My post on acrylamide (below and on BlueOregon) generated a response from an organization called The Center for Consumer Freedom. Sounds like a real progressive group, doesn't it? Not so. It is yet another example of a special interest front group masquerading as a public interest organization.
Here's how they describe themselves on their website:
In other words, this is a hatchet organization that seeks to undermine, discredit and attack any scientific findings or public concerns that might impact the bottom line of companies in the food industry.
Here's how they describe themselves on their website:
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...
The Center for Consumer Freedom is supported by restaurants, food companies and more than 1,000 concerned individuals. From farm to fork, our friends and supporters include businesses, employees and consumers.
In other words, this is a hatchet organization that seeks to undermine, discredit and attack any scientific findings or public concerns that might impact the bottom line of companies in the food industry.
This group seems to have it in for organizations like PETA, the Humane Society of the United States, Earth First!, and the Center for Disease Control. Oooh, a cavalcade of menacing groups that is!
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