Archive: Apr 2010 (page2)

Criminalizing High Fructose Corn Syrup is the Latest Crazy NY Idea

New York Assemblywoman Barbara Clark (D-Queens) has introduced legislation, bill No. A10574, that would ban the sale of products containing high fructose corn syrup in restaurants and retail stores…
PostedApril 14, 2010 at12:00 am

Meatless Mondays Meet Tough Reception

The UK’s Daily Telegraph declares today that cows are “absolved” of causing global warming with nitrous oxide. This proclamation came after a study in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia…
PostedApril 9, 2010 at12:00 am

Taking Twinkie Taxes to the Logical Conclusion

We’ve pointed out before that once the food police successfully tax one kind of food or beverage in the name of “fighting obesity,” taxes and other heavy-handed government regulations…
PostedApril 8, 2010 at12:00 am

Olympic Gold Medalists Disqualified for Unthinking Vegan-Pushing

The vegan activists masquerading as a respectable doctors group at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) are going full bore with a campaign to expel meat and…
PostedApril 7, 2010 at12:00 am

NY Health Commissioner Is All About the Benjamins

New York Health Commissioner Richard Daines is on an Empire State road show, promoting Governor David Paterson’s pet budget proposal: taxing sugary drinks. Last week, Daines and New York…
PostedApril 6, 2010 at12:00 am

Michael Jacobson Apologizes for Soda “Lapse,” Flagellates Himself

Michael Jacobson, food police chief at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), announced today* that he wanted to make a public confession that he…
PostedApril 1, 2010 at12:00 am