National Cattlemen’s Beef Association pays for Anti-Vegan “Study” ">National Cattlemen’s Beef Association pays for Anti-Vegan “Study”
I normally don’t report on news stories as we have a veg*n newsfeed on our front page from Animal Concerns.
However, I feel that this one is worth noting. Here’s a Veg Sources rebuttal to the anti-vegan child diet study that has been all over the national and local press.
Among other interesting facts, the “research” was indeed partially funded by the National Cattleman’s Beef Association. While it would be foolish to dismiss a study out of hand simply due to the business interests of its financial backers (this alone would be no better than vivisectors dismissing research on animal cruelty because it came from the PCRM), in this case the study’s premise and conclusions require such a bizarre leap of logic that a discovery of the funding source can only lead to an “aha” moment, as it’s the only way I can explain how something like this could ever happen.
