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And then the fast food industry in turn funds PETA’s fake opposition, the Center for Consumer Freedom. In other words, PETA and HSUS are as much tied to the fast food industry as CCF.

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Sonic to phase-in cage-free eggs
January 20, 2010

The Humane Society of the United States has praised Sonic’s new policy for its improvements in animal welfare in its supply chain. Last week, the HSUS announced that it waspurchasing stock in QSR Jack in the Box and casual-dining hybrid Steak ‘N Shake in order to influence their animal welfare policies.

Nation’s Restaurant News reported that Sonic has been working primarily with PETA for the past 18 to 24 months to develop the new policy. According to the story, HSUS owns stock in Sonic as well as McDonald’s Corp., Tim Hortons Inc. and Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc.

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PeTA owns stock in Tyson Foods, Hormel and Denny’s
PETA’s beef turns into stock
Activist group is buying shares of Tyson Foods, Hormel and Denny’s in bid to reach shareholders.

By Parija Bhatnagar, CNN/Money Staff Writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -
Animal rights group PETA — People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — said it is upping the ante against food companies and restaurant chains by buying their shares and taking its animal anti-cruelty campaign directly to the shareholders.

Calling it a “reinvigorated strategy,” the agency said for the first time it is vigorously purchasing stock in the leading meat suppliers such as Hormel Foods, Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride and dining chains Denny’s Restaurants, Outback Steakhouse, Chili’s parent Brinker International and Applebee’s.

“We’re taking on Wall Street,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich told CNN/Money. “We’re buying 50 percent over the minimum number of shares required to submit a shareholder resolution.”

http://www.infocafe.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=192

Interesting strategy PeTA so let me see how this works; you accept donations to save the animals & protect their rights, then you purchase stock in companies that serve and eat them.

This is done so you then can form a shareholder resolution to attempt change while you collect the quarterly benefits of your stock vested in restaurants that serve meat. That would be a brilliant move if you were able to by 51% of the stock in the company,  but a fairly useless and wasted purchase for animal rights to purchase a number to simply submit a shareholder resolution.

PeTA started buying shares in the meat and restaurant industry in 2003, this is what they owned at that date.

Over the last month, PETA said it has acquired 150 shares of Austin, Minn.-based Hormel Foods, the leading processor of turkey and pork; 240 shares of Springdale, Ark.-based No. 1 chicken producer Tyson Foods and 260 shares of Texas-based No. 2 poultry producer Pilgrim’s Pride.

PETA now also owns 11,000 shares of casual dining chain Denny’s and 110 shares of Chili’s parent Brinker International, and will acquire stock in Outback Steakhouse and Applebee’s.

Brilliant move PeTA keep vesting in the restaurant business, you will need the cash to pay the fine for the killings in Ahoskie.  Some things you discover about PeTA are unreal and this is reported by CNN not CFF.

Peace Bill

More proof that the “anti-obesity” movement is a fake movement funded by the food industry. And notice the connection to Kellogg. Read my blog to find the truth about CSPI’s “attack” on Kellogg – a corporate funder of NANA steering committee member American Dietetic Association.

Big Momma Michelle Obama: Food profiteer-turned-food cop
Michelle Malkin
May 12, 2010

Let me summarize first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity agenda: Shed as I say, not as I gain. While she crusades for organic foods and puts government pressure on corporations to stop marketing fast food and junk food to children, Mrs. Obama herself profited from the very same processed food industry she now demonizes.

In June 2005, a few months after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, Mrs. Obama hustled a seat on the corporate Board of Directors of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. Despite zero experience, the food-processing company put her on its audit and nominating and corporate governance committees. For her on-the-job training and the privilege of putting her name and face on their literature, the company forked over $45,000 in 2005 and $51,200 in 2006 to Mrs. Obama — as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more than $72,000 for each year.

The chairman of the TreeHouse Foods board, Sam K. Reed, was a top executive at Kellogg’s and Keebler Foods, home of that great menace to children, the Keebler Elf. Before that, he headed up Mother’s Cake and Cookie Company. The conglomerate sells cheese saucesCremora non-dairy creamerinstant soup, puddings and powdered soft drink mixes. Hardly the stuff of Mrs. Obama’s new vision of nutritional paradise. TreeHouse is also a leading supplier of pickles used in the burgers of evil fast food chain McDonald’s — exactly the kind of corporate restaurants Mrs. Obama is now targeting in her war on urban “food deserts.”

The corporation-bashing Mrs. Obama would have continued raking in her TreeHouse cash if it hadn’t been for her husband’s pesky pledge to pander to Big Labor and swear off Wal-Mart. The retail giant, you see, happened to be TreeHouse’s biggest customer. And Wal-Mart is to Big Labor as sunshine is to Dracula.

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Just checked my blog tracker software and found that the National Soft Drink Association – a soft drink industry front group funded by Coca-Cola and PepsiCo – were reading my post about how the Rockefeller banksters were forcing their puppet Michael Jacobson of CSPI to push their “soda tax” propaganda. I think they are planning on using my research which I have posted on this blog and posting said research – with their own spin, of course – on their website, or in news print, or as talking points on news shows in an attempt to discredit this blog as “industry propaganda”.

Think this blog will never be linked to in mainstream media articles? Think again.

Let me make this crystal clear. I do not work for the soda industry or the food industry. I do not receive any money from the soda industry or the food industry. I will never accept money from the soda industry or the food industry.

I see your dirty tactics. You’re in bed with the fake “food police”, and you want the sheeple to believe that you and the fake “food police” are at odds with one another. YOU ARE NOT AT ODDS WITH ONE ANOTHER! YOU ARE ALIGNED WITH EACH OTHER! Your tactics will not work!

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Oh and now Coca-Cola is spying on this blog. According to my blog tracking software, Coca-Cola was reading this post. This is why I am editing this post. The deception is over, Coca-Cola and CSPI.

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On August 3, I plugged Alex Jones’ “Food The Ultimate Secret Exposed” video on one of MeMe Roth’s videos in two comments. Needless to say, the food industry apologist did not approve my comments. By censoring my comments, MeMe Roth proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that she is an apologist for the aspartame/MSG industry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdGYitGIIps

The comments are as follows:

Comment #1:

@z777z Watch the video “Food The Ultimate Secret Exposed”. It’s the food companies causing obesity, not parents. Short of going all-organic and eating raw foods, how can one escape the soft-kill toxins that the food industry puts in the food by design? How can one escape the aspartame and MSG and HFCS when it’s in everything? Picture two planes labeled Aspartame and MSG crashing into the twin towers on 9/11. THAT is obesity. Obesity is a result of the food companies false-flag poisoning our food

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Oh and MeMe, if you censor my comment about aspartame and MSG, then you prove to everybody that you are an apologist for the aspartame/MSG industry. But I already know that you are because you belong to CSPI’s NANA coalition which is partly-steered by the American Diatetic Association….which is funded by McDonald’s and Coca-Cola. A nutritional advocacy coalition which has a steering committee member funded by McDonald’s and Coca-Cola…how Orwellian.

Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS
Thursday, July 15, 2010
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/69436

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks to reporters at HHS headquarters in Washington on July 1, 2010. (CNSNews.com/Penny Starr)
(CNSNews.com) – New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records–that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year–must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.

The obesity-rating regulation states that every American’s electronic health record must: “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.”

The law also requires that these electronic health records be available–with appropriate security measures–on a national exchange.

The new regulations are one of the first steps towards the government’s goal of universal adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by 2014, as outlined in the 2009 economic stimulus law.  Specifically, the regulations issued on Tuesday by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, define the “meaningful use” of electronic records. Under the stimulus law, health care providers–including doctors and hospitals–must establish “meaningful use” of EHRs by 2014 in order to qualify for federal subsidies. After that, they will be subjected to penalties in the form of diminished Medicare and Medicaid payments for not establishing “meaningful use” of EHRs.

Section 3001 of the stimulus law says: “The National Coordinator shall, in consultation with other appropriate Federal agencies (including the National Institute of Standards and Technology), update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan (developed as of June 3, 2008) to include specific objectives, milestones, and metrics with respect to the following: (i) The electronic exchange and use of health information and the enterprise integration of such information.‘‘(ii) The utilization of an electronic health record for each person in the United States by 2014.”

Under this mandate in the stimulus law, Secretary Sebelius issued a regulation–developed by Dr. Blumenthal–that requires that all EHRs keep track of a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI) score. Body Mass Index is a ratio between a person’s weight and height, and is used to determine whether or not someone is overweight or obese. It is the preferred method of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for measuring obesity.

Michelle Obama has made dealing with the problem of childhood obesity the main theme of her term as First Lady.

According to the CDC,  “BMI provides a reliable indicator of body fatness for most people and is used to screen for weight categories that may lead to health problems.”

A person’s BMI score is used as a tool to screen for obesity or excessive body fat that could lead to other health problems. While it does not actually measure body fat directly, according to CDC, the BMI scores generally correlate with a person’s body fat percentage.

The new regulations also stipulate that the new electronic records be capable of sending public health data to state and federal health agencies such as HHS and CDC. The CDC, which calls American society “obesogenic” – meaning that American society itself promotes obesity – collects BMI scores from state health agencies every year to monitor obesity nationwide.

“Electronically record, retrieve, and transmit syndrome based public health surveillance information to public health agencies,” the regulations read.

With the spread of electronic health records, the CDC apparently will be able to collect such data more efficiently and with greater accuracy because the electronic record keeping systems can send the data automatically, eliminating the need for government – both state and federal – to keep, send, and process physical records.

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The Surgeon-General was in fact a Burger King advisor! The Obama administration and the fake anti-obesity activists are food industry apologists covering up the roles that aspartame and MSG have played in the manufactured obesity epidemic! Regina Benjamin was a Burger King shill, and the anti-obesity activists belong to fake nutritional advocacy coalitions headed up by food industry front and Monsanto fronts! When will the libsheep wake up and realize that people such as MeMe Roth and organization such as CSPI are actually food industry apologists helping to cover up the TRUE causes of obesity?! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/13/health-nominee-an-adviser-to-burger-king/

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/dennis-byrne-barbershop/2009/08/obamas-surgeon-general-nominee-advises-burger-king.html

http://entertainment.wagerweb.com/politics/regina-benjamin-also-works-for-burger-king-14441.html

http://www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/dr.-regina-benjamin-paid-by-burger-king/259468/Aug-13-2009_5-15-pm/

Related:

Define irony: When an anti-obesity crusader is a member of a nutritional advocacy coalition headed by food industry front groups

Food Nazis Using Obesity Reichstag to Bring on New Holocaust

MeMe Roth, the ultimate apologist for the food industry and whitewasher of the obesity epidemic

I saw an “article” posted yesterday by Monsanto’s PR firm, the Center for Consumer Freedom, where they demomized Michael Pollan for saying that meat from free-range animals is more nutritious than meat from factory-farmed animals. Richard Berman and David Martosko want you to consume tons of Monsanto growth hormones, get fat, and die.

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/h/4080-chef-pollans-daily-special-lousy-advice

http://www.bermanexposed.org/

http://citizensforethics.org/about

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to promoting ethics and accountability in government and public life by targeting government officials — regardless of party affiliation — who sacrifice the common good to special interests. CREW advances its mission using a combination of research, litigation and media outreach. CREW employs the law as a tool to force officials to act ethically and lawfully and to bring unethical conduct to the public’s attention through:

* Litigation
* Freedom of Information Act Requests
* Ethics Complaints
* Internal Revenue Service Complaints
* Federal Election Commission Complaints
* Requests for Investigations

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5184

Recent recipients of Tides Foundation grants include: the A.J. Muste Memorial Institute; the American Civil Liberties Union; the ACORN Institute; the Agape Foundation; Alliance For Justice; American Family Voices; the American Friends Service Committee; the American Immigration Law Foundation; the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Amnesty International; the Border Action Network; the Brennan Center for Justice; Campaign for America’s Future; the Center for American Progress; the Center for Community Change; the Center for Constitutional Rights; the Center for Reproductive Rights; Changemakers; the Children’s Defense Fund; Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington; the Council on American-Islamic Relations (as revealed in FrontpageMagazine); Democracy Now!; Earth Day Network; Earth Island Institute; Earthjustice; Environmental Defense; Environmental Media Services; the Environmental Working Group; Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting; the Feminist Majority Foundation; Free Press; Funding Exchange; Global Exchange; Grantmakers Without Borders; Grassroots International; Greenpeace; Human Rights First; Human Rights Watch; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; Institute for America’s Future; Institute for Policy Studies; Institute for Public Accuracy; the Israel Policy Forum; the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; the Lawyers’ Committee on Nuclear Policy; the Jane Addams Peace Association; the League of Conservation Voters; the League of United Latin American Citizens; the League of Women Voters; the Liberty Hill Foundation; MADRE; Medecins Sans Frontieres; Media Matters for America; Mercy Corps; the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Mexico Solidarity Network; the Middle East Children’s Alliance; Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet; the Ms. Foundation for Women; the NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation; the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty; the National Council of Churches; the National Lawyers Guild; the National Network of Grantmakers; the National Organization for Women Foundation; the National Wildlife Federation; the Natural Resources Defense Council; the Nature Conservancy (of California and of New York); the New Israel Fund; the New World Foundation; Nonviolent Peaceforce; the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; Oxfam America; the Pacifica Foundation; Peace Action; the Peace Development Fund; People for the American Way; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Physicians for Social Responsibility; Planned Parenthood; the Ploughshares Fund; Population Connection; the Progress Unity Fund; Project Vote; the Proteus Fund; the Public Citizen Foundation; the Rainforest Action Network; the Rainforest Alliance; the Rockefeller Family Fund; the Ruckus Society; the Sentencing Project; September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows; the Sierra Club; the Shefa Fund; Sojourners; the Threshold Foundation; TrueMajority Action; Trust for Public Land; the Union of Concerned Scientists; USAction; Veterans For Peace; Waterkeeper Alliance; the Wilderness Society; Witness For Peace; Women’s Action for New Directions; and the World Wildlife Fund.

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7309

CREW has received financial backing from George Soros’s Open Society Institute, Democracy Alliance, the Tides Foundation, the Streisand Foundation, the Arca Foundation, the David Geffen Foundation, the Wallace Global Fund, the Mayberg Family Charitable Foundation, the Woodbury Fund, and the Sheller Family Foundation — all institutions distinguished by their support for far-left causes.

Yet another example of a corporate shill being attacked for being a corporare shill……..by corporate shills. Just keep in mind that the Rockefeller Foundation is one of the primary funders of the Monsanto Corporation, which has funded, Center for Consumer Freedom, a Berman-owned nonprofit which fronts for the biotech, alcohol, tobacco, and transnational food companies.
I just want to make it clear that I think Richard Berman is a scumbag to infinity. I am not defending him. I am just pointing out that the people and groups attacking Berman are pretty much the same as him. I mean for crying out loud, the Rockefellers are funding HIM and HIS OPPOSITION!!!

More Syrupy Pseudo-Science

More Syrupy Pseudo-Science

Osteopath Joseph Mercola has plenty to sell you on his website. He’s also known for, as a Business Week commentator put it, “slick promotion, clever use of information, and scare tactics” that hearken back to the “unfortunate tradition made famous by the old-time snake oil salesmen of the 1800s.” If that sounds harsh, consider a Mercola article from Saturday perpetuating myths about high fructose corn syrup.

Mercola, who is not a medical doctor, starts with the good ol’ fable that corn sugar is a “prime factor” behind the obesity epidemic. Right? Wrong, according to a set of five studies published last winter finding that corn sugar is not a unique cause of obesity. Even the original speculator of the corn sugar-obesity theory has since recanted his mistake.

Ready for more? Mercola says high fructose corn syrup is twice as sweet as other sugars. Wrong again: High fructose corn syrup is designed to be exactly as sweet as table sugar. He also claims fructose can harm your liver, while omitting a key fact: High fructose corn syrup isn’t pure fructose; it’s not even “high” in fructose. Corn sugar is 55 percent fructose, compared to 50 percent for table sugar. (Some high fructose corn syrup—the 42 percent variety—actually has less fructose than table sugar.) The studies Mercola alludes to tested pure fructose—not high fructose corn syrup—and fed it to subjects in unrealistically high quantities.

Why is Joseph Mercola freaking his followers out? It could have something to do with his own pricey blend of “Pure Gold Raw Honey,” which he’s more than happy to sell you. (Ironically, the sugars in honey have basically the same chemical composition as high fructose corn syrup.)

The “Quackwatch” organization took a look at Mercola’s pseudo-science (and his clever “alternative” food marketing), and wrote that many of hiswritings “make unsubstantiated claims and clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations.” For examples, see the American Medical Association and American Dietetic Association, which advise the public that high fructose corn syrup and table sugar are nutritionally equivalent.

Let’s see … Who should we trust? Tens of thousands of doctors and dieticians, or a honey salesman? Sometimes the sweetest questions are the simplest ones.

Comment: Once again, Bushbama exposes himself as a corporate shill just like his predecessor George W. Bush. Let’s face it. The corporate media SUCKS. The problem is not the alternative media. The problem is that the corporate media product is SHIT. It’s just like how Microsoft puts out a shoddy operating system and drives people towards rival operating systems such as Mac OS X and Ubuntu. If the bailout of corporate media comes to pass, then mark my words: the next corporate bailout will be a bailout of Microsoft in order to stifle the rise of the free software movement.

Obama: We Need To Bailout Newspapers To Stop New Media Taking Over
President says preserving “mutual understanding” is critical to democracy

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Sept 21, 2009

President Obama has stated that he is happy to consider bailing out the corporate media, expressing concerns that alternative internet based news outlets will grow in popularity as a result of the downfall of newspapers.

Obama told editors of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade that preserving the print media is “critical to the health of our democracy”.

“I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding,” Obama said.

He also indicated that readers should be made to pay for online news content in the near future:

“What I hope is that people start understanding if you’re getting your newspaper over the Internet, that’s not free and there’s got to be a way to find a business model that supports that.” he said.

Over the past year, scores of newspapers have gone out of business or shifted to online only output, due to the rise of the alternative media and the resulting loss of ad revenue. Several large newspaper corporations have filed for bankruptcy, including the Tribune Co., owner of the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times.

Obama said he “would be happy to look at” legislation aimed at providing newspapers tax-breaks if they were to restructure as 50 (c) (3) educational corporations. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin has introduced a bill in this vain titled “The Newspaper Revitalization Act.”

Critics may point out that, far from being “critical” to democracy, a bailed out government subsidized media is the very antithesis of a “free press”.

Government Banking and Government Motors would effectively be joined by the Government Press if bailouts were to be granted.

Bailing out the corporate media would once again constitute rewarding outdated and failing monopolies with more taxpayer dollars, thus punishing innovative forward thinking competition.

Furthermore, there is absolutely no basis for bailing out the newspapers, given that they employ less than one percent of the labor force in the United States.

The dinosaur corporate media is dying because it has proven itself to be almost wholly untrustworthy, acting as an unquestioning mouthpiece for the establishment.

Denouncing all blog based media as unreliable or without context is laughable in the face of the mainstream media’s recent track record.

Obama: We Need To Bailout Newspapers To Stop New Media Taking Over
President says preserving “mutual understanding” is critical to democracy
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Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, Sept 21, 2009

Comment: Funny how a “right-wing” news organization prevents an anti-Monsanto story from making it on the air, only for a “left-wing” President to make a Monsanto shill/lobbyist one of his first Cabinet appointees. Could it be that the “right-wing” and the “left-wing” are actually ONE AND THE SAME?!

FOX NEWS Reporters (Reporters Steve Wilson & Jane Akre) uncover that most of the Milk in the USA and across some parts of the world is unfit to drink due to Monsanto Corporation’s POSILAC®, which has been proven to be a cancer-causing growth hormone.(known in short as “BGH” “BST” or “rBGH” ), but they were fired for trying to tell people the truth.

(Important note: After a long court battle, the Court dismissed the whistle blowers protection for the reporters because the Court stated that there was no law to force that the NEWS state the truth! Fact! Going on to say the NEWS was no different than other TV shows/reality shows!!)

But the FDA has turned a blind eye once again!

If you consumed or fed regular milk to your family today (8/21/08), there is more than a 90% chance that it was from a cow injected with BGH

(Bovine somatotropin developed by using recombinant DNA technology).

You could be killing or harming your child every time you pour them a glass of milk, the same as pouring them a glass of slow acting poison.

Please take action to ensure our children’s safety, for they can not protect themselves.

What first alarmed farmers was the massive amount of PUS in the milk but Monsanto and the FDA still had no concerns by stating that the PUS was not harmful to be ingested by consumers!

If you have little children, at least feed them certified BGH free Milk, Organic Milk or Organic/BGM free milk equivalent like Organic soy milk.

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