Thursday November 5, 2009, 4:36 pm
Eyes wide open frickin goobers....

Big Gorilly Hugs

Thursday November 5, 2009, 6:18 pm
If they have nothing to hide why don't they let the public go to factory farms or slaughter houses. But the public is not allowed near anything to do with factory farming.

If the public wanted to go to a chocolate factory to see how chocolate was made, there would be no problem, or maybe a strawberry farm or a fruit farm, not a problem. But you try and go to any sort of factory farm and its off limits, that in itself should send messages to the public that something very wrong is going on in these secret places or they wouldn't be a secret.

Thank goodness for the secret cameras that have exposed these hell on earth evil holes that these poor innocent beings have to endure because humans want to eat them.

I wonder what it would be like if the shoe was on the other foot and humans were the ones being eaten by some dominant race and had to go through what these poor animals go through.

But the majority of humans are mindless and don't bother to ask questions about what is going on. They go to the supermarket and buy meat in wrapped in plastic and look at it as if it is a can of fruit or baked beans they are buying. Don't they realize they are buying decapitated dead animals.

Real intelligent beings ask questions about anything and everything.

Thursday November 5, 2009, 7:18 pm
We can get by on flexitarian. I wonder when I see people eat meat, meat, meat, all the time.

But let us remember and look in the mirror. when Bill Clinton ate at McDonald's in 1992, you ate it up - the press and the public hailed him as a regular guy.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 12:05 am
The Center for Consumer Freedom is a nonprofit corporation run by lobbyist Richard Berman through his Washington, D.C.-based for-profit public relations company, Berman & Co. The Center for Consumer Freedom, formerly known as the Guest Choice Network, was set up by Berman with a $600,000 “donation” from tobacco company Philip Morris.

Berman arranges for large sums of corporate money to find its way into nonprofit societies of which he is the executive director. He then hires his own company as a consultant to these nonprofit groups. Of the millions of dollars “donated” by Philip Morris between the years 1995 and 1998, 49 percent to 79 percent went directly to Berman or Berman & Co.

Richard Berman is an influence peddler. He has worked out a scheme to funnel charitable donations from wealthy corporations into his own pocket. In exchange, he provides a flurry of disinformation, flawed studies, op-ed pieces, letters to the editor, and trade-industry articles, as well as access to his high-level government contacts, who are servants of the industries he represents.

Berman’s name might sound familiar. In 1995, Berman and Norm Brinker, his former boss at Steak and Ale Restaurants, were identified as the special-interest lobbyists who donated the $25,000 that disgraced then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was hauled before the House Ethics Committee for influence-peddling over the money. Berman and Brinker were lobbying against raising the minimum wage.

Richard Berman is a spin doctor. For example, he has argued against a Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) initiative to lower the blood alcohol content (BAC) limit for drivers by claiming that the stricter limits would punish responsible social drinkers. He has claimed that U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warnings about salmonella-related food poisoning are just “whipping up fear over food.”

Here’s how an internal Philip Morris memo described Berman’s spin: “His proposed solution would broaden the focus of the ‘smoking issue,’ and expand into the bigger picture of over-regulation.” Smoking won’t kill you; over-regulation will.

Berman is “a one-man wrecking crew on important issues.” His approach has been described as “misleading” and “despicable.” Berman has been called “a tobacco company whore,” but he’s branched out since then.

Using “freedom of choice” as his battle cry, Berman has now taken on PETA and a number of other groups and organizations whose points of view could have an impact on the profits of his clients by waking consumers up. Berman’s Guest Choice Network has an “advisory panel” whose members in 1998 included officials representing companies ranging from Cargill Processed Meat Products and Outback Steakhouse to Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association and Sutter Home Winery. Berman’s clients are companies with vested interests in low employee wages; cheap, unhealthy restaurant-chain food, particularly meat; and tobacco, soft drink, and alcohol consumption—companies like Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Armour Swift, and Philip Morris, whose product line includes Kraft Foods and everything from Marlboro cigarettes to Oscar Meyer wieners and which is a major shareholder in its former subsidiary Miller Brewing, now known as SABMiller.

PETA’s recent successes in gaining fast-food industry concessions for more humane conditions for farm animals have sent ripples of fear through the food and beverage service industry. About the same time that McDonald’s buckled to PETA’s demands, Richard Berman changed his front group’s name and stepped up his attacks.

The key to Berman’s aggressive strategy is, in his own words, “to shoot the messenger ... we’ve got to attack their credibility as spokespersons,”—an interesting remark from someone whose background and funding so severely challenge his own credibility.

Friday November 13, 2009, 10:11 am
I've seen this Berman jerk and even he admits, if the money were right, he'd be on our side. But the restaurant, tobacco, and alcohol industry are mighty powerful and many people are mighty gullible. Thanks for spreading the truth, Alicia and Roseann.

Saturday December 12, 2009, 10:47 pm
THIS FOOL SHOULD RESIGN--BIG TIME!! SECURITY GUARD/ACTIVIST ALEXANDRA MARCELLA MANOLESCO-aMI!!