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Celebrate “Food Day” with a Bologna Sandwich 10/24/11
Today is a day that only comes once a year. No, not the day retailers forget Halloween and Thanksgiving and put out their Christmas decorations even earlier than last year. Today is Food Day. And by “once a year” we mean that it died out in the 1970s until being ceremoniously resurrected. What is Food Day? Well, it’s not a celebration of food you (probably) like. It’s a campaign of the Center for Science in...
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Food Cops Ignore Science. Any Surprise? 10/20/11
It’s been a busy week, but this article by Reason magazine’s Katherine Mangu-Ward in the October 14 Washington Post deserves mention because it gets so much right. You’d think the food nannies, with such names as the Center for “Science” in the Public Interest (CSPI), would base their diagnoses of the so-called obesity “epidemic” and proposals to fix it on, well, science. Turns out, a lot of their proposals don’t make sense. Mangu-Ward notes that...
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Sugar Cops Sour on Cereal 10/11/11
For the amount of flack that “Big Food” takes from finger-wagging activists, here’s an interesting statistic: General Mills has increased its spending on health and wellness by 75%, The Wall Street Journal reports. One result is a cereal that satisfies customers’ demands for a reduced-sugar but tasty breakfast. Unfortunately (but not unsurprisingly), that’s not enough for the anti-sugar fundamentalists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. CSPI wonders why kids can’t just eat...
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Halt the Salt Assault 9/27/11
When America’s self-anointed “food police” compare salt to addictive drugs, you know their compass is more than a little out of whack. But that’s just what the scolds at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) believe, declaring years ago that salt is the “deadly white powder you already snort.” (You've got bigger problems if you're snorting salt.) For years, CSPI and its allies have been seeking strict federal controls in their quest to make...
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Food Cops: Eat Crow 9/16/11
Food-police representatives from the Canadian branch of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) met with more than 140 other nongovernmental organizations in New York this week ahead of the United Nations’ summit on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to discuss, among other things, the food industry’s role in ending obesity. And, no surprise here, CSPI completely discounted both restaurants and consumers’ ability to make healthier choices for themselves. (We dare not ask what was...
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