Archive: Dec 2000 (page2)

Chefs Join Caviar Marketing Scheme

Chefs Collaborative members Rick Moonen and Eric Ripert are featured in today's New York Time's story supporting Fenton Communications' (the firm behind the unnecessary Give Swordfish a Break! campaign) anti-caviar choice effort. The two chefs show their support for farm raised domestic caviar, which is no surprise considering Fenton Communications' client Whole Foods Market has just began to market farm-raised domestic caviar. It appears that the Chefs are not afraid to marginalize themselves by associating with such a thinly disguised, misrepresentative marketing scheme.
PostedDecember 20, 2000 at12:00 am

Label Leery

A panel of biotech experts, which included such anti-choice luminaries as Dan Leskien of Friends of the Earth and Rebecca Goldburg of Environmental Defense, has issued a report urging the…
PostedDecember 19, 2000 at12:00 am

Caviar Caper

Last week, we were the first to report Fenton Communications’ (the firm behind the unnecessary “Give Swordfish A Break!” campaign) new effort to discourage the consumption of caviar, especially imported…
PostedDecember 19, 2000 at12:00 am

Portion Distortion

NBC Today show correspondent Phil Lempert, commenting on restaurants' alleged link to rising obesity rates, questions "the social consciousness of a super-sizing strategy that emphasizes high-fat, high-calorie food." As we've said before, no one forces anyone to eat anything. ("Dining well in a jumbo-portioned world," Los Angeles Times, 12/18/00)
PostedDecember 18, 2000 at12:00 am

NGO Power

The New York Times' Alan Cowell writes about the power of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). As one executive from a London-based international mining corporation says, "You can be an $8 billion company or whatever, but in the court of public opinion, the nongovernmental organizations start with more credibility than businesses."
PostedDecember 18, 2000 at12:00 am

Star-struck

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine bashes celebrity cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Julia Child, and others. Grandma's cookies wouldn't get a good review from these nannies.
PostedDecember 15, 2000 at12:00 am

Trail Of Terror

The terrorists from the Animal Liberation Front are claiming responsibility for attacking several trucks belonging to a Vancouver, British Columbia meat distributor. A spokesman for the anti-choice group says, “It’s…
PostedDecember 15, 2000 at12:00 am

Foolish Fat Tax Reappears

The Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) Michael Jacobson continues his crusade for a “Twinkie tax” on high-calorie food in this month’s CSPI newsletter. Jacobson says the…
PostedDecember 14, 2000 at12:00 am

Silly Science

Opponents of genetically improved foods point to dead monarch butterflies, killer potatoes, allergenic soy beans, and superbugs. The Times of London's Mark Henderson dispels these myths and the "science" behind them.
PostedDecember 14, 2000 at12:00 am

Environmental Concern Or Marketing Plan?

Greenpeace's unwarranted genetically improved foods fear mongering has so upset consumers that many of them will buy only organic food products. Greenpeace is stepping in to fill the organic demand it created with its own line of organic products, on sale now in Brazil. Don't be surprised to see Greenpeace products on a supermarket shelf near you soon. ("Greenpeace to license organic products in Brazil," Agence France Presse, 12/12/00)
PostedDecember 13, 2000 at12:00 am