Press Releases (page 18)

Consumer Watchdogs: Animal Rights Radicals Posing As “Cancer Project” Should Stop Attacking Hot Dogs

Washington, D.C. – Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom is calling on an animal rights group, “The Cancer Project,” to withdraw a frivolous petition it submitted to the U.S.
Posted October 9, 2008 at 12:00 am

PETA’s San Francisco “Shower” Protest Is All Wet, Says Consumer Group

San Francisco — An anti-meat “naked shower” protest from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at the corner of Powell and Geary Streets tomorrow will demonstrate that the animal…
Posted August 4, 2008 at 12:00 am

FOIE GRAS PROHIBITION REPEALED! CONSUMERS WIN!

Washington, D.C. — Today in a stunning yet welcome reversal of an ordinance that had made the Windy City a national laughingstock, Chicago’s City Council voted 37-6 to repeal a…
Posted May 14, 2008 at 12:00 am

Government Records Show PETA Killed over 90 Percent of “Companion Animals” in 2007

CENTER FOR CONSUMER FREEDOM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT- Tim Miller, 202-463-7112 May 7, 2008 Government Records Show PETA Killed over 90 Percent of “Companion Animals” in 2007…
Posted May 7, 2008 at 12:00 am

PETA Times Square “Shower” Protest Is All Wet, Says Consumer Group

Washington D.C. — An anti-beef “naked shower” protest from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Times Square today will demonstrate that the animal rights group’s employees either aren’t…
Posted April 21, 2008 at 12:00 am

PETA Employees Let Off the Hook, But Animals They Killed Weren’t So Lucky

Washington — Today the North Carolina Court of Appeals vacated the convictions of two PETA employees originally convicted of littering in a case involving nearly three dozen dogs and cats…
Posted April 15, 2008 at 12:00 am

Study: Pregnant women who eat more fish, including canned tuna, have smarter children

Washington — In a study scheduled for April publication in the American Journal of Epidemiology, a team of nine respected scientists from Harvard and the University of Michigan found that…
Posted March 25, 2008 at 12:00 am

Consumer Group Calls For Congressional Perjury Investigation Into Testimony Offered By The HSUS

Washington – Yesterday, the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office told the Riverside (California) Press-Enterprise that it never asked the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) to withhold an…
Posted February 29, 2008 at 12:00 am

Consumer Group: Cookie-Boycotter MeMe Roth Should Mind Her Own Business

New York—Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) criticized the self-anointed obesity activist MeMe Roth for attacking the Girl Scouts in her anti-fat crusade. Roth called for a nationwide…
Posted February 27, 2008 at 12:00 am

Madison ‘Consensus’ on Mercury in Fish is Obsolete, Wrong-Headed

WASHINGTON — Today the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) argued that a scientific “consensus” statement about trace levels of mercury in seafood, promoted this week by the activist Mercury Policy…
Posted February 4, 2008 at 12:00 am