Advice for the Gullibull
Nearly a dozen global food companies will on Tuesday announce plans to halt advertising junk food to children under 12 throughout Europe by the end of next year in the first serious attempt by food groups to tackle one of the causes of childhood obesity.
FT.com / Europe / Brussels - Companies move to halt junk food advertising.
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Gee thanks, Ohio. Only 3 years too late.
Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen
“We need more retailers who are willing to take a stand, to look out for people’s well being and not just wanting to make money at the expense of health and quality of life.”
Amid debate, grocery chain bans high-fructose corn syrup.
Controversy has erupted among the encyclopedia’s core contributors, after a rogue editor revealed that the site’s top administrators are using a secret insider mailing list to crackdown on perceived threats to their power.
Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia | The Register
If anybody in the White House press room these days deserves a raise it’s Helen Thomas, who continues to be the only journalist in the room to consistently uphold the duties of the Fourth Estate. Thank you Helen for keeping it real ever since landing a job at UPI all the way back in 1943.
Crooks and Liars » Give Helen Thomas a Raise!
Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country–those groups whose interests always seem to run counter to those of technology companies and consumers. They come in many forms: associations, think tanks, money-raising organizations, PACs, and even other tech-oriented industries like telecommunications.
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America via PC World
Don’t ever say the Bush administration doesn’t take care of its own. Nearly three years after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as deputy Defense secretary and six months after his stormy departure as president of the World Bank—amid allegations that he improperly awarded a raise to his girlfriend—he’s in line to return to public service. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has offered Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Iraq War, a position as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board, a prestigious State Department panel
Wolfowitz Back in Govt.? Newsweek.com
Emergent’s rival, VaxGen Inc. of South San Francisco, had spent four years developing a new anthrax vaccine and had won an $877.5-million federal contract to deliver enough doses for 25 million people. The contract threatened Emergent’s very existence. The old vaccine, its only moneymaker, would likely be obsolete if VaxGen succeeded.
Emergent responded by mobilizing more than 50 lobbyists, including former aides to Vice President Dick Cheney, to make the case that relying on the new vaccine was a gamble and that the nation’s safety depended on buying more of Emergent’s product.
New anthrax vaccine doomed by lobbying - Los Angeles Times
I’m of two minds on this particular issue. Anything the American Beverage Association supports immediately has my suspicion. But I do tend to side with the Center for Science in the Public Interest. I suspect the beverage folk will see smaller portions as a way to sell more portions (ka-ching!).
The oddest thing, in my view, is that school lunches fall under the purview of the Dept. of Agriculture. That’s letting the foxes determine henhouse security. Let the Surgeon General dictate school lunch policy, or at least the Dept. of Education.
What do you think?
Effort to Limit Junk Food in Schools Faces Hurdles via NYT
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