Consumerfreedom.com sounds like a consumer group? Of course they're not.

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http://www.consumerfreedom.com/

"The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.

"The growing cabal of "food cops," health care enforcers, militant activists, meddling bureaucrats, and violent radicals who think they know "what's best for you" are pushing against our basic freedoms. We're here to push back."

Just what we need. More corporatists "pushing back."


Today this group is crowing about the CDC's study showing that obesity is not as epidemic as thought. This is the ad running in the NY Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today, Newsweek, and the Chicago Tribune:

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1. So let's see, people who are overweight are:

Big-boned?
Husky?
Big for their age?
Retaining water?

Every day I'm exposed to more cognitive dissonance by Americans. I cringe every time I attend an event at my kids' school and see the number of overweight kids and their equally overweight parents. When 25-30% of the people in the auditorium are overweight, that's a bit more than hype.

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2. Don't you hate it when corporate pigs pretend to speak for consumers?

(Or am I the only one who hates that?)

http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q1/ddam.html

ConsumerFreedom.org: Tobacco Money Takes on Activist Cash


by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber

Full page advertisements in Newsweek magazine are expensive, so who footed the bill for an attack ad aimed at Greenpeace that ran in the January 28 issue? The Center for Consumer Freedom, which produced the ad, isn't saying.

At first glance, with its photo of a diving whale in the ocean, the ad looked like it might have been placed by Greenpeace itself--until, that is, you read the nasty quote from Patrick Moore, identified as a "Greenpeace Co-Founder," calling his former colleagues "a band of scientific illiterates who use Gestapo tactics."

The advertisement featured a web address, www.ConsumerFreedom.com, which belongs to the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF). Like the advertisement itself, the name is misleading. CCF doesn't represent consumers. It's just the new name for lobbyist Rick Berman's latest front group.

Until January, the CCF called itself the "Guest Choice Network." Its name change coincided with the launch of a second website, called ActivistCash.com, which purports to reveal a vast, left-wing financial conspiracy among major foundations and nonprofit public interest organizations.

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3. The $ behind this group is also behind a group out to kill the living wage

Maybe you've heard of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a left-wing think tank associated with Robert Reich, the go-to guys for information about the wage gap and living standards of American workers?

Read this from the PR Watch article cited in post #2 above:

"ActivistCash.com and ConsumerFreedom.org are merely the latest in a string of organizations that Berman has created to advance his clients' interests. Another Berman front group, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), calls itself a "non-profit research organization dedicated to studying public policy issues surrounding employment growth." In reality, EPI's mission is to oppose increases in the minimum wage so restaurants can continue to pay their workers as little as possible. EPI also owns the domain names to MinimumWage.com and LivingWage.com, a website that attempts to portray the idea of a living wage for workers as some kind of insidious conspiracy. "Living wage activists want nothing less than a national living wage," it warns (as though there is something wrong with paying employees enough that they can afford to eat and pay rent)."

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4. kick

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5. one last kick.

:patriot:

[JackieO]

6. consumerdeception.com

http://www.consumerdeception.com/

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7. Richard Berman exposed

http://www.commercialexploitation.com/news/articles/berman.htm