Food & Beverage (page190)

Apparently the falsehoods used in the campaign against swordfish haven't stopped attempts to stop us from eating another favorite seafood, lobster. The Boston Globe gives Chefs Collaborative 2000, SeaWeb and other nannies another chance to spread their anti-choice rhetoric in an article long on opinion, short on facts.

Lynn Goldman, former head of the EPA pesticide and toxic chemicals office, is apparently now working with activists to promote organic agriculture and restrict other food choices. Goldman, listed as a sympathizer by the anti-chemical Children's Health Environmental Coalition Network, repeats her erroneous "Organic is your best bet when it comes to safe fruit and vegetables" message to U.S. News & World Report.

The Detroit News joins the growing group following our lead in denouncing the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and its absurd "fat tax" proposal.

Who would be crazy enough to dispute the findings of the American Cancer Society, American Medical Association, American Dietetic Association, and the American Diabetes Association? It could only be anti-choice nannies Michael Jacobson of CSPI and Mr. Samuel "All Chemicals Cause Cancer" Epstein. They seem to be the only ones left who still think saccharin is a health threat.

The organic industry gets a free ad courtesy of CNN. CNN promotes the "healthfulness" of an organic diet, which is something Katherine DiMatteo, the head of the Organic Trade Association, won't verify when asked directly.

Citizens Against Government Waste follows our lead in ridiculing the "fat tax" proposals of the Center for Science in the Public Interest and Yale Professor Kelly Brownell. Good to see our allies joining the fight to oppose this absurd proposal.

In not one, but two articles on Sunday, Karen Goldberg Goff of the Washington Times draws from the anti-choice nannies at the Center for Science in the Public Interest to make the ridiculous case that people shouldn't eat such delectable items as Pop-Tarts, Twinkies, donuts, French fries, and white bread.

Reuters does little more than reprint the oppressive "Twinkie Tax" proposal of anti-choice nannies Kelly Brownell of Yale and Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Michael Jacobson and 1998 Nanny of the Year Kelly Brownell have recommended in a paper in the June issue of the American…

Fresh from their Nutrition Summit demand for new taxes on snacks, sodas and high-calorie foods, the Center for Science in the Public Interest is now fighting the repeal of Washington D.C.'s unpopular and confusing retail sales tax on snacks and soft drinks. Sensing that D.C.'s version of the "Twinkie" tax is going down, CSPI's counter-proposal is a wholesale-level tax on the same products.