Wyoming’s Food Freedom Act Spreads Across The Nation

Imagine living in a place like Wyoming and not being able to get fresh eggs, milk or meats. Even vegetables are hard to get, fresh from the farm, not the grocery store.

That was the way it was just a few years ago, and many people in Wyoming were not happy about it.

That's when those same people, having had enough, brought forth the Wyoming Food Freedom Act.

The law took effect back in 2020.

It allows Wyomingites to make their own decisions about what they want to eat and where they get it from.

Wyoming PBS just posted an updated video on where Wyoming is with its Food Freedom Act, almost five years later.

It was Wyoming that led the way on the "Food Freedom Act." Other states saw what we did and followed with similar laws.

Want to buy fresh eggs or raw milk from your local farmer up the road? Go do it. Wyoming led the way in allowing free people to make their own decisions in what they choose to consume.

July 1st, Wyoming raised that bar even higher when the new amendment (HB 84) to the food freedom law went into effect. Let's see if other states want to join us on this one like they did the original law.

Before consumption requirements called for all food sold at, let's say a farmer's market, to be consumed in a home. So, let's say you bought a cake from a farmer's market. It would be legal to eat it at home, but illegal to serve it to your friends at work.

So how was a seller at a farmer's market, who probably made that product at home, to know where you were going to consume it? Now that no longer matters.

The new changes also allow indirect sales in Wyoming of non-potentially hazardous foods directly to consumers, and most nonperishable products can be sold through restaurants and retail stores.

While the law is still considered "not perfect" by its creators, constant improvements are being made and more are coming.

What folks like me consider good here is that we have far fewer ridiculous bureaucratic laws standing between the seller and the buyer's right to make their own decision based on their own standards.

Eat fresh from the farm and raw food if you think that is best. Eat a more processed diet if you think that is best. That's your call.