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SCOTUS isn’t interested in taking up Ag-gag

By Dan Flynn on October 18, 2023

District and appellate courts since 2010 have struck down the many ag-gag laws states have approved to protect animal agriculture.

But the United States Supreme Court has not yet reviewed the issue, and that will not happen anytime soon.

This week, the Supreme Court turned down North Carolina’s appeal to…

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Publisher’s Platform: Blue Barf, Green Goop, Purple Puke, Red Rubbish or Yellow Yuck

By Bill Marler on June 4, 2017

Given the BPI v. ABC trial starts this week, I thought it would be good to repost an Op-Ed I penned in April 2012.

truthWhat if you were the CEO of a multimillion dollar, privately held food manufacturing company and awoke one morning to find that the name of…
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Letter From the Editor: Stop Censorship of Undercover Videos

By Dan Flynn on August 16, 2015

Constitutional rights not used or claimed might not survive from one generation to the next. It’s not good enough to say that because of New York Times Co. v. United States (1971), no prior restraint — meaning no government-imposed censorship or punishment — may exist against anyone’s rights to speak…
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Why the Happy Meal is Already Illegal

By Michele Simon on January 28, 2011

When it comes to food, everybody’s got an opinion. Same goes for parenting. Mix the two together and you’ve got the makings of a culture war. Witness the recent scuffle between Sarah Palin and Michelle Obama over the White House’s rather tame Let’s Move campaign aimed at ending childhood obesity. …

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Reassess the ‘Right’ to Make Food Claims

By Marion Nestle on December 8, 2010

Food companies insist that they can make health claims for their products, whether backed by science or not, because commercial speech is protected by the First Amendment.

The First Amendment, in case you have forgotten, says:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free …

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