OPINION/COMMENTARY

Animal Rights Group Poses as Health Charity to Promote Vegetarian School Lunches

This week an animal rights group claiming to be a medical charity released dubious “report cards” for 11 U.S. school district lunch programs, claiming that most fail to offer “healthy” foods to children. But analysis by the Center for Consumer Freedom suggests that the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is more interested in promoting strict vegetarianism and animal-rights ideology than good nutrition.

“Like other PCRM publicity stunts, these phony ‘report cards’ seek to reward animal-rights-approved meal programs,” said Center for Consumer Freedom research director David Martosko. “This group is out to punish those school districts that dare to serve beef, chicken, and milk. PCRM’s president has claimed that feeding milk to children constitutes child abuse, and now his group is trying to strong-arm school menu planners into seeing things their way.”...