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| 1) | 8/13/04 | Iconic Chef Julia Child Passes Away Child had especially strong sentiments for the nutritional scolds at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), who have a food-enemies list a mile long. Child's biography describes her own fiery exchange in which she berated Alice Waters (who later became a central figure in the organic-only-... |
| 2) | 5/25/04 | A Potpourri Of Food Activist News News Flash: Acrylamide Still Not Harmful -- A National Institutes of Health panel declared last week that acrylamide -- that mysterious chemical compound that reinvigorated the Center for Science in the Public Interest's ... |
| 3) | 3/16/04 | ActivistCash Gets A Facelift (The same group that spun off the terrorist Earth Liberation Front) ActivistCash keeps growing, and now it's easier than ever to navigate, search, and ... |
| 4) | 12/18/03 | NY Times Magazine Writer Allies With Radical Food Activists It featured food scolds Marion Nestle, Joan Dye Gussow, and Big Brother Kelly Brownell; Pollan called them "the three most important, most eloquent voices in the debate over our food system." They were introduced by... |
| 5) | 10/22/02 | Cod for dinner? Let’s see your credit report… In the latest example of environmentally-correct dining run amok, the Chefs Collaborative is promoting a new line of “caught with care” Atlantic cod in Boston restaurants. The Cape Cod Times reports that activist chefs from the Collaborative are pushing line-caught cod as an alternative to farmed fish, even though the entrees will be considerably more expensive. ” The Chefs Collaborative... |
| 6) | 10/22/02 | Organic labels are here. Whoopee. Most of that coverage promoted the myth that “organic” means “better” -- even though the USDA says plainly that the new label “makes no claim that organically produced food is safer or more nutritious than conventionally produced food. Ronnie ... |
| 7) | 10/14/02 | Oh… you meant that organic food… ” Gussow, by the way, is an “overseer” of the Chefs Collaborative and sits on the advisory board of the misnamed Center for Food Safety. She is also a director of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, a $75 million philanthropy that doles out money to anti-... |
| 8) | 10/3/02 | “Locally grown” nonsense In an essay that’s a must-read for anyone confused by the dictates of modern “locally-grown” food zealots (the Chefs Collaborative comes to mind, along with a host of organic food activists), Reason Magazine’s Ron Bailey writes: “I don’t care where my food comes from. ” |
| 9) | 9/19/02 | Same hook, new bait The Associated Press reported yesterday that the crusade against better fish is being led by: The Center for Food Safety (CFS) -- a front group for the organic and “natural” foods industry; Friends of the Earth -- a long-time opponent of scientific progress; and Clean Water Action -- a leftist ... |
| 10) | 8/21/02 | The high price of organic orthodoxy In a recent expose on the politically-charged business of organic food production, Salon.com notes that the U.S. government will begin allowing qualifying organic food marketers to use the new “USDA Organic” label on October 21. This move should effectively draw a bold line between those marketers who are actually following all the arcane and costly rules of organic food production, and those who are just trying to catch a ... |
| 11) | 5/7/02 | The Secret Garden This morning's Detroit Free Press heaps praise on Ohio's Chef's Garden farm, frequented by America's leading celebrity chefs. So by using Chef's Garden, Chefs Collaborative cooks are admitting that they do not abide by their own political agenda. As our ActivistCash.com profile of Chefs Collaborative makes ... |
| 12) | 12/5/01 | Chefs Collaborative 2000 Cooks the Books? We first requested CC2K's tax documents, so we could research and report on their funding, back in March of this year. In July, Consumer Freedom sent CC2K a third letter. CC2K did send us their IRS request for tax-exempt status -- but not their filed tax forms. |
| 13) | 8/20/01 | There's something fishy going on... At about the same time that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) installed a new European chief whom Canada's National Post is calling "the fisherman's enemy," Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki called for aggressive limits on ocean fishing. An |
| 14) | 5/14/01 | Give Us All A Break If you remember the ridiculous and unnecessary "Give Swordfish a Break" campaign foisted on us by SeaWeb and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), this will sound eerily familiar. The "Roe to Ruin" campaign will use the same techniques as "Give Swordfish a Break" did: SeaWeb and NRDC plan to intensely lobby celebrity chefs and members of Chefs Collaborative, in an attempt to get as many restaurants as possible to swear off all caviar. The only endorsed exception will be roe from ... |
| 15) | 4/19/01 | Today's Special: Doom With A Side Of Gloom A USA Today editorial today could go a long way toward dispelling the cultural myths promulgated by the Chefs Collaborative, a group of celebrity chefs bent on making as many of our food choices for us as possible. USA Today Board of Contributors member Greg Critser notes that the Chefs Collaborative and its disciples believe that "the only food truly worthy of its moral salt is that which has been ... |
| 16) | 2/26/01 | The Politics of the Nanny Chefs Despite Chefs Collaborative’s frequent claims to being a small, grass-roots group concerned only with local restaurants and farmers, we’ve been telling you about its larger agenda. Well, celebrity chef and anti-biotech guru Alice Waters has let the cat out of the bag in the upcoming March 5 issue of The Nation. For more info on Chefs Collaborative and the other nannies trying to limit our food choices, see our white paper on the push to aggressively market organic foods. |
| 17) | 2/12/01 | Food Fight The Denver Post reviews Consumer Freedom's efforts to expose the nannies at Chef's Collaborative. For the whole story, read our report, "A Look at Chefs Collaborative and the Marketing of Organic." Food Fight |
| 18) | 2/7/01 | What's That You Say "Sound food choices emphasize locally grown, seasonally fresh and whole or minimally processed ingredients," reads Chefs Collaborative's statement of principles. Why then are Collaborative members recommending frozen fava beans and mail-ordering their restaurant's fish? What's That You Say |
| 19) | 1/17/01 | Nannies Down On The Range The Times says that in order to avoid antibiotics, turn to organic meat, specifically mentioning Niman Ranch as an antibiotic-free producer. In turn, Chefs Collaborative members like Charlie Trotter feature Niman meats at their restaurants (seems strange that the Chefs would be shipping in meat considering their "eat ... |
| 20) | 12/20/00 | 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! 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... |
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