Habeas codfish : reflections on food and the law

"From the McDonald's hot coffee case to the cattle ranchers' beef with Oprah Winfrey, from the old English "Assize of Bread" to current nutrition labeling laws, what we eat and how we eat are shaped as much by legal regulations as by personal taste. Barry M. Levenson, the cu...

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Main Author: Levenson, Barry M.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Assault with a breadly weapon
  • Big beef supreme
  • Nutrition facts, nutrition fictions
  • Food fight
  • Java jurisprudence
  • Bones of contention
  • The legacy of Mr. Peanut
  • McBully
  • Ladle and slander
  • From bad apples to mad cows
  • It's not nice to defraud mother nature!
  • Not so strictly kosher
  • Cruel and unusual condiments
  • Just desserts
  • The final verdict.