Effective immediately, Wyoming home-based businesses, also known as Home Occupations, are now a use-by right in all areas of unincorporated Laramie County, the Laramie County Board of Commissioners has announced.
For Laramie County, which includes the Wyoming capital of Cheyenne, use-by right amounts to an expansion of the state’s 2015
Continue Reading Wyoming County decides to go with a local expansion of Food Freedom, bypassing food safety provisionsA Wyoming “Food Freedom” bill is about to come to a final vote in the House of Representatives in Cheyenne. It has already survived a first floor vote, having gained approval Friday from the House Committee of the Whole. Wyoming House Bill 56, which also cleared the House Agriculture,
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When meat is outlawed — in this case fatty livers of geese or ducks — only outlaws will eat meat. Foodies are hoarding all the fatty geese or duck livers they can find, while new foie gras farmers may be setting up right across the border. Chefs are flaunting the
Continue Reading California Foie Gras Ban Turns Into a New Fight
Tagged as “inexpedient to legislate” in New Hampshire and shelved in Utah, state food freedom bills got little traction for a second straight year.
Shannon Shutts, spokeswoman for the New Hampshire House of Representatives, says when America’s largest state legislative body decides a bill is “inexpedient to legislate” it means
Continue Reading State Food Freedom Bills Go Down to Defeat Again
After turning down a so-called “Food Freedom” bill, a Wyoming state legislative committee is scheduled to consider a proposal today that would legalize the sale of raw milk through “herd-share agreements.”
Under such arrangements, legal in some states and done in others to skirt public food-safety laws, farmers sell an
Continue Reading 'Food Freedom' Dies, Raw Milk Up Next in Wyoming
In our second installment of the Top Food Safety Stories of the year series, the Number 16 story is “Taylor’s Maid-Rite Cannot Get ‘Red Violation’ Waiver From Iowa House.”
In March, when the Iowa Senate by voice vote exempted a popular restaurant from a red code violation of the state’s
Continue Reading Top Food Safety Stories of 2010: Nos. 16 & 15
In between traveling to give speeches on food safety, I had the chance to follow the unfolding story of the Estrella Family Cheese Makers and their struggle with Listeria and the FDA.
I posted on my blog two entries: What the Hell Does Listeria in Cheese have to do with God
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