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The space available on your plate for personal food and beverage choices is shrinking. Activists, regulators, and lawyers, under the appealing cloak of "public health," are advancing legal policies and litigation hostile to consumers.

Eating Away Our Freedoms provides timely information and insightful analysis that both elevates and balances the debate over your freedom to choose. Invest some time perusing our site and interacting with us. Don't let self-appointed "consumer advocates" substitute their judgment for yours as to what you should eat or drink.

 

  

 

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Eat, Drink and Be Sued

 

Fat bomb. Heart attack on a plate. Toxic bioweapon. These are just a few of the alarming, catchy phrases being used to describe our favorite foods and beverages. It may be tempting to shrug this off as mere hyperbole. But such attacks are part of a calculated “public health” campaign directed by professional activists and their allies in government. The purported goal — reducing obesity — may be worthy, but their misguided approach will only succeed in enriching these self-appointed diet overlords at the expense of American consumers. . . . (continue reading)

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info@wlf.org | ph. 202-588-0302
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