Food & Beverage (page 182)

No, we're kidding. The tsar's daughter hasn't been found. However, we're not kidding when we tell you that Scotland is about to name a new "fat tsar" to force the Scots to change what they eat. Don't be surprised if the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Michael Jacobson starts calling for a "fat tsar" here to impose "fat taxes."

Are your kids fat? The Hudson Institute’s Michael Fumento says if they are, it’s not restaurant food, Dream Cast, TV, or computers, to blame–it’s you. The Ottawa Citizen agrees and…

The Seafood Lover's Almanac, published by the National Audubon Society and funded by anti-choice forces, says we "should avoid" eating lobster. But lobsters are thriving, perhaps even because they are being harvested. Once again, fact triumphs over their fiction!

The next time you see an article by Olivia Wu in the Chicago Tribune, it's very likely it will feature a member of Chefs Collaborative spewing the group's anti-choice rhetoric. Why? Because Wu is also the editor of the Chefs Collaborative newsletter.

USA Today's Craig Wilson says you ought to tell the food police with their "don't eat this, don't eat that" message to take a hike this holiday season. "Is your favorite childhood memory of Christmas a carrot stick? I didn't think so. Isn't mine, either. A carrot was something you left for Rudolph," Wilson exclaims. As for pie, "Apple. Pumpkin. Mincemeat. Have a slice of each. Or, if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always have three. When else do you get to have more than one dessert? Labor Day?"

Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman says "the trend is unstoppable toward more and more labeling" for genetically improved foods. Glickman says the only reason he isn't calling for mandatory labeling is "because we don't have any of the testing and threshold mechanisms, or would really know how to do it." Glickman seems not to realize that activists (and the organic food industry that backs them) declared that labeling has "nearly the same effect as a ban."

Repeated food scares have led us to this: Waukesha, Wisconsin elementary schools are considering banning homemade treats and classroom cooking. The move comes in response to an E. coli…

Would you pay up to $4 a pound for a turkey that is no safer to eat and no tastier than one you could get for less than a dollar a pound? That's what you'll be doing if you buy into nanny hype and end up buying an "organic" turkey this Thanksgiving.

Fenton Communications starts a new campaign to push people away from eating commercially harvested fish. (See our headlines from the 15th) The next day, the Los Angeles Time features a…

Fenton Communications, the group that brought you the thoroughly debunked Alar-on-apples scare and the unnecessary “Give Swordfish A Break!” campaign, is at it again. Fenton has brought together several of…