Animal-Rights Money Grab Spells Trouble (Thursday, 7/3/2008)
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 cashing in on a new cache of doggy dollars. And there is no worse place for a massive animal welfare endowment to wind up. read more here »

Menu Labeling: A Matter Of Freedom (Wednesday, 7/2/2008)
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 point: read more here »

Time for Activists to Clear the Dairy Air (Tuesday, 7/1/2008)
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 time, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)is shaking things up in anti-technology activist circles. In short, the man behind the “rBST-free” curtain has been exposed. read more here »