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Nutrition News Releases
2012 Nearly Half of Supermarket Chicken Tainted by Feces, Testing Finds April 11, 2012 Billboard Warns Chicago of Hot Dog-Butt Cancer Link March 13, 2012 Dietitians Rank Five Worst School Breakfasts: Ham and Egg Biscuit Tops List March 8, 2012 ‘Shut It Down,’ Doctors Tel |
PCRM 2003: The Year in Review
The close of 2003 marks another year of growth and increased effectiveness for PCRM. Remarkable success has been achieved in medical schools, where animal labs are steadily being replaced with better methods. Interest in vegetarian diets on the part of the media, consumer |
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., M.S.
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., M.S., is a research scientist with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nationwide organization of physicians and laypersons that promotes preventive medicine, especially good nutrition, and addresses controversies |
Newsletter
March 2012 > Golf to Save Lives! Sign Up for the Third Annual Texas Golf Tournament Health Care Professionals: Earn Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits Online for Free! Going Green Menu: Bring in Spring on Your Plate Food for Life Instructor Spotlight: Sapna Von Reich Vegetarian Die |
PCRM Conference Confronts Childhood Obesity Epidemic
As the federal government’s National School Lunch Program continues to emphasize artery-clogging, high-cholesterol foods, childhood obesity has reached record levels—16 percent of children ages 2 to 19 are now considered obese. And as waistlines expand, so does the risk for chronic disease, including h |
Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., on Pleasurable Kingdom
In laboratories, animals are treated essentially like medical supplies. They are shipped in, studied, and disposed of. But increasingly, scientists are coming to understand the complexities of animals’ psychological and social lives. PCRM ethologist Jonathan Balcombe, Ph. |
Great Ape Protection and Cost Saving Act: Media Room
Media Room Media Maine Newspaper Prints Letter by PCRM Senior Medical Adviser John Pippin, M.D., on Ending Chimpanzee Research Sept. 13, 2010 Seattle TV Station Interviews PCRM Primatologist Debra Durham, Ph.D., at Chimpanzee Sanctuary Northwest News Releases Metro Ads Urge Congress to Protect Chimpanzees from |
A Moral Obligation: PCRM Scientist’s Paper Supports the Great Ape Protection Act
A new paper by animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., raises serious ethical questions about the use of chimpanzees in experiments and provides evidence for the provisions of the Great Ape Protection Act. In May’s Applied Animal Behaviour Science, Dr. Balcombe assesses the evidence and finds that ch |
PCRM Online December 2011
December 2011 |
Food for Life: The Power of Food for Health
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Physicians' Group Responds to Smear Tactics by American Meat Institute and Tobacco/Meat Industry Front Group
Washington—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) responds to news releases published recently by the “Center for Consumer Freedom” (CCF), a group funded by the tobacco, meat, and junk food industries, and the American Meat Institute (AMI), a meat-industry organization that prom |
The Pleasure Principle: Promoting Animal Happiness
Birds do it. Chimpanzees do it. Even fishes in seas do it. They seek joy, rapture, jubilation, and countless other states of pleasure. And humans have a moral obligation to allow animals to experience these rewards. So how can we reconcile practices—such as laboratory experiments—that deprive animals fu |
Childhood Obesity Conference Confronts the Fattening of America
Is childhood obesity more dangerous than cancer? In the next 50 years, pediatric obesity may shorten life expectancy in the United States by two to five years—an effect equal to that of all cancers combined, according to research by David Ludwig, M.D., Ph.D. Hear his and other childhood obesity experts’ |
PCRM Scientist Takes Pro-Animal Message to South Africa
PCRM’s scientific and medical experts are traveling the globe to effect change. This spring, PCRM animal behavior expert Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D., M.S., spent two weeks fostering compassion for animals on a lecture tour of South Africa. Dr. Balcombe’s tour included talks to schoolchildren and adults at Sc |
News and Media
News and Media If you are a journalist seeking more information or an interview with a PCRM expert, please contact Jeanne S. McVey at 202-527-7316 or jeannem@pcrm.org. News Releases PCRM Statement on the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act of 2010 (H.R. 5820) July 29, 2010 New Chemical-Testing Bills are Big Ste |
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