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Hardcover The Food and Drink Police: America's Nannies, Busybodies and Petty Tyrants Book

ISBN: 1560003855

ISBN13: 9781560003854

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

Written in a lively, engaging style, The Food and Drink Police is a thoroughgoing examination and critique of the efforts of government agencies and private organizations (including the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and the Food and Drug Administration) to regulate the dietary habits and choices of private citizens. Irreverent, yet always informed, the authors...

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Customer Reviews

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Rated 5 stars
Hilarious and right on target; skewers the lunatic nannies

This book is so badly needed. It shows the racism, elitism, paternalism, and hypocrisy that infuses the demands of those who want to run our lives and tell us what to do, what to eat, and how we should think. The authors have an incredible way with humor. Once I started the book, I could not put it down. What is very impressive is the huge list of footnotes that provides solid documentation for their research... This...

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Rated 4 stars
Thoughtful, thought provoking, amusing, and alarming

If you are one who thinks the government had your best interest at heart when it took on the cigarette industry, you need to read this book because you'll find out here that the federal tobacco wars were only the beginning. Sugar, salt, fat, wine, beer, distilled spirits, and beef are all on the chopping block of federal nannies who want only what is best for us. And it's all "for the children." Bennett and Dilorenzo...

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