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Rita Marie Cain, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Bloch School of Management, has published Food Inglorious Food: Food Safety, Food Libel and Free Speech. Here is the abstract.

The movie Food, Inc. exposed issues about food production in the United States. In the movie, a mother whose child had died from food-borne illness explained that she could not criticize "Big Food" without risk of being sued. That risk stems from "food disparagement" legislation in 13 US states. The US adopted a new federal food safety law in 2011. This paper analyzes the impact of food disparagement statutes in the US. The paper discusses the new federal food safety law, in particular, how whistleblower protections in new federal food safety law affect the enforceability of state food disparagement laws.

Download the paper from SSRN at the link.