TIL In 1998 a group of cattle ranchers sued Oprah after she made disparaging comments about beef and 13 states have food libel laws which allows companies to sue people who speak badly about their food. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/goose7771
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TIL that Food Libel Laws allow food producers in 13 states to sue those who criticize their food. wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_l…
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Jerry's image is trashed when a journalist interviews Newman, who lies. Elaine tries to help by pushing J Peterman to sell Jerry's standup DVDs. Kramer defends Newman but asks Jackie Chiles about libel laws. George gets sued for libel when he compares food at the diner to soup at the Soup Nazi.
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πŸ‘€︎ u/portiswood
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TIL about "Food Libel Laws" that allow food producers to sue people publicly disparaging their products. Famously used in Oprah Winfrey vs. Texas Cattlemen en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo…
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Faces a Huge Test on Libel Law nytimes.com/2021/10/22/op…
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Faces a Huge Test on Libel Law nytimes.com/2021/10/22/op…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/pinkycatcher
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Thanks to "veggie-libel" laws, speaking about the safety of the food supply may result in a long and expensive lawsuit, a huge damages award or criminal sanctions. thirdworldtraveler.com/En…
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TIL In 1998 a group of cattle ranchers sued Oprah after she made disparaging comments about beef and 13 states have food libel laws which allows companies to sue people who speak badly about their food. - todayilearned reddit.com/r/todayilearne…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/Know_Your_Shit
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Sam McBride: The DUP has long been notorious for using NI's unreformed libel law to stifle awkward journalism. But recently there has been a marked increase in legal threats from SF - & now both parties seem to be joining forces to kill or neuter a libel reform bill. twitter.com/SJAMcBride/st…
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TIL some states have food libel laws that put the burden of proof on the accused and allow for punitive damages regardless of the case's outcome. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo…
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[Landlord-US] are libel laws preventing a website dedicated for listing terrible tenants?

Basically as the title states, how is there not a website that lists bad tenants? Only thing I can think of is libel, but that being said, if landlords go onto a website let’s say that they submit a bad tenant(s) with evidence such as an eviction and proof they owned the property, how would this be illegal/lawsuit worthy?

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πŸ‘€︎ u/AgentSunBeach
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Do you think British libel and slander laws make the British media better or worse?

Here in the US there are people on both sides of the aisle who want to reform our libel and slander laws to make them more like the UK's. These people say say that the UK media landscape, particularly the tabloids, shows that you can have plaintiff-friendly libel laws without preventing the media from criticizing powerful people. Other Americans think that British libel laws have create a media landscape where only the sleaziest and greediest of news businesses can afford to do investigative reporting. Leading to respectable papers who are reluctant to report anything someone might sue over, and tabloids who'll print lies because they can afford the lawsuit. Thus my question.

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How did the UK, a country with libel laws generally seen as very plaintiff-friendly, come to have some of the most notorious tabloids in the Anglosphere?
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Dominion v. MyPillow Guy poses a stark test for America's libel laws finance.yahoo.com/news/do…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/pipsdontsqueak
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Do you think the separation of slander and libel in law has any value?
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πŸ‘€︎ u/AceTheBot
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Facebook Ads Should Face the Same Libel Law as Media Outlets truthout.org/articles/fac…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/easyone
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CMV: All grocery stores should be forced by law to put all expired or near expired (to be tossed out) foods into a container to be available to the homeless, to food banks or to the poor vs. throwing it out.

I know forced sounds extreme, but so is homelessness, starvation and near homelessness. America has a serious problem with waste, a large carbon foot-print and homelessness. Whole Foods for example, probably throws out 1000's of dollars of food a day. I just watched a video of a dumpster diver who pulled out enough foods for at least 50 people, and it was good.

Expiration dates are not exact, just guesstimations.

5 countries already have a law.

In 2016, the French government essentially banned food waste in grocery stores. Primarily in response to a spike in demand at food banks and other charities (spurred by an increase in unemployment and homelessness), France made it a law that grocery stores must donate edible food instead of throwing it out.

https://foodhero.com/blogs/countries-fighting-food-waste

I won't accept any answers dealing with possibly making people sick from Salmonella and such. Clearly these other countries have ways to sort it out.

We have a store here where I am with near expiration date foods and there are services that sell it.

F these stores who profit on food that will almost go out of date. Geez, people will figure out ways to make a buck.

Edit: Thanks everyone for your feedback, I appreciate it. I can’t answer hundreds of replies, so I’ve received enough feedback and given out Delta points. Thanks for being so passionate about this subject. Thank you. I will not be answering anymore questions, as it would be too time consuming.

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πŸ‘€︎ u/Alexandria_Scott
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Funny how right wing free speech campaigners never say a word about our libel laws
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πŸ‘€︎ u/toomuchgammon
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Our defamation/libel laws are the real threat to free speech. I wonder how many 'free speech warriors' will speak up in support of these sisters, silenced from speaking up about the man who sexually assaulted them
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πŸ‘€︎ u/tronaldodumpo
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How did the UK, a country with libel laws generally seen as very plaintiff-friendly, come to have some of the most notorious tabloids in the Anglosphere? reddit.com/r/AskHistorian…
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πŸ‘€︎ u/HistAnsweredBot
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Is this what y'all get when you're banned? There's a lot there. A lot of assuming things about someone doing drugs and being bankrupt. I work in law enforcement and if these are rumors you can sue for libel and slander if you're spreading this around.
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