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| 11/18/09 |
Toss Out the Myths With the Embalming Fluid
Activists like journalism professor Michael Pollan are quick to blame foods in our “Western diet” for a smorgasbord of problems -- heart disease being the most recent one. But a new investigation stuffs this foodie...
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| 11/2/09 |
Lawyer Math: 1 + 1 = Prop. 65
Today the Los Angeles Times published a point-counterpoint smackdown between two lawyers on opposing sides of California’s notorious Proposition 65 law, the source of the Golden State’s warning label hysteria. For the past 23 years,...
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| 8/14/09 |
Quote of the Week
The Los Angeles Times took aim at the “food police” this week, specifically at the deceptively-named Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s lawsuit against hot dog makers and the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s...
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| 8/10/09 |
Dismissed by a Court of Law
Over the weekend, newspapers reported that a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that was supported by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) against the pet store Petland and its supplier the Hunte...
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| 8/4/09 |
Quote of the Week
Last month, the food police at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) took their anti-salt crusade one shake too far, suing the Denny’s restaurant chain over the sodium content of its food....
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| 7/23/09 |
CSPI Aims for Grand Slam, Whiffs on Facts
This just in: Eating is “dangerous.” At least, that’s what the Center for Science in the Public Interest is claiming in a new lawsuit against Denny’s restaurant. Time for an emergency reality check.
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| 7/22/09 |
WARNING: Animal Rights Activism May Result in Frivolous Lawsuits
As if money-hungry trial lawyers and the Center for Science in the Public Interest weren’t enough. This morning, the phony Cancer Project filed a lawsuit asking the court to require a cancer-risk warning label on...
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| 12/31/08 |
Ringing Out 2008: A Look Back
As we prepare to chronicle (and resist) a 2009 full of assaults on our food freedoms, we’re also reflecting on the year that’s drawing to a close. Here are some of the stories that made...
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| 12/17/08 |
Don’t Let Santa Sue You
For most of us, Christmas is a time for ice-skating, caroling, tree-trimming, and sipping eggnog with the family. But the Center for Consumer Freedom urges you to be cautious when leaving those cookies out for...
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| 11/26/08 |
Happy Thanksgiving from the Center for Consumer Freedom!
Like the holiday itself, the Thanksgiving meal means different things to different people. You might be a deep-fryer, a brine enthusiast, an old-fashion roast-and-baster, a rotisserie purist, or even one of those rare “tofurky” hold-outs....
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| 11/24/08 |
Gobble, Gobble, Sue!
With only three days left until the big feast, we’re happy to see that our Thanksgiving guest waiver is making the rounds. As one columnist wrote today, those behind all the fuss about “turkey genocides”...
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| 11/21/08 |
Don't Sue The Hand That Feeds You (Thanksgiving Edition)
It really is the most wonderful time of the year for food activists. A cornucopia – no, a moveable feast – of nutritional puritans have already descended on Thanksgiving planners this week. We've seen paranoid...
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| 11/13/08 |
Chicken-Haters Grilled By California Attorney General
Leave it to the PETA-worshiping Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to take all the fun out of eating. In October 2006, the deceptive animal rights group sued seven restaurant chains under California’s “Proposition 65”...
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| 10/31/08 |
Don't Get Tricked When You Hand Out Treats
As children across the nation tweak their Trick-or-Treating costumes, and politicos argue over which rob-from-the-rich / give-to-the-poor candidate should dress as Robin Hood this year, America's food police are wringing their hands with glee and...
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| 9/2/08 |
Nutrition Nannies: A Brief History
Litigation by activist organizations is an escalating feature in America’s food fights. High-profile lawsuits provide leverage for nutrition nannies’ overarching agenda: a steady march toward “bad” food bans.
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| 8/25/08 |
Warning Labels Everywhere, And Not One Makes Sense
If you live in California, you’ve seen them everywhere: those warning labels announcing that something you’re about to touch, eat, smell, or breathe near could give you cancer or adversely affect your reproductive health. Yes,...
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| 7/28/08 |
California’s Silliest Law Is About To Get Sillier
“Warning labels that warn against any infinitesimal risk are essentially useless,” the popular Consumerist blog observed last week in a discussion of California’s cancer-labels-on-everything “Proposition 65” law. “The outbreak of warning labels spawned by Proposition...
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| 6/27/08 |
Ready For A Mocha-Java Warning Label?
The Sunshine (Nanny) State is at it again. California’s "Proposition 65" environmental fear-factor law, whose main purpose is to “help” consumers by making warning labels so ubiquitous that they have to cross state lines to...
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| 6/6/08 |
Breaking News: Calorie-Count Trial Lawyers Pick Second Target
Yesterday, we told you that calorie-counts on restaurant menus had (predictably) resulted in a class-action lawsuit. On Tuesday, a Seattle law firm sued Applebee’s for “misrepresenting nutritional content of menu items.” Apparently, this opened the...
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| 6/5/08 |
Class Action Over Calorie Counts
Alright. Everyone who put their money on “June 2008” can step forward to claim their winnings. The outcome has been decided in the betting pool for when (not if) trial lawyers would leverage calorie counts...
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