Food in the UK is under threat. It’s not the first time bad food laws have come to the island—it was once mandated that all bananas sold in the…
Posted October 16, 2018 at 10:17 am
Care for some dihydrogen monoxide with your next meal? You may have instinctual skepticism to that offer. But that’s the chemical name for H2O; good old-fashioned…
Posted October 12, 2018 at 4:16 pm
On Tuesday the Los Angeles City Council voted to advance a proposal to ban the sale and manufacture of fur garments in the city. The legislation follows a decades-long campaign…
Posted September 19, 2018 at 1:37 pm
The marketing departments of the newest crop of fake meats love to imply that their products are natural and healthy. But when you flip the package over and really look at…
Posted September 13, 2018 at 8:33 am
Are you being duped by organic food? Certainly, the vague notion of organic in the minds of consumers—bucolic farms, no “manmade chemicals”—might seem appealing. But in reality, the…
Posted September 4, 2018 at 2:25 pm
Today, the Trump Administration released a final rule allowing consumers to purchase cheaper health insurance starting in October 2018. Short-term health plans, as these policies are known, need not cover…
Posted August 2, 2018 at 9:54 am
Today, the Trump Administration finalized a rule allowing Americans to purchase short-term, limited duration health insurance plans that last up to one year and can be renewed for three years.
Posted August 1, 2018 at 12:25 pm
The nannies over at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) are at it again—they recently released their Xtreme…
Posted July 30, 2018 at 4:51 pm
