Advisory board

Michael W. Fox, DSc, PhD, BVet Med, MRCVS

• CVA Advisor on bioethics
  
• Dr Fox is a veterinarian, best-selling author, and Senior Scholar for Bioethics for the Humane Society of the United States. His recent books include: Eating with Conscience: The Bioethics of Food (New Sage Press, 1997), Bringing Life to Ethics: Global Bioethics for a Humane Society (State University of New York Press, 2000), and Beyond Evolution: The Genetically Altered Future of Plants, Animals, the Earth ... and Humans (The Lyons Press, 2000).

Bruce Friedrich

• Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives at Farm Sanctuary
  
• Author, "Veganism in a Nutshell"
  
• Governing Board, Catholic Vegetarian Society
  
• Founding Member, Society of Religious and Ethical Vegetarians.

John B. (Jay) McDaniel, PhD

• Author, Of God and Pelicans
  
• Director, The Marshall T. Steel Center for the Study of Religion and Philosophy
  
• Professor of Religious Studies, Hendrix College.
  

Holly Roberts, M.D.

• CVA Advisor on Christian saints
  
• author, Vegetarian Christian Saints

Richard H. Schwartz, PhD

• CVA Advisor on Hebrew Scriptures
  
• Author, Judaism and Vegetarianism and Judaism and Global Survival

Rt. Revd. Michael W. Shaw M.Div.

• CVA Advisor on Asian Religions
• Bishop for Community Catholic Church of Canada
  
• St.. Francis of Assisi Parish Mission