The animal rights radicals who used Dr. Atkins' private medical records to out him as a fat guy, the PETA-affiliated Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, don't really care about human diets too much. They just want to make sure animals are not part of those diets. But animal rights are a tough sell, so PCRM feigns concern over the deadly dangers of meat consumption instead.
With some advice from ACSH's Jeff Stier, though, columnist Carolyn Susman took PCRM to task in today's Palm Beach Post: http://coxnews.com/cox/news/Lifestyle/story/5507 .