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Copyright 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. All inquiries should be addressed to Transaction Publishers, RutgersThe State University, 35 Berrue Circle, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8042.
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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 98-34511 ISBN: 1-56000-385-5 Printed in the United States of America
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Bennett, James T. The food and drink police : America's nannies, busybodies, and petty tyrants / James T. Bennett, Thomas J. DiLorenzo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-56000-385-5 (alk. paper) 1. Political correctnessHumor. I. DiLorenzo, Thomas J. II. Title. PN6162.B415 1998 814'.54dc21 98-34511 CIP
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Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
1. Meet the Killjoys
1
2. Eat, Drink, and Keel Over: Lasagna, Egg Rolls, and Popcorn Can Kill
19
3. Care for a Drink?
39
4. None for the Road
57
5. Free Speech: You Gotta Be Kidding!
77
6. Glow-in-the-Dark Eggs or Olestra: Pick Your Poison
93
7. What's Jeremy Rifkin's Beef?: The War on Our Not-So-Sacred Cow
113
8. Whose Life Is It, Anyhow?
131
Notes
143
Index
157
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Acknowledgments
The Food and Drink Police was written as a critical analysis of the shrill, self-anointed scolds who want to run almost every detail of our liveseven the potato chips that we consumeby using the coercive force of government. These self-appointed national nannies, a group of pompous busybodies, are condescending, elitist, and hypocritical. The vision of the portly and oh-so-self-important C. Everett Koop, scold-in-chief, warning us to Shape Up! America (the name of his latest pitch group), evokes annoyance, disgust, and ridicule and reminds us of the old adage about those who live in glass houses.
We are not necessarily critical of lifestyle advice to "shape up," "eat less," "exercise more," or "everything in moderation." Far from it. This is good advice, if not common sense. What we do oppose is the use of governmental coercion through taxation, product bans, regulations, restrictions on free commercial speech, and the other authoritarian tools preferred by the busybodies whom we label the food and drink police.
Persuasion is fineit's the American way. Coercion, compulsion, prohibition, and the trashing of civil liberties is not. This book encourages all Americans to thumb their noses at the supercilious idiocy conjured up by our self-appointed national nannies.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of this work by the Sunmark Foundation; the outstanding editorial assistance of Bill Kauffman, who added myriad "zingers" of his own; and the research assistance provided by John Berlau, Christopher Farris, Jeffrey Linden, and Christopher Sanderhoff. We, of course, are solely responsible for any errors.
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1 Meet the Killjoys
Socialism is nothing but the criminalization of the pet peeves of intellectuals and agitators. Anonymous
If Herbert Hoover's promise of a chicken in every pot failed to stir the voters, imagine how little appeal a lentil (well, eight or nine lentils) in every pot would have for Americans. Yet that is, with only a slight caricature, the goal of one of the most media-savvy groups in all of National Nannydom: the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
In Richard Klein's charming cultural history of the idea of fat, Eat Fat, the author, after surveying the lengths to which the nutrition Nazis will go to regulate what goes into our mouths, concludes, "Big brother lies at the end of the dreams of some of those who want us, at all cost, to be healthy, slim, and beautiful."1
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