-Caveat Lector-
After reading some of NOTMILK's well-researched postings
on the problems associated with milk/meat/egg consumption,
in terms of health, ecological impact, world-hunger impact,
and extreme cruelty to the animals so used, several months
ago I shifted from (90%) lacto-ovo vegetarian to 99%
vegan. (I also read John Robbins' well-researched and
documented FOOD REVOLUTION.) I have since made the move to
mostly raw as well as vegan, which I highly recommend also
for its health benefits. AND I gave up caffeine. I am
feeling better & better all the time. The extra energy and
feeling of well-being are wonderful.
But this is a personal note, though I know this
information would help many many people - sorry if I am
soap-boxing.
The main point - and relevance to CTRL issues - is that
Notmilk and the vegan movement generally are threatening
big monied interests, which are responding as usual, with
well-coordinated dis-information propaganda campaigns
employing the tried-and-true tactics of playing upon the
knee-jerk emotions/reactions of the ever-gullible public,
using ad hominem attack in place of argument focused on the
issues and available data - because, of course, there they
know they are defeated.
molli
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Somebody has declared war on anti-dairy
activists. While wondering (not too hard)
who that somebody might be, we can clearly
observe their first target, Neal Barnard, M.D.,
founder of PCRM, the Physician's Committee
for Responsible Medicine.
Last Thursday night (1/17/02), CBS television
aired their publicized NOTMILK news story.
Neal Barnard, the anti-dairy critic, was ambushed
by CBS's brilliantly crafted dairy infomercial.
CBS pulled the rug out from Neal Barnard's
credibility by having their reporter comment:
"Critics are citing studies that are
designed to scare."
Designed to scare? CBS subliminally biased
their viewers before they had the opportunity
to hear Dr. Barnard's comments, then carefully
edited those comments so that it appeared that
there was no basis to his claim.
My comments:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/792
On the same day that the nationally televised
NOTMILK story was to run, the National Fluid
Milk Processors posted a press release (2:58 PM,
EST) about their calcium summit.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020117/172393_1.html
Their contact was listed as Tammy Dowd, 312-988-2217
One hour earlier (1:57 PM), an organization calling
itself the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) published
a press release that represented the first barrage
against Dr. Neal Barnard:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020117/dcth048_1.html
CCF, an organization with no contact number, cast the
following stones against Neal Barnard and PCRM:
"Under the guise of being a medical organization..."
"CCF today called on PCRM to stop portraying itself
as a medical organization and come clean about its
connections to extremist animal rights organizations
responsible for acts of violence and millions of dollars
in destruction of property."
"PCRM's Neal Barnard recently engineered a
letter-writing campaign with Kevin Jonas of the
violent animal rights group SHAC."
"Over the next several weeks, Center for Consumer
Freedom will be running full-page ads in many of the
nation's weekly news magazines in what will be an
extended campaign to protect consumer choice and
expose the hypocrisy of activist groups such as PCRM,
PETA, Greenpeace and more."
"The Center for Consumer Freedom represents a
coalition of restaurant and tavern operators standing
up against the growing fraternity of food cops, health
care enforcers, vegetarian activists, and meddling
bureaucrats who'know what's best for you.'"
Where do restaurant and tavern operators get the
financing for multi-millions of dollars worth of
ad revenue? How do restaurant operators carefully
coordinate attacks against Neal Barnard on the same
day the dairy calcium summit begins, and the same day
that CBS ran their biased milk story, sabotaging Neal
Barnard by not clearly portraying the NOTMILK
message? How were the dairy industry press release
and the CCF press release posted within an hour of
each other? Coincidence? Ha! Coincidences of
this type do not happen.
This is carefully plotted warfare. The battle lines
have been drawn. To accuse Neal Barnard of
being a terrorist is to take advantage of a
political and social climate that equates terrorism
with the vilest of anti-American acts. Neal
Barnard merits a Nobel Peace Prize for his
efforts, not the label of terrorist.
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
On November 28, 2001, I published strategies
contained within international dairy industry planning
documents. These were not dairymen selling
sour cream. These were warriors preparing for battle.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/739
The dairy industry is now meeting at their
calcium summit, and make no mistake about
it, they've declared war on anti-dairy activists.
The so-called calcium summit is a meticulously
strategized media blitz, planned and run by the
largest public relations firm in the world, BSMG
Worldwide.
Here are a few quotes contained in the
internal planning memos:
"Proposed forwarding Summit II invite to ADA
listserve; decided against due to many vegan
members of ADA."
"Proposed mailing Summit II invite to ADA
members in the Washington, D.C. area that
are not within the vegetarian/vegan dietary
practice group."
"BSMG to research getting list from ADA
broken down by practice area, i.e. removing
members of vegan groups."
"A 'media' member affiliated with a special
interest group e-mailed the Web site to attend
the event; BSMG forwarded client approved
response alerting him that the invitation have
not been distributed yet."
"Our overall objective is to hold a flawless event.
Keep unwelcome guests from attending summit.
Minimize/neutralize media coverage should
protestors appear."
"If someone tries to attend, we'll ask them to
quietly step aside and show a business card
so we can quietly escort them in to view the
presentations."
"Have four security (soft dressed in blazers)
on site in the registration area to help insure
a controlled meeting. Have designated staff
controlling the microphones. Have a private
press room for media to conduct interviews.
Have designated areas of the Ronald Reagan
building for crowd control."
"Keeping in mind the current environment,
we should expect protestors the day of
the event.
"From a publicity standpoint, our plan is to
deflect and supercede protests with our
controlled media messages�(including)
advertisements placed in top national
newspaper..."
Has the dairy industry succeeded? While
seeming to win round one of the battle,
milk consumption evidence reveals that their
milk mustache dollars are poorly invested.
In 2001, the average American child
consumed 104 quarts of milk. Dairy insider
survey trends reveal that ten years from now,
the average child will consume 68 quarts of milk.
If you wish to become a soldier in this battle,
visit PCRM's website, and show your support.
http://www.pcrm.org
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
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