I was really alarmed when I read this last week.

I've always gotten irritated when a vegan/religious don't-eat-the-cute-animals ideology infiltrates science, but for the last year or so with the explosion of all the plant-based-everything nonsense, it's REALLY getting under my skin. It's going to kill people, and make life miserable for countless others.

Here's the article referenced in the DD post that Janet linked above, and here's a response from Texas A&M.

*When I first read it, I saw "Dr Bacaw" as "Dr Bacon."