Baylen Linnekin
Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation
Baylen Linnekin is a food lawyer, author, scholar and senior fellow at Reason Foundation.
Linnekin serves on the board of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund and also served as a founding board member of the Academy of Food Law & Policy.
Linnekin’s first book, Biting the Hands That Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable (Island Press, 2016), reveals how federal, state, and local regulations often proscribe sustainable food practices.
Linnekin's writings have appeared in the Wisconsin Law Review, Chapman Law Review, Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly, Fordham Urban Law Journal, Journal of Food Law & Policy, Boston Globe, N.Y. Post, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, The Counter, and many other publications. He has appeared on NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, Fox Business Channel, and dozens of other TV and radio stations and has been quoted by the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and many other top newspapers.
Linnekin earned an LL.M. in agricultural and food law from the University of Arkansas School of Law, a J.D. from Washington College of Law, an M.A. in learning sciences from Northwestern University, and a B.A. in sociology from American University.
He lives in Seattle with Roxanne, his partner of more than 25 years.
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Supreme Court hears pork producers’ challenge to unlawful California animal rights law
The U.S. Supreme Court heard recent arguments in a case that could have an enormous impact on the future of animal agriculture, the availability of meat, and the price consumers pay for it.
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FDA targeting First Amendment rights of non-dairy milk sellers
The unconstitutional move comes at the urging of powerful dairy-milk producers’ lobbies.
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Foraging For Berries and Feeding the Homeless Shouldn’t Be Crimes
America has an overcriminalization problem. If you’ve ever picked a blackberry, apple, or dandelion in a park, there’s a very good chance that you broke the law.
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FDA and USDA Should Eliminate All Food ‘Standards of Identity’
Standards of identity often make the foods consumers buy subject to politicized meanings proffered by food industry lobbyists and regulators.
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The Lobster Underground
Food vendors vs. the state
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Jamie Oliver’s Ministry of Food Control
The nannying British chef brings reality TV to West Virginia