Rynn Berry is the historical advisor to the NAVS (North American Vegetarian Society). He has been a featured speaker at five international vegan/vegetarian world congresses, (San Diego, Johnstown, Canada, Scotland, and Germany), and is an annual speaker at Vegetarian Summerfest. In his lectures, articles, and books, he has specialized in the study of vegetarianism from an historical perspective. Rynn was commissioned to write the entry on the history of vegetarianism in America for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink (2005), and he was commissioned to write entries on Fletcherism, Rawfoodism, Veganism, The Influence of Animal Rights on Western Diet, Vegetarianism, and The North American Vegetarian Society for The Oxford Companion to Food and Drink in America (2007). Rynn is the author of six major books on vegetarianism: The New Vegetarians, Famous Vegetarians, Food for the Gods: Vegetarianism and the World's Religions, Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover, and Becoming Raw: An Essential Guide to Vegan Raw Food Diets (with Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina). His books have been translated into Nepalese, German, Italian, Taiwanese, Chinese, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian, inter alia .Every year, Rynn comes out with an all-new Vegan Guide to New York City, which is the first and only exclusively vegetarian guidebook on the planet.
