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Center for Consumer Freedom 
Sun Sep 14, 2008 at 16:58:52 PM PDT
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This past week the United Nations' Nobel prize winning head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change made waves by recommending each of earth's citizens go meatless one day a week - and then attempt to decrease meat consumption from there. I applaud the U.N.'s recognition that meat contributes heavily to global warming - even if I disagree with their tactics of asking people to voluntarily kick the meat habit a few times a month. (I'm sorry but if you're serious about this, you need to do a few things that upsets big business in a BIG way or else we just won't get the change we need.)
But before you start believing those crazies over at the U.N., you ought to take a look at what our friends at the Center for Consumer Freedom had to say about the U.N.'s statement. Oh boy, the beef, booze, and tobacco lobby (which is precisely who funds CCF) thinks we shouldn't stop eating meat? I'm shocked. Let's see how they justify that.
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Sun Aug 24, 2008 at 20:59:08 PM PDT
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I can't believe a day has come that I am on the same side of ANY issue as the sleezy, slimy, no good Center for Consumer Freedom. But it has happened.
Alabama has a new challenge to workers: Shape up or pay up. State employees have a year to lose weight and those who have a BMI above 35 after that time will pay more for health care. I care deeply about obesity BUT I think this is absurd - and unfair. So does CCF, but we oppose this policy for different reasons.
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Tue Aug 12, 2008 at 08:00:00 AM PDT
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Many people who make our food system what it is are well-meaning - even if they are peddling junk. Sometimes people just never really thought things through, or they don't realize the harm foods can cause to human health or to the environment. Rick Berman is NOT well-meaning. And you should know his name. When Berman or his groups, the Center for Consumer Freedom, the Guest Choice Network, the Employment Policies Institute (which includes the site Center for Union Facts), and the American Beverage Institute, pop up in the news, we'll want to be ready with some good letters to the editor to send in to any paper that quotes him as a legitimate source of information.
I'd like to do this as a diary series, and I invite everyone here to join me in writing about other bigtime assholes whose names we should know - Terry Etherton (pro-rBGH blogger extraordinaire) and Dale Bauman (pro-rBGH scientific prostitute for Monsanto), etc. For some gooood info, check out the site Sourcewatch.
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