Archive: Jul 2002 (page2)

Questioning the “Obesity Epidemic”

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…
PostedJuly 23, 2002 at12:00 am

How about a lawsuit tax?

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…
PostedJuly 22, 2002 at12:00 am

Joe Tax

“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…
PostedJuly 18, 2002 at12:00 am

SHAC Attack

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…
PostedJuly 18, 2002 at12:00 am

Chasing Ambulances is Hungry Work

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…
PostedJuly 18, 2002 at12:00 am

Kennedy (finally) Hog-Tied by the Courts

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…
PostedJuly 16, 2002 at12:00 am

New Reasons to Eat Meat

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…
PostedJuly 16, 2002 at12:00 am

Animal Rights Zealots Get Militant

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…
PostedJuly 15, 2002 at12:00 am

Seafood, With a Side of Confusion

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…
PostedJuly 15, 2002 at12:00 am

Genetic Improvement: A Review

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 —…
PostedJuly 11, 2002 at12:00 am