Atkins attacked — again!

A couple of months ago (Daily Dose, 3/5/04), I wrote to you about
how the mainstream press (no less than the venerable Wall Street
Journal, mind you) jumped on the anti-meat bandwagon by
irresponsibly reporting the ill-begotten "facts" behind the late Dr.
Atkins' physical condition at the time of his death. To recap, the
far-from-objective February 10th Journal piece cited a New York
City Medical Examiner's report that pegged the 6-foot Atkins'
weight at more than 250 pounds at the time of his death —
CLINICALLY OBESE, they trumpeted gleefully.

But as I said back in March, what they utterly failed to give "equal
time" to is the fact that the comatose Atkins had been pumped full
of 60 pounds or more of fluids during the 9 days he languished in a
hospital bed after the fall that ultimately killed him. That puts his
living weight at closer to 190 pounds. On top of that, the purloined
ME's report upon which the Journal article was based had been
wrongfully leaked to the mainstream (see also "meat-hating") press
by the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine, a well-
known animal rights organization!

Hardly an objective, unbiased source, huh?

Why do I bring it all up again now? Because this same contingent
of misguided whack-jobs are at it again. This time, they're
bankrolling a Florida man's lawsuit against the Atkins diet for
supposedly causing his heart disease after only two months on the
plan. Yeah, right. Eight weeks worth of the high-protein, low-
carbohydrate diet that millions of Americans have used to lose
untold tons of weight caused this moron to need heart surgery —
which is exactly what the lawsuit claims.

Now, I'm not disputing the fact that this 53-year-old Florida man
(one with an admitted family history of heart disease, mind you)
needed emergency heart surgery — most folks who've steered
clear of the high-protein, low-carb approach to eating for most of
their adult life generally do. But to shamelessly publicize his own
poor health (no doubt brought on by years of vegetarianism) to
attempt to destroy the only truly sound nutritional advice being
disseminated in the world today is just plain despicable.

How do I know this litigation is nothing but a headline grab by the
animal-rights kooks? I mean, besides the fact that the PETA-
affiliated Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine (whose
membership rolls boast less than 5% doctors, by the way) is
shelling out for the legal fees?  Keep reading…

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Litigation: The new Public Relations

In a continuation of a disturbing pattern I wrote about some
months ago (Daily Dose, 10/14/03), the "Fat Nazis" continue to
grab headlines in the gullible, news-hungry mainstream media by
filing frivolous lawsuits they KNOW THEY WILL LOSE — like
this latest mockery of the judicial system in Florida. Why do they
do this?

Because they're smart — immoral, but smart. You see, the
American judiciary model guarantees every dog his day in court,
so there really aren't any penalties for filing lawsuits that are
doomed to fail. Whether a lawsuit is viable or not is up to a judge
to decide, after all. That means if you have the money, you could
sue virtually anyone for virtually anything: Bad luck, the weather,
your height, whatever.

However, to the media, the simple filing of a notable or unusual
suit is news. That's why the PETA-philes have filed this particular
suit in the Sunshine State — to malign the thing they've identified
as their political enemy: Animals as food. How can I be sure this
guy isn't really suing for legitimate damages done to him by the
Atkins nutritional model?

Because I'M smart.

First off, according to CNSNews, the plaintiff isn't suing for
money (except the forty bucks and change he spent on Atkins
merchandise), but rather to try to force Atkins-affiliated foodstuffs
to sport a warning label about the "heart risks" he insists they pose.
Second, his legal fees are being paid for by a propagandist group
known to be hostile to the defendant! And third, he ADMITTED
the suit was designed only to raise awareness of the "dangers" of
the Atkins diet in an interview with the Palm Beach Post…

Which brings us to the real problem here, which isn't the PCRM or
its views. They're entitled to believe and attempt to publicize
whatever misguided tripe (well, maybe not tripe — that's a meat
product) they want. It's the media, as usual. As long as they're
willing to waste ink over every outrageous stunt their meat-hating
brethren can dream up, our already obscenely overburdened court
system will keep being forced to process this kind of drivel. And
your tax dollars will be paying for it.

But when do you think THAT fact will make the headlines?

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