Of the contentious political conflicts over the trace amounts of mercury in the fish we eat, none has a higher profile than the courtroom battle playing out in California.
Fed up with all the myths about mercury in fish, this week the Center for Consumer Freedom launched a new radio advertising campaign to flush these toxic myths out…
We recently received an e-mail from David, a reader who had fallen victim to scare-mongering over mercury in fish. There are over a dozen activist groups committed to spreading…
This weekend National Public Radio listeners heard a Living on Earth story, prompted by the Center for Consumer Freedom’s FishScam.com website, about the growing debate…
Following a largely one-sided Chicago Tribune series that hyped the trace amounts of mercury in fish, Tribune and New York Times readers are seeing full-page advertisements asking if they’re…
The Chicago Tribune jumped on the mercury food-scare bandwagon this week with a three-part series claiming “tainted” fish with “unsafe” levels of mercury is routinely sold to an…
Good news from Africa: The government of Zambia, in the midst of a food crisis, has altered its anti-GM (genetically modified) food policy, allowing millions of…
Visitors to New York’s west side are noticing a new feature rising above the city’s snow-covered landscape this week. A three-sided billboard announcing our new FishScam.com website…
Our mothers called fish “brain food.” Scientific literature is bulging with evidence that eating fish can help prevent heart attacks, Alzheimer’s disease, and…
It’s hard to imagine a more cynical communications strategy than targeting small children behind their parents’ backs, lying to them, and then misleading a national TV audience about it…
