Confronting gendered stereotypes about meat-eating will certainly help. A US study released last November in the journal Appetite found that conformity (or otherwise) to traditional gender roles was still a good predictor of people’s meat consumption and openness to vegetarianism for environmental reasons. I’ve been vegan for twelve years and if you’d told me at the beginning of my journey that I would one day see a book about veganism advertised on billboards and by bookstores, I simply wouldn’t have believed you. Maybe the most important reason for going without animal products is the much more frequent and deadly incidents of pandemics this century. COVID-19 was not the first or the deadliest in history and the worst is predicted by most scientists to be coming if we continue to farm diseased, mutilated animals in highly toxic environments. Wild animals bring the virus to farms, it spreads like wildfire, and all the farmed animals in the surrounding area must be 'culled.' but sometimes the virus mutates enough to affect the lungs of human farm workers. Me considero una vegana bastante suave. Pese a que al principio no podía aguantar soltar según qué comentarios (sobre todo cuando me los decían a mí primero y yo me sentía en la obligación de atacar), y quizás por eso este libro me ha dado un poco de problemas. La información está y, además, muy bien explicada. En vez de en audiolibro, me gustaría haberlo leído en físico para poder subrayar y marcar todos los datos que puedo sacar cuando alguien intente hacerme sentir inferior por no consumir carne (algo que, la verdad, no pasa casi nunca ya). No obstante, muchos de los comentarios, sobre todo hacia el final de libro, se me han hecho un poco condescendientes y soltados desde el privilegio.

While the author didn’t intend it, this book is by vegans for vegans. While the arguments are meant to be presented in a logical manner, they are filled with holes and based around flawed assumptions briefly described by the points below. Ed Winters has for years talked about veganism, or the plant-based lifestyle, with all kinds of people all over the world, from cattle ranchers to slaughterhouse and factory farm workers to animal rights activists to people on the street or interviewers. He has not, however, been able to gather the courage to discuss why he's a vegan with those people closest to him, his family. He fears offending them, it seems, for he believes that his family expects him to remain the same person he was as a child. This is very sad. If parents expect you to remain as you were as a child, they don't love you, but only their idea of you. Over the past five years, “soy boy” has become a favourite insult of the far right online, used to refer not only to vegans but to all liberals. (I noticed the rise of this slur with amusement, as when I met my first ever male vegetarian friend, Lee, at university, we proudly called ourselves “the soy boys”.)

I recently met Ed and got my booked signed. I had a chat with him about my PhD thesis. Such a humble guy!

Humans are a consumer of resources, food is a resource, animals can be a food source and food sources are commodities.. if you can get over the morality of it which I can that's not a hard conclusion to reach. Our choices can help alleviate the most pressing issues we face today: the climate crisis, infectious and chronic diseases, human exploitation and, of course, non-human exploitation. Undeniably, these issues can be uncomfortable to learn about but the benefits of doing so cannot be overstated. It is quite literally a matter of life and death. I love the way the book has been organised as a tool kit to help vegans answer questions offer those curious for themselves. Because, as the name of the book eludes with its coy, mischievous bating - this is so much more than just ‘vegan propaganda’.

Plant-based options are more and more widely available in supermarkets and restaurants and the market for them is booming. They are delicious, but making meals with them at home is healthiest..