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Book Review: Where do you get your protein? This book is a good start…

December 28, 2023May 16, 2023 by John Yunker

There was a time, many years ago, when I believed that I couldn’t give up eating meat because I needed my protein. I was an athlete after all. I needed …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Hunting, Nonfiction, Plants, Sustainability, Veganism

Book Review: Frankenstein was a Vegetarian

February 26, 2023 by John Yunker

Never had the proverb You are what you eat came to mind so often as I was reading Frankenstein was a Vegetarian by Michael Owen Jones. The book encompasses a …

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Categories Book Reviews, History, Nonfiction, Sustainability, What we're reading

Book Review: FELLOWSHIP POINT by Alice Elliott Dark

September 16, 2024August 31, 2022 by Midge Raymond

Alice Elliott Dark’s beautiful, sprawling novel Fellowship Point is about land and stewardship, about nature and conservation, but more than that, it is a book of friendship across the decades …

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Categories Birds, Book Reviews, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Simon & Schuster

Eating meat in third person: The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

April 16, 2023March 25, 2020 by John Yunker

Published in 1969, The Edible Woman is Margaret Atwood’s first novel. As a vegan, I was curious to read this book because it features a protagonist, Marian, who discovers one …

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Categories Book Reviews, Fiction, Veganism, What we're reading

Book Review: Clean Meat by Paul Shapiro

September 29, 2019January 3, 2018 by Midge Raymond

Paul Shapiro’s book Clean Meat: How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World explores the fascinating — and potentially planet-saving — world of cultured meat. While the …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Gallery Books, Nonfiction, Pollution, Veganism

Book Review: The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J. Adams

February 20, 2014 by Shel Graves

On a bookshelf or reading list, this classic of vegetarian thought belongs beside Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation. Originally published in 1990 and reprinted in a 20th Anniversary Edition The Sexual …

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Categories Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Nonfiction, Veganism

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