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Americans need to be prepared to eat a lot less beef, because the size of the national cattle herd is steadily shrinking. And of course this is happening in the context of a much larger crisis. As I detailed in a previous article, even CNN is admitting that we are currently in the midst of “the worst food crisis in modern history”. But even though children are literally dropping dead from starvation on the other side of the planet, a lot of people here in the United States refuse to take this crisis seriously. As long as their stomachs are...

Winter is approaching and many restaurants that have relied on outdoor dining to recoup some of their lost business during the pandemic will soon lose their lifeline as temperatures drop.... Restaurateurs across the country this week called on their cities' mayors to extend outdoor dining, warning them that many more closures could be imminent if they don't push for the measure, as the Delta variant compels the majority of patrons to steer clear of indoor dining rooms, new research shows. About 110,000 restaurants and bars have either temporarily or permanently closed during the pandemic, according to National Restaurant Association.... ...Specifically,...

I was looking at the story in today's paper about how, according to Sir Jonathan Porritt, overweight people are damaging the planet (as it says in the paper version of our malleable product) and found myself trapped between mirth and incredulity. Are they, mayhap, leaving unsightly dents on the surface of our otherwise perfectly spherical globe? Or perhaps he's worried that they'll all lurch in the same direction simultaneously and accidentally knock the Earth off its axis? I mean, surely this is the proof we were waiting for that the climate change lobby are gibbering lunatics? In an extraordinarily graphic...

What’s next, a “Dateline NBC” sting operation to snag Toucan Sam? Basing her story on a July 19 study by the liberal Kaiser Family Foundation, ABC’s Lisa Stark offered the audience of the July 26 “World News Tonight” a look at the “Wild West” world of food marketing on the Internet geared to kids, complete with flashy games on company Web sites. Yet Stark’s expert is no dispassionate medical professional. The Yale doctor signed a petition circulated by the left-wing Center for a Commercial Free Childhood that attacked “purveyors of junk food” for using “public schools as a platform for...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- The move to outlaw Oreo cookies in California crumbled Wednesday when the lawyer who tried to ban the tasty snack foods said he had decided to drop his suit.

(CNSNews.com) - Blaming the fast food restaurant industry for what some say is an "obesity epidemic" in America is "absurd," according to one expert involved in debate on the subject Tuesday. "Except in a few instances, the main reason that people are fat is that they either eat too much or exercise too little or some combination. Now whose fault is that?" asked James Glassman, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The debate focused on what role government should or should not play in helping Americans, especially children, avoid becoming obese. Glassman's opponent in the debate, Shannon Brownlee, a...