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The USA Today, the New Orleans Times-Picayune ("Video games, fast food take some blame for overweight kids," 5/1/00), and the Brown University Daily Herald feature articles attempting to place blame for rising obesity rates on fast food restaurants.

Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO), the Hudson Institute's Dennis Avery, and The Wall Street Journal all write articles espousing the benefits of biotechnology and especially of genetically engineered foods. As Senator Bond puts it, "The world's hungry and sick cannot afford the hysteria and unworkable propositions advanced by those who can take their next meal for granted. It will be up to the policy makers and scientists to ensure that reason, not hype, prevails as we proceed with the biotechnology revolution."

Yet another article in a major publication pins the so-called obesity epidemic on the popularity of restaurant food. Hinting broadly that the government will soon try to modify the food choices you make, USDA's Eileen Kennedy tells the Wall Street Journal, "We need a strategy to deal with obesity - we need to intervene, change our behavior, break our eating patterns." ("Fill 'er Up: So little time, so much money," Wall Street Journal, 5/1/00.)

The Washington Post advances the radical animal rights agenda by giving favorable coverage to activists' arguments for changing the way farmers raise egg-laying hens.

Columnist Tony Gabriele pokes fun at the ever-changing diet advice from the "experts."

Frightened by "continuing and escalating violence and destruction" by animal rights zealots like the Animal Liberation Front and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the "Americans Against Domestic Terrorism of District of Columbia" have started a petition requesting the FBI "expose the organizations that fund, train, and promote these people in their domestic terrorism activities."

Robert Cohen, the anti-milk guy, is busy spewing his ridiculous rhetoric about the "dangers" of milk and diary products. Speaking at Syracuse University, Cohen denounced the dairy industry's "Got Milk" campaign as misleading and morally irresponsible. "We've been brainwashed. I've found out everything they've been saying is untrue," said Cohen.

After months of buildup from USDA Secretary Dan Glickman and the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), the agenda for the May 30-31 “National Nutrition Summit” has…

Radical Animal Liberation Front (ALF) members in Flanders, Belgium destroyed two meat trucks and a slaughterhouse on Monday. The group has attacked fast-food restaurants, including McDonald's, as symbols of a global system that supposedly perpetrates a "permanent Holocaust against man's fellow mammals."

Good Morning America's Charles Gibson introduced a segment yesterday with model Cindy Crawford by telling the audience how Cindy had spent some time with a group of women who want to "kick a habit that has been brewing in every city across the board." What is the evil habit these poor women are trying so hard to break? "Caffeine addiction."