Marathon Pundit: Vote now for the 2007 Nanny Awards

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Vote now for the 2007 Nanny Awards

This story comes from the Center for Consumer Freedom via Townhall.com.

The group in charge focuses on food issues. And they explain their rationale here:

The competition is fierce. Vying for the title: Overzealous state legislators pushing bans on common food ingredients; health officials prohibiting full-grown adults from eating dessert; prominent food activists caught in acts of rank hypocrisy; and animal-rights fanatics using the force of law to make food companies conform to their radical anti-meat dogmas.

The first nominee is the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), and if the name sounds familiar, it should. With impeccable timing and an astute skill at attracting media attention, the CSPI knows how to get its name out.
For instance, it's the group who nine years ago, shortly before Thanksgiving, issued a press release about the "dangers" of a turkey dinner. "Fact challenged" is a fair criticism of the group.

From the Center for Consumer Freedom:

Michael Jacobson, "No Yummies for Dummies' Tummies" Award -- It would be quicker to list all the foods the Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) didn't attack in 2007. Chinese take-out, margarine, quesadillas, and caffeine all made it onto his blacklist. In February, Jacobson told CBS Radio that "restaurants have every right to make these foods and you have every right to eat them." But CSPI's lobbying efforts suggest otherwise. The group has sued restaurants for using margarine (trans fat) and is petitioning the FDA to control how much salt you can have.

Pamela Anderson, "Tuna Tacos Make Merry Marriage" Award -- The publicity-starved spokes-blonde for the animal rights wing nuts at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was caught yet again flouting her veggie “principles.” In June, Anderson got married (for a third time). The menu at her post-ceremony dinner? Pigs in a blanket, tuna tacos, and lobster.

Dan Kinburn, "Suing Everything Under the Bun" Award -- A lawyer for the PETA-affiliated Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has been encouraging trial lawyers to use California’s Proposition 65 (a notorious "bounty hunter" law) to sue "virtually every restaurant in the state of California that is not serving an all-vegetarian diet."