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Serving Grilled Chicken Without Warning Labels

by Steve
9/28/2006 09:22:00 PM

wolf in sheep's clothingThe left-wing French news service, AFP, reports that a group called, "Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine" (PCRM) filed a lawsuit against McDonald's, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Chili's, Applebee's, Outback Steakhouse and TGI Friday's, for serving up grilled chicken without posting warnings that such food contains a compound called, "PhIP"...
PhIP is one of a group of carcinogenic compounds called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) that are found in grilled meat. In 2005, the US government officially added HCAs to its list of cancer-causing agents, the doctors' group said.
There's nothing wrong with the chicken. PhIP is something that happens naturally with cooked chicken.

But the real story is about this "doctors' group" called PCRM.

According to ActivistCash, this group is actually an animal rights group posing as a consumer health advocate...
PCRM is a fanatical animal rights group that seeks to remove eggs, milk, meat, and seafood from the American diet, and to eliminate the use of animals in scientific research. Despite its operational and financial ties to other animal activist groups and its close relationship with violent zealots, PCRM has successfully duped the media and much of the general public into believing that its pronouncements about the superiority of vegetarian-only diets represent the opinion of the medical community.
You ought to read the rest of what ActivistCash says about these guys. They cite sources like Newsweek and New York Times, a couple of liberal news publishers, that make PCRM sound like zombies.

Perhaps the most laughable part is that the AFP reported this story by actually describing the PCRM as "doctors' group". ActivistCash says that only 5% of PCRM's membership are actually doctors. They go on to cite the American Medical Association (AMA)...
The American Medical Association (AMA), which actually represents the medical profession, has called PCRM a "fringe organization" that uses "unethical tactics" and is "interested in perverting medical science."
I guess when you have a group that has to conceal its true intentions you know there's something bad underneath.

3 Comments:

  • Actvistcash is a group set up by the Center for Consumer Freedom run by Richard Berman. It actually doesn't work in the interests of consumers but was set up to protect the profits of large corporations. Berman's name sound familiar?

    "In 1995, Berman and Norm Brinker, his former boss at Steak and Ale Restaurants, were identified as the special-interest lobbyists who donated the $25,000 that disgraced then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was hauled before the House Ethics Committee for influence-peddling over the money. Berman and Brinker were lobbying against raising the minimum wage."

    “CCF’s client companies want consumers—and their kids, evidently—to have less information about their food choices, not more. CCF is anti-parent, anti-kid, anti-health, and anti-truth. The restaurants that fund CCF should be ashamed.”
    —CSPI Executive Director Michael Jacobson


    “It is hypocritical in the extreme, of course, for [CCF’s Web site] ActivistCash.com to ‘expose’ the funding of others, while keeping the details of its own finances hidden to conceal the fact that its funding comes from the very industries that share a vested interest in attacking activists.”
    —Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber on PRWatch.org, a Web site maintained by the Center for Media & Democracy

    "I guess when you have a group that has to conceal its true intentions you know there's something bad underneath."

    In regards to CCF I think you are right.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:31 PM, September 29, 2006  

  • http://www.consumerdeception.com/

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:32 PM, September 29, 2006  

  • The article calls the Associated Press a left wing French group. Its just like these anti Democracy right wing control freaks to call a world wide network of usually truthful unbridled journalism "left-wing" and French on top of that. I'm glad they are trying to force the industry to educate the public. The government and AMA has been laced by henchmen and ignorant proponents of the unbridled meat and dairy industry and the restaurant industry and has taken factory farming and fast food to new incredibly dangerous levels of reckless behavior. This is just the tip of the melting iceberg. I suggest all you right and left wing nuts learn what you are eating.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:29 PM, October 09, 2006  

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