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Contributions to Berman - Dollar Amounts by Company and Year
The Center for Media and Democracy has posted the
following list of corporate contributors to the Center for Consumer
Freedom on its www.disinfopedia.org
Web site. According to the Web site, this information was provided
by a whistleblower.
In addition to numerous documented donations by fast-food, alcoholic-beverage,
and tobacco companies, this new list includes major meat manufacturers
such as Armour-Swift, Tysons, Perdue, Cargill, and Hatfield, as
well as agribusiness giant Monsanto.
A September 22, 2003, article in the Arkansas
Democrat-Gazette, indicated that Tyson, Cargill, and Pilgrim’s
Pride each give at least $100,000 a year to the Center for Consumer
Freedom. According to this article, Pilgrim’s Pride confirmed
the yearly donations; Cargill confirmed that it has given that much
in the past; and Tyson confirmed that it has given money to Berman
but refused to confirm any dollar amount.
Pre-2001 Contributions
| 4 B's Restaurants |
$200 |
| Advantica Restaurant Group |
$10,000 |
| Armour-Swift Eckrich |
$5,000 |
| Bestfoods Foodservice |
$1,250 |
| Buca, Inc. |
$500 |
| Carlson Hospitality Worldwide |
$1,000 |
| Chart House Enterprises |
$2,500 |
| Comarco Products |
$2,000 |
| Country Kitchen International |
$1,000 |
| Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. |
$1,500 |
| Louise's Trattoria |
$500 |
| Max & Erma's Restaurants, Inc. |
$2,500 |
| Ruby Tuesday, Inc. |
$500 |
| Ruth's Chris Steak House, Inc. |
$1,000 |
| Standard Meat |
$17,500 |
| Trinchero Family Estates |
$10,000 |
2001 Contributions
| Anton's Airfoods, Inc. |
$3,000 |
| Applebee's International, Inc. |
$15,000 |
| Cameron Mitchell Restaurants |
$1,250 |
| Campagna-Turano Bakery, Inc. |
$500 |
| Casual Restaurant Concepts |
$3,300 |
| Coca-Cola Company |
$200,000 |
| Coldwater Seafood |
$15,000 |
| Crystal's International |
$252 |
| Custom Cuts |
$1,500 |
| Daisy Brand |
$1,000 |
| Excel/Cargill |
$100,000 |
| Fired Up |
$6,000 |
| Hatfield Quality Meats |
$33,700 |
| HMS Host Corporation |
$50,000 |
| Jeff's Gourmet Pies |
$1,000 |
| John R. Daily Company |
$750 |
| Kagome, Inc. |
$1,086 |
| King and Prince Seafood |
$9,200 |
| KorBert, Inc. |
$300 |
| KPR Foods |
$1,000 |
| LTP Management Group |
$3,250 |
| Marie Callendar Pie Shops |
$11,900 |
| Mexican Restaurants |
$750 |
| Monsanto |
$200,000 |
| National Steak and Poultry |
$10,000 |
| North American Enterprises |
$500 |
| North American Provisioners |
$150 |
| Not Your Average Joe's |
$347 |
| Outback Steakhouse |
$164,600 |
| P.F. Chang's China Bistro |
$15,000 |
| Packaging Corporation of America |
$10,000 |
| Performance Food Group |
$15,000 |
| Pilgrim's Pride Corporation |
$100,000 |
| Pro Edge |
$2,400 |
| Quantum Foods |
$18,000 |
| Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers |
$1,000 |
| Rare Hospitality |
$15,000 |
| Real Food Marketing |
$500 |
| Restaurant Concepts |
$6,000 |
| Rosemount Estates (Southcorp Wines) |
$5,300 |
| Royal Cup |
$1,000 |
| Save-on Seafood |
$2,000 |
| Sugar Foods Corporation |
$5,000 |
| T. Marzetti Company |
$10,000 |
| TriOak Foods |
$5,100 |
| Tyson Foods, Inc. |
$100,000 |
| Wendy's International, Inc. |
$200,000 |
| White Castle System |
$43,872 |
| Worldwide Restaurants Concepts |
$1,500 |
2002 Contributions
| Brinker International, Inc. |
$25,000 |
| Cameron Mitchell Restaurants |
$1,250 |
| Campagna-Turano Bakery, Inc. |
$500 |
| China Mist |
$400 |
| Coffee Reserve, Inc. |
$140 |
| Darifair Foods |
$5,000 |
| Dean Foods Company |
$5,000 |
| Eli's Cheesecake Company |
$1,000 |
| Excel/Cargill |
$100,000 |
| Good Humor/Breyer's Ice Cream |
$1,500 |
| HMS Host Corporation |
$25,000 |
| John Soules Foods |
$1,000 |
| Ken's Foods Inc. |
$5,000 |
| Michigan Turkey Producers Cooperative |
$7,000 |
| National Everclean Service |
$500 |
| Not Your Average Joe's |
$347 |
| Paradise Tomato Kitchens, Inc. |
$7,500 |
| Perdue Farms, Inc. |
$40,000 |
| Pro Clean |
$1,500 |
| Revolution, Inc. |
$1,000 |
| Royal Cup |
$1,500 |
| RTM, Inc. |
$64,872 |
| Simmons Foods, Inc. |
$5,000 |
| Sun Orchard, Inc. |
$2,000 |
| Syracuse's Italian Sausage |
$500 |
| Tyson Foods, Inc. |
$100,000 |
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