Archive: Nov 2008

It’s a Real Tuna Meltdown

“Fish stories,” we write in this morning’s Providence Journal, “are just like every other media phenomenon: Bad news makes for better headlines. So mercury fears, however misguided, tend to…
PostedNovember 25, 2008 at12:00 am

Gobble, Gobble, Sue!

With only three days left until the big feast, we’re happy to see that our Thanksgiving guest waiver is making the rounds. As one columnist wrote today, those behind all…
PostedNovember 24, 2008 at12:00 am

Don’t Sue The Hand That Feeds You (Thanksgiving Edition)

It really is the most wonderful time of the year for food activists. A cornucopia – no, a moveable feast – of nutritional puritans have already descended on Thanksgiving planners…
PostedNovember 21, 2008 at12:00 am

Organic Activist Complaints Smell Fishy

In addition to being America’s self-anointed nutrition czar, Marion Nestle is our benevolent organic overlord. On her blog (titled, without a hint of authoritarian irony, “What To Eat”), Nestle…
PostedNovember 20, 2008 at12:00 am

Weight Control Is Second-Grade Math, Not Calculus.

There is a buffet of bad information in the news today about what causes obesity. (The economy. Fast food. Television commercials.) Take a deep breath, folks: The truth hasn’t changed…
PostedNovember 20, 2008 at12:00 am

Frequent Flyers Beware: Here Comes PCRM Again

If it’s the week before Thanksgiving, it must be that special time again — time for travel writers to be duped by a phony "healthy" airport-food survey from the equally…
PostedNovember 18, 2008 at12:00 am

Quote of the Week

We usually don’t weigh in on the animal-rights war over fur and fashion — and it’s only Monday — but this is too good not to make our Quote of…
PostedNovember 17, 2008 at12:00 am

Let’s Learn from the Scandinavians!

Visit Scandinavia, and you’ll notice two things in comparison with the U.S. of A. (besides the proliferation of IKEA stores): fewer obese people, and more of them moving. Sweden, Denmark,…
PostedNovember 17, 2008 at12:00 am

Maybe PETA Just Wants a Monopoly On Clowns

The circus is in town for Chicagoans this month, but it could be the very last time — if the animal-rights nuts at People for the Ethical…
PostedNovember 14, 2008 at12:00 am

Chicken-Haters Grilled By California Attorney General

Leave it to the PETA-worshiping Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) to take all the fun out of eating. In October 2006, the deceptive animal rights group sued…
PostedNovember 13, 2008 at12:00 am