Listen to the audio here: Dr. Michael Greger Interview
Vanessa Douglas and William Scott Williams interview Dr. Michael Greger (also known as Vegan MD). Michael Greger, M.D., is an American physician, author, vegan and professional speaker. Dr. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine. He became vegan in 1990. He is currently the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States. His books include Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching and Carbophobia: The Scary Truth Behind America’s Low Carb Craze. Dr. Greger appeared as an expert witness to testify about mad-cow disease when cattle producers sued Oprah Winfrey for libel.
Dr. Greger covers topics including zoonotic diseases, factory farms and Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), human heart disease, the ethics of eating animals, and the differences between eastern and western medicine.
Listen to the audio here: Dr. Michael Greger Interview
More of Dr. Greger’s work can be found at NutritionFacts.org and VeganMD.com
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William Scott Williams is a writer, vegan, and amateur triathlete from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife, Lia, and their three children: Isabel, Lee, and Catherine Dare. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, William’s short stories have appeared in Meridian: The Semi-Annual from the University of Virginia, The Massachusetts Review, The Greensboro Review, and most recently Poydras Review. He has just completed his first novel, Keeping. William can be reached at http://williamscottwilliams.com
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