Archive: Jan 2003

FAO Snorts

To the long list of guarantees sought by animal rights activists on behalf of livestock (the right to not be eaten, of course, is foremost), we can now add the…
PostedJanuary 30, 2003 at12:00 am

Alar-mists and a Kennedy take on SUVs

It apparently wasn’t enough for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to accuse America’s pork farmers of being “a greater threat than Osama Bin Laden.” Now Kennedy is…
PostedJanuary 30, 2003 at12:00 am

‘Eco-Mob chic’ coming to Fresno

“The liberal academic world has lately embraced terrorist-chic,” writes Bill Croke in today’s American Prowler. He’s talking, of course, about Cal State Fresno’s willingness to lend its…
PostedJanuary 30, 2003 at12:00 am

Union of Confused Scaremongers

They’ve also been called the Union of Perturbed Scientists and the Union of Concerned Lawyers. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is surely “concerning” to anyone who believes public policy…
PostedJanuary 29, 2003 at12:00 am

Fallout From ‘Radioactive’ Torts

A U.S. District Court Judge tossed out a frivolous case against McDonald’s last week, but John Banzhaf, cheerleader-in-chief for fast food lawsuits, was hardly fazed. In fact, Banzhaf…
PostedJanuary 28, 2003 at12:00 am

The Future of Food

In 2001, writes Brian Thomas at spiked-online, worldwide plantings of genetically enhanced crops were up a whopping 19 percent. Thomas directs research at Horticulture Research International in Great…
PostedJanuary 28, 2003 at12:00 am

You Are Too Smart –

– not to know that the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) is sponsoring an on-line contest, pitting advertising ideas against one another in a sort of free-market “Star…
PostedJanuary 27, 2003 at12:00 am

Anti-meat ‘Nutrition Action’

The misnamed Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has always had a subtle bias against meat and dairy. But Michael Jacobson, the group’s chief dietary scold,…
PostedJanuary 27, 2003 at12:00 am

Campus Radical

On Saturday and Sunday, radicals of various stripes descended on the campus of DC’s American University for a “National Conference on Organized Resistance.” In addition to…
PostedJanuary 27, 2003 at12:00 am

Our Week In Review

If you’ve been reading the Center for Consumer Freedom’s Daily Headlines this week… You’ve learned that the Washington Post wants to suppress research demonstrating the…
PostedJanuary 24, 2003 at12:00 am