Share According to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report published this week, obesity is not caused by an absence of willpower within the individual, but rather by the vicious food industry and its lack of regulation by the government. If you think that this sounds like a veiled attempt to limit consumer freedom through the [...]

Share Researchers from the University of California, San Francisco published an utterly reckless report calling for the government to regulate sugar as they do alcohol and tobacco. This study reeks of typical Food Police tactics: 1) a flawed study, 2) outrageous scare tactics, and 3) draconian government control. This isn’t the first time “experts” have [...]

Share In a pre-emptive effort to stave off obesity, the Danish government has imposed a tax on “fatty” products. No one can prove it will work or what the consequences will be to the public’s health and the economy. The only thing we do know for sure: Denmark has a Food Police problem. In an [...]

Share Feeding a family is already difficult in today’s economy – now some politicians want to use taxes to tell us how we should do it. We need to send a clear message to these lawmakers that enough is enough! Keep government out of our grocery carts.