“By now, most every American has his own tale about some silly lawsuit run amok, from the post-tobacco obesity suits targeting McDonald’s to the $7.2 million settlement former ‘Tonight Show’…
In a bid to discourage the public from assuming Orson Welles-like physical proportions, medical groups in both Great Britain and Australia are now recommending that their governments add punitive taxes…
“If you thought the real dangers to children’s health were smoking, drugs or drunk driving,” opines The Wall Street Journal this morning, “you are clearly old-fashioned. The new…
Not content with attempting to ban soda, bake sales, and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches in schools, the food police now want your children to think there’s…
To Connecticut, Texas, and Kentucky, add Tennessee to the list of states deliberating over-the-top legislation to combat childhood obesity. A bill under consideration…
When tobacco-lawyer-turned-McLawsuit-advisor John Banzhaf told CNN on September 2 that the lawsuit filed against four fast-food chains by the rotund Caesar Barber “is gone” and “no longer applies,” he…
Stop the presses! Tobacco warrior John Banzhaf, a legal advisor to fast-food plaintiff Caesar Barber (the undisciplined opportunist who sued four restaurant chains in July because he ate…
It was just a matter of time. Not satisfied with vending-machine bans on all “unhealthy” foods, school administrators at one Fresno, California area elementary school are putting parents on notice:…
Last week, a left-leaning think tank in Great Britain formally endorsed a “fat tax” on processed and fast foods. Making no bones about its policy recommendations, the organization…
