Daniel Lubetzky

This guy sounds like an amazing positive force for healthful wholesome and sustainable eating.

Interesting court case about Snapple’s “all natural” claim – false labeling? 3rd Circuit Reinstates Consumer Fraud Class Action Against ‘All Natural’ Snapple Alison Frankel 08-14-2009 In a 30-page ruling on Wednesday, a three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived a New Jersey statewide class action against Snapple (pdf), finding that federal [...]

Creative ad campaign by Adidas…

Interesting and provocative article from Hoover fellow – Victor Davis Hanson – re Obama foreign policy as lacking in toughness from real politik.

Here is an unusually earnest admonition by Egyptian intellectuals against "liberal" Arab leaders who espouse deep anti-Semitism.

An interesting article here describes Sweden’s experiment with climate change impact labels on food items – including on restaurant menus and grocery item labels.  The effort to educate consumers about the environmental impact of their food consumption sometimes clashes with nutritional advice – ie, avoid tomatoes because grown in greenhouses – and sometimes is aligned [...]

Enough with such manipulation by the food-industrial-complex!  First Coca-Cola asserts that Coke is all natural! Then the Corn Refiners assert that High Fructose Corn Syrup is all natural, without regard to evidence, or to the damage that this causes to our bodies.  And most recently 10 of the largest food companies create a self-serving industry-designed [...]

Inspiring article… October 17, 2009 Rye Journal A Believer in Heroism, to Jews’ Lasting Gratitude By JOSEPH BERGER RYE, N.Y. The walls of Dr. Tina Strobos’s light-filled apartment here are dappled not only with paintings but also with the many plaques she has received from Jewish organizations, even though she is not Jewish. Dr. Strobos, [...]

This article provides some proof that, Putin’s KGBesque bravado aside, Russia’s economy is a house of cards waiting to fall. October 17, 2009 Op-Ed Contributor Darkness on the Edge of Monotown By LEON ARON Washington VIEWED from the outside, things have been going quite well for Russia recently. The United States has scrapped, at least [...]

Rep. Robert Wexler of Florida is going to lead the Center for Middle East Peace & Economic Cooperation, where our Honorary Board of Advisors member Ms. Toni Verstandig is a senior policy advisor (and one of three staff members). Very exciting. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1281623.html