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Ten Dumbest Food Cop Ideas

Over the years, the growing cabal of diet dictators have proposed a litany of crazy proposals to tax, legislate, and litigate away many food and beverage choices. The list includes sin taxes on meals under $4, carding for candy, and zoning restaurants out of towns.

We've compiled a list of the most outrageous ideas for your reading enjoyment. read more here »




Daily Headlines

  • Taxing “Junk Food” Is Trashy Policy
    Posted On: March 16, 2010
  • Food Cops Prepare for Round 2
    Posted On: March 3, 2010
  • A Stimulus for Food Cops' Appetites
    Posted On: February 17, 2010
  • The White House: Food Police Headquarters?
    Posted On: February 12, 2010
  • Personal Responsibility Still Ahead?
    Posted On: February 11, 2010
  • CSPI: Kings of Gripe
    Posted On: February 9, 2010

    • Features

    Declaration Of Food Independence Declaration Of Food Independence
    America's founding fathers signed their names to the Declaration of Independence in an effort to affirm basic liberties. In the spirit of throwing off the shackles of harassing powers, we offer our Declaration of Food Independence. read more here »

    The War On Personal Responsibility
    Harold Goldstein tells the Sacramento Bee that Americans simply can't be trusted with the complex task of feeding themselves. read more here »

    An Epidemic of Obesity Myths An Epidemic of Obesity Myths
    Overblown rhetoric about the "obesity epidemic" has itself reached epidemic proportions read more here »

    Public Health Activists Vs. Consumer Freedom: Video Highlights
    Many public health professionals are shifting their focus from preventing the spread of contagious diseases to fretting about what's on your dinner plate. read more here »

    Hyperbolic Hypocrisy
    The critics of consumer choice and enemies of a wide variety of menu options have never been known for their consistency. read more here »

    Ad Campaigns

    Food police smashing your choices? Food police smashing your choices?
    Everywhere you turn, someone’s telling us what we can’t eat. It’s getting harder just to enjoy a beer on a night out. Do you always feel like you are being told what to do? Find out who is driving the Food Police at ConsumerFreedom.com click to view »

    CSPI: The New Bullies CSPI: The New Bullies
    Bullies Used To Steal Your Lunch Money. Now They Scare You Out Of Eating. Food cops at the Center For Science in the Public Interest are seeking government control of everything you eat. For a review of their phony food scares, junk "science," and demands for new taxes, visit www.CSPIscam.com. click to view »


    OpEds

    ‘Tis not the season to be annoyingly wary
    This time of year, people watching their weight while facing down holiday happy hours and open houses can be particularly susceptible to scaremongering by the fat police. read more here »

    High-sodium food fight
    It doesn't take a Ph.D. in nutrition to know that a pile of pancakes, sausage, bacon and eggs is not a healthy breakfast. Except, apparently, when it comes to the nutritionists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. read more here »

    Activist Cash

    Kelly Brownell
    Background
    Kelly Brownell is a Yale psychologist on a decade-long crusade against what he calls America’s “toxic food environment.” He is best known for having first proposed the infamous “Twinkie tax.” read more here »

    Marion Nestle
    Background
    Marion Nestle is one of the country’s most hysterical anti-food-industry fanatics. She writes: “Sellers of food products do not attract the same kind of attention as purveyors of drugs or tobacco. They should.” read more here »

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