Fat Taxes (page14)

Taking On Soda Taxes

Self-anointed food cops like newly minted Centers for Disease Control & Prevention chief Thomas Frieden keep proposing soda and junk food taxes as “solutions” to curb the nation’s…
PostedAugust 31, 2009 at12:00 am

Food Cop’s Junk Proposal Gets Trashed

An opinion piece in today’s South Florida Sun-Sentinel reveals the truly haughty attitude behind proposed taxes on so-called “junk food”: People are too lazy to figure out food choices…
PostedAugust 25, 2009 at12:00 am

Flat on Soda Taxes

We’ve told you before how the self-anointed “food police,” led by Thomas Frieden and Kelly Brownell, are looking to tax your soda, or even things like…
PostedAugust 12, 2009 at12:00 am

Meat the Press?

Washington Post writer Ezra Klein donated a few column inches today to the “Real Environmentalists Don’t Eat Meat” gang, claiming that forgoing meat is the best way to reduce…
PostedJuly 29, 2009 at12:00 am

The Carrot and the Stick: 2009 Update

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are co-hosting an obesity conference this week in Washington, called “Weight of the Nation.” With…
PostedJuly 28, 2009 at12:00 am

‘You Can’t Get Buff If You’re On Your Duff’

We were tickled by the opening sentences of this editorial in the Albany Times Union: “Government can slap taxes on soda and ban sugary snacks in schools, but those…
PostedJune 2, 2009 at12:00 am

CDC Nominee Faces Consumer Backlash

Thomas Frieden, President Obama’s pick to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is a lightning rod for controversy. In the days since his nomination was announced, major…
PostedMay 18, 2009 at12:00 am

Quote of the Week

We’d like to offer a “hear, hear!” to Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi for seeing through the anti-soda agenda of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
PostedMay 14, 2009 at12:00 am

Ten Food Rules For Michael Pollan

Yesterday on the New York Times health blog, food writer Michael Pollan asked readers for a few new food rules that everyone should try to live by. For too…
PostedMarch 10, 2009 at12:00 am

Food Cops Are The Only Ones Who Want Soda Taxes

In completely unsurprising fashion, notorious food cop Kelly Brownell has pounced on N.Y. Governor David Paterson’s proposed tax on soda pop in a new op-ed praising the unpopular…
PostedFebruary 18, 2009 at12:00 am