Food Police (page83)

Attack Of The Warning Labels

It was only a matter of time. This morning the Boston Globe reports that U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials are “considering placing warning labels on packages of…
Posted April 23, 2004 at12:00 am

Food Police Do A Body Bad

Attention parents and teachers! The self-described “food police” at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) have added whole and two-percent milk to the list…
Posted April 21, 2004 at12:00 am

Food Cops Still Hop On Pop

Our nation’s diet scolds are running out of reasons to pick on soda pop. Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Center for Food and Nutritional Policy (CFNP) have found that…
Posted March 30, 2004 at12:00 am

Food Cop Won’t Stop

The diet scolds at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) will not rest until every food morsel in America is taxed, labeled, regulated, and given…
Posted March 24, 2004 at12:00 am

Menu Labeling Advocates Want Control, Not Information

Working in tandem with Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, whose press conference last week renewed the prevailing bombast over our so-called “epidemic” of obesity, the Food…
Posted March 17, 2004 at12:00 am

Quote Of The Week

In testimony before the Senate earlier this week, Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) let loose with a line that,…
Posted March 5, 2004 at12:00 am

‘Freedom’ Is Just Another Word For ‘Nothing Left To Eat’

When the World Health Organization (WHO) released its proposed “global strategy on diet, physical activity and health” calling for “fat taxes,” the Bush administration noticed something conspicuously missing…
Posted March 4, 2004 at12:00 am

When Frivolous Lawsuits Attack

Center for Science in the Public Interest executive director Michael Jacobson continues to beat the obesity lawsuit drum in this month’s Legal Times. After admitting that…
Posted March 3, 2004 at12:00 am

Quotes Of The Week

We’ve argued before that menu labeling legislation, currently under debate in Congress and several states, would open a new door to frivolous litigation — brought courtesy…
Posted February 6, 2004 at12:00 am

Quote Of The Week

The puritanical carrot-crunchers at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) have always harbored a not-so-secret animus toward the companies that provide Americans with a…
Posted January 16, 2004 at12:00 am