Chefs Collaborative
262 Beacon Street,
Boston,
MA
02116
Phone 617-236-5200 |
Fax 617-236-5272 |
Email cc2000@chefnet.com
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Center for Food Safety
Professional organic evangelist Joan Gussow is one of several links between the “celebrity chef” movement and the organic food marketers that make their kitchens go ‘round. In addition to holding the position of “overseer” with the Chefs Collaborative, she also sits on the advisory board of the Center for Food Safety along with organic food marketers and lobbyists. Both groups are also involved with the “Keep Nature Natural” fear-marketing campaign, underwritten by organic food marketers like Eden, Nature’s Path, Whole Foods Markets, and Wild Oats.
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Environmental Media Services
Nearly every major national project initiated by the Chefs Collaborative (CC) is promoted by Environmental Media Services (EMS). Examples include the needless “Give Swordfish a break” campaign, the 2002 boycott on Caspian Sea caviar, and the “natural” food industry-funded “Keep Nature Natural” campaign. None of this should come as a great surprise, considering that CC pushes organic foods and EMS is a project of Fenton Communications, a Washington, DC public relations firm that counts organic food marketers among its paying clients.
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Foundation on Economic Trends
The Foundation on Economic Trends pioneered the idea of organizing chefs on a large scale to aid in fights over food politics. Its Pure Food Campaign signed on a reported 1,500 chefs to publicly reject modern farm technology, and many of those chefs -- including the notorious priestess of organic-only cuisine, Alice Waters -- are now leaders of the Chefs Collaborative. Rifkin and the Chefs Collaborative also both signed onto Genetically Engineered Food Alert's "Call to Action."
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Greenpeace
In 1998 the Chefs Collaborative publicly “collaborated” with the environmental scaremongers at Greenpeace in a campaign to deluge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration with consumer requests for mandatory biotech food labels. This “astroturf” campaign distributed pre-written postcards along with Greenpeace’s fund-raising letters -- tens of thousands of which were delivered to the FDA -- giving the government a false impression of the movement’s “grassroots” following.
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Mothers for Natural Law
Chefs Collaborative was an institutional sponsor of a 1999 petition drive run by Mothers for Natural Law, a radical organization affiliated with the cultish empire of Indian mystic Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The effort sought to gather 1 million signatures in support of the mandatory labeling of genetically improved foods, but fell considerably short.
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SeaWeb
Great numbers of activist chefs from the Chefs Collaborative provided the enforcer’s muscle behind the unnecessary 1998-2000 “Give Swordfish a Break” boycott, denying their dining patrons the opportunity to choose swordfish for their dinner plates. A similar boycott of Caspian Sea caviar is currently underway, with the Chefs Collaborative membership carrying out the environmental movement’s misguided marching orders.
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Sierra Club
The Sierra Club and Chefs Collaborative are both members of "Genetically Engineered Food Alert," a PR campaign dedicated to demonizing genetically enhanced food products. In 2002 the two groups also co-hosted an event in Colorado called "Reinventing the Meal: Ecological Food Choices for the 21st Century." Attendees were urged to only "grow and buy organic food," shun food from large, modern farms, and avoid foods produced through biotechnology.
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