After two years of Zoom meetings in place of live, in-person meetings, the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) finally met in-person once again in Rome, Italy during the week of November 21, 2022. Well, not quite. In deference to the on-going COVID-19 fear-mongering, it was actually a “hybrid” meeting where delegates...
One year ago, my article “The First Amendment Protects Vegan Creamery’s Right to Call Its Products ‘Butter’” appeared in WholeFoods Magazine and celebrated the legal victory of Miyoko’s Creamery over the State of California. The State had tried to prevent Miyoko’s from exercising its free-speech right to use the word...
While almost all eyes have been focused recently on the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning the pro-abortion Roe v. Wade case and on the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association case affirming the Second Amendment right to carry arms in public in New...
"Disgustingly, many delegates actually thanked [industry group] CropLife for presenting a plan on how to poison the World faster!" The new Chairman of the Codex Alimentarius Committee on Pesticide Residues (CCPR) is Guibiao Ye and he is an excellent chairman. Unlike some others I have encountered, he lets everyone...
A friend of mine died recently. He was older, without being “elderly.” That is, he was in great health and not even one bit frail. Still, I had been hounding him off and on for several years to get his estate in order “just in case.” He didn’t have a...
Call me crazy, but I’ve never been confused into thinking that peanut butter, cashew butter, almond butter, or even an olive-oil spread called “butter” was the same thing as dairy butter. Nor have I ever met another person who has confused a vegan butter product with real butter. Yet, there...
About three decades ago, I was one of the food-and-drug attorneys involved in defending various persons and companies who for some time had been distributing an amino acid called GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate), which although sold as a dietary supplement, had three remarkable characteristics: It helped users quickly fall asleep; It...
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