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“Mad deer” theory takes a few bullets

We’ve been telling you for two years how a cabal of organic-only food advocates, leftist “sustainable agriculture” agitators, and anti-technology activists have combined their forces to incite a needless…
PostedSeptember 16, 2002 at12:00 am

More Mad Deer Fear

John Stauber, the Center for Media and Democracy’s chief mad-cow scaremonger, is at it again. Speaking at a public meeting in rural Wisconsin, Stauber warned the assembled…
PostedAugust 12, 2002 at12:00 am

“Mad Cow”: A Review

In recognition of the month when America celebrates its freedom, we are devoting the first two weeks of July to a review of the ongoing battle for consumer freedom —…
PostedJuly 10, 2002 at12:00 am

Mad Deer: Consumers In The Crosshairs

Fears about “mad deer” disease made the front page of The Wall Street Journal last week, combining the concerns of hunters and their families with the rhetoric of…
PostedMay 29, 2002 at12:00 am

Oh Deer: Unjustified Fear

The death of two young Michigan men due to the rare brain condition Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) “raised fears that the human form of mad cow disease, or something similar, had…
PostedMay 2, 2002 at12:00 am

Bill Maher, Disease Host

Hosting anti-meat activist Howard Lyman on “Politically Incorrect” last week, Bill Maher — an animal-rights activist himself — offered these remarks: “I have mentioned before on this show,…
PostedMarch 28, 2002 at12:00 am

Wing Nuts

As if Americans don’t have enough to worry about right now, the approximately 15,000,000 viewers of NBC’s “The West Wing” last night were treated to a scare plotline…
PostedNovember 29, 2001 at12:00 am

Fear and Loathing in Your Kitchen

As longtime readers of Center For Consumer Freedom Daily Headlines know, and our new readers will soon discover, there’s nothing benign about the anti-consumer-choice crowd. When Americans are afraid, these…
PostedOctober 22, 2001 at12:00 am

‘Mad Cow’: Science Beats Scares

In a landmark finding, “mad cow disease and the illness thought to be its human equivalent may not be linked after all,” Reuters reports. Writing in The British…
PostedOctober 15, 2001 at12:00 am

Organic marketers breathe new life into mad-cow scare campaign

With the launch of Organic Style magazine, Rodale Press has given organic food marketers a new way to demonize traditional food choices and capture a greater American market…
PostedSeptember 7, 2001 at12:00 am