Seafood (page 13)

Scaremongering: Don’t Take The Bait

While we get plenty of mail from fans of Consumer Freedom, not everything deposited in our mailbag smells so sweet. Reader Blake dropped us a line on FishScam.com earlier…
Posted February 27, 2006 at 12:00 am

More Good News From The Fish Wars

The science world is buzzing with the latest news from the Seychelles, a group of over 100 islands in the Indian Ocean whose inhabitants eat fish. Lots…
Posted February 21, 2006 at 12:00 am

Sins Of Omission In The Mercury Scare Campaign

Commissioning a scientific study and then publicizing only the parts you like is difficult to defend. Yesterday the environmental groups Greenpeace and the Sierra Club flooded the news…
Posted February 9, 2006 at 12:00 am

Fish Lovers Rejoice: Former HHS Secretary Rides To The Rescue

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.
Posted February 7, 2006 at 12:00 am

Fish Are Also Safe To Eat On The Radio

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…
Posted January 25, 2006 at 12:00 am

A Fish Story You Can Actually Believe

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…
Posted January 24, 2006 at 12:00 am

FishScam.com Hooks Public Radio Listeners

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…
Posted January 17, 2006 at 12:00 am

FishScam.com Advertisements Combat Mercury Hype

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…
Posted December 19, 2005 at 12:00 am

Fish Is Good For You. Anxiety Isn’t.

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…
Posted December 15, 2005 at 12:00 am

FishScam.com Takes Manhattan

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…
Posted December 9, 2005 at 12:00 am