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Locavore Capital Losing Its Chefs?

We’ve written before on how the would-be prophet of the “food movement,” Michael Pollan, and his devout locavore followers – aka, people who refuse to eat anything from outside of their 100-mile “foodshed” – …
PostedJuly 12, 2013 at3:13 pm

CSPI & Scare Tactics: More of the Same

Katherine Bishop and Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest took to The Hill recently to lament the fact that the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention…
PostedJuly 11, 2013 at2:08 pm

A Declaration of Food Independence

Tomorrow, July 4th, marks the 237th birthday of our great nation, one founded on the ideals  that every man, woman, and child has the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and…
PostedJuly 3, 2013 at10:36 am

Consumers Lose Appetite for Food Regulations

Americans do not like to be told what they can or cannot eat and drink. Personal responsibility has once again silenced the loud minority of fun suckers bent on…
PostedJune 26, 2013 at2:43 pm

AMA’s “Disease” Declaration Draws Dissent

Last week, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates voted to declare obesity a “disease,”  perhaps the only such curable by shutting your pie-hole and taking a…
PostedJune 25, 2013 at4:34 pm

Trial Lawyers Hope Sweetener Litigation Will Give Their Pocketbooks a Rush

It must be a slow month at the office for personal injury attorney J. Michael Hayes of Buffalo, New York. Last week Hayes filed suit against six manufacturers of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) for…
PostedJune 24, 2013 at12:12 pm

Organic Food No Cure-All

All the rage from the Food Police recently has been that so-called “processed foods” are stealth assassins shortening the lives of Americans. But as David H. Freedman points out this week in …
PostedJune 21, 2013 at3:41 pm

A “Disease” Cured by a Closed Mouth and a Long Walk

The bubonic plague and obesity. Before this week, the two had nothing in common. The former nearly wiped out entire societies, the latter was the product of too much couch potato-itis and…
PostedJune 20, 2013 at11:22 am

Serial Food Scold Strikes Again

The Fourth of July will simply not be the same with cabbage on the grill and cucumbers filling hot dog buns. But “according to the latest study” by Walter…
PostedJune 19, 2013 at4:05 pm

Are Americans Trapped in a “Food Desert”?

Britain’s leading business newspaper, the Financial Times, goes into the heart of America’s most overweight state (Mississippi) to tell a story about one of the greatest mirages in food…
PostedJune 14, 2013 at4:25 pm