“Today’s neo-Puritan activists fear that someone, somewhere, may be enjoying … a plate of shrimp,” warns columnist Neil Hrab. “And, like the puritans of yesteryear, they see…
Last week the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) tried to dupe Washington Post readers — hook, line and sinker — with an ad designed to…
Only eat what we tell you to eat. That’s the edict from the misnamed Seafood Choices Alliance (SCA), a consortium of food agitators determined to steer the public…
When protestors descend on our nation’s capital to carp about their cause du jour, it’s little surprise that food-scare activists follow close behind. Ralph Nader’s anti-business…
The usual suspects are at it again — spawning fish tales designed to raise fears about mercury. But beneath the scaly surface of the mercury-in-fish scare is a scientific truth…
Another hour, another day, another over-hyped food scare from the usual suspects. At a press conference today, Environmental Working Group (EWG) president Ken Cook proclaimed that…
Proposition 65, California’s gift to trial lawyers, has struck again. The inane “Prop 65” requires any product containing one of several hundred “known carcinogens” to bear…
The New York Times reports that Wild Oats Markets, an all-organic food retailer, will from now on import its farmed salmon from Ireland. The Irish fish,…
A new study published in the Lancet, an international medical journal, decisively demonstrates that there is nothing to fear from trace amounts of mercury in fish. In February,…
Overblown fears of mercury have boiled over several times in recent years. In 2001, activists sought a ban on all mercury thermometers. That didn’t work, so now professional…
