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Bearing The Torch: A Green New Deal For New York State Agriculture, Jack Hornickel
Bearing The Torch: A Green New Deal For New York State Agriculture, Jack Hornickel
Pace Environmental Law Review
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Environmental Justice For Food System Workers: Heat- Illness Prevention Standards As One Step Toward Just Transition, Sarah Matsumoto
Environmental Justice For Food System Workers: Heat- Illness Prevention Standards As One Step Toward Just Transition, Sarah Matsumoto
Pace Environmental Law Review
The recent dual crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and extreme heat in the Pacific Northwest have brought environmental injustices for food system workers into stark view. These events prompt us to reflect on how and why our existing laws, some of which expressly include environmental justice “tools,” failed to fully protect food system workers during times of crisis, and what changes we might implement to ensure that people employed in food system jobs are safe at their places of work. These events also revealed the need for proactive, prospective changes now before another crisis occurs; indeed, experts believe that global …
Eaters, Powerless By Design, Margot J. Pollans
Eaters, Powerless By Design, Margot J. Pollans
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Food law, including traditional food safety regulation, antihunger programs, and food system worker protections, has received increased attention in recent years as a distinct field of study. Bringing together these disparate areas of law under a single lens provides an opportunity to understand the role of law in shaping what we eat (what food is produced and where it is distributed), how much we eat, and how we think about food. The food system is rife with problems--endemic hunger, worker exploitation, massive environmental externalities, and diet-related disease. Looked at in a piecemeal fashion, elements of food law appear responsive to …
Fda As Food System Stewards, Margot J. Pollans, Matthew F. Watson
Fda As Food System Stewards, Margot J. Pollans, Matthew F. Watson
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) is one of the primary regulators of the U.S. food system, yet it all but ignores the food system's vast environmental footprint. Although the agency is not technically an environmental agency, it could and should view redressing the food system's significant environmental footprint as part of its health and safety mission. In this Article, we review FDA's history of National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) compliance. This history affirms our hypothesis that FDA does not view its own work as environmental. The review, along with assessment of some of FDA's core food programs, reveals that …
Food, Law & The Environment: Informational And Structural Changes For A Sustainable Food System, Jason J. Czarnezki
Food, Law & The Environment: Informational And Structural Changes For A Sustainable Food System, Jason J. Czarnezki
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This Article considers legal, theoretical, and practical steps to a more sustainable food model. Part I discusses the underlying reasons for problems in the current food system, including those manifested in law, and the perceived benefits of creating a new agricultural paradigm. Part II discusses the major agricultural and food programs that have become more common in shaping a different food system model, specifically focusing on direct marketing (for example, farmers markets and community-supported agriculture) and the organic movement as it relates to small farmers. Part III argues that in order to change modern American food consumption, two changes must …