In a review of The Devil’s Larder, Jim Crace’s new collection of stories and vignettes about food, The New York Times highlights Crace’s “satirizing the fashion…
We have reported again and again about efforts to scare consumers out of choosing the foods they wish. Now, the results of these orchestrated fear campaigns are starkly visible. “…
While many activists have toned down their rhetoric since September 11, a few animal rights zealots seem to be capitalizing on that day’s assault on America. Alex Hershaft, president of…
With a wave of its wand, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has launched SaveHarry.com — a website attacking Coca-Cola’s sponsorship of the upcoming family…
The forces against food choice are rallying. With the federal government gearing up to fight the so-called obesity epidemic, public health expert Dr. Lawrence W. Green recently told an Atlanta…
With “a sickle in his hand and a broad grin on his face,” retired French shopkeeper Jacques Lachaud helped 150 activists hack down a field of genetically improved…
Animal rights fanatics last week scarred a statue of Ronald McDonald with a swastika and anti-meat graffiti outside a Ronald McDonald House — a charity for children with…
Seed pirate Percy Schmeiser has sailed off to Kenya. Schmeiser, a Canadian canola farmer, was sued by Monsanto last year for using Monsanto’s genetically improved crop seed without paying the…
Unwitting British taxpayers may have been funding violent animal rights protests. Eleven “‘key players’ among animal rights extremists” were arrested last week on charges of stealing “tens of…
Eating too much is a bigger problem than not having food at all — at least according to the federal government. In the new U.S. Department of Agriculture report “…