Food Scares (page15)

EWG: The Endlessly Wrong Group

Whenever you pick up the newspaper and read a scary story about chemicals in everyday items that are supposedly killing us, there’s a good chance the group behind the…
Posted August 5, 2011 at12:00 am

The Luddite Caucus

Last fall, a Food and Drug Administration committee issued a preliminary report finding that genetically modified salmon—which has been under review for over a decade—appears to be okay…
Posted August 3, 2011 at12:00 am

WARNING: California Ballot Initiatives May Be Hazardous to your Sanity

“The comment ‘Only in California’ is hardly ever a compliment,” we write in an essay published yesterday by The Daily Caller. We’re referring, of course, to Proposition 65,…
Posted June 28, 2011 at12:00 am

A Consumer Freedom Primer

From time to time we’re asked to sum up what the Center for Consumer Freedom is all about. Today we’re sharing a virtual smorgasbord of answers, courtesy of…
Posted June 14, 2011 at12:00 am

A Scientific ‘Merger’

It turns out that carefully engineering new plant strains to take advantage of specific genetic traits isn’t a modern idea after all. Yesterday in the Proceedings of the…
Posted June 7, 2011 at12:00 am

FDR Was Right about (Food) Fear

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became America’s 32nd president in 1933, he famously rallied his countrymen to sanity by assuring them that “the only thing we have to fear…
Posted June 6, 2011 at12:00 am

More Sweet Clarity about Corn Sugar

No doubt most people have heard some of the Internet innuendo about high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener that has become uninformed bloggers’ favorite punching bag. But the unscientific…
Posted June 1, 2011 at12:00 am

Overzealous Lawmakers Overlook Obesity Facts

Obesity-obsessed bureaucrats are increasingly finding egg on their faces in the wake of dietary legislation they pushed out of emotion rather than science-based facts. In this month’s City Journal,…
Posted May 16, 2011 at12:00 am

Common Sense: A Parental Responsibility?

Meet working mom Janice D’Arcy, who juggles children and a career. She wrote in yesterday’s Washington Post that she’s tired of people pinning blame on busy parents for…
Posted May 12, 2011 at12:00 am

Jamie Oliver’s “Revolution” Misses Sweeps Week (Weak)

Dismal ratings and off-camera messes hampered the second season of Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution” from the moment he arrived in Los Angeles. Clearly unimpressed with the British celebrity chef’s…
Posted May 9, 2011 at12:00 am