Food Scares (page 51)

The organic industry gets a free ad courtesy of CNN. CNN promotes the "healthfulness" of an organic diet, which is something Katherine DiMatteo, the head of the Organic Trade Association, won't verify when asked directly.

Despite the government's removal of saccharin from its list of carcinogens, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) continues to rail against it. It's an interesting position for a group of nannies who continually scold us for eating too much sugar.

An increasing number of newspaper writers can’t resist blaming the so-called “obesity epidemic” on restaurants. Today, it’s influential New York Times food writer Marion Burros, who says: “[R]estaurant portions…

British supermarket chains Tesco and Iceland were forced by the British Advertising Standards Authority to withdraw advertising that claimed organic food tastes better than conventional food and that genetic engineering may have caused deaths in the U.S.

A coalition of environmental groups, labor, consumer groups, and anti-agribusiness groups is attempting to gain more influence in setting international food policy. With America’s leading anti-choice group, the Center for…

The Columbus Dispatch questions nannies' baseless claims about the benefits of organic foods, pointing out that even the head of the Organic Trade Association recently had to admit that organic foods "are not safer or more nutritious than other foods."