Archive: Oct 2007

Obesity Activists Sporting Latest In Sheep’s Clothing

The American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) is making waves today with its new report linking excess weight to increased risk of cancer. We’ve parsed through the…
PostedOctober 31, 2007 at12:00 am

Genesis of a Fish Story

How on earth could USA Today have gotten something so wrong? In a front-page “cover story” this morning about fish and mercury, the newspaper fell hook-line-and-sinker for the number one…
PostedOctober 30, 2007 at12:00 am

Fun With Congress(Blog)

The Center for Consumer Freedom is not a lobbying group, but when moneyed activist groups mislead Congress about their intentions, we’ve been known to help set the record straight. On…
PostedOctober 30, 2007 at12:00 am

Menu Labels And Menu Fables In NYC

Say what you will about New York City health czar Thomas Frieden, but the guy’s nothing if not persistent. Last month, the Big Apple’s menu labeling law — a…
PostedOctober 29, 2007 at12:00 am

Anti-Biotech, Techno-Illiterate

The late Dr. Carl Sagan wrote in 1989 that “we live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and…
PostedOctober 26, 2007 at12:00 am

Memo To Congress: The Physicians Committee Isn’t One

Yesterday the grossly misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) directed its lobbying muscle toward using the federal farm bill to hurt ranchers and other livestock farmers. The group…
PostedOctober 25, 2007 at12:00 am

Consumer Choice Not OK In The UK

“Fat camps” for five-year-olds represent only one of the countless campaigns introduced recently by England’s anti-obesity activists. For the kindergarten-and-up crowd, legislators have considered a “fat tax” on…
PostedOctober 24, 2007 at12:00 am

CCF Tells Marylanders The Truth About Menu Labeling Laws

In an op-ed in today’s Baltimore Examiner, the Center for Consumer Freedom blasts the Montgomery (MD) County Council members pushing the latest food activist cure-all: menu labeling legislation. The…
PostedOctober 23, 2007 at12:00 am

The Buns of Brixton (Fat Fears Flare In England)

The British government’s recently released “report” (read: “screed”) on obesity is still sparking debate on both sides of the Atlantic. And while food fascists have taken the news as…
PostedOctober 22, 2007 at12:00 am

CSPI Bombs On Breakfast Burrito

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has been throwing a hissy fit for a solid week now over a new breakfast offering from a fast food…
PostedOctober 19, 2007 at12:00 am