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Back in 1988 - 16 YEARS AGO!! - when I was a freshman in high school, I made a prediction. This was just as I was beginning to really think about things, discover politics, and put things down on paper.

Here for you know, reprinted in full, is an article from Reason that shows I just might be the next Nostradamus. Or Cleo at least...

{Kelly Jane Torrance, wherever you are, please don't be pissed about your IP rights! I'm not claiming this as mine, and I'm giving it just a tiny bit of exposure!}

December 23, 2003

Food Fight
Anti-fat police are ready to bust heads
Kelly Jane Torrance

"Public Health Is Everybody's Business," read the button a chirping woman pushed into my hand at November's annual meeting of the American Public Health Association in San Francisco. A day later I discovered firsthand that public health is everybody's business but mine. I was "escorted" out of the meeting for the crime of documenting what America's food fascists have planned for our plates.

A man in a "Howard Dean" cap, who refused to identify himself, made a fuss when he discovered that an operative from the Center for Consumer Freedom had infiltrated the event. (It wasn't hard; I wore my professional affiliation on my name badge.) Standing in front of my camera, he loudly proclaimed to the room that I was with a "right-wing foundation," and claimed that I had misrepresented myself. Maybe it was a personal thing

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