Northeastern University Law Journal: Vol. 4, No. 1 Spring 2012

From Seed to Stomach: Food and Agriculture Law On January 21, 2011, the Northeastern University Law Journal hosted a symposium at Northeastern University entitled From Seed to Stomach: Food and Agricultural Law. The distinguished panels of attorneys, policy-makers, and legal scholars discussed the ethical and health consequences surrounding intellectual property in the food industries, including the patenting of seeds, farming methods, and live animals. They also addressed legislating food safety, litigating obesity claims, and implementing food policy. Specifically, they explored food labeling, including organic certification, and marketing unhealthy food to children. The Journal published the following articles and notes derived from the symposium in the spring of 2012. Articles: - Pastures of Peonage: Tracing the Feedback Loop of Food Through IP, GMOs, Trade, Immigration, and U.S. Agro-Maquilas by Keith Aoki, John Shuford, Esmeralda Soria, and Emilio Camacho - An Evolutionary Approach to Agricultural Biotechnology: Litigation Challenges to the Regulatory and Common Law Regimes for Genetically Engineered Plants by A. Bryan Endres - The Food-Safety Fallacy: More Regulation Doesn’t Necessarily Make Food Safer by Baylen J. Linnekin - The Moveable Feast: Legal, Ethical, and Social Implications of Converging Technologies on Our Dinner Tables by Linda MacDonald Glenn and Lisa D’Agostino - Block the Insanity: Leveraging Cable Franchising Authority to Grant Parents the Ability to Block Advertising Targeting Young Children by Robert J. L. Moore - New and Existing GM Crops: In Search of Effective Stewardship and Coexistence by Colin A. Carter and Guillaume P. Gruère Notes and Comment: - Fishing for the Public Trust Doctrine: The Search for a Legal Framework to Govern Open Ocean Aquaculture in America’s Federal Waters by Kenneth R. L. Parker [PDF] - California’s Continued Struggle Against Nonambulatory Animal Slaughter and the Limits of Federal Preemption: National Meat Association v. Brown by Shelley Barron - Masquerading Behind Words: The Corn Refiners Association’s Push to Rename High-Fructose Corn Syrup as “Corn Sugar” by Veronica Louie