Share Mark your calendars and gear up for a celebration because July is National Pickle Month! Ever thought where would we be be without pickles? The Times of Israel did an interesting piece on the the history and influence of pickles. “Walk into a kosher deli and a big bowl of pickles is typically waiting [...]

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 out of Harvard University’s School of Medicine issued an utterly ridiculous recommendation this past week calling for a ‘tobacco-style’ tax on products containing salt. According to ‘preliminary’ research, they say a salt tax would lower the rates of cardiovascular disease in populations across developing countries. As reported by FoodNavigator.com, “Presenting the findings at [...]

Share New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Food Police cronies have sank to an all-time low. Expanding his taxpayer-funded war on salt, the administration is now forbidding you from donating food to government-run homeless shelters because he has to monitor the salt, fat, and calorie content of the food being served. You see just [...]

Share As we ring in the new year, we’re reminded of the numerous attempts by the Food Police (a.k.a. the government) to pass baseless public health policies limiting salt usage in restaurants in 2011. But according to chefs and experts alike, these efforts to control what we consume may be misguided. An article in The [...]

Share The government’s war on salt has ranged from bill’s banning its use in restaurants to “voluntary” salt reduction schemes. At each point, the American public has rejected the intervention of government. (We documented this sentiment in our first video “Stop the Food Police.”) Though unpopular, governments continue to wage an assault on salt, but [...]