Post by Mel Mel on Feb 25, 2007 18:55:19 GMT
The so-called Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) is at it again, this time attacking PETA. But their ploy has backfired. The CCF was set to run a full-page ad against PETA, in this week's Hollywood edition of Variety, but Variety pulled the ad at the 11th hour. That's good news because one thing we consumers don't need is more corporate spin.
Probably, the CCF planned the ad to coincide with the culmination of a North Carolina court case involving two PETA workers accused of animal cruelty, but a jury acquitted them of all charges, except for littering. The CCF has been playing up the case and hoping for a conviction, but with the acquittal, the rug has been pulled out from under them. Cooler heads prevailed, both in court and at Variety. No doubt, the CCF is doubly disappointed.
Why is something calling itself the Center for Consumer Freedom interested in PETA in the first place? You might think that PETA has little to do with limiting consumer freedom, and you'd be right. The real answer can be found by looking behind the scenes. Simply put, the Center For Consumer Freedom is a front group for the restaurant, junk-food, alcohol and tobacco industries, and they regularly run elaborate media campaigns opposing the efforts of scientists, doctors, health advocates, animal rights and environmental groups. Founded in 1995 as the Guest Choice Network with a grant from the tobacco company, Philip Morris, the misnamed Center for Consumer Freedom has never strayed far from its roots. Consumer freedom -- or consumer health -- is not nearly so important to them as corporate bottom-lines.
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Probably, the CCF planned the ad to coincide with the culmination of a North Carolina court case involving two PETA workers accused of animal cruelty, but a jury acquitted them of all charges, except for littering. The CCF has been playing up the case and hoping for a conviction, but with the acquittal, the rug has been pulled out from under them. Cooler heads prevailed, both in court and at Variety. No doubt, the CCF is doubly disappointed.
Why is something calling itself the Center for Consumer Freedom interested in PETA in the first place? You might think that PETA has little to do with limiting consumer freedom, and you'd be right. The real answer can be found by looking behind the scenes. Simply put, the Center For Consumer Freedom is a front group for the restaurant, junk-food, alcohol and tobacco industries, and they regularly run elaborate media campaigns opposing the efforts of scientists, doctors, health advocates, animal rights and environmental groups. Founded in 1995 as the Guest Choice Network with a grant from the tobacco company, Philip Morris, the misnamed Center for Consumer Freedom has never strayed far from its roots. Consumer freedom -- or consumer health -- is not nearly so important to them as corporate bottom-lines.
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www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=20200