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Is Eric Schlosser’s book all about food safety and health, or just a thinly-disguised political manifesto? Schlosser, nearing the end of his Fast Food Nation book tour, took…

We told you last week about how public television cooking show host Christina Pirello used her column in the Philadelphia Daily News to unequivocally bash milk and dairy…

The current issue of Foreign Policy magazine examines third-party certification, the latest in a series of cudgels used by nonprofit organizations to enforce their worldview on the global corporate…

It's been 17 years since Bernard Goetz made headlines by gunning down four black teens in a New York City subway car. Now, he's gunning for Rudy Giuliani's job. Goetz is mounting a small-scale campaign for mayor, hoping to win based on his high name-recognition and a call for vegetarian-only eating in city-funded facilities. According to the Washington Times, he is on the record saying that if he had not been eating meat at the time of the subway incident, he would not have been mugged ("vegetarians have good karma").

The July/August issue of famed Leftist magazine Mother Jones features a cover story from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. Schlosser, who fancies himself a 21st century Upton Sinclair,…

A cabal of enviro-activists, eco-terrorists, rent-a-mob demonstrators, and nonprofits who “know what’s best” for all of us have descended on San Diego to protest against the Bio2001 convention. The organizers…

Two new studies in the latest Journal of the American Dietetic Association set new standards for conflicts of interest in scientific research. Both reach essentially the same conclusion: that a…

As reported in The Daily Times of Salisbury, Maryland (June 18): “The chicken industry held its 53rd annual Delmarva Chicken Festival in Pocomoke City [Maryland] over the weekend, but not…

EarthSave International, the hard-core vegetarian and quasi-environmentalist organization started by ice cream heir John Robbins, has spawned some odd campaigns in recent years, but the group has hit a new…

This week at the Canadian Institute of Food Science and Technology conference in Toronto, Dr. Margaret French, a government chemist, presented study results that demonstrated that beef fat does not raise blood cholesterol levels. "Even when our subjects were eating beef twice a day," French told her colleagues, "their total and LDL blood cholesterol levels were the same as when they were eating a diet of primarily chicken, beans and pulses (seeds)."