The Interview - Wednesday, June 22nd
Dr. Lawrence H. Kushi: You are a strong advocate of essentially vegetarian or even vegan dietary choices. One of the things that I find interesting is that you actually grew up on a dairy farm in Virginia.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell: As a youth, I was a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I was raised on a farm and milked cows until I went away to school. I was the first member in my family on either side to even go to college, let alone graduate school, so I really went into the whole scientific profession rather naïvely. My initial graduate work at Cornell University was on how to grow cows more efficiently so we could eat more of them and drink more of their milk. My doctoral dissertation was specifically focused on making sure we all got enough protein, especially so-called “high quality” animal protein. I would have preferred to have continued on that path, but as I got involved in the Philippines working with malnourished children and then in the laboratory doing a lot of basic research, I started to get some results that began to question my whole upbringing, especially what I believed about protein.
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