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| 11/6/09 |
Soda Scam Goes Hollywood
The food finger-waggers were out in full force in Los Angeles yesterday. At a committee hearing more akin to a three-ring circus, state senators “explored” a supposed link between sugar-sweetened beverages and obesity. The hearing,...
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| 10/27/09 |
Crushing Beverage Tax Proposals
Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution features us in a pro-con debate about whether health policy should include a sugar-sweetened beverage tax. The “pro” side is represented by an Emory University professor who argues that not only...
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| 10/21/09 |
The Empire State Strikes Back?
The New York Daily News reported yesterday that, just in time for Halloween, Governor David Paterson pledged to raise his sugar-sweetened beverage tax from the dead. And dead it is. Even the Governor acknowledges the...
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| 10/20/09 |
Quote of the Week
The New York Times reported last week that Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating food companies’ use of labels on breakfast cereals and other products. The usual suspects have piled on: Marion Nestle has...
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| 10/16/09 |
Another Big Sham in the Big Apple
With all their public awareness campaigns, you’d think the anti-fat warriors in New York City’s government could keep their so-called “good” and “bad” foods straight. But as the New York Post reported on Tuesday, the...
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| 10/12/09 |
Doubling Down on L.A. Zoning Bans
We told you last week about a study from the California-based RAND Corporation which found that the fast food zoning ban in South Los Angeles was based on questionable premises. The July 2008 ban, which prohibited...
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| 10/9/09 |
Labeling a Failure
Dare we say “Told you so”? Because that’s the sentiment we have after a comprehensive study released this week shows that calorie labeling in New York City did not result in people eating fewer calories....
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| 10/8/09 |
Start Spreadin’ the News: No New Soda Taxes
Our brawl with New York City’s dietary control freaks is drawing some serious attention. The city is spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to run anti-soft-drink subway ads depicting a soda turning into globs...
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| 10/7/09 |
Would You Take Dietary Advice From This Man? (Part Deux)
“Twinkie tax” creator Kelly Brownell has been on a years-long crusade against the dietary decisions of other Americans. Yesterday, he and fellow doom merchant David Ludwig wrote in the Los Angeles Times in favor of a soda tax, repeating the usual...
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| 10/6/09 |
Obesity Science Catches Up With the Sound Bite
Two myth-shattering pieces of obesity science hit the academic world this morning, and the usual controlling, finger-wagging party poopers are regrouping. Yes, indeed, victory is sweet. Taken together, the two studies should go a long...
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| 9/28/09 |
When Nudge Turns to Shove
Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t alone in his New York City anti-salt crusade (even if he salts his own popcorn to extremes). Today, Crain’s New York Business profiles the man who has stepped into the role...
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| 9/25/09 |
NYC Is Pouring on the Guilt
If you thought Mayor Bloomberg’s salt antics were bad, the New York City nanny government is not to be outdone. The City Board of Health recently spent over $300,000 making subway posters that grotesquely attempt...
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| 9/23/09 |
Hizzoner’s Nanny Culture, With a Grain of Salt
The New York Times reports today that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been caught “salt-handed.” Despite targeting sodium in his latest nanny-state crusade, the mayor privately enjoys pouring it on by the shaker-load:
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| 9/22/09 |
HSUS Targets Ohio in Political Cockfight
The animal-rights industry is pushing back against Issue 2, a ballot initiative in Ohio that would create a board to develop statewide standards for livestock care. But even if it passes, Issue 2 is not...
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| 9/21/09 |
Quote of the Week
We’ve covered a multitude of arguments against soda taxes. Speaking recently at the Rotary Club of Atlanta, Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent gave his own take (and perhaps the pithiest argument yet):
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| 9/17/09 |
Food Cops Issue Arrest Warrant for Soda
Last week, we reported that President Obama had endorsed the idea of “exploring” a federal tax on soda. Yesterday, the authors of a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) happily obliged...
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| 9/14/09 |
CCF in the News
The New York Daily News saw fit to quote us last week explaining how soda taxes lack any pop. Today, the publication gave us the opportunity to elaborate on our belief that lifestyle taxes on...
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| 9/10/09 |
One Step Closer to a PETA White House
Yesterday, the Senate voted 63-35 to invoke cloture on the nomination of animal rights activist Cass Sunstein to be the nation’s new “regulatory czar,” which means the Senate can proceed with a vote to confirm...
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| 9/9/09 |
Commander in Chief (of Vending Machines)
According to a national poll we commissioned last week from the Opinion Research Corporation, Americans don’t want more taxes on their soda. Two-thirds of Americans disagreed with the proposal that soda should carry extra taxes...
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| 8/31/09 |
Taking On Soda Taxes
Self-anointed food cops like newly minted Centers for Disease Control & Prevention chief Thomas Frieden keep proposing soda and junk food taxes as “solutions” to curb the nation’s growing waistlines (or to fund healthcare legislation)....
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