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Recent Book Reviews
- The Green Foodprint
- Ninety-Five: Meeting America’s Farmed Animals
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
- The Spirit’s Pilgrimage
- The 100 Thing Challenge
- EcoMind
- Beyond Religion
- Plenitude
- Whitewash
- Just Food
- Vegan’s Daily Companion
- The Party’s Over
- The World Peace Diet
- The Ten Trusts
- On a Dollar a Day
- The Engine 2 Diet
- The Life You Can Save
- How to Eat Like A Vegetarian Even If You Never Want to Be One
- Vice Cream: Gourmet Vegan Desserts
- The New Good Life
- The Empathic Civilization
- Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
- Eating Animals
- The China Study
Categories
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- Environment (5)
- Food Issues (7)
- Health and nutrition (5)
- Nonviolence (1)
- Psychology (3)
- Simple Living (2)
- Social Issues (10)
- Spirituality (3)
- Veganism (2)
Category Archives: Veganism
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism, by Melanie Joy. Conari Press, 2009. Ideally qualified to investigate the mindset that permits humans to mistreat and eat so-called “food” animals while lavishing love and expensive … Continue reading
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Eating Animals
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer. Little Brown & Co, 2009. Bold, convincing, and carefully fact-checked, yet not absolutist. I’m hopeful this book will earn a wide readership due to the author’s reputation. (His novels have earned him inclusion in … Continue reading
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