Ahem: I followed the small print to the "about us" declaration on their website:
"PETA Kills Animals" is a project of the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the full range of choices that American consumers currently enjoy. In addition to malicious animal-rights activists, we stand up to the "food police," environmental scaremongers, neo-prohibitionists, meddling bureaucrats, and other self-anointed saints who claim to "know what's best" for you.
Our "Daily Headlines" service provides valuable information about these activists, and analysis of their activities. If you would like to sign up for this e-mail service, click here. CCF's other websites include AnimalScam.com, CSPIscam.com, PhysicianScam, and the award-winning ActivistCash.com.
We welcome your support. Click here to make a financial contribution. Donations to CCF are tax-deductible under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
I thought I recognized these folks, so I zipped over to Sourcewatch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom) (run by the Center for Media and Democracy) for the skinny:
The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) (formerly called the "Guest Choice Network") is a front group for the restaurant, alcohol and tobacco industries. It runs media campaigns which oppose the efforts of scientists, doctors, health advocates, environmentalists and groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving, calling them "the Nanny Culture -- the growing fraternity of food cops, health care enforcers, anti-meat activists, and meddling bureaucrats who 'know what's best for you.' "
Over 40 percent of the group's 2005 expenditure was paid to Rick Berman's PR company, Berman & Co. for "management services. [1] As part of its operations CCF runs a series of attack websites, including "consumerfreedom.com, activistcash.com, cspiscam.com, animal-scam.com, fishscam.com, obesitymyths.com, physiciansscam.com [and] petalkillsanimals.com".[2]
Oh, and they were founded with a large donation from Philip Morris Tobacco.
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Date: 2008-04-22 10:38 am (UTC)I thought I recognized these folks, so I zipped over to Sourcewatch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Consumer_Freedom) (run by the Center for Media and Democracy) for the skinny:
Oh, and they were founded with a large donation from Philip Morris Tobacco.
You have been trolled.