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May 9, 2000

Trafficking In Food Porn

For years, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has used its newsletter to volley broadside attacks at food producers who make tasty and convenient foods and snacks, vilifying these popular consumer choices as "food porn." Now CSPI is elevating this ridiculous rhetoric to a media campaign, complaining in The Ottawa Citizen that people "just find it increasingly difficult to eat better," because food producers are offering more food choices. So are we to assume choice is bad? ("Companies roll out high-fat 'food porn,'" The Ottawa Citizen, 5/9/00.)

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Center for Science in the Public Interest
Background | Quotes | Financials
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is the undisputed leader among America’s “food police.” CSPI’s joyless eating club has issued hundreds of high-profile — and highly questionable — reports condemning soft drinks, fat substitutes, irradiated meat, biotech food crops, French fries, and just about anything that tastes good. read more here »

Kelly Brownell
Background
Kelly Brownell is a Yale psychologist on a decade-long crusade against what he calls America’s “toxic food environment.” He is best known for having first proposed the infamous “Twinkie tax.” read more here »

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