Chevy Chase, PETA, NRDC, and ACSH

By ACSH Staff — Apr 29, 2003
Relatively little is known about perfluorinated acids where they are coming from, how they travel, how they get in the human body, or their long-term health effects. "We don't have the data to do more at this point than than to worry," said Dr. Gina Solomon, a physician with the Natural Resources Defense Council. An apt summary of the default NRDC position on chemicals, in the New York Times, April 15, 2003, in an article with a title that could run in every issue: "EPA Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals"

Relatively little is known about perfluorinated acids where they are coming from, how they travel, how they get in the human body, or their long-term health effects. "We don't have the data to do more at this point than than to worry," said Dr. Gina Solomon, a physician with the Natural Resources Defense Council.

An apt summary of the default NRDC position on chemicals, in the New York Times, April 15, 2003, in an article with a title that could run in every issue: "EPA Orders Companies to Examine Effects of Chemicals"

A national animal rights group has offered Hamburg [NY] officials $15,000 to change the town's name to Veggieburg. "The town's name conjures up visions of unhealthy patties of ground-up dead cows," said Joe Haptas, spokesman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

Norwich Bulletin/wire reports, April 23, 2003

"I don't want my family to accidentally ingest a pig vaccine when they eat an Oreo, or inadvertently eat a blood clotter when they pour a bowl of Alpha-Bits," [comedian and anti-biotech activist Chevy] Chase said at Kraft's annual shareholders' meeting in East Hanover, N.J.

The Sun-Times, April 23, 2003

"[Precautionary principle advocates want] science to prove a negative, which isn't possible. We should not mistake such advocacy as a good faith effort to protect the environment or public health. It is merely political ideology looking for a new weapon."

ACSH Director Henry Miller on the precautionary principle, in the San Diego Union-Tribune, April 16, 2003

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