Robust debate and criticism have turned surmises and suspicions and anathemas into discoveries or recognition of facts and truths. Certainly the food companies and their well-funded trade associations have the money and other means to counter with their positions. Indeed, public tax dollars at the U.S. Department of Agriculture service several of these food and fiber promotion budgets that industry checkoffs finance to disseminate television and print advertisements almost every day.
Free speech is perhaps the most fundamental of all freedoms because it gives rise to other freedoms.
Stifling free speech by well-funded harassment suits, that get thrown out of court, is serious and deserves a judicial and legislative response .