Still “Biting the Hands that Feed Us”

The Institute for Freedom & Community is hosting “Still biting the hand that feeds us” Talk.

Baylen Linnekin is an attorney, author, and scholar. He serves on the board of the nonprofit
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. His
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, Newsweek, Reason, Huffington Post, and many other publications. He has appeared on NBC, CBS, MSNBC, NPR, BBC Radio, and dozens of other TV and radio stations and has been quoted by the N.Y. Times, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Rolling Stone, The Economist, The Guardian, and many other top news outlets. Linnekin earned an LL.M. in agricultural and food law from the University of Arkansas School of Law; J.D. from Washington College of Law; M.A. in learning sciences from Northwestern University; and a B.A. in sociology from American University. Linnekin spent most of 2023 living in Mexico, where he wrote his first novel with Roxanne Alvarez, his partner and co-author.

All are welcome to attend the talk.