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Does Your Body Belong to You?
Food nannies want the government to control your diet.
July 29, 2011“What will it take,” asked New York Times writer Mark Bittman last Sunday, “to get Americans to change our eating habits?” This is a subject of great concern to progressives today. As A. Barton Hinkle explains, many of them are deeply distressed that—despite incessant lecturing on the subject—too many of their fellow citizens continue to eat what they like, rather than what progressives think they should eat.
McDonald's to Kids: Apple Slices For All, Whether or Not You Want Them
McDonald’s nudges kids to eat more fruit, fewer fries after being given a good shove by regulators
July 26, 2011Starting in 2012, all McDonald's Happy Meals will include apple slices (and a very tiny serving of fries), a move McDonald's claims was "absolutely not" motivated by ever-mounting pressure from regulators to do something about America's hordes of chubby children. Senior Editor Katherine Mangu-Ward is skeptical.
Nanny State Propaganda
How long before the government places graphic warning labels on junk food?
June 29, 2011The logic of Washington’s graphic new cigarette warning labels holds that government should frighten people away from consumer goods that impose social costs. But as A. Barton Hinkle observes, if we apply that consistently, then there is no reason federal regulators should not adorn junk food packaging with garish photos of morbidly obese corpses, cutaways of clogged ateries, or glistening mounds of fatty tissue hacked out of cadavers.
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- Does Your Body Belong to You?
Food nannies want the government to control your diet.
A. Barton Hinkle
July 29, 2011 - McDonald's to Kids: Apple Slices For All, Whether or Not You Want Them
McDonald’s nudges kids to eat more fruit, fewer fries after being given a good shove by regulators
Katherine Mangu-Ward
July 26, 2011 - Nanny State Propaganda
How long before the government places graphic warning labels on junk food?
A. Barton Hinkle
June 29, 2011 - Moralizing Against McDonald's
The clownish antics of nanny state busybodies
Steve Chapman
May 23, 2011 - Obama's War on Fun
The president breathes new life into the Nanny State
Gene Healy
May 17, 2011 - Commit Yourself
Self-control in the age of abundance
Daniel Akst
April 18, 2011 - Nudgers vs. Nannies
The civil war between British busybodies
Brendan O'Neill
January 4, 2011 - Follow the Bouncing Buck
The year's highlights in blame shifting
Jacob Sullum
December 29, 2010 - Obama's Obesity War
It's time for some self-restraint.
Cathy Young
December 14, 2010 - The Fitness Divide
What happened after JFK told America to take a hike
Greg Beato
November 12, 2010 - Attack of the Food Police
Why the government has no business banning Happy Meals
Steve Chapman
November 8, 2010 - Leaving Taxes or Candy on the Table
Research suggests sin tax projections in Washington will just create a heavier tax burden and leave the state needing to make future cuts
Anthony Randazzo and David Godow
October 25, 2010 - No Fat Kids!
Michelle Obama's misguided war on childhood obesity
David Harsanyi
April 7, 2010 - Keep Your Laws Off My Body
The case for legalizing drugs, prostitution, organ sales, and other consensual acts.
John Stossel
March 4, 2010 - Have a Coke and a Tax
The economic case against soda taxes
Veronique de Rugy
December 14, 2009 - Stand Down, Trans Fat Fighters
Some trans fat may reduce the risk of heart disease and certain cancers
Ted Balaker
May 29, 2007 - Smart Growth Types' Dumb Rhetoric
Linking suburbs to obesity just an attempt at social engineering
Chris Fiscelli
May 19, 2003
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