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We hope you’re enjoying some quality time with your families (and finishing that last-minute shopping). The Christmas season is a fitting time to reflect on our common gift of personal freedoms, and on our obligation to oppose against anyone who seeks to diminish them.
Do remember: Food activists don’t take...
Consumers are often confused by all the conflicting information out there about sweeteners. To help clear the air, we’ve built a new website to
help bust the myths about the sweeter things in life.
SweetScam.com dives into the facts about table sugar, beet sugar, brown sugar, corn...
Seeing that sentence in the new issue of
Mother Jones magazine had us doing one of the biggest double-takes ever.
Mother Jones – the preferred glossy of
anti-burger activists and mercury scaremongers everywhere – is not exactly known for its level-headed take on food issues and politics. But...
With the exception of
an unfortunate slip-up by one major news outlet, there was a promising pattern in this week’s food news: common sense. A landmark study
broke the bad news to dieters in denial about the importance of moderation and exercise.
A Chicago Tribune article telling
orthorexic Americans to ignore flavor-of-the-week...
This week’s quote is brought to you by Tessa Williams,
a lifelong vegetarian who discovered the joys of eating meat as an “almost fortysomething.” This born-again carnivore explains what went into her decision to shun tofu and embrace lamb chops:
I see my decision to return to meat as...
In the ‘80s,
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) sold
several posters featuring information about nutrition and exercise to health-conscious consumers. But in recent years, that activity has fallen by the wayside. The reason?
During a Washington, DC television interview yesterday, CSPI executive director...
This month,
the bureaucrat-knows-best mentality that has been sweeping the nation hit the Palmetto State. Assuming that we are too stupid to choose for ourselves, South Carolina legislators are planning to usurp control of our finances by
limiting the amount of money residents can take out in...
In the past two years, the food nuts at the
Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) haven’t hesitated to drag several businesses to court over one word on food or drink packaging:
"natural." These frivolous lawsuits stem from an all-too-common syndrome among Big Brother groups:...
