Seafood (page 14)

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

Annoy A Mercury Scaremonger. Eat Fish.

Despite scare campaigns from more than two dozen U.S. activist groups who make frightening people into ditching fish a full-time job, good news about seafood is out there — and…
Posted October 21, 2005 at 12:00 am

PETA’s Latest Line Hard to Swallow

The bottom-feeders at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have come up with a new way to turn children against their parents: a gruesome comic entitled “…
Posted September 29, 2005 at 12:00 am

The Latest Fish Story On Mercury

News outlets from Pennsylvania to Pakistan are reporting that fish bought in U.S. grocery stores contain “dangerous” levels of methyl mercury and should carry warning labels.
Posted September 19, 2005 at 12:00 am

PETA’s School Raid Rolled Into Sushi

You would be forgiven for thinking that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) cares more about a school of fish than a school of children.
Posted April 6, 2005 at 12:00 am

PETA’s Lobster Problem: No Pain, No Gain

Somebody pass the butter. A recent Norwegian study reports that lobsters and crabs don’t have the capacity to feel pain. And the animal rights nuts at…
Posted February 9, 2005 at 12:00 am

PETA Fishes For Attention

“What’s on your dinner menu for the weekend? If it’s fish, PETA’s got you in its sights,” writes one columnist today about the radical animal rights group’s…
Posted November 17, 2004 at 12:00 am

A Whopper Of A Fish Tale

In an effort to bolster their floundering campaign to “Take A Pass on Chilean Sea Bass” — which aims to convince consumers and chefs to boycott the tasty…
Posted September 22, 2004 at 12:00 am

No Science, No Seafood

You know things are getting bad when a conference sponsored by seemingly mainstream groups like the Ocean Conservancy and the Pew Charitable Trusts includes a panel…
Posted July 13, 2004 at 12:00 am