Food and Drink Police - America''s Nannies, Busybodies and Petty Tyrants

Klappentext An examination and critique of the efforts of government agencies and private organisations to regulate the dietary habits and choices of private citizens. The authors analyse the ideological motivations! science and assaults on freedom that underlie the activities of these groups. Aimed at nutritionists! doctors and government policy makers. Zusammenfassung The Food and Drink Police is a thoroughgoing examination and critique of the efforts of government agencies and private organizations to regulate the dietary habits and choices of private citizens. General readers, nutritionists and scientists in general, doctors, and government policymakers will find this indispensable reading Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Meet the Killjoys; 2: Eat, Drink, and Keel Over: Lasagna, Egg Rolls, and Popcorn Can Kill; 3: Care for a Drink?; 4: None for the Road; 5: Free Speech: You Gotta Be Kidding!; 6: Glow-in-the-Dark Eggs or Olestra: Pick Your Poison; 7: What’s Jeremy Rifkin’s Beef?: The War on Our Not-So-Sacred Cow; 8: Whose Life Is It, Anyhow?

Product details

• Authors: James T. Bennett, James T. Dilorenzo Bennett, Thomas DiLorenzo, Thomas J. DiLorenzo
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.1999
• EAN: 9781560003854
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-385-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Fitness & diet, Political science & theory, Social issues & processes, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Fitness and diet, Social and ethical issues, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies