Agribusiness Pumping Money into Front Groups to Sway Mad Cow Debate

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Corporate-funded think tanks and food industry front groups are rushing into
the debate over mad cow disease. This Wednesday, January 28th, the George
C. Marshall Institute is hosting a presentation by Harvard Center for Risk
Analysis director George Gray, hyping him as "the nation's foremost mad cow
expert," although his expertise is in getting money from government agencies
and Fortune 500 companies to produce risk studies that favor their
positions. Along with the Harvard Center and the Marshall Institute, other
groups receiving industry funding and fronting for them on mad cow disease
include Elizabeth Whelan's American Council on Science and Health; father
and son combo Dennis and Alex Avery of the Hudson Institute; self-named
'Junkman' Steve Milloy of the Cato Institute; and tobacco, booze and
fat-food lobbyist Richard Berman and his latest enterprise the Center for
Consumer Freedom.
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