Ready, fire, aim  By Paul King, Editorial Director  Everyone
knows that the federal government moves at the speed of a super
slo-mo video. Government lobbyists, on the other hand, can
attain warp speed whenever they need to.  Employees of the U.S.
House of Representatives who eat in the Longworth cafeteria saw
political activism in, well, action in June when someone got the
idea to promote Meatless Mondays. One day in early June, a sign
appeared at one of the stations in the cafeteria servery.
According to published accounts, the station was touting some
new vegetarian options.   Within days, the Farm Animal Welfare
Coalition (FAWC)—a lobbying group that represents beef, chicken
and pork ranchers and producers—fired off a letter to the House
Administration Committee and to Restaurant Associates (RA), the
management firm that runs foodservice in the House. Complaining
that Meatless Mondays is a “tool of animal rights and
environmental organizations who seek to publicly denigrate U.S.
livestock and poultry prod