On the front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal marketing section, reporter Betsy McKay takes a hacksaw to the public-health myth that U.S. levels of obesity are out…
Last week, a left-leaning think tank in Great Britain formally endorsed a “fat tax” on processed and fast foods. Making no bones about its policy recommendations, the organization…
“If you think taxing tea started a revolution, just wait.” That was Dan Rather on yesterday’s CBS Evening News, talking about the latest trend out West: taxing coffee. On…
If they wanted attention, they surely have it now. The violent activist group known as “Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty” (SHAC) is a special-interest subset of an FBI-certified “terrorist…
Somehow we knew it would come to this. Amid dire warnings about fast-food commercials from culinary know-it-alls like Yale’s Kelly Brownell and alarmist reports about growing…
In a stunning blow to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s personal jihad against the U.S. pork industry, a federal judge in Tampa has dismissed a lawsuit brought against pork producer…
Less than a week after TIME magazine’s cover story on the mainstreaming of vegetarianism, new evidence is emerging about potential health dangers from observing a strict, meatless diet. First, Swedish…
Today’s Seattle Times features a guest column written by our director of research, looking at how a recent act of animal rights terrorism may have been inspired by…
The current boycott of Chilean sea bass is being aggressively promoted by organizations like SeaWeb (the perpetrator of the earlier “give swordfish a break” campaign), the National Audubon…
In recognition of the month when America celebrates its freedom, we are devoting the first two weeks of July to a review of the ongoing battle for consumer freedom —…