For the amount of flack that “Big Food” takes from finger-wagging activists, here’s an interesting statistic: General Mills has increased its spending on health and wellness by 75%, The…
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is legendary among the nation’s food police (and notorious among consumer-choice advocates), having already banned trans fats in restaurants, grossed out his…
The federal farm bill will soon be up for consideration, so it’s no surprise to see activists and stakeholders jockeying to influence farm policy for the next few years.
If you wonder what kind of hare-brained food nannying could come next after activists’ war on salt, Denmark (of all places) could provide the blueprint. On Saturday, Denmark,…
The United Nations met recently in New York to discuss public health issues, including non-communicable conditions like obesity. And who other than New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to show up…
When America’s self-anointed “food police” compare salt to addictive drugs, you know their compass is more than a little out of whack. But that’s just what the scolds at…
Food-police representatives from the Canadian branch of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) met with more than 140 other nongovernmental organizations in New York this…
It’s a fact that Mexicans drink more soda per capita than their neighbors to the north. However, the Mexican food police – having failed at convincing people to voluntarily…
In defense of genetically modified (GM) foods, Nina V. Fedoroff – a professor of biology at Penn State and the former science and technology adviser to the secretary of…
It’s almost funny how often the conventional wisdom about food changes. In the 1970s, “experts” started pointing fingers at eggs after concerns about cholesterol became a health issue. A…
