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Newsom’s Beverage Ban Bad for Small Business Owners, Not a Solution for Obesity
Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:59:46 +0000
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom’s directive from April is being implemented and small business owners on city property are starting to feel the effect. Soy milk in; Coca-Cola out. The San Francicso Chronicle reports the story of Chong Park, who has managed the City Hall Café for nine years and now worries about the future [...]
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My Food My Choice: Government “bland-lords” launch latest “a-salt” on food freedom
USDA signals junk science-fueled power grab moving full steam ahead
NEW YORK – My Food My Choice, the only online community offering the tools to fight and defeat attacks on individuals' rights to make their own food choices, says the federal government is moving forward on an initiative to control Americans’ right to make their own food choices. The new dietary guidelines for Americans announced today by the USDA and HHS, recommending a 1500 mg sodium quota puts our dinner plates, and individual liberty, on a collision course with federal bureaucrats at the FDA who plan to use the new guidelines to regulate salt content in food.
“If we allow the government to dictate what’s on our dinner plates, to veto our family recipes and to rewrite the menus at our favorite restaurants, we have surrendered our most basic liberties,” says Orit Sklar, national spokeswoman for My Food My Choice.
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