Can It

In the latest episode of "Big Daddy Government Uses Kids As A Pretext to Tell Companies What to Make and Sell," The Washington Times reports on how The Breast Cancer Fund is about to launch a campaign against kids' canned food. The Breast Cancer Fund has a new report claiming toxic levels of bisphenol A, or BPA, in the lining on canned children's foods, sippy cups, and baby bottles.

Uh-oh, old-school Spaghetti-os!



Washington D.C.'s Competitive Enterprise Institute has challenged these findings, saying the campaign is part of an "irrational anti-chemical campaign to rid the world of a very valuable chemical" and that "the link between chemicals and breast cancer is not significant."

Senator Dianne Feinstein of California has introduced a bill to ban BPA from kids' food and drink containers. "I think we have to be careful, because in this country a chemical is used until the FDA finds it harmful. In Europe, there's something called the 'Pre-cautionary Standard' and companies have to prove that chemicals they use are benign. That's not true here." Yes, we're so underregulated here, aren't we?

The food elites have gone crazy over what kids eat, from Happy Meals to school lunches and now to canned foods. I don't think they'll be satisfied until parents prepare every single meal with food from their organic home garden. How do they think American kids ever survived before all of their alarmist activism?