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,” [...]

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 A broad spectrum of organizations have already expressed concerns over the bill the President is expected to sign today that gives Washington the authority to shutdown bake sales in local public schools. But, a grassroots coalition is now leading an effort to challenge it. “Parents and local communities are outraged at the federal government’s [...]