Archive: Jun 2002 (page2)

RFK Jr. And Organic: Twice The Price

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of the Water Keeper Alliance proved that his anti-pork activism is directly linked to organic marketing when, appearing last week at a California event…
PostedJune 19, 2002 at12:00 am

CSPI: From Nanny To NANA

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the infamous activist group that wants “taxes on snack foods and soft drinks,” dubbed fettuccini Alfredo a “heart attack on…
PostedJune 19, 2002 at12:00 am

Lawsuits On The Menu?

“The companies who make foods and drinks have a real point. Where does this all stop? Are we going to have ‘sin’ taxes on Big Macs and Cokes?”…
PostedJune 18, 2002 at12:00 am

Ralph Mouths Off

For years now, we have been warning consumers about the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric -- and increasingly ambitious agenda -- of anti-consumers activists. Their latest bomb fell Sunday. Perennial fringe presidential candidate Ralph Nader, in The New York Times Magazine: "McDonald's double cheeseburgers [are] a weapon of mass destruction."
PostedJune 17, 2002 at12:00 am

Do Your Taxes Fund Animal Rights Terror?

Colorado Springs Gazette columnist Mike Rosen praises PETA for providing “comic relief” in serious times, by focusing on such pressing issues as “cow patty bingo” and how the carnival game…
PostedJune 17, 2002 at12:00 am

Soft Drinks: Taxes In Texas?

Politician, heal thyself: A Texas state senator who says he enjoys soft drinks himself is pushing legislation that would attach taxes to soda. The plan…
PostedJune 17, 2002 at12:00 am

Not Fit To Make Your Own Choices?

Houston, watch out for the calorie czar. The city’s mayor has appointed former Mr. Universe Lee Labrada to be the government-backed fitness guru charged with slimming down Houston.
PostedJune 13, 2002 at12:00 am

Anarchy In The Kitchen!

In a CNSNews.com satire, Lydia McGrew takes a look at the disturbing new trend of “homefeeding” — a shocking practice in which parents usurp the role of government…
PostedJune 12, 2002 at12:00 am

Food Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows

“Sellers of food products do not attract the same kind of attention as purveyors of drugs or tobacco. They should.” Only “food companies and their trade associations” believe…
PostedJune 12, 2002 at12:00 am

Animal Rights Terror: Your Tax Dollars At Work

“Why should taxpayers subsidize terrorists?” asks columnist Mike Costello in The Lewiston [Idaho] Morning Tribune. PETA has given $1,500 to the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an extremist group labeled…
PostedJune 11, 2002 at12:00 am