Baylen Linnekin

I am a leading expert on a host of agricultural and food laws and regulations, including those pertaining to homemade food, food trucks, food taxes, foraging, food freedom, meat slaughter and processing, food labeling, food safety, sustainability, consumer behavior and choice, First Amendment issues, the history and development of food regulation in America, and the history and development of the legal field of Food Law & Policy.

Author. I am the author of Biting the Hands that Feed Us: How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable (Island Press 2016). In the book, I expose the countless ways that federal, state, and local food rules often hamper sustainability efforts.

Fellow. I serve as a senior fellow with Reason Foundation, where my work focuses on food-policy issues.