Archive: Aug 2003 (page2)

Food Cops Mess With Texas

“Stop. Step away from the junk food and listen carefully. We Americans are overweight, and it’s because we eat too much of the wrong stuff.” So begins a…
PostedAugust 18, 2003 at12:00 am

PETA On Deadly Heat Wave: Save The Chickens

“When the human race confronts its most harrowing experiences, one can reliably count on People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to think of the chickens,” wrote…
PostedAugust 15, 2003 at12:00 am

Our Week In Review

If you’ve been reading the Center for Consumer Freedom’s Daily Headlines this week… You’re incredulous that the ridiculous idea of taxing overweight Americans is gaining traction.
PostedAugust 15, 2003 at12:00 am

RFK Jr. To Lecture ‘1000 Top Executives’

For corporate executives, listening to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is like the three little pigs taking construction advice from the big bad wolf. Yet Kennedy is scheduled to deliver a…
PostedAugust 14, 2003 at12:00 am

ActivistCash Grows And Grows

With the addition of a landmark report on the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), our award-winning ActivistCash website is better than ever. But we’re…
PostedAugust 12, 2003 at12:00 am

Bill Maher: Terrorist’s Friend Or Foe?

“NEW RULE: Terrorist organizations can’t also be charities.”That’s how comedian Bill Maher began an op-ed in the Boston Globe. Nice thought, but Maher is an animal-rights zealot who regularly works…
PostedAugust 12, 2003 at12:00 am

Take Two: A Tax On Fat (People)?

Last month a New York Times column seriously proposed that the federal government should slap an extra tax on fat people. Yesterday The Washington Post aired the same…
PostedAugust 11, 2003 at12:00 am

Quote Of The Week

TIME reports that king of torts John Banzhaf got the idea to sue fast food companies when he heard about a (deeply flawed) study reporting that obesity costs…
PostedAugust 8, 2003 at12:00 am

Tastes Too Good? Costs Too Little?

Listening to today’s health police, you’d think that consumers were being attacked by malevolent, unhealthy snacks. “Fast food is infiltrating our culture … It’s basically everywhere,” warns Kelly…
PostedAugust 7, 2003 at12:00 am

The Inhumane Society of the United States

You might be one of the millions of Americans who have received fundraising letters from the Humane Society of the United States. Seeing the furry faces of Fido…
PostedAugust 6, 2003 at12:00 am