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Adbusters
Adbusters and the Center for Media & Democracy both endorsed the National Ad Slam Contest, a project of the Ralph Nader-founded Commercial Alert. The contest, launched in 2001, awarded money to schools who expelled advertisers from their premises.
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Center for Food Safety
The Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) were among the institutional plaintiffs (along with the Humane Farming Association) in a pair of lawsuits brought against the federal government in 1999; the legal actions demanded numerous changes to meat-processing and labeling regulations, and insinuated that existing federal protections would not be enough to keep mad cow disease out of the United States. In addition to serving as executive director of CMD, John Stauber sits on the Organic Consumers Association’s policy board, and also on the advisory board of CFS.
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Center for Science in the Public Interest
Foodspeak is a coalition of activist groups, organized by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), who fear legal retribution for attacking food and food companies. They want food disparagement laws off the books and off their backs, along with a blank check for anything they might say -- even when their comments are false and intended to damage the interests of a food company. Along with a few dozen other activist groups that want to dictate your food choices, the Foodspeak coalition includes the Center for Media and Democracy. CSPI and the Center for Media and Democracy also endorsed Ralph Nader’s “National Ad Slam Contest.”
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Environmental Working Group
At the height of the U.S. mad-cow scare, the Center for Media and Democracy’s John Stauber shared a press-conference dais with EWG’s Ken Cook, warning journalists that a “crisis” threatened America’s meat supply. Environmental Media Services, the spin-heavy media arm of Fenton Communications, organized the event.
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Foundation on Economic Trends
Center for Media and Democracy founder John Stauber worked for the Foundation on Economic Trends (FOET) from 1988 to 1993. Rifkin and Stauber both signed Genetically Engineered Food Alert's "Call to Action." FOET's Jeremy Rifkin continues to laud his former employee on the dust jackets of Stauber's books. Of Stauber's (and co-author Sheldon Rampton's) Mad Cow USA, Rifkin wrote: "It can happen here!"
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Humane Society of the United States
The Center for Media & Democracy and the Humane Society of the United States were both members of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s Foodspeak coalition. Members hoped to avoid liability for false claims against food companies by overturning and evading food disparagement laws.
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Organic Consumers Association
In addition to serving as executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, John Stauber sits on the Organic Consumers Association’s policy board, and also on the advisory board of the Center for Food Safety.
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Turning Point Project
Left-wing flacks John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton made sure that their Center for Media & Democracy (CMD) was among the first groups listed as Turning Point Project “coalition organizations.” Little wonder, as Turning Point board member Joe Mendelson also sits on CMD’s board. CMD’s name appeared on all four Turning Point ads devoted to trashing technological progress -- a curious choice, considering that Rampton and Stauber use the Internet exclusively to run their propaganda machine.
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