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| 4th Annual Tarnished Halo Awards |
| 2005-02-28 |
| EFL, much more tasty goodness at link, a veritable rogue's gallery of pop-culture druids and voodoo science shamans. 4th Annual Tarnished Halo Awards The Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) has announced the winners of its 4th annual "Tarnished Halo" Awards. CCF awards these prizes to America's most notorious animal-rights zealots, environmental scaremongers, celebrity busybodies, self-anointed "public interest" advocates, trial lawyers, and other food & beverage activists who claim to "know what's best for you." The "Reverend Rooster" Category Awarded to Al Sharpton, the publicity-seeking preacher, for joining PETA to crow at KFC restaurants and attempting to instigate a boycott from the African American community. It's odd that Sharpton would stand side-by-side with PETA, which advocates a complete end to chicken consumption. When the reverend emerged from prison in 2001 after a four-week hunger strike, he didn't ask for tofu and lentils. He told a crowd of well-wishers: "I'm going to walk through Harlem just to settle in again, then I'm going to Amy Ruth's for some fried chicken." That restaurant's menu carries a dish named after Sharpton—it's chicken and waffles. The "Will Sue Your Mom for Publicity" Category Awarded to George Washington University professor John "Sue the Bastards" Banzhaf for threatening to sue doctors of overweight patients and parents of overweight children. Of course, that's in addition to his supporting role in a billion-dollar fishing expedition to sue food companies for making people fat. *snip The "Cereal Killer" Category Awarded to New York University professor Marion Nestle for insisting that 19-year-old college students aren't smart enough to pick their own breakfast cereal. She stated: "It's asking far too much of late adolescents to exercise that kind of choice." *snip The "We Have No Recollection of That Event, Senator" Category Awarded to the PETA-affiliated Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) for claiming this year that murder advocate and long-time spokesman Jerry Vlasak was not, in fact, a spokesman for the group. Yet he was listed as a PCRM spokesperson in a brochure for an animal-rights conference in which he chillingly supported the murder of humans to further animal rights, saying of doctors whose medical research requires the use of animals: "I don't think you'd have to kill—assassinate—too many." PCRM's website still carries stories listing Vlasak as a representative (that is—until they read this!). |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |