Last night, NBC's Dateline tackled the topic of pharmaceutical and weight-loss companies pumping obesity hysteria so they can cash in with pills, plans, and diet books.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has added reality-TV personality Anna Nicole Smith to its roster of “spokespeople,” which already includes fellow Playboy playmate Pamela Anderson. Posing…
The spotlight is shining brightly on the latest anti-obesity drug, as the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis unveiled a study on the safety and efficacy of Acomplia. As we've…
On Saturday, a Philadelphia animal-rights mailing list circulated a message announcing a meeting sponsored by the Philadelphia-based chapter of Earth First! — the radical environmental group that…
Who do you want instructing the public about the life-and-death implications of food technology: Nobel Prize-winning scientists or an aging hippie who spent her life hanging out with…
Last week professional martyr and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader found himself favored by only the bottom one percent of the electorate. Despite this loss, his ever-multiplying…
No one who follows today’s animal-rights movement can deny that its violent tactics are escalating. Ten years ago, picketing a restaurant or tossing red paint on a fur coat…
While voters in Marin County went the way of the Luddite and approved a ballot initiative on Tuesday banning genetically engineered (GE) crops, three other California counties resoundingly…
While most of us were fixated on the presidential campaign, one parent from Duxbury, Massachusetts was busy fighting a campaign of her own: a battle against nutritional Big Brothers on…
“Mr. Speaker, the same class-action lawyers that have sued other industries are turning towards our restaurant industry, pure and simple,” Congressman Bob Ney explained earlier this year during the floor…