The most laugh-out-loud press animal rights press release yet this year had to be the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s press release chastising the media coverage of a New York couple charged with keeping their infant daughter on a strict and extremely unhealthy vegan diet.
PCRM’s Neal Barnard whines in the PCRM press release that,
In the wake of reports of a misguided New York couple who refused to breastfeed or provide baby formula for their infant daughter, many reporters have mistakenly suggested that the couple was following a “vegan” diet. Headlines have implied such a diet is not healthy. Because a vegan diet is safe, increasingly popular, and nutritionally superior to other diets, the PHysicians Committee for Responsible Medicine wants to prevent further misunderstandings.
Huh? I though PCRM’s entire reason for existence was to spread misunderstandings. It certainly has no qualms about distorting and outright lying about the results of animal research.
Barnard is correct that the diet this child was eating was not vegan, since it included cod liver oil. But if Barnard wants the media to be accurate, maybe he should try leading by example and direct his organization to stop intentionally perpetuating the same old tired myths and lies about medical research.
Source:
Physicians say vegan diet healthy, safe, superior. Press Release, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, May 3, 2002.
Vegans starved toddler, cops say. Jesse Graham, New York Post, April 30, 2002.