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Food Freedom Returns for the 2018 Legislative Session

A group of alpacas, fleeing from the Paparazzi I'm excited to see that Marc Roberts has introduced HB 181, the Home Consumption and Homemade Food Act. I only recently noticed that the legislative session was in full gear, so I immediately jumped on to the website to the Utah Legislature to see what Marc Roberts was up to. It appears that HB 181 is currently in the House Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment Committee. I immediately emailed my political junkie friends and then set about looking at the committee members. I cross-referenced the committee members with the map I generated last November to get a rough measure of how friendly this committee was to basic freedom. (I don't have any data that directly addresses support for past Food Freedom bills, so I'm using the jury issue I mapped out in November as a proxy.) Here are the committee members: Rep. Keven J. Stratton (R), Chair  Rep. Carl R. Albrecht (R)  Rep. Stewart E. Barlow (R)  Rep. Joel K.