Fall 2013: Food

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Buying the Farm: Protecting Human Rights and the Environment in the Face of Global Agricultural Expansion

Anna Mance

The modern wave of foreign investment in farmland calls attention to the need for serious agrarian reforms and sustainable investment practices designed to protect natural resources.

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CounterPoint: The Case Against Mandatory Labeling of GE Food

Gary Marchant

The author addresses arguments in favor of mandatory GE labeling and shows how they actually weigh against mandatory labeling.

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Do Tell: The Case for Mandatory Labeling of GE Foods

Laura Murphy

The public can and should be trusted with information about the food it consumes--mandatory GE labeling is the right thing to do.

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Balancing Food Safety and Burdens on Small Farms

Laurie J. Beyranevand

While small farmers may be breathing a sigh of relief at the small farms exemptions under FSMA, they are not relieved of the burden to provide safe products for their own sake.

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Using Cross-practice Collaboration to Meet the Evolving Legal Needs of Local Food Entrepreneurs

Emily M. Broad Leib and Amanda L. Kool

Lawyers can use cross-practice collaboration to address the challenges faced by local food entrepreneurs, allowing these entrepreneurs to enter new markets and foster improved food system outcomes.

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Community Supported Agriculture: An Exploration of Legal Issues and Risk-Management Strategies

Nicholas R. Johnson, Rachel Armstrong, and A. Bryan Endres

CSA farmers operate outside traditional agricultural production, and many are unaware of employment, volunteer, and food safety regulations that may impact the viability of CSA as a business model.

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The 2013 Farm Bill: An Opportunity for Change

William S. Eubanks II

There are promising opportunities for targeted reforms that could ensure a more ecologically sustainable, nutritious, and transparent domestic farming and food system.

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Food v. Fuel: Are Legal Attacks on the Renewable Fuel Standard Just a Bunch of Empty Calories?

Shannon S. Broome and Paul R. Esformes

The primary factors affecting food prices in the grocery store are rising energy and transportation costs, changing global diets, and commodities speculation, not ethanol production.

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Animal Husbandry Redux: Redefining “Accepted Agricultural Practices” for Locally Sourced Foods

Pamela Vesilind

Animal advocates need to enlist supporters of the local foods movement to promote a new contextual definition of the phrase “accepted agricultural practice” for producing animal-based foods that are marketed and sold locally.

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Eating Invaders: Managing Biological Invasions with Fork and Knife?

Joshua Ulan Galperin and Sara E. Kuebbing

Humans have eaten species to extinction before and can do it again, but this time with a focus on invaders.

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The Intersection Between Food Sovereignty and Law

Nathan Bellinger and Michael Fakhri

Blue Hill, Maine, and Ecuador each use different approaches in the attempt to implement food sovereignty into law.

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Vantage Point

Laurie A. Ristino and Madeline June Kass

in this issue, we address the topic that is receiving wide press these days, food.

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The Leading Edge

Laurie Ristino

It seems everyone one goes these days, people are talking food.

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Literary Resources

JoAnne L. Dunec

New book from the Section.

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The Back Page

Pierre de Fermat was a seventeenth century French lawyer who dabbled in mathematics.

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On the Horizon: Expand the Ozone Transport Region?

Gale Lea Rubrecht

To date, the Midwestern and Southern states have either declined or ignored the invitation to join the OTC.

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Managing the Risks of Ashley II to Protect CERCLA Defense

Hong N. Huynh

Owners of properties with environmental contamination are expected to comply with a heightened standard of appropriate care to prevent releases or potential release of the known condition.

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EPA’s Clean Water Act Section 404 Veto Authority

Lisa A. Kirschner

The Mingo Logan decision could set the tone for additional review of EPA’s authority in the context of a possible preemptive veto of a CWA 404 permit for the Pebble Mine Project in Alaska.

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Is CERCLA Owner Strategy Changing?

James Andreasen

Despite statutory protections, potential purchasers of property known to contain substances of environmental concern may perceive considerable risk in such a transaction.

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Tribal Climate Crisis Tax-Exempt Bonds

Dean B. Suagee

If Congress were to repeal the essential governmental functions test, it would help tribes attract private investment to develop their renewable energy resources.