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The Center for Science in the Public Interest ('''CSPI''') is an American Non-profit Organization that focuses on issues relating to foods and the food services industry. It was founded in 1971 as a Consumer Advocacy Organization whose twin missions are to "conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in Health and Nutrition , and to provide Consumers with current, useful information about their health and well-being." {Link without Title} CSPI's mission statement states that the CSPI's three main goals are:
It produces '' Nutrition Action Healthletter '', which has 900,000 subscribers. CSPI's concerns include
CSPI is also a major critic of Fast Food restaurant chains. In and Tooth Decay ." The CSPI's Alcohol Policies Project advocates policies to reduce the Per Capita consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States. Other CSPI proposals include the following:
CRITICISM Critics of the organization say it is an advocate of a Nanny State , and that it uses Junk Science to back up its claims. The CSPI's campaigns against unhealthy foods have drawn the ire of many social commentators who feel that CSPI's campaigns take away simple pleasures that people have enjoyed for generations, dubbing CSPI the "food police." The CSPI has been particularly criticized for leading movie theaters to stop using Coconut Oil to make Popcorn , a change that many feel has detracted from the flavor of movie theater popcorn. Trans fats The CSPI campaigned against fast foods using , in response to new scientific evidence, CSPI began to speak against ''trans'' fats and is currently strongly against their use. "The Tragic Legacy of Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)" by Mary G. Enig outlines this so-called "revisionism." Mission statement The mission statement has been criticized for incorpoating inconsistencies or strains. Many scholars see a fundamental conflict between CSPI as an advocacy group promoting a certain agenda while at the same time being an objective research organization. Some reject CSPI's "public good" stance and do not agree that the organization truly has the general public's best interests in mind {Link without Title} . Other criticisms
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