Note to Chicago’s do-gooder legislators: The Law of Unintended Consequences isn’t the sort of rule that can be amended or rescinded. That should be the lesson learned in the aftermath…
You’d think the entire animal protection movement would be supportive of the Prince Rupert Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). But last month the British…
The latest annual “F as in Fat” report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) rehashed the same half-truths about Americans getting fatter that the group…
We read this stuff so you don't have to: The most recent issue of The Nation magazine (not a publication known for centrist moderation) features an activist…
The school-food report cards from the radical Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) have hit an unexpected snag. Penny McConnell, food and nutrition director of the…
Weighing in on a recent New York Times Magazine article about the “obesity virus” hypothesis, Yale public health professor David Katz wrote a letter complaining…
This one’s too eye-opening to pass up. A website called SpicySprouts.com has sprung up to feature one filmmaker’s (slightly unorthodox) look at life under the food police.
Continuing the grand tradition of animal rights groups exploiting the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM, the lab-coated affiliate of People for…
Foie-gras-loving foodies in the City of the Big Shoulders are contemplating their options this morning, as their much-maligned duck liver is now officially contraband.