Food Scares (page 45)

Fish Lovers Rejoice: Former HHS Secretary Rides To The Rescue

Of the contentious political conflicts over the trace amounts of mercury in the fish we eat, none has a higher profile than the courtroom battle playing out in California.
Posted February 7, 2006 at 12:00 am

Fish Are Also Safe To Eat On The Radio

Fed up with all the myths about mercury in fish, this week the Center for Consumer Freedom launched a new radio advertising campaign to flush these toxic myths out…
Posted January 25, 2006 at 12:00 am

A Fish Story You Can Actually Believe

We recently received an e-mail from David, a reader who had fallen victim to scare-mongering over mercury in fish. There are over a dozen activist groups committed to spreading…
Posted January 24, 2006 at 12:00 am

FishScam.com Hooks Public Radio Listeners

This weekend National Public Radio listeners heard a Living on Earth story, prompted by the Center for Consumer Freedom’s FishScam.com website, about the growing debate…
Posted January 17, 2006 at 12:00 am

FishScam.com Advertisements Combat Mercury Hype

Following a largely one-sided Chicago Tribune series that hyped the trace amounts of mercury in fish, Tribune and New York Times readers are seeing full-page advertisements asking if they’re…
Posted December 19, 2005 at 12:00 am

Fish Is Good For You. Anxiety Isn’t.

The Chicago Tribune jumped on the mercury food-scare bandwagon this week with a three-part series claiming “tainted” fish with “unsafe” levels of mercury is routinely sold to an…
Posted December 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

Zambia Allows Its People To Eat

Good news from Africa: The government of Zambia, in the midst of a food crisis, has altered its anti-GM (genetically modified) food policy, allowing millions of…
Posted December 14, 2005 at 12:00 am

FishScam.com Takes Manhattan

Visitors to New York’s west side are noticing a new feature rising above the city’s snow-covered landscape this week. A three-sided billboard announcing our new FishScam.com website…
Posted December 9, 2005 at 12:00 am

Hooked On The Hype? FishScam.com Is The Catch Of The Day

Our mothers called fish “brain food.” Scientific literature is bulging with evidence that eating fish can help prevent heart attacks, Alzheimer’s disease, and…
Posted December 6, 2005 at 12:00 am

PETA Spins A Strategy For Kids: ‘Bait & Tackle’

It’s hard to imagine a more cynical communications strategy than targeting small children behind their parents’ backs, lying to them, and then misleading a national TV audience about it…
Posted November 30, 2005 at 12:00 am