With the precedent of tobacco litigation and its huge payoff in mind, lawyers and activists are preparing for their next major offensive. The target is food. The indefatigable Bruce Bartlett, whose columns are always worth reading, shows here the knives are being sharpened right now.

Naturally, the corporate wussies that the “public interest” lawyers want to carve up are already starting to cave in, hoping that appeasement will work. Guess what: IT WON’T.