The USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) provides the Nutrition Evidence Library , a clear and transparent source of ...

The federal government's dairy checkoff program just today released the July 2010 Report to Congress , which was the subject of my earli...

Although appropriations bills are supposed to be about spending -- not policy-making -- Congress took extra special care this week to make s...

Modeled on an earlier proposal from the Seattle City Council, the National League of Cities yesterday passed a resolution (.pdf) encouragin...

Here is the latest NYT column from Tyler Cowen, who I generally think of as a market-oriented libertarian economist.  Cowen generally prefe...

In connection with Juliet Schor's book last year, Plenitude , I appreciated this video, posted four months ago.  In our neighborhood (...

Would you say Coca-Cola, the parent company for FANTA, is marketing to children here ? Would you say Coca-Cola is marketing to children i...