ABC Labels Litigious Food Police a 'Consumer Group'

Business & Media Institute ^ | June 14, 2006 | Ken Shepherd

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ABC’s Charlie Gibson promised his June 13 “World News Tonight” viewers a look at “why a leading consumer group has a bone to pick over the fat in KFC food.” But that organization was none other than the Center for Science in the Public Interest, an anti-food industry group that has had a beef with everything from movie theater popcorn to soda pop.

“The Center for Science in the Public Interest is taking KFC to court over the trans fat used to fry the chicken,” Gibson noted as he introduced a segment by correspondent Elisabeth Leamy. “The consumer group says trans fat is killing a lot of Americans.”

Leamy began her story by pitting the fast food chicken chain’s slogan against CSPI’s harsh rhetoric. “KFC says we do chicken right, but the chain fries its food in oil loaded in trans fat,” Leamy added, complaining of the partially hydrogenated oil the restaurant uses.

The ABC reporter then showed CSPI Executive Director Michael Jacobson blasting the food chain: “If they had a conscience, they wouldn’t use it,” he charged.

Contrary to the “consumer group” label Leamy affixed to CSPI, her reporting made it clear Jacobson’s complaint wasn’t with consumers being uninformed about health risks from trans fats, but with the consumers’ choices to consume them nonetheless.

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[Oztrich Boy]

Hmmm transfatalicious