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| 1) | 4/3/08 | The British Are Coming! span> A recommendation in the Foresight report (commissioned by the British government) calling for overweight kids to be shipped off to government-sponsored fat camps All of this government intervention hasn’t made our European neighbors ... |
| 2) | 4/1/08 | CSPI Serves Up Steaming Pile Of Spuds The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) held a press conference* today to announce that almost all foods taste better when fried. “Whether it’s chicken breast or a Snickers bar, every meal can be improved with a little breading and some hot grease,” said Head Health Enforcer Michael Jacobson. Options include “Nader Tots,” “Sofa Spuds,” and “Pan-Fried Potbellies. |
| 3) | 3/14/08 | Do-Gooder Double Standards In summary: Even though the chief of the food police recognizes: America’s dependence on the internet; the confusion associated with government-mandated nutrition labeling; and the relatively high importance of other nutrients compared to calories; Jacobson and other anti-obesity activists continue to operate along a &ldquo... |
| 4) | 3/5/08 | State-Sponsored Bullying Yesterday, The New York Times covered a study that demonstrated “ This report closely followed a London Times feature on a growing consensus of health experts that “the way some adults demonize certain foods is creating a generation obsessed with growing fat and increasingly guilty about eating. ... |
| 5) | 2/8/08 | CSPI Against Soda Tax Earlier this week, notorious food cop Michael Jacobson—known for bragging that his organization “could envision taxes on butter, potato chips, whole milk, cheeses, [and] meat”—came out in opposition to San Francisco’s proposed soda tax and |
| 6) | 1/11/08 | Nanny State In '08 The California Energy Commission believes that British authorities recently charged a driver with “inconsiderate driving” after he accidentally splashed workmen by driving through a puddle. |
| 7) | 1/7/08 | It's Only " These frivolous lawsuits stem from an all-too-common syndrome among Big Brother groups: An organization brags that it “ Now nutrition activists are lobbying for the Food and Drug Administration to “protect” consumers by regulating the ... |
| 8) | 12/13/07 | BTW, HFCS A-OK Food cops have unduly tarnished the reputations of saccharin, caffiene, and acrylamide -- to say nothing of tuna fish. Leading nutrition experts at the American Dietetic ... |
| 9) | 11/30/07 | Salt Shaker Shakedown ” As long as it’s GRAS, salt is protected from the dubious agenda of nutrition activists like Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) nag Michael Jacobson. ” CSPI initially claimed that its desire to remove salt's GRAS status was fueled by a desire to ... |
| 10) | 11/29/07 | Americans Are Gaining Laws, Not Weight Between 1999 and 2002, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a plateau in US obesity rates. As former National Institutes of Health fellow Dr. Joseph De Soto writes in the Martinsburg (WV) Journal, the modern weight debate “has little to do with medical science and... |
| 11) | 11/28/07 | The Big Apple's Board of Hype Yesterday, New York City’s Board of Health held its first public hearing on revamped and reloaded menu labeling legislation set to be voted on in January. We were there. Here’... |
| 12) | 11/21/07 | Food Cops Aim Below The Belt Last week, the grossly misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine lost an appeal of its lawsuit against nine milk companies. ” The group’s scare tactics against dairy products hadn’t influenced consumers’ habits, so PCRM was counting on the “yuck” factor to drive down sales. ” Descriptions like “deadly” and &... |
| 13) | 11/14/07 | Legal Torts Over Calorie Tallies? Despite their permanent status on Santa’s naughty list, trial lawyers received an early Christmas present this year: menu labeling laws. According to the New York Times Health blog, CSPI recently investigated the accuracy of calorie counts currently posted on menus and found ... |
| 14) | 10/19/07 | CSPI Bombs On Breakfast Burrito That last thought was echoed in this trenchant post on so-called “fat taxes” by a blogger for The Economist: |
| 15) | 10/15/07 | "V" Stands For Veto And Victory In a letter to the Senate, Schwarzenegger called the legislation “impractical,” explaining that it would have unfairly saddled some of the state’s restaurants with estimated costs of up to $30,000 per site “while imposing no burdens or costs on ... |
| 16) | 10/9/07 | Food Cops: Not Worth Their Weight In Salt Food-police activists have compared trans fats to arsenic, cupcakes to contraband, and—most recently—Chicago Tribune quoted one nutrition “expert” who likened ... |
| 17) | 10/1/07 | Santa And Sports Drinks Make The Food Cop Black List Over the weekend, she told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that “cookies away from Santa, cupcakes away from kids, and ... |
| 18) | 9/17/07 | Regulation By Speculation Author Gary Taubes posed a very intriguing question in today's New York Times: "Do we really know what makes us healthy? The short answer is not really. [Epidemiological] studies can only ... |
| 19) | 9/4/07 | Road To Hell Paved With CSPI's Intentions Friday's U.S. News & World Report noted that after spending billions of dollars on a decade-long food fight, politicians, public-health officials, and nutrition activists have failed to put the brakes on childhood obesity. Trans fat labeling didn't work, so they pushed for trans fat ... |
| 20) | 8/20/07 | CSPI Lays An Egg Earlier this summer, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) bellyached to the FDA about omega-3-enriched eggs that promised "heart health" on the carton. The group's executive director, Michael Jacobson, warned the press that the promotion would "... |
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