Johns Hopkins' Meatless Utopia [Advocating "Meatless Monday" and other animal rights bunk]

Consumer Freedom ^

[Sub-Driver]

Johns Hopkins' Meatless Utopia Posted On August 20, 2003 A column in yesterday's Washington Post praises a program called "Meatless Monday," which claims the support of 28 schools of public health. However, when the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) called the organizers of Meatless Monday, they would not provide a list of those schools. CCF was told: "The reason that we're not releasing the schools of public health's names is that some of the schools would come under pressure." The individuals who could discuss what kind of pressure that might be, Meatless Monday's representative said, were on vacation -- the day after its most significant press coverage to date.

Neither the Post article nor Meatless Monday's website give any reason to believe that the campaign is motivated by anything other than health concerns. Reality check: Meatless Monday pushes a vegetarian agenda for animal-rights and radical environmental purposes.

Meatless Monday is run by the Center for a Livable Future (CLF) at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Public Health; CLF is primarily funded by New York socialite Helaine Lerner. Along with the Lerner-funded GRACE Factory Farm Project, CLF does everything it can to end modern, efficient, livestock agriculture. GRACE also operates an anti-industrial livestock farming program, in association with CLF, inside the School of Public Health.

Introducing the Meatless Monday campaign, CLF director Robert Lawrence let his environmental agenda show, arguing that affordable meat for consumers "has come at the expense of air, land, and water quality." David Brubaker, project director of GRACE, is more explicit about his environmental goals. "The way that we breed animals for food," he sermonizes, "is a threat to the planet."

GRACE also has an animal-rights agenda. It frets about the impact of modern livestock production on "the environment, and the animals." Removing any doubt that Lerner and Meatless Monday are partially motivated by animal-rights goals, in 2001, Lerner gave $900,000 to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health's "Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing."

Through her foundations and her personal checkbook, Lerner has given over five million dollars to GRACE, the Center for a Livable Future, and her other pet projects at JHU's School of Public Health. GRACE and CLF have her to thank for more than 80 percent of their total operating budget. Lerner also funds the likes of Greenpeace and the secretive Tides Foundation.

[Sub-Driver]

check the URL's........wacko's

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'm sure Bossy feels a lot better.

[BallandPowder]

Powder..Patch..Ball FIRE!

Sounds like we need a dossier on these people for conservatives to reference... Definitely sounds like major lefty funders alert...

[ijcr]

Until recently this was the teaching of the catholic church,
no meat on fridays. Friday was always fish in our family.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

All that money would sure buy a lot of good steaks.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[fortunecookie]

Note to self: have delicious red meat for dinner Monday

[ChewedGum]

"The reason that we're not releasing the schools of public health's names is that some of the schools would come under pressure."

And why would they come under pressure? What kind of pressure would they come under? They are trying to show how much support they have but they will not release any information to prove it because they don't want to see any backlash or failing of that support. (Wieners! And I mean the Beef kind!)

Gum

[dennisw]

Argentinean style with chimichurri sauce

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.

[bedolido]

I was brought Catholic (50's and 60's). We couldn't eat meat on Fridays. Never understood why, all I knew is I'd go to hell if I ate meat. Didn't make much sense... but at least the guilt was Godly guilt not eviro-wacko-guilt

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[doug from upland]

I have not eaten meat or chicken for 12 years. I am pleased to say that with a scan I had a week ago, my Coronary Artery Calcium Score is zero -- no identifiable artherosclerotic plaque...very low cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk.

I'm 55. My dad died at 58 or a heart attack, and his dad died at about the same age. One of you can have the steak that was designated for me.

[steve86]

I have not eaten meat or chicken for 12 years.

Congratulations on the lab test! I dropped the red meat in the mid-90s; still need to get rid of the chicken.

[bedolido]

Peg! I want somethin on my plate... and I want it dead!

[countrydummy]

ain't it pitiful! Not giving out the names because of fear of pressure! Heavens to Pete!

Now going to lay out the steaks for dinner!

[steve86]

Sorry, I don't watch entertainment TV. Don't know the actor, don't get the joke.

[blackie]

I'm 72 and I eat red meat damn near every day and my health is perfect, according to my doctor!

[bedolido]

Don't know the actor, don't get the joke

sorry... my sarcasm was out of place

[doug from upland]

I guess you have better genes. We can't choose our parents. The men die off quickly in my family.