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  • From: "marc" <marc AT aculink.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Agroterrorism and PETA
  • Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:32:47 -0700

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'Physicians' aligned with activists slam Atkins diet on Oprah show
by Daniel Yovich on 2/19/03 for www.meatingplace.com

......Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, an anti-industry group
closely aligned with animal-rights activists, is sponsoring television
commercials critical of the high-protein Atkins Diet.
........
"We're not going to get into a philosophical debate with extremist vegans
over the merits of meat and animal byproducts," said Carlette Heimowitz,
director of education and research for Atkins Health and Medical Information
Services.
........
PCRM's membership is comprised of fewer than 10 percent actual physicians,
and the organization has longstanding financial ties to People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals. Between 1997 and 1999, the Park Foundation
granted $200,000 to PETA for unrestricted use. PETA then turned around and
funneled money to PCRM and to the notoriously violent Earth Liberation
Front, a group connected to several bombings and acts of vandalism at meat
plants and laboratories......."




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