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The NFL Goes Long To Preserve Phys Ed 11/11/08
The NFL Network announced a new initiative this week to improve and maintain physical education programs at schools across the nation. Not to mix sports metaphors, but it’s about time someone stepped up to the plate with a children's health project that might actually accomplish something. We’ve been saying for years that kids aren’t getting enough exercise, and we couldn’t be more pleased to see pro football doing something to get them excited about sports. The Keep Gym In...
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Food Cops' Favorite Holiday 10/30/08
You wouldn’t think it’s true, but Halloween is a nutrition activist’s favorite holiday. A food cop in the midst of Trick-or-Treaters is a mosquito in a nudist colony. He has countless opportunities to engage in his favorite activities: yelling, complaining, and warning us about invisible monsters in our candy buckets. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), for example, released a Halloween-themed statement, whining that unlike their British counterparts, American food companies still...
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Food Cops Flip-Flop 9/4/08
As nutrition activist groups have grown, their campaigns have become more sophisticated and their attacks more severe. But as a look back at the last two decades of ingredient blacklisting will show, a gain for nutrition nannies means that even greater demands are not far behind. Just consider the progression of the food cop war against trans fats.   Twenty years ago, nutrition activists launched an all-out assault on fast food leaders, pressuring them to...
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Nutrition Nannies: A Brief History 9/2/08
Litigation by activist organizations is an escalating feature in America’s food fights. High-profile lawsuits provide leverage for nutrition nannies’ overarching agenda: a steady march toward “bad” food bans. Nutrition organizations were once educational entities, providing individuals information before allowing them to make their own choice. Once given the facts, though, many consumers continued to purchase their favorite treats. With sales of bacon and eggs still holding strong, activists have switched to more aggressive tactics: lobbying...
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Quote of the Week 7/25/08
Nutrition nannies are less than jazzed about America’s cultural focus on free will. Take, for instance, the food cops at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. This week, CSPI threw a tantrum when U.S. consumers gained another food choice (a Thin Mint cookie Blizzard) of which the group disapproves. With all of this unnecessary fuss over chilled milk, it was refreshing to see this blurb in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution:  People make choices. They...
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