Veganism-Related Books

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Contents 1 Veganism by vegans, for vegans 2 Influential Non-Veganism Books 3 Animal Rights 4 Happy Bullshit by fuckbags, for foodies and the ethically spineless

[edit] Veganism by vegans, for vegans

Highly recommended stuff from our vegan brothers and sisters.

• Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Brenda Davis and Vesanto Melina
• This book is the essential resource for anyone following a vegan diet. Foremost vegetarian dietitians present up-to-date findings on: protection against cancer & heart disease, getting enough protein without meat, why good fats are vital and how to get them, meeting calcium needs without dairy products, what vegans need to know about vitamin B12, balanced vegan diets for infants, children, and seniors, pregnancy and breast-feeding tips for vegan moms.
• Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World by Bob Torres and Jenna Torres
• Curious about veganism? Want to be a vegan? Already a vegan? Just wondering how to be vegan without going insane? In this informative and practical guide on veganism, we help you love your inner vegan freak. Loaded with tips, advice, stories, and comprehensive lists of resources that no vegan should live without, this book is key to helping you thrive as a happy, healthy, and sane vegan in a decidedly non-vegan world.
• The Vegan Sourcebook by Joanne Stepaniak
• Increasing numbers of people--including actress Drew Barrymore, pop star Moby, and actor Alec Baldwin--are embracing veganism, a lifestyle that entails avoiding all animal-based products and behaving ethically and conscientiously within our surroundings. In The Vegan Sourcebook, long-time activist Joanne Stepaniak further explores and illuminates the principles and practical aspects of compassionate living.
• Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian's Survival Handbook by Carol J. Adams
• In print again after a short hiatus, "Living among Meat Eaters is the book for the over 20 million Americans who have adopted vegetarianism. In this mind-bending yet practical volume, Carol J. Adams discusses summer barbecues, Thanksgiving dinner, even the simple business lunch, which can all be cause for issues-packed discussions on the vegetarian lifestyle. This book also offers more than 50 mouth-watering vegetarian recipes that workl Living among Meat Eaters will continue to be every vegetarians (and vegans) most trusted source of support and information.
• Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat!: An A-Z Guide to Surviving a Conflict in Diets by Carol J. Adams
• Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! is the first book of its kind to provide a comprehensive parental guide that addresses parent-child conflicts over diet. Its five chapters, with topics arranged alphabetically for easy reference, cover family and emotional issues, nutritional issues, philosophy and peer-relationships, and practical issues. The final chapter, "What's Left to Eat," consists of mouth-watering, original recipies.This practical and timely book will be a welcome resources for all parents concerned about the well-being and health of their vegetarian children.

[edit] Influential Non-Veganism Books

Not necessarily vegan, but influential nonetheless.

• The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
• Diet For a New America by John Robbins
• Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson
• The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health by T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell II
• MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman and Glen Merzer
• No More Bull!: The Mad Cowboy Targets America's Worst Enemy: Our Diet by Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer, and Joanna Samorow-Merzer

[edit] Animal Rights

• Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? by Gary L. Francione
• More than 50 percent of Americans believe that it is wrong to kill animals to make fur coats or to hunt them for sport. But these same Americans eat hamburgers, take their children to circuses and rodeos, and use products developed with animal testing. How do we justify our inconsistency?

In this easy-to-read introduction, animal rights advocate Gary Francione looks at our conventional moral thinking about animals. Using examples, analogies, and thought-experiments, he reveals the dramatic inconsistency between what we say we believe about animals and how we actually treat them.

Introduction to Animal Rights: Your Child or the Dog? provides a guidebook to examining our social and personal ethical beliefs. It takes us through concepts of property and equal consideration to arrive at the basic contention of animal rights: that everyone -- human and non-human -- has the right not to be treated as a means to an end. Along the way, it illuminates concepts and theories that all of us use but few of us understand -- the nature of "rights" and "interests", for example, and the theories of Locke, Descartes, and Bentham.

Filled with fascinating information and cogent arguments, this is a book that you may love or hate, but that will not fail to inform, enlighten, and educate.

• Rain Without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement by Gary L. Francione
• "Francione cogently argues that the Animal Liberation Movement, though using rights rhetoric and espousing the eradication of animal exploitation, actually represents a new, self-defeating welfarism because its tactics embody the animal welfare position. Consequently, the plight of animals is worse than it was twenty years ago." —Choice
• Animals, Property, and the Law (Ethics and Action) by Gary L. Francione
• "Pain is pain, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the victim," states William Kunstler in his foreword. This moral concern for the suffering of animals and their legal status is the basis for Gary L. Francione's profound book, which asks, Why has the law failed to protect animals from exploitation?

Francione argues that the current legal standard of animal welfare does not and cannot establish fights for animals. As long as they are viewed as property, animals will be subject to suffering for the social and economic benefit of human beings.

Exploring every facet of this heated issue, Francione discusses the history of the treatment of animals, anticruelty statutes, vivisection, the Federal Animal Welfare Act, and specific cases such as the controversial injury of anaesthetized baboons at the University of Pennsylvania. He thoroughly documents the paradoxical gap between our professed concern with humane treatment of animals and the overriding practice of abuse permitted by U.S. law.

• Making A Killing by Bob Torres
• Suggest to the average leftist that animals should be part of broader liberation struggles and—once they stop laughing—you'll find yourself casually dismissed. With a focus on labor, property, and the life of commodities, Making a Killing contains key insights into the broad nature of domination, power, and hierarchy. It explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in relation to the exploitative dynamics of capitalism. Combining nuts-and-bolts Marxist political economy, a pluralistic anarchist critique, as well as a searing assessment of the animal rights movement, Bob Torres challenges conventional anti-capitalist thinking and convincingly advocates for the abolition of animals in industry—and on the dinner plate.

Making A Killing is sure to spark wide debate in the animal rights and anarchist movements for years to come.

[edit] Happy Bullshit by fuckbags, for foodies and the ethically spineless

Advised to stand clear of.