Keep Food Legal

Keep Food Legal (KFL) is "the first nationwide membership organization devoted to culinary freedom—the right of every American to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, cook, and eat the foods of their own choosing." Its board includes several chefs and business owners who have led (and are currently leading) fights against bans on foie gras.

From its website, here are Keep Food Legal's top issues and stances:

• "KFL will advocate in favor of abolishing all food-related subsidies. Government subsidies distort prices and demand, cause environmental problems, and have played a large role in creating America’s obesity problem.
• "KFL will work to defeat food regulations and bans which limit our freedom to produce, cook, buy, and sell the foods we want. The government has no right to tell people what we can and can’t eat.
• "KFL will advocate at the federal, state, and local levels in favor of more food choices. It is not enough to oppose bad new laws. We will work—in legislatures and in the courts—to roll back bad ones already on the books.

"One thing KFL will never do is advocate in favor of (or against) any particular foods or dietary choices. We believe strongly that adults should eat what they want (or what they and their doctor think is best for them). And we also believe that children should eat what they and their parents think is best for them. Government shouldn’t tell you what to eat, and neither should KFL."

Staff

Accessed June 29, 2011:

• Executive Director: Baylen J. Linnekin
• Communications Director: Jackson Kuhl

Board

Accessed June 29, 2011:

• Didier Durand, Chef, Owner of Cyrano's Bistrot, co-founder of Chicago Chefs for Choice
• Nick Gillespie, Ph.D., editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv
• Guillermo Gonzalez, founder and owner of Sonoma Artisan Foie Gras
• Brian Wansink, Ph.D., John Dyson Endowed Chair in the Applied Economics and Management Department at Cornell University, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, author of Mindless Eating
• Liz Williams, J.D., author of the The A-Z Encyclopedia of Food Controversies and the Law, founder and president of the Southern Food & Beverage Museum

Contact Information

• Web: http://www.keepfoodlegal.org/