OPINION/COMMENTARY

7 Things You Didn't Know About PCRM

# PCRM is an animal rights group. Less than 5 percent of its members are actual physicians. The group's goals are to stop medical research that requires the use of animals, and to remove meat and dairy foods from our diet by demonizing them as “unhealthy.” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has already steered more than $1.3 million to PCRM. Animal People News notes that PETA and PCRM are so closely connected that they should be considered “a single fundraising unit.”# When longtime PCRM spokesperson Dr. Jerry Vlasak addressed the “Animal Rights 2003” convention, he openly endorsed the murder of doctors who use animals in their research. “I don’t think you’d have to kill---assassinate---too many,” Vlasak told the assembled activists. “I think for 5 lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.” # PCRM president Neal Barnard is not a nutritionist, a dietician, or a biochemist. He's a non-practicing psychiatrist who claims that cheese is “dairy crack” and “morphine on a cracker.” Barnard is also PETA's “medical advisor” and president of The PETA Foundation. # The American Medical Association (AMA) has called PCRM a “fringe organization” that uses “unethical tactics” and is “interested in perverting medical science.”....

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