Got Fear? Get Facts NAPSI Got fear? That’s the message some special interest groups promote about our food. Under the banners of “physi cians’ committees,” “public in terest” groups and “consumer rights” organizations, they scare us to raise money for themselves. A recent campaign-in TV and newspaper ads, highway bill boards, supermarket flyers and the Internet-abuses the popular “Got Milk?” ads. These groups ran “Got Beer?,” ‘Got Prostate Cancer?” and other misguided ads to scare consumers away from dairy products. Other wild claims include milk causing diabetes, cancer, ear in fections, infant allergies, colic and anemia. One group actually said calcium-rich milk increased, rather than decreased the risk of osteoporosis. According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Amer ican Cancer Society, American Dietetic Association and many other government and indepen dent experts, the scary claims are seriously misleading and plain false. Some state “public interest” groups placed fiillpage newspa per ads attacking milk produced by cows receiving hormones. Similar messages circulated in “Safe Food News” magazines at pricey “natural” food supermar kets. This “Got hormone-free milk?” campaign falsely claims dairy consumers risk breast and prostate cancer, increased antibi otic resistance and other ills. The campaign offers coupons for “hormone-free” ice cream and ways to help schools ban the of fending milk. ICE CREAM FREEZER DEPOSIT THIS COUPON AT LANCASTER FARMING PA FARM SHOW BOOTH #274 Or AT KEYSTONE FARM SHOW BOOTH BUILDING ' NAME: ; ADDRESS: I TOWN: 1 STATE: Winners To Be Announced In Jan. 13 Issue Of Lancaster Farming But extensive, world-wide test ing of milk and meat from such cows shows the products are safe, according to the FDA. Sep arate reviews by the National In stitutes of Health, the World Health Organization, and stud ies in prestigious medical jour nals such as Pediatrics and the Journal of the American Med ical Association also conclude the products are safe. What do these multi-million dollar campaigns have in com mon besides being misleading? The special interests raise money with the assistance of a slick, marketing and public relations firm in Washington, D.C. Documents expose these cam paigns as designed to “generate revenues” for the special inter ests by exploiting headline-grab bing scares. When the scares were exposed as false, one group blamed the media for “mud dling” the message. The PR firm conveniently also represents many for-profit “nat ural” and “organic” products businesses whose marketing campaigns benefit from the scares. Often, for-profit market ing efforts are included with the non-profit ads as free product coupons or acknowledged spon sorships. 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