Animal Rights Extremism (page7)

Some “Sportsmen” Groups Hide Big Green Agendas

Here at CCF, we’re no stranger to catching activist groups hiding radical front agendas. Whether People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was actually providing grants…
PostedFebruary 10, 2014 at6:00 pm

Food Day: The One Holiday without a Feast

For the third year in a row (after a thirty-year hiatus) the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is holding its “celebration” of Food Day.
PostedOctober 24, 2013 at4:33 pm

Should Americans Be “Peasants” Who Eat Only (Organic) Crops?

The U.N. declares October 16 World Food Day annually, so the chattering classes are talking about how to feed a growing world population. Are they discussing employing science-based agricultural…
PostedOctober 16, 2013 at3:33 pm

If Chipotle Only Had a Brain…

The Mexican restaurant chain Chipotle has a new cartoon video out to coincide with the launch of an iPhone game. The video, titled “Scarecrow,” paints modern food production…
PostedSeptember 12, 2013 at4:12 pm

Serial Food Scold Strikes Again

The Fourth of July will simply not be the same with cabbage on the grill and cucumbers filling hot dog buns. But “according to the latest study” by Walter…
PostedJune 19, 2013 at4:05 pm

Bittman Dismisses Basis for His Bestseller

A couple of weeks ago, the Institute of Medicine, usually a scold-friendly issuer of hundred-page reports demanding social engineering of food choices, dropped a bombshell by declaring…
PostedMay 29, 2013 at2:20 pm

T.V. Schlock Doc Needs to Beef Up Science Over Scaremongering

We — and others, including the Food and Drug Administration — have hit daytime television medical commentator Mehmet Oz hard for abandoning the medical science that made his…
PostedMay 7, 2013 at8:44 am

Food Cops Unwittingly Demonstrate Usefulness of Food Processing

The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) periodically raises alarm bells about pathogens in America’s generally very safe food supply. Now CSPI has released what…
PostedApril 24, 2013 at4:48 pm

New Book Debunks Food Police Agenda and Goals

The food activist book industry has been hyperactive the past few months. Robert Lustig’s holy war against sugar was extended into book form. Melanie Warner proclaimed a…
PostedApril 19, 2013 at1:24 pm

“Latest Study” on Meat Misses the Mark

Today’s Wall Street Journal greets readers with another prescription for dietary doom: According to the latest study, a protein in red meats called l-carnitine leads bacteria in…
PostedApril 8, 2013 at1:59 pm