Vegans; Any books you can recommend?!
Answers:
The Kind Diet by Alicia Silverstone
Eating Animals by Jonathon Safran Foer
Skinny B*tch by Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin
Diet For A New America by John Robbins
vegan :D
1. "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer. My all time favourite. It's incredibly informative and eye opening. Heres some excerpts:
"Industrial fishing is not exactly factory "farming", but it belongs in the same category and needs to be part of the same discussion - it is part of the same argicultural coup. This is most obvious for aqua-culture (farms on which fish are confined to pens and "harvested") but it is every bit as true for wild fishing, which shares the same spirit and intensive use of modern technology."
"No reader of this book would tolerate someone swinging a pickax at a dog's face. Nothing could be more obvious or less in need of explanation. Is such concern morally out of place when applied to fish, or are we silly to have such unquestioning concern about dogs? Is the suffering of a drawn-out death something that is cruel to inflict on any animal that can experience it, or just some animals?" - Jonathan Safran Foer
2. "May All Be Fed: 'A Diet For A New World : Including Recipes By Jia Patton And Friends"
by John Robbins
this book helped to shed light on how an animal-based diet contributes to the starvation of so many people around the world.
Im a vegan.
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth -- beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals -- would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?" George Bernard Shaw
I'm not a vegan, but 1,000 Vegan Recipes by Robin Robertson, Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule by Terry Hope Romero, and Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For by Isa Chandra Moskowitz are three great books.
And I'd like to add that Daisy's book suggestion, The Vegetarian Myth, was written by Lierre Keith, a frustrated and radical anti-vegetarian feminist whose research is filled with dishonest information. Lierre Keith is much like PeTA--they're both extremists, just at opposite ends of the spectrum.
ReFresh it's by the woman who owns a Vegan/Vegetarian restaurant photography in the book is amazing and her veggie burgers are healthy and look delicious I can't wait to cook one. She also has wraps, soups, salads, and all recipes for her sauces to go with those things. I think I saw various fried rice dishes too that looked yummy check it out.
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Becoming Vegan and Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.
Oh and I also have Food Revolution and Mad Cowboy which are also good books.
Living vegan for dummies is pretty good but i prefer "The suculant taste of cow thigh" by Meat Eater
"The Vegetarian Myth" by Lierre Keith. You do want to be fully informed, don't you?
Living Vegan for Dummies is a good one.