It wasn’t so long ago that teachers and principals were most concerned about kids bringing drugs and weapons to school. Now we’re learning that brown-bag lunches packed with love at home are apparently a grave threat to kids’ health and well-being.
Little Village Academy on Chicago's West Side has implemented...
Mark your calendars for what promises to be the year's most important holiday for food zealots and animal rights fanatics. America’s most notorious diet scolds at the
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) announced yesterday that they have designated October 24, 2011 as (drum roll please)...
They huffed and they puffed, but America’s most notorious food cops couldn’t blow away a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee with their proposal to require warning labels on added food coloring. As
we reported last week, the real motive of the
Center for the Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)...
Idiocy and fanaticism aren’t limited to just one calendar day a year. And to prove it, we’d like to share a little April Fool’s Day quiz. See if you can spot the one story below that’s
not true.
Animal Rights Group Honors Pro-Hunting Congressman – Yesterday Rep. Don Young...
One emerging feel-good policy for fighting childhood obesity involves schools sending Body Mass Index (BMI) “reports” to parents in hopes of educating them about their kids’ weight. But like many heavy-handed instruments used by nanny-state bureaucrats to suggest lifestyle modifications, this one has unintended consequences.
Consider what happened in one...
A fit and trim 36-year-old marathon runner will have consumed 30 days' worth of fast-food—from breakfast through dinner—by the time the starter gun sounds at Sunday's Los Angeles Marathon. Whether it's his intention or not,
Joe D'Amico is effectively countering food scolds' incessant claims that fast-food is to...
Helping America's youth achieve excellence in both academics and physical fitness is a top priority of educators and parents. And the solution is a no-brainer: Recent studies confirm that there is a
correlation between fitness and academic achievement. Researchers also note that kids exhibit
better classroom behavior...
Al Jazeera (yes, that Al Jazeera) has a new report out for its
Fault Lines program called
“Fast Food, Fat Profits,” that purports to document America's obesity problem. A spokesperson for the Center for Consumer Freedom was interviewed for the segment by reporter Josh Rushing. The resulting report...
Hunters and pet store owners are firing back against
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and its radical agenda. In
South Carolina, hunters are supporting a statewide ballot initiative to change the state Constitution and give hunters a permanent right to hunt. Says hunting enthusiast...
Trade wars? Catfish? Vietnam? These are all things we don’t normally talk about, but today they all meet. Trust us. It’s interesting. The domestic catfish industry (largely located along the Mississippi Delta) is trying to put up new obstacles to its Vietnamese competitors by lobbying the U.S. Department of...
