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| 3/10/09 |
Ten Food Rules For Michael Pollan
Yesterday on the New York Times health blog, food writer Michael Pollan asked readers for a few new food rules that everyone should try to live by. For too long, he declared, people have “deferred...
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| 10/17/08 |
Seven New Things You Didn’t Know
Some years ago, back before large numbers of Americans understood the wholesale deception and backward philosophies of groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),...
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| 9/9/08 |
Yesterday’s Organic Food Propaganda, TODAY
Until late 2006, Lisa Lee Freeman spent her career at Consumer Reports magazine talking about how to save money shopping online for flowers, why consumers should be careful when booking flights on bankrupt airlines, how...
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| 2/29/08 |
Perjury?
Yesterday the Riverside (California) Press-Enterprise helped answer a burning question about the undercover slaughterhouse video released on January 30 by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS): If HSUS knew in October 2007 that...
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| 2/28/08 |
Sitting On A Story
We’re not the only ones asking why the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) sat on its explosive slaughterhouse video for several months, while possibly tainted beef made its way into school lunchrooms. (To...
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| 5/18/07 |
Memo To HSUS: A Little Science Is A Dangerous Thing
Washington, DC's community of animal scientists and agriculture regulators is buzzing about something Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) president Wayne Pacelle told Congress last week, and the discussion isn't helping HSUS's credibility. During...
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| 6/14/06 |
Could Some Mad Cows Be 'All Natural'?
For years a broad coalition of food fanatics has warned Americans about an impending mad cow disease "epidemic." Their doom-and-gloom scenarios, of course, haven't come to pass -- and public interest has understandably fizzled. Yet...
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| 5/1/06 |
Mooving On From Mad-Cow Panic
Like most food scares before it (remember Alar?), mad-cow fear seems to be slowly dying out. Last month a widely run Canadian Press story reported on the lack of public panic after the discovery of...
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| 11/8/05 |
Catching Bird Flu Hysteria
If the recent news explosion about bird flu has taught us anything, it's that food scares abhor a vacuum. Now that the British government has declared the mad-cow scare has peaked and is in decline,...
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| 5/10/04 |
CDC Undermines Mad Cow Hysterics
One notable remnant of mad-cow hysteria is on its way out the door. A homespun activist claiming that a so-called "cluster" of 17 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) cases was linked to beef served at a New...
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| 5/4/04 |
Mad Cow Four Months Later
It's been over four months since a single cow in the United States was diagnosed with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease. Despite the best efforts of animal rights and organic food scaremongers...
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| 3/8/04 |
Food Scares: Short On Facts, Long On Lawsuits
A woman who claims to have served her family beef around the time a single case of mad cow disease was discovered is now suing her supermarket. Never mind that a Harvard study found the...
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| 1/15/04 |
The Spider At The Center Of The Mad-Cow Web
While Luddite intellectual guru Jeremy Rifkin has stayed on the sidelines of the recent mad-cow debate, three of his former employees -- Ronnie Cummins, John Stauber, and Howard Lyman -- have taken the lead in...
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| 1/9/04 |
Mad Cow Disease And The Workers' Revolution
Sheldon Rampton -- who co-authored the scaremongering book Mad Cow U.S.A. with John Stauber -- has given his first interview on the subject since a single infected cow was identified in the state of Washington....
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| 1/6/04 |
Combating Mad Cow Confusion
It's a fact of life that professional activists have axes to grind, and the U.S. mad-cow scare has ignited our home-grown fearmongers like nothing else. But worry not -- the Center for Consumer Freedom is...
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| 1/6/04 |
Mad Cow Bloody Propaganda Of The Week
"A lie will go 'round the world while the truth is pulling on its boots." That proverb rings especially true in the world of mad-cow activism. And there's one lie in particular that's earning more...
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| 1/2/04 |
Mad Cow News Update: Day Ten
First, the bad news: For mad-cow alarmists, the New Year brings opportunities to exaggerate a single sick farm animal into gains for animal-rights groups, organic-food zealots, and anti-capitalist extremists. The good news is that we're...
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| 12/31/03 |
Mad Cow News Update: Day Eight
Read on for today's installment of news on the animal-rights, organic-food, and anti-capitalist activists who are trying to spin a minor agricultural incident into a major, nationwide fear of food.
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| 12/30/03 |
Mad Cow News Update: Day Seven
As the news unfolds, we're staying on top of mad-cow hysteria and activist hype. Here's a sampling of what's on our radar screen today.
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| 12/29/03 |
The Mad Cow Scare: Day Six
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and other authorities continue to assure us that our meat supply is safe -- and it appears that Americans believe them. Cheeseburger sales at fast-food restaurants seem unaffected. But if...
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