Category: Media Coverage
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Iowa Kosher Meatpacking Plant Manager Seeks U.S. Supreme Court Consideration
Asking “Wouldn’t it be better, as a general rule, if judges who meet regularly with prosecutors in advance of a cascade of high-profile indictments didn’t hear the cases that follow?,” Slate court-watcher Emily Bazelon recently discussed the petition for certiorari currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of the kosher meatpacking facility…
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Dana Goodyear, “Raw Deal,” The New Yorker, April 30, 2012
“The new wave of American cuisine has a regressive side, wrapped up in nostalgia for an imagined past… To chefs like [Daniel Patterson], unprocessed milk does not just taste better; it is sentimental and, more important, it is pure,” claims New Yorker staff writer Dana Goodyear in this article chronicling the raw milk movement and…
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Reuters Focuses on Corporate Spending and Effects on Gov’t Anti-Obesity Initiatives
Reuters has issued a “special report” titled “How Washington went soft on childhood obesity” that details how food and beverage industry interests have allegedly turned aside national and statewide initiatives aimed at addressing childhood obesity. According to the article, “[a]t every level of government, the food and beverage industries won fight after fight during the…
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Margo Wootan & David Ludwig, “Sugary Cereal: Breakfast Candy or Obesity Cure?,” The Atlantic, April 24, 2012
“Ready-to-eat cereals are the fourth biggest source of added sugars in Americans’ diets, behind sugary drinks, desserts, and candy,” opine Center for Science in the Public Interest Director of Nutrition Policy Margo Wootan and New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center Director David Ludwig in this article, disputing claims that children who eat sugary cereals for…
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NYT Highlights Food Desert Controversy
An April 17, 2012, New York Times article has drawn attention to two recent studies questioning the perception that poor urban neighborhoods are “food deserts” with little access to fresh produce, vegetables and other healthy options. According to Times science correspondent Gina Kolata, reports published in The American Journal of Preventive Medicine (February 2012) and Social…
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“60 Minutes” Segment Claims Sugar Is Toxic, Addictive
Anti-sugar crusader Robert Lustig was among the scientists participating in an April 1, 2012, “60 Minutes” interview claiming that studies indicate that sugar is toxic, addictive and can lead to obesity, Type II diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. Lustig, an endocrinologist at the University of California, San Francisco, has written extensively about the topic, including…
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Analysts Suggest Parallels Between Soft Drink and Cigarette Companies
A March 27, 2012, “Great Speculations” column on Forbes.com draws parallels between carbonated soft drink (CSD) companies and the tobacco industry, claiming that a recent decline in CSD consumption in the United States has created a competitive market environment similar to that faced by cigarette manufacturers. Authored by contributors from Trefis.com, an investment and market…
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Mark Bittman, “Is a Calorie a Calorie?,” The New York Times, March 20, 2012
“The ‘calorie is a calorie’ argument is widely used by the processed food industry to explain that weight loss isn’t really about what you eat but about how many calories you eat,” writes New York Times columnist Mark Bittman in a March 20, 2012, “Opinionator” post about Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim’s new book, Why…