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Food roundup

  • “It is one of the first times that two big craft brewers have been in a lawsuit against each other.” [San Francisco Chronicle]
  • Hee hee: poll finds more than 80 percent of public favors “mandatory labels on foods containing DNA,” cf. comparable polls on GMO labeling [Ilya Somin]
  • Chicago crackdown on paid private dinner parties comes after Michelin awards two stars to local restaurant that started that way [Illinois Policy]
  • “Is Foodborne Illness on the Rise?” [Baylen Linnekin]
  • “The Queens’ Tea in Salt Lake City sued by another queen over name” [Salt Lake Tribune]
  • Virginia legislator’s bill would end inspection of home kitchens used to produce food for direct sale [Watchdog, earlier on “cottage food” laws, related E.N. Brown]
  • “There’s a very simple reason you don’t find favors in king cakes anymore: We have too many lawyers in America” [WSJ, earlier]

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5 Comments

  • its “Illinois Policy” not “Illinois POLICE”

    • By Doug

  • Thanks, fixed now.

  • Queens’ Tea vs Tea Queens – seems pretty similar to me. The names of the companies are sufficiently different, but the 7th paragraph is important. My understanding is that “Tea Queen” is trademarked, so the SLC guys are treading on very thin ice.

    • By D

  • I liked it the first way, Doug.

    Bob

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