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| 1) | 4/12/06 | A Consumer Freedom Free-For-All Palm oil production, a recent CSPI ad claims, "is killing orangutans" (yes, that's a CSPI ad, not a PETA promotion). The Chicago Tribune jumped back on the mercury bandwagon yesterday with coverage of |
| 2) | 6/9/04 | ActivistCash Update: This Is Not Your Father's Sierra Club Sierra Club board member and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society leader "Captain" Paul Watson told activists at an animal rights conference: "We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals... |
| 3) | 5/21/04 | Sharks Attack Pigs -- Courtesy of RFK Jr. With all the activist hype over mad cow disease, the reclassification of fish as a dangerous entrée, and the so-called "dangers" of feeding milk to children, it's easy for pork to get lost in the shuffle. We've ... |
| 4) | 4/20/04 | Bring In The Clowns Food scare artisans, animal liberation radicals, and organic food pushers are gathering under the Earth Day big top to peddle their pet causes. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is staking out its own ring in the Earth Day circus, with plans to distribute veggie burgers outside of Burger King restaurants. PETA president Ingrid... |
| 5) | 4/6/04 | Organic Propaganda: All Stuffing, No Meat Take a product that offers no health benefits over conventional fare, is considerably more expensive, and can carry a greater risk of food borne illness. If you're |
| 6) | 1/8/04 | Canadian Environment Official: Kennedy is 'Fear-Mongering' Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has never lacked for critics. The founder of Riverkeeper (predecessor and sister-group to Kennedy's WaterKeeper Alliance) argues that he is "very reckless," and has "assumed an arrogance above his intellectual stature." He fear-mongered ... |
| 7) | 12/22/03 | RFK Jr. Sued For Making False Statements The Associated Press reports that Waterkeeper Alliance president Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been sued by Polish pork farmers "over allegations he called the company a 'mafia organization.'" |
| 8) | 11/5/03 | RFK Jr. Puts Hoof In Mouth The editors of E: The Environmental Magazine seem so enamored with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that they failed to realize their own cover story on the fact-challenged environmental crusader makes Kennedy look like one big hypocrite. Compounding his hypocrisy, Kennedy had been |
| 9) | 8/14/03 | RFK Jr. To Lecture '1000 Top Executives' In March 2003, Kennedy told a reporter that President Bush ... Actually, the Federal Register includes tens of thousands of pages of environmental rules and regulations. In February 2003, Kennedy gave an interview in which he said: |
| 10) | 5/27/03 | Union of Callous Scaremongers The oh-so-clever rabble held up massive "pill burgers" (hamburgers with a big pill inside) and were joined by the Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) Michael Khoo, who recently penned an article entitled "Want drugs with those fries?" CSPI has no love for meat... |
| 11) | 3/27/03 | More Pfabulous Pfiesteria Pfun Yesterday a University of North Carolina marine biologist presented a rare bit of common sense related to Pfiesteria piscicida [fiss-TEER-ee-uh piss-ki-SEED-uh]. Wayne Litaker, whose credentials include stints with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the National Ocean Service, presented research that... |
| 12) | 3/5/03 | Profiles in Hypocrisy We've long held that Waterkeeper Alliance president Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s recent history could be summed up by the "Three H's": hogs, heroin, and hubris. His campaign, run by the Natural Resources Defense Council... |
| 13) | 10/29/02 | Working title: “Hogs, Heroin, and Hubris” Kennedy, whose Waterkeeper Alliance has (unsuccessfully, so far) tried to sue America’s hog farmers out of business, has told reporters that “the best thing would be if this [pork] industry did leave the country. ” He has also called American pork producers |
| 14) | 8/6/02 | Pfiesteria hysteria (say it five times fast…) The science world is abuzz with news that Pfiesteria piscicida [fiss-TEER-ee-uh piss-ki-SEED-uh], an organism blamed in recent years for massive fish kills on the East coast of the United States, may not be such a harmful little bug after all. Activist groups like the Sierra Club, ... |
| 15) | 4/22/02 | Kennedy Bombs In Midwest "Farmers shouldn't expect an apology from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Asks OverLawyered.com's Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, in a New York Post op-ed: "Has celebrity environmentalist |
| 16) | 1/29/02 | The End Of An Industry? No -- the American hog farming and pork industry, according to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of the Waterkeeper Alliance. Kennedy's group and their "high-powered set of lawyers" threaten hog farmers with lawsuits filed under racketeering laws meant to nab mobsters -- with the goal of, in Bobby Jr.'s words, putting "an end to this industry." It's just the latest recklessness by Kennedy. |
| 17) | 1/7/02 | The Anti-Consumer Slippery Slope It just takes a little opening to initiate big changes -- changes that restrict your ability to enjoy a good meal: DIET CHOICE: Surgeon General David Satcher declared a "war on fat" in December, The Daily Oklahoman writes -- and the call was accompanied by activist yells for taxes on snack foods, giving restaurant customers |
| 18) | 12/12/01 | Waterkeepers, Farmers Weepers Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s anti-hog organization is telling Iowa officials that unless the state's hog farms don't comply with Waterkeeper's demands, the group and its "high-powered set of lawyers" will file suit under racketeering law, The Des Moines Register reports. Waterkeepers works under the guise of keeping water clean -- but really the group is part of an orchestrated... |
