Letter published in The Weekly Standard July 29, 2002

This "e-monograph" was reprinted in Liberty magazine. Todd Seavey is Director of Publications at the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org) and Editor of HealthFactsAndFears.com. His views do not necessarily represent those of ACSH.Table of contents
Introduction
Part One: SMOKING

Forget anthrax and terrorism. Public health experts have uncovered a more pernicious threat to Americans' health and safety the suburbs. According to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and university public health departments, developers are forcing tens of millions of unwitting Americans into dangerous suburban developments that isolate us from our neighbors, stress us out, make us fat, kill pedestrians, and fill our air with auto-generated smog.

Whole Foods Market can dish it out, but they sure can't take it. The largest organic foods retailer developed a mega-profitable business by scaring consumers about conventionally produced foods supposedly "contaminated" with chemicals and biotechnology.
For the complete story, please visit http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,58760,00.html .

Call it political martial arts, whereby one can use an opponent's own strength and movements to defeat him....Among our teachers this week is Jeff Stier, an attorney for the American Council on Science and Health and a black belt master at political jujitsu.

On that day, the American Heart Association (AHA) went on record (in the journal Circulation) saying that every person in the United States, starting at age twenty, should be regularly evaluated for the risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
Why is the proclamation important?

Whole Foods Market bills its Whole Wheat Farm Bread as the "stuff of life."
That may be, but it's also now the stuff of lawsuits.
The American Council on Health and Science, a conservative watchdog group, is preparing to sue the upscale, crunchy food chain, contending its baked wheat bread contains the chemical acrylamide. A letter of intent to sue has been filed with the Attorney General's Office, according to Jeff Stier, attorney for the group.

To the Editor:
With all the ongoing debate about whether, when or which Americans should receive smallpox vaccine, I wonder why no one seems to be discussing the anthrax vaccine (Editorial, "Smallpox Scenarios," July 10). Has it been forgotten that, only nine months ago, we had an actual (thankfully small) anthrax assault right here?

CALL IT POLITICAL MARTIAL ARTS, whereby one can use an opponent's own strength and movements to defeat him. This is part of the skill we lovers of liberty must learn in order to surpass the Left in the art of political war.

In light of the latest recall of ground beef because of contamination by potentially lethal E. coli O157:H7 bacteria, scientists and physicians associated with the American Council on Science and Health today urged consumers to demand that such products be irradiated to prevent future illnesses.