Baylen Linnekin on Virginia Efforts To Expand Farm and Food Freedom

A
bill introduced by Virginia Delegate Robert Bell that would
dramatically expand the state’s Cottage Food and Right-to-Farm laws
is now before the Virginia House agriculture committee. The bill
would expand the list of covered foods that can be sold from the
home or the farm and permit the direct-to-consumer sale of foods
like meat that have been viewed by regulators to be potentially
hazardous. Critics may moan about food safety risks, but, writes
Baylen Linnekin, anyone who’s read Joel Salatin’s Everything I
Want To Do Is Illegal knows that the link between inspection
and food safety is tenuous at best.

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