All posts tagged Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Dr. Neal Barnard, founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, professor, speaker, musician

By | October 28, 2020 | Advocates, Authors, Cats, Educators, General, Health & Behavior, Pets, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Dr. Neal Barnard—founder and president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine, among other notable hats he wears—recalls growing up not particularly interested in being a doctor, like his Dad, then after becoming more inclined to pursue medicine, initially veering toward psychiatry. Read more…

Ellen Jaffe Jones, vegan author and speaker

By | January 20, 2016 | Advocates, Authors, Factory Farming, General, Health & Behavior, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

In an unusual edition of “Talking Animals,” Ellen Jaffe Jones—the running coach, speaker and author of such books as the bestselling “Eat Vegan on $4 A Day” and “Kitchen Divided: Vegan Dishes For Semi-Vegan Households”—discusses her own kitchen divided and the ensuing unraveling of her marriage, chiefly tied to growing philosophical differences around her husband being a meat eater while Jones is a vegan, with those differences widening as she shifted from being vegan for health reasons to animal rights reasons. Read more…

Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D.–founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

By | October 13, 2010 | Authors, Vegetarian/Vegan | No comments

Dr. Neal Barnard, M.D.–who in 1985 founded the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a nonprofit organization that promotes, among other things, a plant-based diet, preventative medicine, higher standards of ethics and effectiveness in research Read more…