Animal Rights
Animal-Rights Money Grab Spells Trouble
(July 3, 2008)
Who knew Leona Helmsley, the legendary “Queen of Mean,” had a soft spot for dogs that measured eight billion dollars wide? And who could have guessed that there were people among us whose greed and cunning surpassed hers? As the executors of Helmsley’s gargantuan estate are about to find out, America’s two largest animal rights groups are drooling like Pavlovian mutts at the prospect of...
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Food Police
Menu Labeling: A Matter Of Freedom
(July 2, 2008)
Today the popular online magazine Slate rightly identified mandatory menu labeling as “the latest salvo in a war that local governments are fighting against Americans’ diets,” also noting a few other dietary casualties of bureaucratic overreach (foie gras, a French cooking technique called “sous-vide,” trans fats, etc.). After reviewing all of the “facts”*on this diet-by-guilt approach to public health, the article concluded with a critical...
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Dairy
Time for Activists to Clear the Dairy Air
(July 1, 2008)
It’s no secret that technology ranks pretty high on environmental activists’ “no-no” list. All that human progress, quality of life improvements, scientific breakthroughs, and (gasp!) greater efficiency just isn’t “natural.” So we’re not surprised to see that the anti-business “consumer advocacy” campaign against activists’ favorite dairy whipping boy, a production-boosting growth hormone called Recombinant Bovine SomatoTropin (or rBST) is back in full swing. But this...
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Your Kids, PETA's Pawns
Few parents realize the threat posed to their children by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the growing animal-rights movement.
The Book HSUS and PETA Don’t Want You to Read
In his book
Redemption, Nathan Winograd argues that the idea of pet overpopulation in America is a myth. PETA cites this “overpopulation” as the reason it kills nearly 90 percent of the dogs and cats it takes in. And HSUS literally wrote the book
Study: Why Food and Drink Bans Won't Solve Childhood Obesity
Despite the fact that almost all the research on in-school nutrition indicates that food bans are ineffective (and sometimes counterproductive), numerous groups are pushing for more regulations. Here's our study explaining why they're wrong.
