Archives for the 'cspi' tag
Lunch Buffet
Another death by smoking ban, this one in Chicago.
D’Artagnan may have duck dogs, but my friend Veronique goes one better, pointing me to a NYT Freakonomics post on foie gras dog biscuits.
Parents who bring their little devils to UK bars are ruining the pub scene there, reports the Glasgow Herald.
Those alarmists at the Center for Science in the Public Interest are yammering on about the need to ban food dyes, again, reveals the LAT.
The reprehensible Jamie Oliver almost ready to endorse a government Ministry of Food, reports the Times of London.
CSPI Nuts Would Prefer Kids Fast Than Eat Fast Food
Michael Jacobson, blowhard founder of blowhard nutrition group CSPI, appeared on Good Morning America earlier today (under a pseudonym, apparently) to tout a new study by the group. (Video here.)
His target this time? Just another helping of the same: blah blah fast-food restaurants and blah blah blah kids’ meals.
Jacobson’s language today, though, was particularly incendiary. Literally.
“A restaurant meal is a mine field,” Mike Jacobs of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, told “Good Morning America.” “It’s junk everywhere and the explosions are going to be in your stomach, your heart.”
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[Even though every fast-food restaurant offers healthy] options, Jacob believes that children will still suffer.
“Overweight, then obesity, diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes,” he said. “That’s what’s coming down the road.”
And exploding kids’ hearts! Don’t forget their exploding little hearts!
Jacobson failed to mention in between nonsensical imagery of spontaneously combusting children that what will ultimately be coming down the road are more ridiculous CSPI lawsuits against fast-food companies.
Maybe I’m Fickle, But I Yawn at Pickle Sickle
Yesterday was frozen-pickle critical-mass day, apparently, as both the Washington Post and NY Times featured the Pickle Sickle, the “bizarre tasting pickle craze from Texas you cant (sic-kle) get enough of!”.
I like pickled cucumbers (and onions and hot peppers) as much as the next person, and have downed my share of pickle juice, especially after a run (though never Pickle Juice Sport), but I fail to see what makes freezing pickle juice anything special. Beyond the fact kids might like it because they’ll find it kooky — in that blue ketchup sort of way — I’m not sure what the big deal is.
Though if the d-bag pickle haters at the Center for Science in the Public Interest ever come out against pickle juice or frozen pickles, you can be sure I’ll be amongst those lobbing fried pickles their way. And bacon-wrapped pickles, too. Plenty of those.
