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“We could envision taxes on butter, potato chips, whole milk, cheeses, [and] meat.” — Jacobson, quoted in the Newark Star-Ledger, April 30, 2002 “CSPI is proud about finding something wrong with practically everything.” — CSPI executive director Michael Jacobson, in Washingtonian magazine, February 1994 “Jacobson, to put it mildly, is guilty of utter disregard for the truth and scientific facts, frequently exaggerating figures and claims to advance CSPI's own agenda.” — Frank Tate, writing in the online news site Scoop, March 2007 “We used to file all sorts of complaints with the government. Sometimes we’d get a response, but usually nothing happened. Now, when we have told companies that we’re going to sue them, they show up in our office the next week.” — Jacobson, quoted in The New York Times, January 19, 2006 “I’m not on the fence … about litigation [against restaurants]. I think it’s an extremely important strategy.” — Jacobson, speaking at the Public Health Advocacy Institute’s “Conference on Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic,” Jun 2003 “They really should develop an alternative for people to socialize -- a real fun coffeehouse. Maybe a carrot-juice house.” — Washingtonian magazine, Feb 2004 “With animals, hundreds of studies show that if you give them 80 to 60 percent of their normal calories, they live much longer, with much lower rates of cancer. I know some people who fast at least one day a week to try to keep their calorie intake artificially low.” — Michael Jacobson extolling low-calorie intake diets, Washingtonian magazine, Feb 2004 |
