FC: Bill Purdy's latest crusade: Partially hydrogenated vegetable oil!

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

If you're not familiar with the grand saga of Bill Purdy, the Washington 
Post, and the Italian Domain Name Bandit, see:
http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=purdy

Bill's SkippyPeanutButter.org redirects to a PleaseDontKillYourBaby.com URL 
and includes as a headline "America's Best Killing Peanut Butter."

-Declan

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From: "William S. Purdy" <wpurdy () attbi com>
To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan () well com>
Subject: Some of what I am up to now
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:06:31 -0500

Dear Declan,

It just so happens that I have been trying to eat more healthier recently, 
and everything I read absolutely DEPLORES the fact that HYDROGENATED OIL 
and PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED OIL is in 90% of the processed food we eat, and 
that it is 5 times worse for clogging our hearts than butter.  Recently 
their was a lawsuit that was filed (and then self-dismissed) regarding this 
very issue of hydrogenated oil in Oreo Cookies which you probably heard 
about.  Well, it so happens that UNTIL RECENTLY I have been eating Skippy 
Peanut butter almost daily since 1955, or at least that's when I first 
remember eating it at age 5.  I also UNTIL RECENTLY fed it to all of my 5 
children, and one of my two grand children.  Now I know better, and I have 
decided to try and prevent others from following my former UNHEALTHY habits 
of eating Skippy Peanut Butter.  Thus I have created the following sites at 
www.SKIPPYPEANUTBUTTER.ORG and www.SKIPPYPEANUTBUTTER.NET  which are 
take-offs on www.SkippyPeanutButter.com. (The site was built on my 
PleaseDontKillYourBaby.com but although somewhat apropos, this has 
absolutely NOTHING to do with abortion or my anti-abortion beliefs.)

I am sending this to you for your information, and you are welcome to share 
it with your readers if you so choose.  These sites have been up for about 
two weeks, but so far I haven't heard anything from Skippy.  Perhaps 
they'll tell you what they think, as I have NOT notified any other News 
Person as of yet, nor will I until I hear from you whether you are going to 
pursue this as a story or not.

Hope the summer weather is treating you well.

Yours, Bill Purdy




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