27

There is a fantastic article in Inc.com on the rise of GT’s Kombucha, the company credited with creating the kombucha…
Protein Politics: Vegetarian Meat Company Gets Booted From Canada

by Michele Simon As a lawyer who has called out plenty of transgressions by unethical food companies, it’s frustrating when…
Country Of Origin Labeling for Meat

On September 11, 2013, a U.S. district judge refused to stop the USDA from requiring more specific country-of-origin labeling (COOL) …
New Meat Labeling Claims Available to Non-GMO Livestock Farmers

As the New York Times reported recently, USDA recently approved the use of the third-party Non-GMO Project verification seal on labels…
Lab-Grown Meat: Food Law Says You Can’t Call It Meat

In recent food news, CNN writes of groundbreaking innovation that has certainly been turning heads: laboratory-grown meat. Scientists have developed…
Why You Need a Lawyer to Make Food, Vol. 1

All this week I will be posting in-depth about the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) ban on certain hog species…
The Dairy Market, Price Fixing, and Milk Cooperatives

Back in October, Cooperatives Working Together, a national dairy cooperative, had been named in a civil anti-trust suit stemming from…
The Deregulation of Slaughter

Once again, The Atlantic has a very thoughtful article on local food, this time on the advent of legal backyard…