More on the "Center for Consumer Freedom"

Oct 01, 2009 Published under Advertising (good vs misleading), Health

Further to my post about "The Center for Consumer Freedom", and to their campaign to spin how HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) is good for you, I just did a little bit of research about this group and it turns out that it is a front group doing dirty work for the tobacco, alcohol and restaurant industry. Google them and you’ll learn they systematically oppose the work of independent scientists, doctors and health advocates.

Their mission is reminiscent of the bad-for-you-food-products-industry-backed version of the cigarette lobby of the 70s….

…oh, and now I learned why: The very same people running this group got off the ground with a donation from Philip Morris.

"The Center for Consumer Freedom"

With a name like that – The Center for Consumer Freedom – you can be sure this DC spin group has an industry-group agenda. The agenda in this case is to convince consumers that a product that does not exist in nature is the same as one that does – trying to say High Fructose [...]
Testimonial from the youngest KIND snack consumer

So the other day my 2 year old daughter came barging into my room saying: "quiere nacky, quiere nacky" translation- my daughter learned the word snack a long time ago, but pronounces it nack, and when she discovered "Kind Snacks: she decided to call them "nacky" so after asking for nacky, she starts banging on [...]

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