food law and legislation

"Grocery stores have vastly increased the convenience and availability of food shopping, but they have also made it easier for the average consumer to ignore the conditions their food is grown or raised in. Generally, it is only whena deadly outbreak of food-borne illness occurs that people scrutinize the food industry. Text, augmented with . . . charts and . . . fact boxes, provides a comprehensive guide to the history of food safety laws in the United States. Readers learn about the major food-borne diseases and what causes them, as well as the present and future state of food technologies in America"--Provided by publisher.

Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks?these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that, too often, government rules handcuff America?s most sustainable farmers, producers, sellers, and consumers, while rewarding those whose practices are anything but sustainable.

Describes court cases involving food, spanning several centuries, from defective chocolates to the McDonald's hot coffee catastrophe to an eighth-century law against the eating of horse meat.