Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 14, 2012 For media interviews contact Orit Sklar: (404) 931-6526 or orit@myfoodmychoice.org United Nations ‘Food Expert’ Calls for Food/Beverage Taxes, Salt Restriction, and Marketing Regulations “A report by the United Nations food expert calls for governments around the world to impose punitive taxes on ‘bad’ food and drinks, restrict salt [...]

Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2012 For media interviews contact Orit Sklar: (404) 931-6526 or orit@myfoodmychoice.org Federal Government Dismisses Parents, Plans Takeover of School Vending Machines “Following their far-reaching overhaul of the school lunch program, the federal government is completing its control over what children consume in school – and in the process completely [...]

Share “Congress has rightly blocked the introduction of experimental school lunch standards developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) that would have radically altered menus in cafeterias. Our nation’s children would have been automatically treated as guinea pigs in a national experiment,” says Orit Sklar, national spokeswoman for the grassroots coalition My Food. My [...]

Share The global Food Police will convene at the United Nations High-Level Summit on NCDs (UNS) in September to decide how to use the power and scope of governments to control our diets, prompting our coalition to produce a video suggesting it is paramount Americans take a more critical look at the Food Police claims [...]

Share FDA SHOULD DISREGARD BIG GOVERNMENT PROPOSAL “Living up to his reputation as an anti-consumer zealot, New York City commissioner of health Dr. Thomas Farley proposes the federal government create a national nutrition database, setting off the alarms among consumer freedom activists that this cowboy bureaucrat is looking for another way to vilify foods since [...]

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,” [...]