Yet another book has come out about eating. It's called, modestly, Real Food: What to Eat and Why, and it's written by Nina Planck, who is, according to her website, "a food writer, entrepreneur, and the leading American expert on farmers' markets and local food."

In yesterday's Brian Lehrer show on WNYC her grass-fed, hormone- and antibiotic-free beef wasn't so much against factory farms or the corn-oil/sugar industry, but against that pressure group threatening to bring the American food industry, and comfortable yuppies, to their knees. Yes, I refer of course to The Vegans. Apparently, so huge is the threat of vegans, that poor old omnivores, threatened as they are on all sides and simply unable to have a meal in peace, are feeling victimized.

Now, this isn't Nina's fault: and I for one am all in favor of whole foods and greenmarkets. But why put the (leather) boot in vegans or vegetarians?