In a bid to rehabilitate its beleaguered image, the Washington, DC environmental group SeaWeb has announced that it is replacing long-time executive director Vikki Spruill with Dr. Will Ferretti.
Bad news abounds for organic-only food activists, as the director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues told the British Crop Protection Council this week that…
A wise man once said that opinions are like armpits: everybody’s got ‘em, and they all stink. Still, at the risk of causing an olfactory meltdown, we’d like to share…
As more and more people begin to understand the measurable benefits (and immeasurably tiny risks) associated with genetically improved foods, some activists will stop at nothing to try and turn…
Last week in Philadelphia, the annual conference of the American Public Health Association (APHA) included a plenary session on “Challenging the Fast Food Culture.” The Center for…
It’s been a busy few weeks for activists who try to make their feelings known through violence, theft, and vandalism. Here’s a sampling: In the wake of 12 indictments…
If you’ve been reading the Center for Consumer Freedom’s Daily Headlines this week… You know why we owe consumer freedoms, like all the others we enjoy, to…
…but People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has hit a new low. Lower than the cheap shots they took at Rudy Giuliani after he was diagnosed with prostate…
Even if you accept the proposition that America is so fat it’s literally bursting at the seams — a presumption that depends on some fuzzy government math — the…