Big Fat Lies (page76)

On the front page of this morning’s Wall Street Journal marketing section, reporter Betsy McKay takes a hacksaw to the public-health myth that U.S. levels of obesity are out…

Somehow we knew it would come to this. Amid dire warnings about fast-food commercials from culinary know-it-alls like Yale’s Kelly Brownell and alarmist reports about growing…

In recognition of the month when America celebrates its freedom, we are devoting the first two weeks of July to a review of the ongoing battle for consumer freedom —…

“Look out, stomach, here it comes!” The Daily Oklahoman warns in an editorial. With anti-consumer activists targeting snacks and restaurant foods, “lawyers are poised to compel another giant…

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the infamous activist group that wants “taxes on snack foods and soft drinks,” dubbed fettuccini Alfredo a “heart attack on…

For years now, we have been warning consumers about the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric -- and increasingly ambitious agenda -- of anti-consumers activists. Their latest bomb fell Sunday. Perennial fringe presidential candidate Ralph Nader, in The New York Times Magazine: "McDonald's double cheeseburgers [are] a weapon of mass destruction."

“Sellers of food products do not attract the same kind of attention as purveyors of drugs or tobacco. They should.” Only “food companies and their trade associations” believe…

Attorney John Banzhaf made his name, and a lot of money, by suing tobacco companies. The George Washington University professor heads up an organization that promises “hundreds of billions…

The Center for Science in the Public Interest‘s shocking report that pizzas contain cheese caught the attention of The Dubuque Telegraph Herald’s Ken Brown, who writes: “I always…

The Center for Science in the Public Interest — the group that wants “taxes on snack foods and soft drinks,” dubbed fettuccini Alfredo a “heart attack…