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The Dangerous Right To Food Choice, Samuel R. Wiseman

Seattle University Law Review

Scholars, advocates, and interest groups have grown increasingly concerned with the ways in which government regulations—from agricultural subsidies to food safety regulations to licensing restrictions on food trucks—affect access to local food. One argument emerging from the interest in recent years is that choosing what foods to eat, what I have previously called “liberty of palate,” is a fundamental right. The attraction is obvious: infringements of fundamental rights trigger strict scrutiny, which few statutes survive. As argued elsewhere, the doctrinal case for the existence of such a right is very weak. This Essay does not revisit those arguments, but instead …

The 2014 Farm Bill: Farm Subsidies And Food Oppression, Andrea Freeman

Seattle University Law Review

The 2014 Farm Bill ushered in some significant and surprising changes. One of these was that it rendered the identity of all the recipients of farm subsidies secret. Representative Larry Combest, who is now a lobbyist for agribusiness, first introduced a secrecy provision into the bill in 2000. The provision, however, only applied to subsidies made in the form of crop insurance. Until 2014, the majority of subsidies were direct payments and the identity of the people who received them was public information. In fact, the Environmental Working Group’s release of the list of recipients led to a series of …

España: Confusión Y Desconcierto Sobre La Información Relativa A Los Alimentos Que Se Presentan Sin Envasar Para La Venta Al Consumidor Final, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

El 4 de marzo de 2015, se publicó el Real Decreto 126/2015 por el que se aprueba la Norma general relativa a la información alimentaria de los alimentos que se presentan sin envasar para la venta al consumidor final y a las colectividades, de los envasados en los lugares de venta a petición del comprador, y de los envasados por los titulares del comercio al por menor.

La Norma mantiene los requisitos de información alimentaria que para los alimentos sin envasar ya establecía el Real Decreto 1334/1999, adaptándolos a los nuevos requisitos que fija el Reglamento (UE) Nº 1169/2011. Al …

Le Gaspillage Alimentaire Dans L’Union Européenne : Un Nouveau Défi Pour Le Droit De L’Agro-Alimentaire ?, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

La littérature sur la nécessité urgente de réduire les pertes et le gaspillage alimentaires est vaste, bien que dans la réalité, peu ait été entrepris à ce sujet… Dans ce contexte, et tenant compte du fait qu’il s’agit d’un sujet très complexe qu’il est impossible d’analyser de façon exhaustive dans un article tel que celui-ci, nous avons choisi de nous consacrer particulièrement aux initiatives et activités entreprises, en cours ou en projet au sein de l’Union européenne (UE). Et malgré ces limites, nous devrons nous préoccuper de ces initiatives de façon résumée, après avoir exposé l’ampleur du problème posé. Notre …

Directive 2005/29/Ec On Unfair Commercial Practices And Its Application To Food-Related Consumer Protection, Luis González Vaqué

Luis González Vaqué

Directive 2005/29/EC on Unfair Commercial Practices was adopted on 11 May 2005 to help consumers benefit from the Internal Market by removing regulatory barriers, deriving from divergent national rules, which discouraged firms from selling and undermined consumers' trust in buying across the EU. It provides for a high level of consumer protection in all sectors and works as a safety net that fills the gaps, which are not regulated by other EU sector- specific rules (i.e. Foodstuffs).