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Sharks Attack Pigs — Courtesy of RFK Jr.

With all the activist hype over mad cow disease, the reclassification of fish as a dangerous entrĂ©e, and the so-called “dangers” of feeding milk…
PostedMay 21, 2004 at12:00 am

Food Cops? Public Health Officials? Who Can Tell?

The American Public Health Association (APHA), fresh from an annual conference held to promote government policies that threaten to control your day-to-day activities, issued a whopping…
PostedJanuary 12, 2004 at12:00 am

Antibiotic ‘Estimates’ Lead Lawmakers Astray

Newly introduced, identical bills in the U.S. House and Senate would ban the routine use of eight classes of antibiotics in livestock animals. Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW), a…
PostedAugust 1, 2003 at12:00 am

Hog Wild in California?

On the heels of their successful 2002 Florida ballot initiative (which gave pregnant sows Constitutional protections), animal-rights activists are now gearing up to duplicate their efforts…
PostedJune 4, 2003 at12:00 am

Union of Callous Scaremongers

“Hey, hey, ho, ho, drugs in meat have got to go” chanted protestors outside a McDonald’s in Maine. The oh-so-clever rabble held up massive “pill burgers” (hamburgers with…
PostedMay 27, 2003 at12:00 am

Activists ‘Resist’ Real Science on Antibiotic Resistance

As anti-consumer groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy…
PostedApril 30, 2003 at12:00 am

The Rights Of Scaremongers

The pretentiously named tompaine.com recently published an article titled “Want drugs with those fries?” that raises fears about the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture leading…
PostedApril 28, 2003 at12:00 am

The Straw that Broke the Sow’s Back

Florida politicians, weary of the sort of election-day fiascos that made their state a laughingstock, have decided to clean up their act. We’re not talking about…
PostedApril 1, 2003 at12:00 am

More Pfabulous Pfiesteria Pfun

Yesterday a University of North Carolina marine biologist presented a rare bit of common sense related to Pfiesteria piscicida [fiss-TEER-ee-uh piss-ki-SEED-uh]. That’s the pesky microorganism that environmental groups like…
PostedMarch 27, 2003 at12:00 am

‘Hyperbole’: noun – See ‘Kennedy’

Any time an environmental activist leader ends his comments by claiming, “That’s not an exaggeration,” you can be sure what you just heard was more style than substance. Robert…
PostedMarch 26, 2003 at12:00 am