Consumer Group: Fast-Food "Health" Survey From Animal-Rights "Cancer Project" Group Should Be Ignored

Recommendations are anti-meat propaganda, not mainstream health advice.

It's important to distinguish animal rights propaganda from genuine health advice. This so-called Cancer Project is basically an offshoot of PETA. Nothing more.

It's pure fiction to promote veggie burgers and bean burritos as a cancer-prevention strategy. This is just as much a part of the animal rights agenda as doing away with circus elephants and seeing-eye dogs. If you wouldn't take dietary advice from PETA, you shouldn't trust this 'Cancer Project' group either.

Sacramento, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 9, 2008 -- Today, the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom warned health reporters and editors about a deceptive "survey" of fast-food meals being distributed by an animal rights group calling itself The Cancer Project. As reported in this morning's Los Angeles Times, the Cancer Project survey recommends meatless meals such as veggie burgers and cheeseless bean burritos as the only way to avoid eating "unhealthful" fast food.

Center for Consumer Freedom Director of Research David Martosko said: "It's important to distinguish animal rights propaganda from genuine health advice. This so-called Cancer Project is basically an offshoot of PETA. Nothing more."

The Cancer Project is led by Neal Barnard, a past president of The PETA Foundation. More than two-thirds of the Cancer Project's budget comes directly from the wealthy founder of the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida. The Cancer Project's parent organization, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has also received more than $1.3 million from PETA.

Earlier this year, The Cancer Project demanded that hot dogs be excluded from the National School Lunch Program. The single biggest study ever to examine meat and colon cancer diagnoses, a 2004 Harvard University project, found no link at all between the two.

Martosko added: "It's pure fiction to promote veggie burgers and bean burritos as a cancer-prevention strategy. This is just as much a part of the animal rights agenda as doing away with circus elephants and seeing-eye dogs. If you wouldn't take dietary advice from PETA, you shouldn't trust this 'Cancer Project' group either."

Interviews and reactions to The Cancer Project's survey are available. For a backgrounder on the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (The Cancer Project's parent group), see http://tinyurl.com/PCRM7things

###

Post Comment:
Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/pingpr.php/RW1wdC1NYWduLUhhbGYtSW5zZS1aZXRhLVNpbmctWmVybw==

cancer project center for consumer freedom protect consumer consumer protection physicians committee for responsible medicine pcrm animal-rights people for the ethical treatment of animals peta animal rights nutrition surveys

Bookmark -  Del.icio.us | Furl It | Technorati | Ask | MyWeb | Propeller | Live Bookmarks | Newsvine | TailRank | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Stumbleupon | Google Bookmarks | Sphere | Blink It | Spurl

• Obama 'Regulatory Czar' has Secret Animal-Rights Agenda, Says Consumer Group 2009-01-15
• Jeremy Piven's "Sushigate" Mercury Poisoning Claims Don't Jibe With Seafood Science 2008-12-22
• Consumer Group: FDA Report That Would Roll Back Seafood Advisory is a Huge Public-Health Victory 2008-12-12
• According to The Center for Consumer Freedom, A "Physicians Committee" Ranking Airport Food Is An Animal-Rights Group 2008-11-19