I would imagine most of you are familiar with this outfit, which was given legitimacy by then-FDA head David Kessler (the one who spearheaded the war on smokers under the Clintons). They like to say that all their money comes 'strictly from donations by our members'. Giving you the impression, of course, that their 'members' are all well-meaning, concerned individuals.

Please read this carefully, and notice who their number one grant comes from (hint: some old friends).

http://www.undueinfluence.com/cspi.htm


UNDUE INFLUENCE

Center for Science in the Public Interest
a Ralph Nader spinoff



Center for Science in the Public Interest
1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: 202-332-9110
Fax: 202-265-4954
Website: www.cspinet.org
Email: cspi@cspinet.org
Exempt since: August 1971
Employer ID: 23-7122879
Description: Anti-product attack group founded in Washington, DC, in 1971 by Ralph Nader protégé Ph.D. microbiologist Michael Jacobson and two other scientists from Nader’s Center for the Study of Responsive Law. For 30 years CSPI has injected ideology, politics and fear-mongering into science to attack nearly every food product, every restaurant, and every cuisine on the market. Seeks power over the diet of all Americans through a "fat-tax" on hamburgers, french fries and soft drinks. Works to ban wine with million-dollar grants from notoriously prohibitionist trusts such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Unethically fills the public with dread over questionable claims of danger. Big Brother with a chef's knife, CSPI promotes punitive command-and-control regulation of all foods, works to block new products and remove existing ones from the market. Acts to repeal product disparagement laws so that lies can destroy legitimate products. Promotes favored vegetarian products while vilifying others (CSPI called one brand of mushroom cheeseburgers "sumo wrestler cuisine" for being too fatty), raising questions of undue influence. A broad community seriously doubts whether CSPI's output constitutes science or whether its acts are in the public interest.

Revenue and Expenses: Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2001

Revenue Expenses
Contributions $14,872,024
Government Grants $0
Program Services $563,217
Investments $513,071
Special Events $0
Sales $0
Other $55,161
Program Services $10,936,112
Administration $168,481
Other $2,946,171
Total Expenditures $14,050,764

Total Revenue $16,003,473 NET GAIN/LOSS $1,952,709



Michael F. Jacobson, executive director
Salary $171,867, benefits, $14,202
Ph.D. in microbiology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Began career with Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law
Founded CSPI in 1971 with two other Nader scientists, meteorologist James Sullivan and chemist Albert Fritsch, a Jesuit priest.

CSPI Board of Directors Kathleen F. O'Reilly, President Michael Jacobson, Secretary
Mark Ingram, Treasurer Anne Baxter, Director
David Hensler, Director James Sullivan, Director
Deborah Szekely, Director Diane Maceachern, Director
Sushma Palmer, Director William Corr, Director
Tom Gegax, Director


Profiles of other directors

Kathleen F. O'Reilly, President. Attorney, member, Federal Communications Commission's Consumer/Disability Telecommunications Advisory Committee; vice-president, Philadelphia-based Cultural Environment Movement; board member, California-based TURN (The Utility Reform Network); former Executive Director of the Wisconsin Citizen Utilities Board; former executive director, Consumer Federation of America; on-air consumer/legal correspondent for NBC’s "Today Show," regular guest, "Good Morning America", "MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour." Residential ratepayer representative, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions’ Network Reliability Steering Committee. Georgetown University Law Center graduate.
Mark Ingram, Treasurer. President, Ingram CPA Review (offers courses to pass Certified Public Accountant exams).
Anne Baxter, Director. Movie actress, 2 Academy Awards, best actress, 1962 ("The Miracle Worker"), best actress, 1967 ("The Graduate").
David Hensler, Director. Attorney, Hogan and Hartson (Washington, D.C).
Deborah Szekely, Director. President, Szekely Family Foundation (San Diego, California); board member, Partners for Livable Communities, Youth Service America, National Council of La Raza, Partners of the Americas Foundation, the Menninger Foundation, and Committee of 200 Foundation. 1984-1990, president & CEO, Inter-American Foundation, an independent government agency helping the poor in the Caribbean and Latin America; businesswoman, founded series of health spas, Rancho La Puerta (1940), The Golden Door (1958), Fitness Resorts (1972). Many other activities.
Diane Maceachern, Director. Founder, Vanguard Communications (Washington, D.C. public relations and food propaganda mill); author, Save Our Planet: 750 Everyday Ways You Can Help Clean Up the Earth and Enough is Enough: The Hellraiser's Guide to Community Activism; environmental commentator for "Talk Radio Countdown."
Sushma Palmer, Director. Chairman, Center for Communications, Health and the Environment.
William Corr, Director. Executive vice-president, National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids. Salary: $183,340, benefits $29,773.
Tom Gegax, Director. Founder and chairman of Tires Plus, $200 million retail chain, sold to Firestone in 2000; seminar pitchman and guru of "The Enlightened Executive" program; author, Winning in the Game of Life: Self-Coaching Secrets for Success.
Grants to Center for Science in the Public Interest:

Foundation Name: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Abstract: For technical assistance, training, and communications to support state and local alcohol policy development
Amount: $749,999 Year Authorized: 2001
Duration: 3-year grant

Foundation Name: The John Merck Fund
Abstract: For Integrity in Science Campaign, which will eliminate threats to sound science and its publicly beneficial applications when academic research is excessively influenced by industry's financial support
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For extra costs associated with new advertising campaign, development of web site, and production of more printed materials than originally envisioned, Campus for Alcohol Culture Change Project
Amount: $20,739 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For Campus Alcohol Culture Change Project
Amount: $46,000 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For media campaign to combat binge drinking at Campbell University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amount: $76,165 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For Nutrition Education and Advocacy Campaign
Amount: $125,000 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For public education and research on health effects of antibiotic resistance
Amount: $25,000 Year Authorized: 2002

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: The Rockefeller Foundation
Abstract: Toward costs of project to broaden public debate on genetic engineering in agriculture and to encourage improved regulations in biotechnology
Amount: $200,000 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For media campaign to combat binge drinking at Campbell University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For media campaign to combat binge drinking at Campbell University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amount: $66,035 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: The Joyce Foundation
Abstract: For antibiotics-resistance project
Amount: $140,000 Year Authorized: 2000
Duration: 1.50-year grant

Foundation Name: The New York Community Trust
Abstract: To reform policies regarding scientific conflicts of interest concerning the environment and health
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 2000

Foundation Name: Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $30,000 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: Deer Creek Foundation
Abstract: For Foodspeak, free-speech campaign to oppose food disparagement laws
Amount: $65,000 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For continued support for study to evaluate food additives and provide information to the general public
Amount: $95,000 Year Authorized: 1998

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For media campaign to combat binge drinking at Campbell University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1998

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For media campaign to combat binge drinking at Campbell University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1998

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1998

Foundation Name: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Abstract: For technical assistance, training, and communications to support state and local alcohol policy development
Amount: $196,894 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For education initiative on dangers of antibiotic resistance
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: Public Welfare Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For FoodSpeak Project, coalition of civil liberty, health, environmental, public interest, media and law groups dedicated ensuring freedom of expression concerning food and food safety
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For Media Campaign to Combat Binge Drinking at CU and UNC-Chapel Hill
Amount: $127,655 Year Authorized: 1997

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: To evaluate safety of common food additives
Amount: $90,000 Year Authorized: 1997

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For research and advocacy project to reduce drinking at CU and UNC-Chapel Hill
Amount: $16,747 Year Authorized: 1997

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1997

Foundation Name: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Abstract: For technical assistance and training to support community alcohol policy development
Amount: $185,032 Year Authorized: 1997

Foundation Name: The Boston Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1998

Foundation Name: S. H. Cowell Foundation
Abstract: For alcoholism programs
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1997

Foundation Name: Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For research projects on antibiotic resistance and olestra
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1999

Foundation Name: Park Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For research and public education related to food additives
Amount: $25,000 Year Authorized: 1996

Foundation Name: The Gordon Fund
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1996

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1996

Foundation Name: S. H. Cowell Foundation
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1996

Foundation Name: Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For public education on health effects of olestra fat substitute
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1998

Foundation Name: Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Inc.
Abstract: For general support and toward work on olestra, new fat substitute
Amount: $20,000 Year Authorized: 1997

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1995

Foundation Name: S. H. Cowell Foundation
Abstract: For Alcohol Policies project
Amount: $100,000 Year Authorized: 1995
Duration: 2-year grant

Foundation Name: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Abstract: To develop community resource guide to address off-campus binge drinking
Amount: $78,000 Year Authorized: 1996

Foundation Name: S. H. Cowell Foundation
Abstract: For general support of Alcohol Project
Amount: $50,000 Year Authorized: 1994

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1994

Foundation Name: S. H. Cowell Foundation
Amount: $40,000 Year Authorized: 1993

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1993

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1991

Foundation Name: Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1991

Foundation Name: The Pew Charitable Trusts
Abstract: For Americans for Safe Food project to bring together environmental, consumer and farm groups to promote adoption of sustainable agricultural programs at state level
Amount: $80,000 Year Authorized: 1991
Duration: 2-year grant

Foundation Name: The George Gund Foundation
Abstract: For Americans for Safe Food project, supporting state-wide initiatives in sustainable agriculture and organic food standards
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1991

Foundation Name: Louis and Anne Abrons Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1990

Foundation Name: J. Roderick MacArthur Foundation
Abstract: For Study of Media Censorship project of Center for the Study of Commercialism to document and expose censorship in the media because of attempts by corporate advertisers to censor speech hostile to their commercial interests
Amount: $14,020 Year Authorized: 1991

Foundation Name: Wallace Genetic Foundation, Inc.
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1990

Foundation Name: C.S. Fund
Abstract: For Americans for Safe Food Project, which works to ensure availability of chemical-free food supply
Amount: $15,000 Year Authorized: 1991

Foundation Name: Ruth Mott Fund
Abstract: For national health promotion program with minority organizations to reduce death and disease rates due to drugs, alcohol, and smoking
Amount: $12,500 Year Authorized: 1989

Foundation Name: Ruth Mott Fund
Abstract: For start-up funding for Minority Health Project
Amount: $10,000 Year Authorized: 1989

Foundation Name: S. H. Cowell Foundation
Abstract: For National Resource Center on Alcohol Taxation
Amount: $75,000 Year Authorized: 1989
Duration: 2-year grant

Foundation Name: C.S. Fund
Abstract: For second year of two-year grant to Americans for Safe Food project, which works to ensure availability of chemical-free food supply
Amount: $30,000 Year Authorized: 1990

Good find Dave! I'll forward this to some people I know who claim that CSPI and other such groups are fighting "big, greedy, evil corporations." At least the corporations pay taxes.

[/QUOTE]Anne Baxter, Director. Movie actress, 2 Academy Awards, best actress, 1962 ("The Miracle Worker"), best actress, 1967 ("The Graduate").
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I believe that they are referring to ANNE BANCROFT not Anne Baxter. Anne Baxter was in "All About Eve". Anne Bancroft (also married to MEL BROOKS), was in the Graduate and The Miracle Worker. She and Mel also directed some projects together.

I know this is trivial - I just think it's interesting that they have the wrong ANNE listed.

HOWEVER - Great info Dave! Many thanks!

What a list. This is the new face of fascism, to be sure.

Did no one notice: William Corr, director
Tobacco Free Kids
Salary $ 183,340, benefits 29,773

Yeah, I caught it, Bruce, but what really jumped out at me was RWJF being the top grant donor. The bastards own, or are involved with, just about everyone and everything now.

This is how Kessler and his bosses, Der Klintons, legitimized this outfit. Also note the last-sentence lie that never mentions RWJF or any other grant givers.

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What's New -- CSPI Press Releases

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Wednesday, March 6, 1996

Contact: Penelope Miller (202) 332-9110 x358


FDA Commissioner Kessler Presents Agency's Highest Honor to CSPI's Michael Jacobson
Consumer activist Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), has been awarded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's highest public honor.
FDA Commissioner David Kessler presented the agency's Special Citation medal to Jacobson at a dinner in Washington, D.C. commemorating CSPI's 25th anniversary.

CSPI is a nonprofit consumer-advocacy organization specializing in food and nutrition issues. The group is best known for its recent studies of the healthfulness of restaurant foods, and for helping pass the law that requires nutrition labels on most packaged foods.

"The vision you have had over the last 25 years has been clear and compelling," Dr. Kessler said of CSPI during the presentation ceremony. "You have led us, you have led the government, you have led the industry, and you have led the public in understanding the connection between diet and health."

The FDA Commissioner's Special Citation medal is the highest award the agency bestows on citizens or organizations who promote public health. The bronze medallion bears the likeness of Dr. Harvey Wiley, considered the "father of the FDA." Wiley, a chemist and medical doctor, began his career in the 1870s exposing the adulteration of food products with cheaper ingredients. He was later named the federal government's chief chemist. Wiley was instrumental in securing passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, the first of several legislative acts that led to the creation of the modern FDA in 1931.


A certificate accompanying the Special Citation medal bears the following inscription: "Presented to Michael F. Jacobson for helping government, industry, and the public understand the relationship between diet and health and, in doing so, accomplishing one of the great public health advances of the century."

Responding to FDA's award, Jacobson said: "I am honored and thrilled to see that our quarter-century of work is being recognized in this way. We at CSPI are looking forward to 25 more years of perpetuating the legacy of Dr. Harvey Wiley."

Founded in 1971, CSPI accepts no government or corporate funds. It is supported almost entirely by the 900,000 subscribers to its Nutrition Action Healthletter.



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