About the authorMichael Greger, M.D., is director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture in the farm animals section of Humane Society International. An internationally recognized lecturer, Dr. Greger has presented at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, testified before Congress, and was an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. His recent scientific publications in American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Critical Reviews in Microbiology, and the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition, and Public Health explore the public health implications of industrialized animal agriculture, and his latest book, the acclaimed Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, is now available full-text at no cost at birdflubook.org. Greger is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and the Tufts University School of Medicine.