Archive: Mar 2004

Quote Of The Week

How do celebrities aligned with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals deal with inner conflict? How do they silence the little common-sense voice in their heads that…
PostedMarch 31, 2004 at12:00 am

Food Cops Still Hop On Pop

Our nation’s diet scolds are running out of reasons to pick on soda pop. Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Center for Food and Nutritional Policy (CFNP) have found that…
PostedMarch 30, 2004 at12:00 am

Mercury-In-Fish Scare All Wet

Another hour, another day, another over-hyped food scare from the usual suspects. At a press conference today, Environmental Working Group (EWG) president Ken Cook proclaimed that…
PostedMarch 26, 2004 at12:00 am

‘Green Science’ Is Weird Science

What do food activists do when science isn’t on their side? They repackage it or make it up. Writing for the online magazine Health Facts and Fears, University of Houston…
PostedMarch 25, 2004 at12:00 am

Food Cop Won’t Stop

The diet scolds at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will not rest until every food morsel in America is taxed, labeled, regulated, and given…
PostedMarch 24, 2004 at12:00 am

Quote Of The Week

Cornell law professor Douglas Kysar is still in tantrum mode two weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Rep. Ric Keller’s (R-FL) “Personal Responsibility…
PostedMarch 23, 2004 at12:00 am

Hollywood To Immortalize Extremist

Paul Watson, Sierra Club board member and “captain” of the violent Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), recently sat down with The Oregonian and waxed philosophical on…
PostedMarch 22, 2004 at12:00 am

PETA’s New Low

“This is a sickening trivialization of the suffering of Holocaust victims,” said an elderly Holocaust survivor. “It is disgusting that people would stoop so low as to use…
PostedMarch 19, 2004 at12:00 am

PETA Wants Constitutional Amendment For Fish

Sorry, crustaceans and reptiles. You didn’t make People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals‘ list of animals that deserve protection under their proposed constitutional amendment, which declares…
PostedMarch 18, 2004 at12:00 am

Menu Labeling Advocates Want Control, Not Information

Working in tandem with Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, whose press conference last week renewed the prevailing bombast over our so-called “epidemic” of obesity, the Food…
PostedMarch 17, 2004 at12:00 am