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Debating PCRM Isn’t a Fair Fight

We’ve followed the phony milk debate that anti-dairy activists at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) are trying to reboot in the mainstream media. Meanwhile, another…
PostedSeptember 27, 2012 at4:07 pm

Faux Debate on Milk Repackaged, Still Spoiled

It’s been almost two decades since Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), told us that giving kids meat and milk “is…
PostedSeptember 19, 2012 at1:35 pm

Changing Recipes Is a Difficult but Worthwhile Task

Imagine if you read that food producers were trying to make “reduced fat” oil, or “reduced sugar” fruit. You’d expect both of those tasks to be very difficult, as…
PostedAugust 7, 2012 at4:32 pm

Hold the Snob’s Nobel Nomination

One man stands against the medical establishment. Apparently, one man knows the truth about milk. (He also likes cheese, but that’s okay.) He’s not the medical gadfly…
PostedJuly 25, 2012 at4:07 pm

Milking Anecdotes and Animal Rights Activists

Mark Bittman, The New York Times’ resident holier-than-thou food columnist, economic illiterate, and sugar-prohibitionist gastronome, is at it again. After condemning sugared drinks (when not peddling recipes…
PostedJuly 9, 2012 at3:45 pm

Jillian’s Not on The Doctors Anymore

The 90-percent-non-physician Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is trying to ban all animal products from the federal food stamp program, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition…
PostedJune 22, 2012 at4:33 pm

Can Consumers Win Liberation from the Mythical Long Shadow?

The intellectual godfather of the animal rights movement, Peter Singer, co-authored an article in The Washington Post claiming, “To fix the climate, take meat off the menu.”…
PostedJune 18, 2012 at4:31 pm

PCRM’s Latest Fast-Food Freakout

Lost among last week’s brouhaha over Great Nanny of New York Michael Bloomberg’s edict banning large-ish restaurant sodas was another of the tiresome stunts by the misleadingly named—only 10…
PostedJune 12, 2012 at4:12 pm

Memo to Phony Doctors Group: Let the President Eat His Hot Dog!

The evangelical vegetarians at Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (despite the name, only 10 percent of its members are medical doctors) have a habit of attacking President Obama and the First Family for…
PostedMay 9, 2012 at3:59 pm

Hey, Teachers: Leave That Milk Alone!

We’ve noted before that chocolate milk is both a favorite choice of thirsty schoolchildren and a favorite target of anti-milk and anti-sweets activists. Two stories,…
PostedMarch 30, 2012 at4:47 pm