Lobbyist Run Non-Profit Scams

Rachel Maddow is pretty awesome.  She tells it like it is.  Listen to her dish it out against the Center for Consumer Freedom.  Really, that should be “consumer freedom“:

If you are further interested in what a crackpot Richard Berman is, you can find out about him and his expertise at bermanexposed.com.  Essentially, there are a lot of high paid lobbyists fronting as non-profits.

With consumer skepticism over the Smart Choices program, mandatory calorie labels on menus, the FDA developing nutrition label revisions (pdf), and the words ‘soda taxes‘ on the tip of every tongue, it is no wonder that industries are bringing out all their guns, pulling no stops when it comes to, well, their freedom to confuse consumers and obfuscate facts.  The moral here?  Always read the small print.  Sometimes, though, they make so easy for us:

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October 5, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics

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