Chris Newman points to a wonderful article on the website of the American Council on Science and Health. It describes a lawsuit that the Council is bringing against a stupid law, using a certain purveyor of "whole foods" and whole food myths as its ostensible target. I confess that I do a lot of my own shopping at that same purveyor, but mostly because I like a lot of the stuff they carry, not because I believe that it'll make me healthier.
At any rate, this story is informative not only in its exposure of the excesses to which some food legislation has gone, but also in its demonstration (read the comments) of the ways in which the legal system can sometimes be manipulated in a useful and constructive way.
