Court Rules First Amendment Could Protect Food Sharing

Route Fifty: A shared meal can foster community, bringing together people over food and drink. An appellate court last week ruled that a meal in a public space—in this case held weekly between anti-war activists and homeless residents of Fort Lauderdale—can also amount to free speech.

Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs hosts the vegan and vegetarian meals under consideration by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which examined the Florida city’s 2014 ordinance restricting public food sharing aimed at the group and others who organized outdoor meals for the homeless.

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