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My Food My Choice: Government “bland-lords” launch latest “a-salt” on food freedom
June 15, 2010
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.
My Food My Choice to Bloomberg's band of "bland-lords" and FDA: “Who invited you to dinner?”
April 26, 2010
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, warns Americans that Mayor Bloomberg's “National Salt Reduction Initiative” is not the health campaign it claims to be, but a serious threat to individual liberty.
National spokeswoman for the grassroots coalition defending the rights of chefs, restaurants and consumers, Orit Sklar offers the following statement:
Bloomberg’s tasteless band of “bland-lords” must scrap liberty-killing, restaurant-crippling plans
April 19, 2010
NEW YORK- A grassroots coalition defending the rights of chefs, restaurants and consumers has launched a new website that provides a voice for citizens, business owners and others who love the nation’s diverse cuisine and oppose big government’s flood of nanny state restrictions on choice. My Food My Choice is the only online community dedicated to offering the tools to fight and defeat further attacks on individuals’ rights to make their own diet decisions.
CONSUMER GROUP HITS NY LAWMAKER FOR ‘ABSURD’ BAN ON RESTAURANT SALT
March 10, 2010
NEW YORK CITY - A coalition of chefs, restaurant owners, and consumers slams as "absurd" a bill introduced by New York State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn, banning the use of salt in the preparation of restaurant food around the state and mandating a $1,000 fine for each "violation."
CONSUMER and BUSINESS COALITION HITS BLOOMBERG'SSALT REDUCTION IN FOOD SCHEME
January 13, 2010
NEW YORK CITY-- A coalition of consumers and businesses is calling out Mayor Michael Bloomberg "on outrageous and irresponsible comments comparing salt to asbestos." The coalition, My Food My Choice, references Bloomberg's defense of his scheme for a 25 percent salt reduction in manufactured foods sold in New York City, where he compared reducing the popular seasoning with rooting out deadly asbestos in the classroom.
MAYOR, HEALTH CZAR HIT FOR "HYSTERIA' IN PUSHING SODIUM REDUCTION IN FOOD
January 11, 2010
NEW YORK CITY-- It is a gross overreaction and a national disgrace that Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his health czar Thomas Farley are pushing for a 25 percent sodium reduction in manufactured foods sold in New York City, says Orit Sklar, national spokesperson for the grassroots, city-based coalition My Food My Choice. Since manufacturers would have to change their entire food product line for New York City, then the city is effectively setting policy for the entire country.
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