• More details on my panel discussions on food issues next week at the Heritage Foundation [Monday, Sept. 23] and at Vermont Law School [Friday, Sept. 27];
• “A Ban on Some Italian Cured Meat Is Ending” [Glenn Collins, N.Y. Times] “Market Forces Lead to Better Treatment for Farm Animals” [Steve Chapman]
• “Tempering temperance: Puritan attitudes on alcohol still linger decades after Prohibition” [National Post]
• Dozens of class-action suits: “Bay Area courts center of legal battle against food industry” [Mercury-News]
• “Plain and/or Terrifying Packaging Considered for Junk Food in New Zealand (and Australia)” [Katherine Mangu-Ward]
• If the dangers of rice aren’t enough to alarm even today’s Margaret Hamburg-headed FDA, they’re probably not very serious [ACSH]
• North Carolina: home visits to make sure Medicaid recipient kids are eating their veggies? [Rick Henderson video]

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