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Ten Dumbest Food Cop Ideas

Over the years, the growing cabal of diet dictators have proposed a litany of crazy proposals to tax, legislate, and litigate away many food and beverage choices. The list includes sin taxes on meals under $4, carding for candy, and zoning restaurants out of towns.

We've compiled a list of the most outrageous ideas for your reading enjoyment. read more here »




Daily Headlines

  • Anti-Sugar Zealotry Could Cost Kids
    Posted On: August 25, 2010
  • Food Cops Now Want Literal Badges
    Posted On: August 20, 2010
  • Rebranding the Unmarketable
    Posted On: August 10, 2010
  • Video of the Week
    Posted On: August 2, 2010
  • Video of the Week
    Posted On: July 20, 2010
  • Video of the Week
    Posted On: July 16, 2010
  • Quote of the Week
    Posted On: July 13, 2010

    • Features

    Declaration Of Food Independence Declaration Of Food Independence
    America's founding fathers signed their names to the Declaration of Independence in an effort to affirm basic liberties. In the spirit of throwing off the shackles of harassing powers, we offer our Declaration of Food Independence. read more here »

    The War On Personal Responsibility
    Harold Goldstein tells the Sacramento Bee that Americans simply can't be trusted with the complex task of feeding themselves. read more here »

    An Epidemic of Obesity Myths An Epidemic of Obesity Myths
    Overblown rhetoric about the "obesity epidemic" has itself reached epidemic proportions read more here »

    Public Health Activists Vs. Consumer Freedom: Video Highlights
    Many public health professionals are shifting their focus from preventing the spread of contagious diseases to fretting about what's on your dinner plate. read more here »

    Hyperbolic Hypocrisy
    The critics of consumer choice and enemies of a wide variety of menu options have never been known for their consistency. read more here »

    Ad Campaigns

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    OpEds

    Happy Meals lawsuit is food policing at its worst
    The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has gone too far. The nanny state food cops now want to take the "happy" out of Happy Meals. read more here »

    Table the push to limit salt in foods
    From taxing soft drinks to banning bake sales, public health activists and dietary do-gooders have been beating us up over what we eat and drink. Now they want to rub salt in our wounds. read more here »

    Activist Cash

    Kelly Brownell
    Background
    Kelly Brownell is a Yale psychologist on a decade-long crusade against what he calls America’s “toxic food environment.” He is best known for having first proposed the infamous “Twinkie tax.” read more here »

    Marion Nestle
    Background
    Marion Nestle is one of the country’s most hysterical anti-food-industry fanatics. She writes: “Sellers of food products do not attract the same kind of attention as purveyors of drugs or tobacco. They should.” read more here »

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