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The Center for Consumer Freedom warns in our latest ad -- featuring the actor who played the "Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld -- that if calorie cops have their way, you could be forced into the Salad Line! While this fictional food cop measures each customer's weight to determine what, if anything, restaurant-goers can enjoy, there is actually a real-world food "Czarina" taking away treats from Texas schoolchildren. She's just one of the food fascists who think you're too dumb to make your own choices. If these diet scolds have their way, we may all soon be told (as the star...

Washington, DC -- Attention parents and teachers! The food police have added whole and two-percent milk to the list of "poor nutritional quality" beverages in their crosshairs, recommending that they be removed from American's schools. This and other ridiculous assertions are contained in a report being circulated by the self-described "food police" at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). The draft report, rumored to be released this month, bears the name of CSPI's activist coalition, the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity (NANA). NANA is part of an anti-soda crusade which advocates taxing sodas and restricting their...

Marci Hansen, "youth marketing manager" at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), recently complained to the Lowell Sun in Massachusetts that when it comes to her group's efforts to mold children into anti-meat militants, "Parents are tough." They're especially tough when, as Hansen concedes, parents see PETA's animal-rights creed as "a stage, or a way to rebel." And when your job is to go behind parents' backs to reach their kids, that job is tougher still. In our latest advertisement -- running in the back-to-school section of the latest Newsweek -- we ask parents: "What is PETA teaching...

Same-sex marriages opposed in rally at Pershing Square By Chris T. Nguyen Associated Press About 200 people opposing same-sex marriages held a rally in Los Angeles on Tuesday, urging state lawmakers to vote against a proposed bill that would allow gay unions in "The message we want to send is this -- yesterday in Massachusetts same-sex marriages began. However, in California same-sex marriage ends today," said Luis Galdamez, spokesman for the Campaign for California Families. "And we need to take it to the politicians. ... What we want is marriage between one man and one woman." Protesters shouted "no homosexual...

Anti-fat police are ready to bust heads "Public Health Is Everybody's Business," read the button a chirping woman pushed into my hand at November's annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. A day later I discovered firsthand that public health is everybody's business but mine. I was "escorted" out of the meeting for the crime of documenting what America's food fascists have planned for our plates. A man in a "Howard Dean" cap, who refused to identify himself, made a fuss when he discovered that an operative from the Center for Consumer Freedom had infiltrated the...

Beginning last night, millions of Fox News Channel viewers learned that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is linked with domestic terrorism. Two new television ads produced by the Center for Consumer Freedom expose PETA for funding, condoning, and supporting arson and other forms of violence. One of our new 30-second commercials features a young woman who talks about teaching her children to love and respect animals. But she denounces PETA's support of violence as extreme and unacceptable. The second spot begins by exposing PETA's opposition to all medical research using animals, including efforts to find cures for...

(CNSNews.com) - A consumer advocacy group has launched a series of anti-PETA ads, "to give the publicity hounds at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals the sort of attention they don't actually want." The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) said the two TV ads feature a "darker side of PETA that will likely shock many of the group's supporters." CCF, a frequent critic of PETA, describes itself as a nonprofit coalition supported by restaurants, food companies, and consumers, working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices. One of the two 30-second ads has a young woman talking...

UN's Annan blasts U.S. over lack of security in Iraq Second Canadian dies from injuries sustained in Tuesday's bomb attack   Steven Edwards and Adrian Humphreys CanWest News Service Thursday, August 21, 2003 CREDIT: Manish Swarup, Associated Press   U.S. soldiers take a break against the tire of their vehicle after all-night efforts to rescue trapped victims at the site of Tuesday's United Nations' headquarters bombing.   ADVERTISEMENT UNITED NATIONS -- As a second Canadian aid worker -- a woman who was an outspoken advocate for the welfare of children in war zones -- died from injuries sustained in Tuesday's bomb...

<p>An envelope containing a white, granular substance was delivered yesterday to the Media General building at 333 E. Franklin St.</p> <p>The employee who opened it was taken to Medical College of Virginia hospitals for observation. She had broken out in some type of rash, Richmond police said.</p>