Center for Consumer Freedom

Consumer Group Exposes 'Cancer Project' as Stealth Animal Rights Group

Published in Mental Health Law Weekly, August 8th, 2009

The nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom is warning consumers and the media that a lawsuit filed in New Jersey this morning is an animal rights initiative in disguise. The Cancer Project, a radical organization with ties to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is suing hot dog producers and asking the court to require a cancer-risk warning label on all hot dog packages sold in New Jersey.

"Last summer the Cancer Project used Tony Snow's death as an occasion to lecture Americans about their 'pepperoni addiction,' and this year they're clogging up the courts with hot dog lawsuits," said CCF Director of Research David Martosko. "It's all part of the same desperate...

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Source: Mental Health Law Weekly (2009-08-08)

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