You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but it takes a box full of cookies to attract the press. Never one to come to a party empty-handed, representatives…
It’s been a little over a week since the prestigious medical journal The Lancet published a groundbreaking study in which researchers found that the government’s hyper-precautionary mercury-in-fish warnings…
Talk about chutzpah. No, seriously, talk about the chutzpah of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), because the victims of its latest smear campaign aren’t inclined to…
Giving a column to a think tank is a lot like giving car keys to a 14-year-old boy: You know it’s going to end badly. Nevertheless, yesterday WashingtonPost.com handed over…
Chicago’s recent flurry of anti-consumer-choice regulations — including a ban on the French delicacy foie gras — has inspired at least one overzealous Illinois state legislator. Just last month,…
Americans can sleep well tonight, secure in the knowledge that food activists have outted another dangerous criminal front group: Girl Scouts. In a press release today, National Action Against…
Today the mainstream medical community weighed in on the mercury-in-fish debate, and — yet again — the activist case for “toxic tuna” looks to be in troubled…
PETA’s successes with a North Carolina jury haven’t translated well into the court of public opinion. As we wrote in yesterday’s Norfolk (VA) Virginian-Pilot, the fact that PETA…
As the playboy of the activist community, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has a problem with commitment. Since the group’s tumultuous relationship with the food industry…
If he had known the threat dairy products would face in the 21st century, Ray Bradbury may have written his cautionary novel on a different subject. In a February…