1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20009
2008 Income: $14,852,500 2008
Assets: $9,248,717
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, 2008.....To Read More...
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