LAW 831 Agriculture & Food: Law & Policy
This course will examine major legal and policy issues surrounding the production, distribution, and consumption of food. The first part of the course will survey the regulation of agriculture and food at the federal, state, and local levels (e.g. the FDA and USDA, state agriculture regulation, zoning and other local ordinances). The second part of the course will consider "hot topics" in contemporary food policy, such as food labeling and consumer choice (e.g. organics, GMO products); hunger, nutrition, and obesity; working conditions in agriculture and food service industries; farmland preservation and rural economic development; and the globalization of the food chain.