- Our objections to the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) report attacking restaurants for their kids’ meal offerings received wide coverage. The Los Angeles Times and CNN.com both reported our criticism of CSPI’s “blame game,” as did numerous local NBC affiliates.
- The Daily Mail reports that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) campaign to propagandize children may have recently crossed another line, as if trying to cram its animal liberation ideology into school curriculums, to “traumatize” children with graphic displays, and featuring convicted arsonists in its former kids’ magazine weren’t enough. When a 14 year-old Louisiana boy offered a cow in a raffle to go on a school trip to Ireland and the United Kingdom, PETA responded by sending the kid images of the group’s “lettuce ladies” that the boy’s father characterized as “wildly inappropriate.” Supporters of PETA’s animal liberation agenda went further and reportedly bullied the kid online, including sending hopes that the raffle winner would choke to death. You can read our report on PETA’s child-propaganda campaign from a few years back for more information on how PETA tries to manipulate impressionable kids.
- Are people beginning to realize that the “public health” community—which we have criticized for its habit of expanding its control from public concerns beyond citizens’ individual responsibility to private habits that are individuals’ choices—has the wrong model for dealing with obesity? A recent article in Breakthrough that received favorable coverage at The Week and The Daily Beast suggests that the commentariat is beginning to ask serious questions of the CSPI/Kelly Brownell/Michael Bloomberg blame-food-first axis. The author proposes that by drawing the wrong lessons from past crusades and blaming food corporations alone for obesity, the anti-obesity movement doomed itself for failure. Read the whole thing.
- CCF in the News: After a Daily Mail report on PETA’s animal-killing hypocrisy, we appeared on the Mark Levin radio show to warn the conservative dog-lover’s listeners that the animal liberation group kills nearly 90 percent of the dogs and cats in its care. The truth about PETA was also reported on PETA’s hometown NBC affiliate and at Yahoo! News.
