Baylen Linnekin on the Battle for Food Freedom

Is food freedom—your right to grow raise,
produce, buy, sell, share, cook, eat, and drink the foods of your
own choosing—really under attack?

Indeed it is. And it’s not just that federal, state, and local
governments have intruded on your right to eat what you want. It’s
that the growers, the producers, and the sellers of food often face
senseless and insurmountable regulatory obstacles.

“Far too often, the twin assault on economic liberty and food
freedom is motivated by the twin evils of economic protectionism
and paternalism,” writes Michael
Bindas, who leads IJ’s food freedom project.

In The Attack on Food Freedom, co-authors Baylen
Linnekin and Michael Bachmann make the case that the government is
serving up unpalatable food regulation to the American people.
Hopefully, the report will spur legislators, regulators and courts
at all levels of government and people from all political,
ideological, and dietary perspectives to recognize the importance
of food freedom, writes Linnekin.

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