Cellulite Investigation: It’s hard to come across a reformed omnivore who doesn’t point to Campbell’s book as a motivating factor in his/her vegan adventure. 

Tynan: I used to be a huge fan of meat. … Then one day my friend Hayden loaned me the book The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health. … I started the book as a skeptic and finished it as a believer. I am now totally confident that eating a diet with little/no meat and lots of vegetables will significantly increase anyone’s overall health and life expectancy.

Bill Clinton: According to our source, Clinton decided to adopt the diet in the early part of May. While he does occasionally eat fish, the former president otherwise follows a strict vegan diet. What made him go vegan? Clinton has read many books on the topic, including books by T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn and Dr. Dean Ornish. … “He has read The China Study, and he knows the issues.  With time, I think it’s likely he could become the most outspoken proponent of a complete vegan diet.”

Marilu Henner: It’s a brilliant book! It’s a brilliant book! I give it to everybody, all the time. It’s so good! If anything should convince you to become vegan, it’s The China Study!

Boston.com: Eric Faulkner, a professional in high tech, is baking a batch of vegan cookies in his Lowell loft. He minces few words to explain why he became a vegan. “I’m scared to death of cancer,” says the lanky 42-year-old. After reading “The China Study,” which purports that animal protein can accelerate the growth of cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, Faulkner ate his last cheeseburger.

Dust2Dust: A professional acquaintance of mine told me couple of months ago that his father went vegan - after reading “some book.” It was The China Study. This was the first time I heard about it. Now the second time I hear about this book is when this acquaintance of mine calls me up yesterday, tells me he read it, he’d just went vegetarian two weeks ago and wants me and my girlfriend to recommend some nice veggie places in town and “maybe we can discuss this over dinner tonight.” Hahah. I like this book already - without even reading it.

Kailla: The book The China Study changed my life. I’ve even got a friend converted after reading that.

Trev: Yeah, read The China Study! Suz and I have converted at least four carnivores with that book!

Wall Street Journal: Mr. Gonzalez had never heard of the vegan diet when he boarded a flight from New York to Los Angeles last spring, about a month before preseason training. His seatmate turned down most of the food offered in first class, and Mr. Gonzalez finally asked why. The man told Mr. Gonzalez about The China Study, a 2006 book by Cornell professor and nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell that claims people who eat mostly plants have fewer deadly diseases than those who eat mostly animals. … [Gonzalez] bought the book, and after reading the first 40 pages, he says, was convinced animal foods led to chronic illness.

Anonymous: I went vegetarian after — while making a hamburger pattie — the thought suddenly went through my head, “What’s the difference between ground up cow and ground up human? Nothing. I’m done.” Simple as that. Went vegan after researching nutrition for a friend dying of cancer. Found The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and never looked back.

Vegan Athletes: Patrick J. Neshek is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Minnesota Twins. … Patrick went vegan in 2007 after reading the book The China Study…

Let Them Eat Lentils: I finally had enough down time to read The China Study, a book cited by many vegetarian/vegans as their reason for giving up meat products. Refreshingly, the author makes virtually no mention of the humanitarian reasons to give up meat, and doesn’t speak at all to slaughterhouse practices, sanitary concerns, etc. … Instead, the premise is much more scientific (as you’ve probably grasped by the title). … In any event, it’s already changed my life.

BeforeWisdom: Many people don’t want to hear about animal suffering, they are only interested in what a vegan diet can do for them. Many people also don’t trust information from vegans. Just look at all of the BS misinformation spouted on this forum. I’m going to read The China Study because I will not find a study or an author with better creds. Once I read it I will be able to recommend it to omnis being assured that it will reek of credibility.

VegeTexan: We had T. Colin as a speaker at our veg society a few years ago. He made perfect sense with a really convincing PowerPoint presentation with graphs and everything. He said he was convinced that animal protein in and of itself was carcinogenic. We had a hundred people at that dinner and a lot of them went vegan that night.

Alcahofa: I like the ethics of began vegan, but for me it was entirely a nutritional decision. I read The China Study after my carnivore husband read it and, completely out of the blue, went vegan as a result. I read it and, much to my surprise, went vegan too. Its a very compelling health argument backed by enormous amounts of data. If you tell me I have a 70% less chance of getting cancer, it turns out that i will give up animal protein. Who’d have thunk.