The peta kills people are no better then peta them self. The CCF is run by lobbyist Richard Berman. He criticizes and targets groups who target smoking, fast food, or alcohol. He has attacked Mothers Against Drunk Driving , the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He set up the CCF with a $600,000 from tobacco company.
Berman arranges for large sums of corporate money to find its way into nonprofit societies of which he is the executive director. He then hires his own company as a consultant to these nonprofit groups. Of the millions of dollars donated by Philip Morris between the years 1995 and 1998, 49 percent to 79 percent went directly to Berman or Berman & Co. He attacks anyone whos views could impact the profits of his clients. Berman’s Guest Choice Network has an advisory panel whose members included officials representing companies ranging from Cargill Processed Meat Products and Outback Steakhouse to Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association and Sutter Home Winery. Berman’s clients are companies with vested interests in low employee wages; cheap, unhealthy restaurant-chain food, particularly meat; and tobacco, soft drink, and alcohol consumption companies like Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, Armour Swift, and Philip Morris, whose product line includes Kraft Foods and everything from Marlboro cigarettes to Oscar Meyer wieners and which is a major shareholder in its former subsidiary Miller Brewing, now known as SABMiller. PETA’s recent successes in gaining fast-food industry concessions for more humane conditions for farm animals have sent ripples of fear through the food and beverage service industry. About the same time that McDonald’s buckled to PETA’s demands, Richard Berman changed his front group’s name and stepped up his attacks. The key to Berman’s aggressive strategy is, in his own words, to shoot the messenger ... we’ve got to attack their credibility as spokespersons."
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