It’s undeniable: The U.S. animal rights movement has a frightening amount of money to lobby federal and state legislators. The five richest domestic bunny-hugger groups have around $250 million in assets. You read that right. $250 million. Their chief problem? Few Americans actually think animals deserve the same “rights� as people.Enter the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Sounds benign enough, right? Not. It’s an animal rights group, not a mainstream group of doctors. Less than four percent of its members are actual physicians. Last year, its president was also the president of the PETA Foundation. Yes, that PETA. The save-the-chickens loonies that we all love to laugh at.

Now this “Physicians Committee� is lobbying the Farm Bill, using PETA’s talking points. Meat bad. Spinach good.

Eventually, there will come a time when Farm Bill lobbying will be subject to periodic reality checks. Until then, just know that the “Physicians Committee� isn’t one. If you need a third party to validate this point of view, how about the famed radio doctor Dean Edell? He ran out of patience with the “Physicians Committee� a long time ago.