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| 1) | 8/20/10 | Food Cops Now Want Literal Badges CSPI’s food-safety director Caroline Smith DeWaal cites this week’s egg recall as a mandate for |
| 2) | 7/16/10 | Video of the Week By now you’ve probably heard about the threats from the notorious Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to sue over toys in Happy Meals. We were happy to see CSPI’s head diet scold, Michael Jacobson, ... |
| 3) | 7/13/10 | Quote of the Week Like us, he is outraged over the misnamed Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) threat to sue over toys in Happy Meals. Today, we’re elaborating with our own sentiments on CSPI’s morose move to take happiness out of kids meals. In the pages of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, we highlight |
| 4) | 5/26/10 | CSPI “Awards” More of the Same (Drivel) Yesterday CSPI unveiled the latest edition of its “Xtreme Eating Awards” for high-calorie restaurant dishes. Eating a 2,500-calorie meal every day isn’t generally a healthy choice for people (Michael Phelps excluded), but there’s nothing wrong with an ... |
| 5) | 5/21/10 | Shaking Up the Nanny State As the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee considers its options before releasing its official nutritional recommendations this year, it’s clear that the latest push is against salt. And in April the Institute of Medicine released a report calling for the FDA to set ... |
| 6) | 5/13/10 | Morose Meals: Not Exactly a Kid-Pleaser By now, it seems the most pundits (except MeMe Roth and the grinches at the Center for Science in the Public Interest) have shown disapproval at Santa Clara County’s narrowly ... |
| 7) | 4/28/10 | Food Police Target Kids’ Toys Santa Clara County’s board of supervisors despondently |
| 8) | 4/22/10 | Salt Assault Heads Down Slippery, Grainy Slope The Washington Post originally reported on Tuesday that the FDA is moving to seek mandatory restrictions on how much salt can be in foods. The FDA denied this strategy in a statement. But ... |
| 9) | 4/1/10 | Michael Jacobson Apologizes for Soda “Lapse,” Flagellates Himself Michael Jacobson, food police chief at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), announced today* that he wanted to make a public confession that he drank a soda. For his penance, Jacobson will flagellate himself* with a cat o' nine tails while reciting CSPI’s 1st... |
| 10) | 3/30/10 | What if Menu Labeling Doesn’t Work? There’s no compelling evidence that labeling calorie counts and fat grams on restaurant menus and menu boards is having a positive effect on obesity. And cookies and hamburgers might be for “adults only”—if they’re not considered |
| 11) | 3/11/10 | Hype Masters Call Out Corn Syrup Falsehoods Last week USA Today took a crack at denouncing the high-fructose fearmongering. Jacobson blames the high-fructose corn syrup controversy on a 2004 study that seemed to link soft drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup to the obesity epidemic. And alongside Jacobson in calling for a tone-down of the scaremongering was the ... |
| 12) | 3/2/10 | Even Food Cops Know: High Fructose Corn Syrup = Table Sugar Such is the case with today’s USA Today article about the clash between sucrose (table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup, a corn-based sweetener. We’ve explained before how high fructose corn syrup, which is either 55 or 42 percent fructose, shares a ... |
| 13) | 2/9/10 | CSPI: Kings of Gripe One of CSPI’s best-known ongoing campaigns, along with trying to replace “yummy” with “food porn," has been to demonize soft drinks, which the group calls “liquid candy” in the hope that governments will tax them. But that praise, apparently, is only for companies that sell boiled kale, ... |
| 14) | 1/25/10 | Maven Marion to “Ordinary Mortals”: You’re Stupid Food activist and NYU professor Marion Nestle positions herself as a defender of the little guy in her personal crusade against “Big Food” -- that is, any company that dares to feed millions of Americans. Nestle’s anti-corporate food philosophy comes with built-in arrogance. ” ... |
| 15) | 1/7/10 | Celebrity “Scientists” Prescribe Bad Medicine The Humane Society of the United States is waging a campaign against the consumption of meat while “Twinkie Tax” creator Kelly Brownell and Michael Jacobson of the |
| 16) | 1/4/10 | Acrylamide Hype, Back in the Fryer Yesterday, The Sacramento Bee published a nutrition quiz on a subject we haven’t seen much in a while: acrylamide. A few researchers have suggested that acrylamide could increase the human risk of cancer, which resulted in predictable activist-driven scaremongering about potato chips and ... |
| 17) | 1/1/10 | The Latest Updates to Activist Cash ActivistCash.com is a hub for providing in-depth research about hundreds of people and groups, from Greenpeace to the Center for Science in the Public Interest to the |
| 18) | 12/14/09 | Putting Food Activists on Santa's “Bad” List As we told readers of the Connecticut News-Times and Bucks County Courier Times over the weekend, naysayers at the Center for Science in the Public Interest and vegan radicals at the |
| 19) | 12/9/09 | Warning: Propagating Bogus Scares May Be Bad for Everyone The Food and Drug Administration gave notice last month that it is looking to update the “Nutrition Facts” label that appears on packaged foods. But unhelpfully, the self-anointed food police at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (... |
| 20) | 12/2/09 | Obesity Activists Are All Fizz Single-minded food nannies like Kelly “Twinkie Tax and Spend” Brownell have the government’s ear on soda taxes, and everyone seems to be ignoring the public’s resounding rejection of new taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages. Taxing soda into oblivion |
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