Share “The new study in the New England Journal of Medicine that scapegoats specific foods made with potatoes as the weight-gaining culprit is severely flawed. At best Americans believe it defies all common sense and at worst confuses Americans about the utmost important role calories play in our diets by conflicting with proven scientific evidence,” [...]

Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2011 NEW VIDEO HITS BEVERAGE TAX AS ‘UN-AMERICAN’ PHILADELPHIA MAYOR: ‘NOW A FOOD POLICE CHIEF’ “Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is disregarding the will of his constituents by proposing an outrageous beverage tax increase, prompting our grassroots coalition to today release an educational video opposing this job-killing, tyrannical governmental overreach,” [...]

Share Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, raises 7 key points about the new “food plate” announced by the USDA: 1.) They seem to have skipped the whole “constitutional authority for the federal government to involve itself in lecturing citizens on what to eat” section. Could it be because there is no such [...]

Share The battle over food marketing isn’t new. In an attempt to stave off the voracious appetite of the food police in government and the “public health” arena, companies have been self-regulating. But, with the announcement that the federal government is going to issue regulations severely diminishing the marketing choices of the nation’s food and [...]