David Waltner-Toews

David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and veterinarian. A Professor Emeritus at University of Guelph, he was founding president of Veterinarians without Borders-Canada. In 2022, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. His books include The Origin of Feces, Eat the Beetles! An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects, On Pandemics, and the memoir A Conspiracy of Chickens.

David Waltner-Toews is a Canadian epidemiologist, essayist, poet, fiction writer, and veterinarian. A Professor Emeritus at University of Guelph, he was founding president of Veterinarians without Borders-Canada. In 2022, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. His books include The Origin of Feces, Eat the Beetles! An Exploration into Our Conflicted Relationship with Insects, On Pandemics, and the memoir A Conspiracy of Chickens. See less