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I just re-read CSPI’s “The Truth About Trans” from the March 1988 edition of Nutrition Action, and the overlying message I came away with was “we need more evidence to make a final decision on trans fats”. And a few years later, CSPI had all the evidence it needed to say trans fats were indeed...
I left a comment on this PETA video promoting awareness of organic foods as well as warning people about the dangers of GMO soy, and the paid Monsanto trolls have attacked me in full force: My comm…
The deceptively named Humane Society for Shelter Pets (HSSP) has filed for dissolution, signaling the death of yet another one of Richard Berman’s schemes to line his pockets while undermining animal welfare.
HSSP was founded by Berman to attack the Humane Society of the United States, part of his ongoing strategy to defund the nation’s largest animal protection charity by frightening away donors. Berman selected disgruntled ex-HSUS employee Didi Culp as the figurehead of the organization.
Culp, a supposed shelter advocate who advises people to “get a better dog” from a breeder, may have seemed the ideal choice for the job. But when HSSP was exposed as a front group for Berman’s corporate clients, Culp became the subject of an ethics investigation for her improper use of Frederick County Animal Control facilities. Theorganization’s leadership fled, and Culp was left at the helm of a sinking ship.
The collapse of HSSP puts an end to Berman’s most recent attempt to deceive animal lovers. Don’t feel too badly for the millionaire tobacco lobbyist, however: Before the collapse of HSSP, Berman managed to funnel $765,483.00 of the organization’s “nonprofit” donations into his personal and corporate bank accounts. Berman has not disclosed how much Culp was paid for her services as the organization’s figurehead.
The shelters that Berman and Culp used as pawns received nothing, according to tax forms filed by the organization.
In a move proponents believe will have no measurable effect on public safety, the National Transportation Safety Board is urging state governments to lower the allowable limits for drivers from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent, a move it says will reduce fatalities caused by drunk drivers. Even MADD, the most vocal anti-drunk driving group in the world, would rather pursue other options.
Currently, all 50 states have adopted a legal limit of 0.08 percent. Alcohol-related traffic fatalities have dropped from 21,098 in 1985 to 10,000 in 2011, but NTSB says progress has stalled. “There are at least 10,000 reasons to tackle this issue,” said Deborah A. P. Hersman, the chairwoman of the board.
But statistics tell a different story. In 2010, The U. S. Department of Transportation reported a total of 32,885 traffic fatalities. Out of that total, 31.10 percent, or 10,228, involved drivers with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.08 percent or higher. Only 5.32 percent, or 1,720, fatalities involved a BAC of 0.07 percent or less, indicating that the problem isn’t with social drinkers who know their limits and drink responsibly.
The MADD website states that about one-third of all drivers arrested or convicted of driving while intoxicated or driving under the influence of alcohol are repeat offenders, and 50 to 75 percent of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license.
Response from various states suggests the move to lower the legal limit is being met with resistance. In Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch points out that in 2011 Ohio had 11.5 million residents and total traffic fatalities of 1,015. Alcohol-related fatalities were listed at 316. “Of the alcohol-impaired drivers who caused a fatality, 95 percent had a blood-alcohol level of over 0.10, and 55 percent were over 0.20.”
Sarah Longwell, the managing director of the American Beverage Institute, calls the measure “ludicrous.”
“Moving from 0.08 to 0.05 would criminalize perfectly responsible behavior,” she said. And “further restriction of moderate consumption of alcohol by responsible adults prior to driving does nothing to stop hard-core drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel.”
Mother’s Against Drunk Driving (MADD) doesn’t entirely support the measure, either. The group favors mandatory installation of a Breathalyzer system for drivers convicted of drunk driving, and they’re all for passive alcohol sensors and “administrative license revocation” because they believe these measures show strong potential for reducing alcohol-related traffic fatalities.
However, J. T. Griffin, a Washington representative for MADD, says the National Transportation Safety Board is “trying to focus on a group of people who are more social drinkers, who haven’t been targeted in a while.” MADD would not oppose the change, he said, but would pursue other remedies.
The American Beverage Institute is an alcohol industry front group run by Richard B, Berman who owns other industry front groups such as the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), Center for Union Facts, and Employment Policies Institute.
Infowars.com is also known for using CCF “statistics” to demonize groups such as PETA and HSUS. In early 2009, Alex Jones invited CCF’s “director of research” David Martosko - who not only used to run CCF’s HumaneWatch propaganda outlet (HumaneWatch was set up to discredit HSUS with made-up “facts”), but also posed as an agent provocateur on various Facebook-based animal welfare pages such as Stop HumaneWatch - to his radio show to back up Jones’ conspiratorial views about PETA.
There are also rumors that Alex Jones’ wife Kelly Rebecca Nichols Jones used to work for PETA and was the one who threw a dead raccoon at Anna Wintour at a fancy restaurant and threw a tofu cream pie at Oscar de la Renta. (That makes her sound like an agent provocateur.)
At no time has Infowars.com ever exposed the documented facts that CCF is funded by Monsanto, supports and defends genetically modified foods, helped to defeat California’s Proposition 37 (thanks to online propaganda), and routinely smears organic activists as deranged lunatics (once again thanks to online propaganda).
I’m starting to think Infowars.com is a Rick Berman front group and is being used to portray anti-GMO activists and pro-organic activists as deranged conspiracy theorists and potential domestic terrorists.
This is why we have an obesity epidemic.
People are fat because they're lazy slobs and refuse to educate themselves on where their food really comes from.
They're too lazy to go out of their way to raise their own chickens and produce their own eggs.
They're too lazy to seek out meat, dairy, and eggs which are certified humane.
Instead they waddle to the grocery store and buy GMO this, GMO that, factory-farmed this, and factory-farmed that. They refuse to think for themselves. They allow corporate propaganda to do their thinking.
Martosko’s aim was to connect with animal rights activists as Facebook friends to collect intelligence on their plans and activities. Later in the deposition, Martosko said that he didn’t remember how many activists he friended using the Davis account. Although animal rights activists had long suspected that Martosko was behind the Davis Facebook account, the deposition marked the first time he acknowledged the scheme. Martosko appears to have created the Facebook account in 2009, according to an exhaustive 2011 analysis of Davis’ online activities published by HumaneWatch.info, a website created to track CCF’s work. The profile for this account, according to the site, was “a two-dimensional caricature of a vegan activist, with a few superficially liberal interests and a political affiliation listed as ‘dope-smoking commie.’” As Gregory Davis, Martosko posted about stereotypically lefty, vegan, and animal activist subjects, such as “living in a wood hut” and hanging out with his “freegan crew,” and friended progressive activists and groups such as PETA, the Humane Society of the United States, Mercy for Animals, Sea Shepherd, and Stop Humane Watch, a group that aimed to monitor and push back on Martosko’s outfit. Many of the individuals Gregory Davis friended were later profiled on a CCF website devoted to monitoring animal rights activists. “Davis wanted people to think he was a real extreme animal rights advocate or like a vegan abolitionist. He kind of invented a cover story for himself,” one of the women who moderated the Stop Humane Watch Facebook page in 2010 told Mother Jones. (She asked that she not be identified, citing job concerns.) “I didn’t think much of it at the time,” she noted. “When people posted abolitionist or extreme stuff, we dealt with it. We weren’t about doing away with farms altogether; we were about changing the practices.” She recalled a particular incident in May 2010 when Gregory Davis posted a comment advocating violent action against Conklin Dairy—an Ohio farm that was the target of protests after animal rights campaigners released a video of a worker abusing livestock. READ MORE
If Obama makes that fur hag Anna Wintour the ambassador to either the UK or France, I will rescind my vote for him.
I mean seriously, how many innocent animals have been brutally killed so Anna Wintour can wear their fur?
It’s been not even one month since I voted for you Obama, and you’re...
“The Humane Society of the United States filed a complaint with the IRS in June, saying the non-profits allow companies to fund anonymous corporate campaigns under a charitable cover, and for Berman to unjustly profit.” IRS may finally be going after Rick Berman and his slimy campaigns to destroy the animal protection movement. [READ MORE]
Center for Consumer Freedom (front group funded by the alcohol, tobacco, and chain restaurant industries; Rick Berman was president of the Steak & Ale restaurant chain; funded by Monsanto and pushes a “pro-GMO”/”anti-organic” agenda; campaigns against Proposition 37
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Just saw a whackjob blog claim that the animal rights movement is a “meat industry funded disinformation campaign being used to discredit animal welfare”.
So PETA and HSUS are being funded by Tyson Foods to destroy the animal welfare movement, eh? Yeah right.
And the person behind the blog is an...
PETA Killed a Near Record-Breaking 95 Percent of Adoptable Dogs and Cats in its Care During 2011
The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has published documents online, obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request, showing that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed a staggering 95.9 percent of the adoptable pets in its care during 2011. Despite years of public outrage over its euthanasia program, the notorious animal rights group has continued killing adoptable animals at its Norfolk, VA headquarters, at an average of 37 pets every week.
According to records from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, PETA killed 1,911 cats and dogs last year while placing just 24 in adoptive homes. Since 1998, a total of 27,751 pets have died at the hands of PETA workers.
“PETA hasn’t slowed down its slaughterhouse operation, even as the group continues to lecture the American public with its phony ‘animal rights’ message,” said Rick Berman, CCF’s Executive Director. “It appears PETA is more concerned with funding its media and advertising antics than finding suitable homes for these dogs and cats.”
Despite its $37.4 million budget, PETA employees make little effort to find homes for the thousands of animals they kill every year.
A 2010 inspection of 290 PETA animal custody records performed by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services discovered that PETA killed 84 percent of the animals it took control of within only 24 hours. Additionally, the inspection discovered that PETA’s animal shelter didn’t meet PETA’s own published guidelines for running a humane shelter.
“For the 13th year in a row, PETA’s leaders have shown they don’t care about the unlucky dogs and cats that come to its Norfolk facility,” Berman continued. “It’s about time PETA’s ‘shelter’ is reclassified as a slaughterhouse.”
CCF has obtained PETA’s “Animal Record” filings for every year since 1998 from the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Members of the public can see these documents at www.PETAKillsAnimals.com.
In the wake of PETA’s recent campaign against Pokemon I wanted to bring this up.
”PETA did not disclose…how many actual, living, breathing animals died waiting for rescue while the organization spent its time and money campaigning against fiction.” (x)
Sorry, but anything which comes from the Center for Consumer Freedom - a shady corporate front group funded by the alcohol, tobacco, and restaurant industries and headed by a sleazy con artist who is trying to bust and ban workers’ unions - has no credibility.
Here’s a lovely animated video about factory farming. Don’t worry, it has a happy ending! For those of you who may argue that it’s pointless to treat pigs better since they get eaten anyway, I want you to realize that pigs are intelligent creatures who feel pain. I find factory farming to be an immoral practice and wish the pig farmers were actually like the guy in the video. Please watch and spread awareness of this issue. I just wish more people researched the sources of their meat and whether or not the animals were treated humanely.
(via Ian Millhiser at ThinkProgress Justice: Corporate Front Group Buys Attack On Humane Society During Oscar Broadcast)
During last night’s Oscar broadcast, a corporate front group ran an attack ad claiming that only a small percentage of the Humane Society of the United States’ donations fund animal shelters.
This ad was surprising because it seemed to come out of nowhere. Who, exactly, has such a beef with the Humane Society that they would buy ad during a broadcast where a 30 second segment costs an average of $1.7 million? As it turns out, the food industry.
It is indeed true that much of the Humane Society’s money goes to programs other than animal shelters for stray cats and dogs — much of the Society’s resources go to fighting animal cruelty in the courts and in legislatures. In court, the Humane Society defends laws prohibiting horse slaughter, it fights to protect dolphins from aggressive tuna fishing techniques, and it supports regulations governing the treatment of “downed” cattle. In Congress and state legislatures, the Humane Society backs many anti-cruelty bills, including the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2012, which would prevent egg-laying hens from being packed into tiny cagesthat leaves them with virtually no room to move around.
he anti-Humane Society ad was paid for by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a corporate front group run by right-wing PR flack Rick Berman that is closely tied to the food industry. Berman’s Center accuses the Humane Society of engaging in “a slow but steady push to take away consumer choices by forcing meat, eggs, and dairy foods out of more Americans’ reach,” and he has a long history of similarly hyperbolic claims paid for by corporations looking to misrepresent the safety of their food products.
Sweet Scam: Berman is behind a campaign called “Sweet Scam” which attempts to debunk “myths” such as “sugary sweeteners are bad for your teeth” or “significantly reducing sugar intake leads to healthy weight loss.”
Trans-Fats: Another Berman campaign, whose website has since been pulled down, claimed that trans-fats have “may possess health benefits, including fighting some cancers, enhancing immunity, and counteracting artery clogging fats—the primary cause of cardiovascular disease.”
The Steak Diet: Another Berman website touts how one can shed unwanted pounds by eating beef.
Soft Drinks For Athletes: Berman also claims that high-sugar soft drinks “actually improved physical performance among elite athletes.”
Fast Food Marathon: Berman also touts a marathon runner who proclaims “I love running and I love [fast-food]–might as well combine the two.”
Global Warming Denial: And, of course, no right-wing anti-science campaign would be complete without some kind of attempt to deny global warming. Berman’s effort is an attack on former President-elect Al Gore’s statement that a high meat diet fosters global warming because meat requires forests to be cleared and more energy consumption to produce than other foods.
So the anti-Humane Society ad appears to be the latest in a long line of Berman’s attempts to pad the food industry’s bottom line at the expense of ordinary Americans’ health.
The Facts That’s an actual quote from CCF’s Rick Berman. As wacky conspiracy theories go, it’s a whopper.
Of course HSUS would love it if more people adopted a vegetarian lifestyle, because that reduces the overwhelming demand for factory-farmed animals. But they are not attempting to force anyone to change their diet, even if such a ridiculous goal were within the power and resources of HSUS.
What the HSUS really encourages is “eating with conscience”: in HSUS’s words, “eating products only from animals who have been raised, transported, and slaughtered in a system of humane, sustainable agriculture that does not abuse the animals.”
That’s a far cry from yanking the pork chop out of your mouth, as CCF would have you believe. However, the dwindling number of ranchers who rely on inhumane farming techniques like battery cages and veal confinement crates are all too happy to play up the “Vegan Conspiracy” myth rather than consider humane methods of farming.
HSUS does not oppose ranching and farming: its goal is only the elimination of unnecessary suffering in the name of profits. Farming and cruelty are not inextricably linked, and only the most irresponsible and greedy companies would have you believe that savage abuse of animals is a necessary evil.
It’s easy to exploit people who are gullible & don’t check facts. That’s what scum bag lobbyist Rick Berman is counting on. Big agriculture businesses don’t like animal rights advocates because we get in their way, and rightly so. So they hire guys like Rick Berman to create fake consumer awareness organizations like “HumaneWatch” and “Center For Consumer Freedom” to attack animal rights groups.
For those people who don’t like PETA, they’re susceptible to fall for a website like “PETA Kills Animals.” Well guess what? PETA Kills Animals is funded by Rick Berman. He’s also attacking The Humane Society and Michelle Obama’s healthy eating campaign.
Don’t blindly believe anything without following the money. I’m not saying you have to like PETA, but don’t fall for the scummy attack campaigns of big businesses threatened by animal rights organizations. #vegansofig
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Before you reblog any “facts” from them demonizing PETA or HSUS or any other animal rights organization, know that they are part of the Center for Consumer Freedom, the group that lobbies FOR the meat, alcohol, tobacco, and fast food industries.
Educate yourself before you help an anti-vegan group spread their propaganda.
FINALLY! Another Tumblr user who realizes the truth about HumaneWatch!
If I’ve learned anything from my many classes on Animal Rights vs. Animal Welfare, it’s donate to your LOCAL Humane Society if you feel the desire to help with the unwanted animal problem. It is NOT, I repeat, NOT affiliated with the Humane Society of the United States, an organization which…
HumaneWatch is a disinformation campaign who is funded by corporate agruculture to smear and slander HSUS using outrageous lies and misinformation. Sorry, but you discredited yourself the moment you posted a link to HumaneWatch’s website.
And for your information, HumaneWatch is owned by the Center for Consumer Freedom, a front group for the alcohol industry, tobacco industry (CCF was founded by tobacco money), the chain restaurant industry (CCF executive director Rick Berman was president of a restaurant chain called Steak & Ale), the factory farming industry (CCF uses HumaneWatch to make up the lie “HSUS wants to end ALL animal farming” which is nonsense; HSUS campaigns against factory farming but campaigns for humane farming), and the corporate agriculture industry (CCF is funded by agriculture giants such as Monsanto, Cargill, and ConAgra). They also run the “PETA Kills Animals” website which too is full of half-truths, lies, and misinformation.
