T Colin Campbell, professor of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University and author of the best selling ‘China Study’, was recently among the guests on the CNN show ‘Larry King Live’. The topic was whether people should stop eating burgers. While the focus was food safety, nutrition and other issues also came into play. Prof Campbell advocated a plant based diet, and Jonathan Safran Foer, whose upcoming book, ‘Eating Animals’ was mentioned in the last IVU Online News, talking about cruelty and env.

Worth watching to see a very broad range of views, including someone from the meat industry and a Nutrition professor, Nancy Rodriguez, who admits that veg is possible but claims being veg is more difficult and that there’s nothing nutritionally wrong with meat. This professor has received many hundred of thousands of dollars in research grants from the meat, egg and dairy industries:

• Should Americans banish the burger? (CNN)
• Should You Eat Meat? (CNN transcripts of Larry King Live)
• Nancy R. Rodriguez