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Title: Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating, Revised Edition by Erik Marcus ISBN: 0-935526-87-0 Publisher: McBooks Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (40 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Buy extra copies for your family and friends!
Comment: Wow! I read this book in one sitting, staying up until 2:00 AM to finish it. I am not an animal activist by any means. And although there is plenty of info in this book to satifsfy the activists out there, even more compelling are the first few chapters concerning cholesterol, heart disease, cancer, and weight-loss. The chapter on so-called "mad cow" disease alone should be enough to turn anyone into an instant vegan. And did you know that gelatin (the key ingredient in confections such as marshmallows and jello) are made up of the ground-up bones of slaughtered cattle? All I can say is: YUCK! No more gummy bears for me!
Rating: 4
Summary: So you want to be a vegan
Comment: This book will not tell you the hows, but it certainly will tell you the whys. "Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating" is split into three sections: the health reasons, the abuse food animals endure, and the devastating effect animal "agriculture" has on our planet.
In detailing health reasons, Marcus talks with Drs. Dean Ornish and Terry Shintani, who devised near-vegan diets for patients and met with success. Ornish's trials have shown actual reversal of heart disease with his low-fat, near-vegan diet. Shintani created the Eat More Index, based on the theory that humans need three to four pounds of food a day, and approximately 2,500 calories. He determined how many pounds of food would be 2,500 calories. Most vegetable products (nuts, oils and avocadoes excluded) were remarkably high, while animal products were nightmarishly low. He theorized that people weren't eating too much, but eating the wrong foods. This section also details the mad cow epidemic in Great Britain and the government's blind eye to the problem. Howard Lyman, whose appearance on Oprah Winfrey's show sparked a lawsuit, also shows up.
The second section deals with the horrors so-called food animals endure on the factory farm and the efforts of one couple, Gene and Lorri Bauston, to help them. The Baustons started Farm Sanctuary, which has facilities in Watkins Glen, New York, and Orland, California, for the purpose of housing animals who have been rescued from appalling conditions, including the "dead piles" at auctions. Featured throughout this section are photos of animals they've rescued and their stories, some of which are heartbreaking. Perhaps the worst part of it, as Gene Bauston points out, is not one death is necessary because we do not need milk, eggs, or meat to survive.
The third section details the environmental destruction that meat production causes, along with the population explosion. Large companies are allowed to use public rangelands very cheaply--essentially corporate welfare--and they also kill thousands of wild animals who set foot on their property. Intense factory farming also wastes millions of gallons of water every year--what it doesn't pollute, that is.
If you want to do your part to make this world a better place, get this book. Then go vegan.
Rating: 5
Summary: Thumbs-up from a non-vegan!
Comment: I've been considering adopting a vegan diet for the past few months, and frankly this book resolved a lot of my doubts about making that choice. Other books I've read on this issue seemed so histrionic and over-the-top that they made veganism LESS attractive, and left me feeling guilty and selfish that I was "more interested" in dietary health than moral enlightenment.
Marcus's book, on the other hand, is very direct and balanced, and he writes with refreshing humility and frankness. His statements simply speak truth, without the typical dramatics or air of moral superiority so often utilized by others.
Just sign me Vegan-in-the-Making.
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Title: Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Vesanto Melina, Vesanto, R.D. Melina, Brenda Davis ISBN: 1570671036 Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN) Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Animal Ingredients A to Z by E. G. Smith Collective ISBN: 1873176597 Publisher: AK Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins, Dean Ornish MD, M.D., Dean Ornish ISBN: 1573247022 Publisher: Conari Press Pub. Date: 11 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Vegan Sourcebook by Joanne Stepaniak ISBN: 0737305061 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer ISBN: 0684854465 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 02 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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