Food Police (page 77)

Nestle Utters Curdled Kernel of Knowledge

“I don’t think dairy is an essential nutrient at all. Cows don’t drink milk, and they make bones. The calcium story is complicated.”…
Posted May 17, 2005 at 12:00 am

Brownell Admits ‘We Don’t Know’ If Twinkie Tax Would Work

“You can have it your way, but your next burger may come with a tax,” warned CNN’s Jack Cafferty last week. Referring to a proposed…
Posted May 16, 2005 at 12:00 am

‘How Did It Come To This?’

“How did it come to this?” asks Mike Miliard in a Boston Phoenix article published earlier this month. “When was it decided that the…
Posted March 31, 2005 at 12:00 am

Press C-C-F For Vending Machine News Morsels

The news just keeps getting weirder in the ongoing debate surrounding our love handles. Lately, attempts to regulate vending machines — a favorite target of food cops like the…
Posted March 30, 2005 at 12:00 am

Slugging CSPI’s Salt Scare

“That bizarre collection of neurotics, nannies, killjoys, hysterics, and scolds better, if misleadingly, known as the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has dreamt up yet…
Posted March 28, 2005 at 12:00 am

Glitzy Awards, Tarnished Halos

Monday’s Chattanooga Times Free Press couldn’t have put it any better when it highlighted our 4th Annual Tarnished Halo Awards: “So long as fussy and even militant meddlers try…
Posted March 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

NYT’s Recipe For Food-Free Misery

“Do you think, dear reader, you could join my movement? Will you, too, swear off the cruel oppression of eating?” That’s the question George Saunders asked in Sunday’s New York…
Posted March 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

Sue It For The Children? Scouts Actually Under Fire

Farce officially became reality today: The New York Times reports this morning that nutrition zealots are actually using the so-called obesity epidemic to bash the Girl Scouts for…
Posted March 9, 2005 at 12:00 am

Columnist Kanes America’s Food Police

This weekend Baltimore Sun columnist Gregory Kane added a pinch of levity and a healthy dollop of common sense to the debate surrounding the so-called “obesity epidemic.” Taking on…
Posted March 3, 2005 at 12:00 am

Black-Market Bubble Gum

Draconian food-cop policies almost always have unintended consequences. Such is the case in Austin, Texas, where one high school’s ban on snack foods has created a thriving black market for…
Posted February 24, 2005 at 12:00 am