Dr Stephen Makin:

I'm a medical doctor, clinical researcher into stroke, Skeptical Speaker on critical appraisal and evidence based medicine. .........and a lifelong vegetarian who feels that ethically I really should be a vegan. As a vegetarian in a very non-hippy world I've been argued with at every dinner party or social event I've been to. I'll be looking at the secular arguments around meat eating, animal testing, bestiality, and abortion. Not to mention some of the common myths for and against vegetarianism: was Hitler really vegetarian? does it matter?