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A Different Kind of Shell Game

Animal rights groups are boiling mad. There’s a new shell game being played in some Florida restaurants, allowing guests to grab their lobsters for dinner. A machine known as…
Posted May 1, 1998 at12:00 am

Super-Sized Complaints

The recent success of “super-sized” meals has the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) and other health activists complaining about the size of hamburgers and soft drinks being…
Posted April 1, 1998 at12:00 am

Anatomy of a Smear Campaign

Want to launch a national media campaign against a particular product or industry? Here’s all you’ll need: a targeted product or industry, an outlandish accusation, “innocent victims” (usually children), the…
Posted April 1, 1998 at12:00 am

Life in the Fat Lane

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece written by Michael Fumento, author of The Fat of the Land. Fumento’s book and editorial piece sounds the fat alarm, claiming that…
Posted December 1, 1997 at12:00 am

Fat Tax Proposed By Yale University Researchers

Yale University researchers have weighed in with their opinions on how to change the eating patterns of Americans: impose a “fat tax” on certain foods. The researchers charge that…
Posted August 1, 1997 at12:00 am