Author: Pete Kennedy, Esq.

Pete is an attorney in Sarasota, Florida, who works on state legislation and policy regarding raw milk, cottage foods, food sovereignty, and on-farm/custom slaughter of meat and poultry–consulting on efforts to change state administrative regulations and policies. He has worked on successful state legislation in all these areas. He has also worked on numerous matters for farmers at the administrative level involving FDA and USDA, state health and agriculture departments, and local health departments to protect farmers threatened by enforcement actions such as handling food seizures, embargo and recall cases, right-to-farm and zoning issues as well as problems with local ordinances. Pete was a founding board member of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) and served as vice president and then president for many years while also providing member services. He currently consults on policy and legal matters for the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) and serves on the board of directors. Pete hosts the Solari Report Food Series audiocasts and is the executive director for the Food Freedom Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

  • SUPPORT:  Interstate Milk Freedom Act – HR 8374 

    ByPete Kennedy, Esq.

    Notwithstanding the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), section 361 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 264), and any regulations or other guidance thereunder, a Federal department, agency, or court may not take any action (including any administrative, civil, criminal or other action) that would prohibit, interfere with, regulate, or otherwise restrict the interstate traffic of milk, or a milk product, that is unpasteurized and packaged for direct human consumption, if— 

  • OPPOSE:  Pesticide Immunity – Sec. 10204 [Farm Bill] 

    ByPete Kennedy, Esq.

    This section “prohibits the right to sue for failure to warn when harmed by pesticides. In Section 10204 of the House Farm Bill, language shields (gives immunity) to the producers and users of toxic pesticides from liability lawsuits associated with the harm that their products cause…”

  • CHANGE Interpretation:  Control of Communicable Disease – 42 USC 264 

    ByPete Kennedy, Esq.

    Change statute interpretation: 

    Regulations to control of communicable disease – 42 USC 264 

    42 USC 264(a) promulgation and enforcement by the Surgeon General provides: 

    The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Administrator (Secretary), is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases from foreign countries into the states or possessions,

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