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| 1) | 7/30/09 | Gutting Fishy Scaremongering The feds have set a “Reference Dose” for mercury intake which is just one-tenth of the lowest levels associated with adverse effects. In fact, as we’ve documented, The Great Tuna Scare is actually hurting poor children by keeping omega-3s out of their moms’ pregnancy diets |
| 2) | 12/12/08 | Public Health Triumphs Over Fishy Activism Napoleon Bonaparte famously told his army to never wake him for good news, “because with good news nothing presses. The Washington Post reports that the Food and Drug Administration favors rolling back the government's ill-advised seafood warnings, which are aggressively promoted by the... |
| 3) | 4/1/08 | Environmental Groups Join Nationwide Canned Tuna Promotion * “It just turned out that way. * Of course, we would have had rolling blackouts, too, but that’s beside the point. ” In response to today’s sea-change in activist politics, The New York Times has fired* its long-time food columnist, who will no longer have any sources for future scare columns about fish. |
| 4) | 3/26/08 | Powerful New Salvo In The Fish Wars When researchers examined the combined impact of these health benefits along with mothers’ mercury levels, something remarkable emerged: “We next examined maternal fish intake and mercury levels simultaneously … Children whose mothers consumed more than two weekly fish servings and whose mercury levels were in the top decile also had somewhat higher scores, whereas children of mothers who consumed up to two weekly servings of ... |
| 5) | 10/4/07 | Scientific Establishment Smacks Down Mercury-In-Fish Fear Mongers We hate to say we told you so, but…well, we told you so. Spokeswoman Dr. Ashley Roman put it best in an interview with MSNBC: |
| 6) | 6/30/06 | Declare Your Independence Offending groups include, but are not limited to, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the Environmental Working Group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Organic Consumers Association... |
| 7) | 6/21/06 | REPORT: Capital Fish Get A Clean Bill of Health Today the Center for Consumer Freedom unveils Safe Fish, our comprehensive investigation into mercury levels of fish sold in the Washington, DC area. Notably, tuna, a frequent poster-fish for reckless mercury scare campaigns (see here, here, |
| 8) | 9/20/05 | Scientists Denounce Scaremongering Activists Perhaps the most experienced practitioner is the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which continually tries to frighten us about harmless amounts of pesticides in our food, and specifically mercury and PCBs in ... |
| 9) | 9/19/05 | The Latest Fish Story On Mercury News outlets from Pennsylvania to Pakistan are reporting that fish bought in U.S. grocery stores contain "dangerous" levels of methyl mercury and should carry warning labels. The FDA itself has written that its action level: |
| 10) | 2/14/05 | According To The Latest Study, You Can't Eat Or Drink Anything Johns Hopkins University professor Roland Griffiths declared that caffeine was a "psychoactive drug" after a study that examined a grand total of seven people. But even Jacobson's apple could cause cancer, if you |
| 11) | 1/4/05 | ActivistCash - The Reverse Directory Our award-winning ActivistCash.com website profiles food cops bent on controlling our diets and ironically inhumane animal rights activists. a> No doubt Friedrich is a fan of the Kucinich-planned Department of Peace, responsible for crafting |
| 12) | 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... |
| 13) | 4/19/04 | Some Fish Tales Never Die Last year, As You Sow and the Turtle Island Restoration Network (an affiliate of the radical Earth Island Insitute) teamed up to |
| 14) | 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 |
| 15) | 3/26/04 | Mercury-In-Fish Scare All Wet The conference was organized by David Fenton's Environmental Media Services -- yes, the same Fenton who sits on the board of Cook's Environmental Working Group and |
| 16) | 3/8/04 | Food Scares: Short On Facts, Long On Lawsuits Scaremongers at the Environmental Working Group tried to cash in by suing the farmed-salmon industry. Like acrylamide and infinitesimally small levels of PCBs in salmon, mad cow disease may not be a real threat, but it serves the purposes of |
| 17) | 2/25/04 | Part Two: Bill Moyers Departs PBS On Monday we told you how Bill Moyers, the departing host of PBS' "Now," has turned his show into a virtual infomercial for misguided environmental causes. Moyers used "Now" to provide a platform for the very activists he funds as president of an anti-corporate foundation. Moyers has worked particularly closely with the |
| 18) | 2/23/04 | Bye-Bye, Bill Moyers Before introducing EWG president Ken Cook in April -- to discuss a project Moyers himself participated in -- Moyers intoned: "our bodies are laboratories ... |
| 19) | 2/17/04 | Don't Worry, Eat Happy The media bombards us with stories about mad cow disease and PCBs in salmon to the point that we feel like we're navigating a minefield every time we go to the fridge. Groups like the Organic Consumers Association (OCA) and the |
| 20) | 1/23/04 | California's Lawsuit Machine Strikes Again The inane "Prop 65" requires any product containing one of several hundred "known carcinogens" to bear a warning label -- even though it may be used in concentrations so low that adverse health effects are essentially impossible. Since the law's inception, fearful ... |
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