Open Letter to Prof. Barry Popkin

5 May 2010

Prof. Barry Popkin

Department of Nutrition

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC  27516-2524

Dear Prof. Popkin:

A segment on WJLA-TV's 11:00pm newscast yesterday featured you endorsing a tax on pizza.  You justified such a tax on grounds that Americans today eat too much "junk food."

Believing Americans to be too dimwitted or lacking in self-control to choose for themselves what to eat, you obviously also believe that college professors possess the moral authority to propose...