An ad in the Boston Herald today:

I’ve been seeing quite a few ads that parody law firm ads lately. There was the “Pizza Law” ad in January, and now The Center for Consumer Freedom’s ad for Shakem Downe & Bolt.

The Center for Consumer Freedom is: “a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility and protect consumer choices.”

The basic premise for this organization is that personal choice is paramount. Companies should not be held responsible for addiction. When you hear about someone suing McDonalds for being obese, these are the guys trying to fight them.

The group takes the angle that there is a:

growing cabal of “food cops,” health care enforcers, militant activists, meddling bureaucrats, and violent radicals who think they know “what’s best for you” are pushing against our basic freedoms. We’re here to push back.

The Center for Consumer Freedom has several campaigns:

1. ActivistCash.com- This site takes a shot at any kind of activist group that is against companies represented by the Center. Examples are Adbusters magazine, the American Corn Growers Association, the Center for Food Safety, the Humane Society, and Mothers Against Driving Drunk.

ActivistCash.com, a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom, provides the public and media with in-depth profiles of anti-consumer activist groups, along with information about the sources of their exorbitant funding.

Despite their innocent-sounding names, many of these organizations are financial Goliaths that use junk science, intimidation tactics, and even threats of violence to push their radical agendas. We’ve analyzed over 500,000 pages of IRS records to bring you a comprehensive snapshot of where their money comes from, tracking more than $800 million to date.

2.AnimalScam.com- This site is against PETA:

The modern animal rights movement is not what it seems. Today’s activists have perverted once-sensible animal welfare goals by putting animals ahead of human beings and employing a “by any means necessary” philosophy to achieve their goals of “total animal liberation.”

3. CSPIScam.com- Against the Center for Science in the Public Interest

4. PhysicianScam.com- Against the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

That’s all I have for today. It is my birthday today and I am taking tomorrow off for St. Patrick’s Day. Have a great weekend!

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