Friday, April 02, 2004

FOOD INCORRECTNESS

It's a war!

Lawyers LOVE fat: "Cornell law professor Douglas Kysar is still in tantrum mode two weeks after the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed Rep. Ric Keller's (R-FL) 'Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act.' Keller's bill would protect food providers from frivolous obesity lawsuits. In yesterday's Orlando Sentinel, Kysar made light of the role that personal responsibility plays in the dietary choices of Americans and claimed Keller's bill was unnecessary and a waste of time. In today's Sentinel, Keller sets Kysar straight -- and offers him a bit of choice dietary advice: 'Professor Kysar should eat his words, and the rest of us can eat our cheeseburgers.'"

Politics before science: "In the United Kingdom, Sir John Krebs, Chairman of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), has just announced that the agency will take steps to combat the growing menace of advertising promoting unhealthy diets to children. The trouble is that the FSA itself has admitted there is no evidence of a problem. It seems that in the UK, politics drives science."

"Obesity warriors" have wafer thin arguments. Some totally absurd "research"

"The Lone Star State may soon find its school lunch lines getting a lot lonelier. That's because the food police will be coming to a local school cafeteria near you if Texans do not take a stand against the nutrition guidelines recently announced by the Texas Department of Agriculture."

The hidden dangers in breakfast: "The breakfast cereal giants Kellogg's and Nestlé were yesterday accused by the Consumers' Association of targeting children with products containing excessive levels of sugar, salt and fat. Servings of popular brands such as All Bran, Oat Krunchies and Golden Grahams contained four times as much salt as a 25g bag of roasted peanuts, the association said, as it fired the first salvo in a battle to speed up the 'excruciatingly slow' progress being made to improve children's diets by industry and the government. It threatened a consumer boycott if ministers and companies failed to respond to pressure."

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