The family plays a starring role in American law. Families, the law tells us, are special. They merit, among others, tax deductions, testimonial privileges, untaxed inheritance, parental presumptions, and, over the course of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court has expanded individual rights...

A safe food supply is essential for a healthy society. Our food system is replete with different types of risk, yet food safety is understood as encompassing only foodborne illness and other risks related directly to food ingestion. This Article argues for a more comprehensive definition of food...

This essay analyzes rhetoric from the Trump/Pence presidential campaign, from the food movement, and from industrialized agriculture. This rhetoric shows entrenched us versus them thinking that obscures the shared interests of food producers and food consumers. These two groups face similar...

Food is a fundamental component of public health. The consequences of climate change for the food system, and through that system for public health, are predictable yet complex. Complicating this story further is the fact that food production is itself a significant contributor to climate...

Eco-labels, certifications, and seals of approval serve a variety of functions, including communicating to businesses and consumers the environmental attributes of a particular product or the dangers that product may pose. Eco-labels have the potential to improve environmental outcomes in a...

Providing safe drinking water is a basic responsibility of government. The US system is inefficient, unfair, and sets up local water utilities to fail. Under the Safe Drinking Water Act these utilities bear primary responsibility for providing safe water, but the Act provides few tools for...

This Article explores the relationship between two key areas of farming regulation: food safety and environmental protection. Focusing on the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act, which directs the Federal Food and Drug Administration to promulgate rules governing produce safety on farms, this...

Modern agriculture has vast environmental externalities. The pesticides, fertilizers, and sediments in irrigation runoff pollute surface and groundwater; single-crop farms destroy biodiversity; and massive amounts of fossil fuels are burned in agricultural production, post-harvest processing,...