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Food, Inglorious Food: Food Safety, Food Libel, and Free Speech
Author(s) -
Cain Rita Marie
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
american business law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.248
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1744-1714
pISSN - 0002-7766
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-1714.2012.01133.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , law , sociology , management , political science , economics , computer science
The movie Food, Inc. exposed issues about food production in the United States. In the movie, a mother whose child had died from food-borne illness explained that she could not criticize "Big Food" without risk of being sued. That risk stems from "food disparagement" legislation in 13 US states. The US adopted a new federal food safety law in 2011. This paper analyzes the impact of food disparagement statutes in the US. The paper discusses the new federal food safety law, in particular, how whistleblower protections in new federal food safety law affect the enforceability of state food disparagement laws.