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Crazy Vegan Life: A Prescription for an Endangered Species by Christina Pirello
A manifesto on being vegan and living healthfully from the award-winning host of public
television’s Christina Cooks, Naturally!
Being vegan is not only about a plant- based diet. It means taking a whole new look at
health, fitness, lifestyle choices, and the world. Christina Pirello not only advocates
the development of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of humans, animals, and the
environment, but also promotes their impact on wellness. Beyond the value of eating whole,
and organic foods, Pirello explores a host of subjects from nutrition and fitness to
education and emotional well-being as she helps readers take control of their lives and
achieve their personal goals, whether they want to lose weight, regain health and
vitality, or simply look and feel better.
Dairy products should be illegal, proclaims leukemia survivor and Emmy Award–winner
Pirello (Cooking the Whole Foods Way), giving readers a good idea of this crusader's
uncompromising stance on the current state of the food industry, our environment and the
need for change. Host of the public television series Christina Cooks and a noted
authority on vegetarian cooking, Pirello studied with macrobiotic diet pioneer Michio
Kushi and has eaten vegan for more than 20 years. The first section of the book grounds
readers in vegan principles, arguing the case from a variety of perspectives (health,
humanitarian, economic, environmental). Her plan for making the transition from standard
American fat- and sugar-laden convenience foods to regularly scheduled whole-food meals
consists of a 21-day, two-phase detoxification and weight-loss program, with tips on
stress reduction and living more consciously, and a whole-body fitness regime (cardio,
strength training and flexibility). Having beat leukemia and completed her first triathlon
at age 51, Pirello is strong on setting intentions and achieving goals. With her, readers
have a tireless, reliable guide to going vegan, and the many recipes she offers for
delicious vegan meals will make foregoing meat easy. (Dec.)
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Veganomicon:
The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero - From
Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. While most vegan cookbooks are anemic, underfed volumes-some no-brainer
pasta recipes, a few things to do with tofu, maybe some oddball desserts-this slam-bang
effort from vegan chefs Moskowitz and Romero (Vegan with a Vengeance) is thorough and
robust, making admirable use of every fruit and vegetable under the sun, without once
asking readers to make do with fake meat products and egg replacements. Instead, the
eccentric authors offer dozens of novel, delicious ways to get excited about eating meat-,
dairy- and egg-free. Take Southwestern Corn Pudding, a winning casserole rich with coconut
milk and an unexpected dash of maple syrup-a likely MVP at your next Thanksgiving (whether
it's centered around turkey or tofu). Almost as addictive are Rustic White Beans and
Mushrooms, which get their bite from fresh herbs, and Lentils and Rice with Caramelized
Onions and Spiced Pita Crisps, a transcendent Middle Eastern comfort food. Vegan
breakfasts get overdue attention: sitting in front of a hot stack of velvety Blueberry
Corn Pancakes and hearty Blue Flannel Hash, who's going to miss the bacon? Best of all is
the wide selection of terrific desserts: everything from Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies to
decadent Caramel-Apple-Spice Cupcakes boldy fill the space where most eggless, milkless
and butterless cookbooks fear to tread.
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The
Real Forbidden Fruit: How Meat Destroys Paradise And How Veganism Can Get It Back by
Jeff Popick
It's not news that eating meat is unhealthy, destructive to the environment, and cruel to
animals, but what is new is Jeff Popick's new book, The REAL Forbidden Fruit, which offers
compelling evidence that meat was the real "forbidden fruit." Using
spirituality, physiology, sociology, environmentalism, and logic, The REAL Forbidden Fruit
demonstrates how meat eating is destroying our health, our planet, our societies, and even
our connection to God. But there is hope. Popick shows in a comprehensive, clear, and
entertaining style how veganism overcomes all of society's problems in one fell swoop, and
can put us back on the path to the paradise our world once was.
Jeff Popick, also known as "The Vegan Sage," is a keen visionary and a leading
expert on the diverse effects our diet has on our lives and our world.
Making
A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights
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.
Becoming
Vegan: The Complete Guide to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet
The authors of Becoming Vegetarian explore the benefits of a vegan diet (eating without
meat, eggs or dairy products). More and more people are being motivated to become vegans
because of the impact of their nutritional choices on their health, the environment,
animal rights, and human hunger. As registered dietitians, Davis and Melina are
well-qualified to provide the latest information on:
how a vegan diet can protect against cancer, heart disease, and other chronic illnesses
getting all the protein you need without meat meeting your needs for calcium without dairy
products what vegans need to know about B12 why good fats are vital to healthy and how to
get them balanced diets for infants, children, and seniors pregnancy and breast-feeding
tips for vegan moms considerations for overweight, underweight, and eating disorders
achieving peak performance as a vegan athlete how to deal gracefully with a non vegan
world
The
Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Living Beverly Lynn Bennett and Ray Sammartano
Becoming a vegan isn’t just about giving up animal products. It’s about making a
lifestyle change. In The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Vegan Living, authors Beverly Lynn
Bennett (known as the Vegan Chef) and Ray Sammartano provide a complete guide to living
vegan-style, focusing on compassion for all, good health, and great eating. Inside,
readers will find 50 sensational recipes, tips for everyday vegan living, the lowdown on
vegan myths, and much more.
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, team
Torres helps 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.
Witty, opinionated, and eminently useful.
The
Vegan Sourcebook (Sourcebooks) by Joanne Stepaniak and Carol J. Adams
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.
Being
Vegan: Living With Conscience, Conviction, and Compassion by Joanne Stepaniak and
Stanley Sapon
In Being Vegan, renowned activist and award-winning on-line columnist Joanne Stepaniak
presents the definitive Q&A primer on an often misunderstood life choice. Fielding
questions from friends and foes, she describes how compassion, kindness, and mercy to
animals can be integrated into everyday life. It covers living the vegan philosophy and
ethic, discovering hidden animal products and ingredients, and more.
Vegan:
The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus
In this book, you will find the latest information about how what you eat affects your
health, the environment, and the existence of the animals who share this planet. Vegan
explains clearly how simple but significant the switch to an all-plant diet can be. Adding
weight to Marcus's own arguments are in-depth discussions of ground-breaking work by these
internationally respected experts.
Vegan
with a Vengeance : Over 150 Delicious, Cheap, Animal-Free Recipes That Rock by Isa
Chandra Moskowitz - From Publishers Weekly
To appreciate this quirky vegan cookbook, readers must welcome the author's offhand,
rambling style. A chatty Brooklynite who hosts her own public access cooking show, she
scatters stories about her mother, her friends and her politics among recipes for goodies
like Fresh Corn Fritters and Curried Split Pea Soup. In one anecdote, she writes that her
mother liked the scones from "one of those overpriced French cafes in Union
Square," prompting the author to create Glazed Orange scones in her mother's honor,
and the sweet, rich result rivals the average "overpriced café" model. BBQ
Pomegranate Tofu is actually baked, not barbecued, but still the tofu is rich and smoky,
terrific over rice or packed into heroes. Even better, the vegan iterations of Spanakopita
and Seitan-Portobello Stroganoff so closely approximate the traditional versions that even
the pickiest eaters would happily trade one for the other. And although there's no chicken
broth in Matzoh Ball Soup, the vegetable stock is hearty enough to cure the fiercest cold.
Best of all, and rare in a vegan cookbook, the author provides several appealing
dairy-free desserts that are tasty enough to fool most omnivores, yet unique enough to
thrill any vegan who just can't face another tofu ice cream bar.
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"(The book) has got plenty of attitude, and the killer recipes to back it up. Watch
out Betty Crocker." -- Erik Marcus, author of Meat Market--Animals, Ethics, and
Money, publisher of Vegan.com
"... Integrates Isa's NY and punk roots with a sophisticated culinary palate and
political nuance that only comes with experience." -- Josh Hooten, Herbivore Magazine
"Vegan with a Vengeance shows you can make great, healthy food and still live with
yourself in the morning." -- Jim Lindberg, Pennywise
"This is, hands down, the most kick-ass vegan cookbook ever. We're going to buy
copies for everyone we know..." -- Bob and Jenna Torres, authors of Vegan Freak:
Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World
The
Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins
and Dean Ornish - From Publishers Weekly
What can we do to help stop global warming, feed the hungry, prevent cruelty to animals,
avoid genetically modified foods, be healthier and live longer? Eat vegetarian, Robbins
(Diet for a New America) argues. Noting the massive changes in the environment,
food-production methods, and technology over the last two decades, he lambastes (in a
manner less tough-mindedly restrained than Frances Moore Lapp‚'s classic Diet for a
Small Planet) contemporary factory-farming methods and demonstrates that individual
dietary choices can be both empowering and have a broader impact. Robbins, heir to the
Baskin-Robbins ice-cream empire (he rejected it to live according to his values), takes on
fad diets, the meat industry, food irradiation, hormone and antibiotic use in animals,
cruel animal husbandry practices, the economics of meat consumption, biotechnology and the
prevalence of salmonella and E. Coli. Some details are downright revolting (euthanized
dogs and cats often are made into cattle feed), horrific (some 90% of cows, pigs and
poultry are still conscious when butchered) and mind-boggling (it takes 5,214 gallons of
water to produce one pound of beef). Despite all this and more distressing information,
Robbins ends on a hopeful note, detailing growth in organic farming, public awareness and
consumer activism worldwide, as well as policy changes, especially in Europe. Well
researched and lucidly written, if sometimes overly sentimental and burdened by
clich‚d rhetoric, this book is sure to spark discussion and incite readers to examine
their food choices. (July 2)Forecast: Diet for a New America was both controversial and
influential; Robbins's name (and that of Dr. Dean Ornish, who provides a foreword) should
draw readers, particularly to the author's six-city western U.S. tour. Global warming,
animal rights, meat safety and genetically modified food are being recognized as important
issues, but the kind of sea change the book calls for is unlikely to find a mass audience.
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From Library Journal
Robbins, author of the classic Diet for a New America, believes that plant-based nutrition
and particularly vegan diets (free of meat, milk, and eggs) lead to long life and good
health. Citing statistics, research studies, and selected quotes that extol the benefits
of such diets, he also argues that animal products are responsible for such diseases as
obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and cancer. Robbins deplores the inadequate
sanitation and inspection in meat-processing plants and argues that many of the illnesses
and stomach ailments that people complain about result from animal agriculture and the
pathogens it introduces into our bodies. He also raises concerns about the dangers of fad
diets that advocate high carbohydrates, high protein, or high fat. Robbins's zealous
advocacy of plant-based nutrition and his refusal to consider the need for animal products
in human nutrition throws his book off balance. Nevertheless, those who want to know more
about vegan diets will gain many insights from his provocative book. Recommended for large
nutrition collections with a diversity of viewpoints. [For more diet and nutrition books,
see Anne Tomlin's "A Balanced Diet of Nutrition Resources" in LJ's May 1
consumer health supplement. Ed.] Irwin Weintraub, Brooklyn College Lib., New Yor.
- Irwin Weintraub, Brooklyn College Lib., New York. Copyright 2001 Reed Business
Information, Inc.
Animal
Liberation by Peter Singer
"The modern animal rights movement may be dated to the 1975 publication of Animal
Liberation by Australian philosopher Peter Singer," declared Newsweek of the first
edition, and this "bible" for animal rights activists has just undergone a
second edition. Singer continues his "blistering indictment of so-called humane use
of animals in scientific research" ( LJ 12/1/75), describes the current (and still
atrocious) state of animal testing, and brings up to date the activities of the animal
rights movement, nascent at the time of the first edition's release. This is a necessary
purchase for any animal rights collection. See also Heidi J. Welsh's Animal Testing and
Consumer Products , reviewed in this issue, p. 98.--Ed. - Judy Quinn, "Library
Journal" Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Eat,
Drink & Be Vegan: Everyday Vegan Recipes Worth Celebrating
In her third vegan cookbook, Dreena Burton shows how easy it is to enjoy fabulous meals
that are animal-free.... Her enthusiasm for vegan cooking is infectious and will help spur
you on to try more imaginative recipes than you ever thought possible. - North Shore News
(North Vancouver) (North Shore News )
In Dreena Burton's first two bestselling vegan cookbooks, The Everyday Vegan and Vive le
Vegan!, she offered a dazzling array of healthy, animal-free recipes, many of which are
based ont her experience as a mother of two young girls she and her husband are raising as
vegans. Dreena also maintains an active blog (vivelevegan.blogspot.com) and website
(everydayvegan.com) and and has cultivated an enthusiastic audience for her nutritious
recipes.
In this, her third cookbook, Dreena turns her attention to celebratory food - imaginative,
colorful, and delectable vegan fare perfect for all kinds of events, from romantic meals
to dinner parties to casual potlucks.
Eat, Drink and Be Vegan is destined to join the bestselling ranks of her first two books
(The Everyday Vegan is now in its fourth printing, and Vive le Vegan! is in its third).
Come celebrate with Dreena and impress your guests (and yourself) with these sensational
animal-free recipes.
Meat
Market: Animals, Ethics, and Money by Erik Marcus
Meat Market elevates the debate over animal agriculture. Erik Marcus exposes and clears
away the exaggerated claims and counterclaims put forth by the meat industry and its
opponents. In the process, Marcus presents a thorough examination of animal agricultureÕs
cruelties and its far-reaching social costs. Marcus then considers the discouraging
progress made by the animal protection movement. He evaluates where the movement has gone
wrong, and how its shortcomings could best be remedied.
Compassion
the Ultimate Ethic: An Exploration of Veganism
Fascinating, inspiring account veganism in real life, Review By A Customer:
In a time when ethical nihilism seems rampant, this slim volume is a ray of hope. Moran
investigates the history and modern day practice of ethical veganism, based firmly in
compassion for all sentient life. People who are put off by the angry tone of some animal
rights literature will find this book a welcome change: gentle, without compromising the
animals' interests. Deservedly a classic.