Donate and Join! Become a Member of Keep Food Legal

Today Keep Food Legal is launching our first-ever membership drive. We want you to join us!

As a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nationwide membership organization, Keep Food Legal's strength is our Members--people like you. Farmers. Chefs. Restaurateurs. Foodies. Gardeners. Brewers. Vintners. Grocers. Entrepreneurs. Home cooks. You.

Keep Food Legal is your united voice. Your advocate for culinary freedom at the local, state, and federal level. Join together by joining Keep Food Legal.

If you believe that every American should have the right to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, cook, and eat the foods of their own choosing, then we urge you to join Keep Food Legal today.

Why join Keep Food Legal? Everyone who donates will receive our regular eNewsletter. Everyone who becomes a Member secures the right to vote in board elections. And if you donate at least $75, we'll even send you free stuff plastered with our spork logo.

What's it take to become an annual Member of Keep Food Legal? Just $40. Better still, you can earn "Founding Member" status by donating at least $100.

We've made donating easy. You can become a Member at our secure donation page by using either your credit card or by donating through PayPal. Heck, you can even contact us by email if you'd prefer to send a check via snail mail.

In any event, donating takes just a minute. Please join us today.

More Information

Keep Food Legal, the first and only nationwide membership organization devoted to culinary freedom, is a tax-exempt organization under IRS § 501(c)(4), and is incorporated as a nonprofit under Washington, DC law. Donations to § 501(c)(4) groups, including Keep Food Legal, are not tax deductible under IRS § 170(c)(2).

While your donation to Keep Food Legal is not tax-deductible, we like to think of your donation as tax-reductible. How's that? Well, because Keep Food Legal advocates against intrusive government regulations and subsidies pertaining to food, donating to Keep Food Legal could ultimately help to reduce government spending and taxes. Hence, a tax reductible donation.

Still haven't joined and become a Member? If you need more information, you can read Keep Food Legal's mission statement here, and learn more about founder and executive director Baylen Linnekin and the awesome Keep Food Legal board of directors here. Make sure to follow us on Twitter and check us out on Facebook here. Read Baylen Linnekin's publications--including his recent Reason magazine piece on food trucks--here, and keep up with his speaking schedule here. Have questions, comments, ideas, or suggestions? Want to help out as a volunteer or host a fundraiser? Contact us here.

What's New at Keep Food Legal

Welcome to Keep Food Legal. In case you're new to these parts (maybe you read executive director Baylen Linnekin's article on food trucks and the Lobster Underground in the new issue of Reason magazine?), here's a quick summary of what you'll find at the website.

  • Who are we? Learn more here.
  • What exactly does Keep Food Legal advocate? Culinary freedom, the right of Americans to make their own food choices, and an end to food subsidies. Learn more here.
  • Read some of Baylen Linnekin's publications here, and check out his previous and upcoming speaking engagements here.

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Concerns? Drop us a line here.