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Summary: Fantastic! Opens your eyes and your mind!
Review: "Vegan" is an absolutely wonderful book! Facts are presented clearly and fairly. This is not a book bashing carnivores or people who wear leather shoes. There are no "guilt trips" or "scare tactics" used to try and trick the reader in to adapting a vegan lifestlye. Rather, it contains clearly-stated, well-documented facts regarding health, the environment, and animal rights issues. I sent copies to all my family members to help them understand the reasons why I feel this lifestyle is the correct choice for me. "Vegan" is very educational. I would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone who is interested in learning about better health or saving the planet and/or the animals that live here. (including humans!) This book is not "preachy" at all. You won't walk away feeling hopeless, like the world is in terrible, unchangeable shape. Instead you will find yourself excited and happy- feeling that you actually have a little p! iece of that knowledge key that can help make a difference in the quality of your (and everyone elses) life!
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Summary: Let the truth speak loud!
Review: A fabulous read. Unlike many other vegan authors, Erik Markus makes the case for veganism (extremely well) by stating the facts. The book is all the more powerful for the matter of fact approach Markus adopts. Buy it now. If you're thinking about becoming vegan, this book will confirm time and again, that you'll be making the right choice.
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Summary: Vegans: The Next Generation
Review: Become vegan and live like you're in Utopia. Stay carnivore and live in the harsh places of Kosovo, Saudi Arabia...etc..... I say this is an excellent book and has 100% changed my ways of living, and especially eating. If everyone would turn vegan, we would save over a million lives. This book and the ways of living a vegan has changed everything in my life. Stay vegan, and keep the animals alive...
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Summary: A compelling argument for the vegan diet.
Review: Erik Marcus combines interesting real-life stories with facts and persuasive arguments to create one of the most readable and informative books about veganism ever written. Thoroughly referenced and indexed, this book should convince nearly anyone that going vegan makes sense, for health reasons, ethical reasons, and for the environment.
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Summary: Heal Body and Planet
Review: Erik Marcus has done a masterful job of introducing non-vegans to the vegan perspective. Along with John Robbins' The Food Revolution (which I also highly recommend), there is no better book on the subject. After reading both books, I have decided to become a vegan. It's healthy, ecological, and much kinder toward animals. That said, you need only care about one of the above to make the single most important change in your life. Allow me to begin with some facts: ++ A vegan diet can reduce the risk of heart disease to nearly zero. ++ Vegans have half the chance of getting cancer as meat and dairy eaters. ++ Vegans do not die from Mad Cows disease. ++ The meat industry teats animals so horribly I had to skip over that section in the book. ++ Vegan diets do not harm animals at all. ++ 40,000 children die each day, mostly from starvation or hunger-related disease. ++ The entire world could be fed on a vegan diet; instead we run our grain through cattle and sell it off to the rich. ++ Vegan diets consume much less of the earth's resources: less water, grain, and energy. ++ American rangeland is an ecological moonscape. Although by not means a rigorously proven scientific fact, it should also be noted that many vegans report increased energy levels, better brain functioning, higher self-esteem, and increased resistance to disease and colds after making the dietary switch. The author asks, "Is it reasonable to assume that the human brain...functions identically no matter how it is nourished? Is it logical that a diet of beef and chicken and ice cream will produce the same thoughts and emotions as a diet of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains?" As scientists learn more and more about the nutritional and healing powers of fruits and vegetables, we are gaining a better understanding of the relationship between diet and physical and mental health. In any event, there is a long list of great vegetarians that point toward this relationship: including Leonardo Da Vinci, George Bernard Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, and so on. Some of the most intelligent and kind-hearted people in the world were vegetarians before the -ism was even born. They intuitively grasped the relationship between a plant-based diet and health, and recognized the need to act compassionatley toward animals. A very disarming book, the author's writing style is easy-going and matter-of-fact, affecting a clear, earnest, scientific tone. The preface was even written by former rancher/300lb. football player turned vegan, Howard Lyman, who's story will move you. After meeting him, you be introduced to doctors, nutrional biochemist, epidemiologists, and ecologists who have discovered many objective reasons to make a leap of dietary faith. I cannot over-recommend this book. While you are at it, pick up a copy of The Food Revolution. Read them both, and then pass them on. Just as the cover promises, reading and internalizing this book is the surest way to heal our planet and your body. Two birds, one stone. Give it a shot. ~A global Top 10 Save Self and Planet Book~
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Summary: Heal Body and Planet
Review: Erik Marcus has done a masterful job of introducing non-vegans to the vegan perspective. Along with John Robbins' The Food Revolution (which I also highly recommend), there is no better book on the subject. After reading both books, I have decided to become a vegan. It's healthy, ecological, and much kinder toward animals. That said, you need only care about one of the above to make the single most important change in your life. Allow me to begin with some facts: ++ A vegan diet can reduce the risk of heart disease to nearly zero. ++ Vegans have half the chance of getting cancer as meat and dairy eaters. ++ Vegans do not die from Mad Cows disease. ++ The meat industry teats animals so horribly I had to skip over that section in the book. ++ Vegan diets do not harm animals at all. ++ 40,000 children die each day, mostly from starvation or hunger-related disease. ++ The entire world could be fed on a vegan diet; instead we run our grain through cattle and sell it off to the rich. ++ Vegan diets consume much less of the earth's resources: less water, grain, and energy. ++ American rangeland is an ecological moonscape. Although by not means a rigorously proven scientific fact, it should also be noted that many vegans report increased energy levels, better brain functioning, higher self-esteem, and increased resistance to disease and colds after making the dietary switch. The author asks, "Is it reasonable to assume that the human brain...functions identically no matter how it is nourished? Is it logical that a diet of beef and chicken and ice cream will produce the same thoughts and emotions as a diet of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains?" As scientists learn more and more about the nutritional and healing powers of fruits and vegetables, we are gaining a better understanding of the relationship between diet and physical and mental health. In any event, there is a long list of great vegetarians that point toward this relationship: including Leonardo Da Vinci, George Bernard Shaw, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, and so on. Some of the most intelligent and kind-hearted people in the world were vegetarians before the -ism was even born. They intuitively grasped the relationship between a plant-based diet and health, and recognized the need to act compassionatley toward animals. A very disarming book, the author's writing style is easy-going and matter-of-fact, affecting a clear, earnest, scientific tone. The preface was even written by former rancher/300lb. football player turned vegan, Howard Lyman, who's story will move you. After meeting him, you be introduced to doctors, nutrional biochemist, epidemiologists, and ecologists who have discovered many objective reasons to make a leap of dietary faith. I cannot over-recommend this book. While you are at it, pick up a copy of The Food Revolution. Read them both, and then pass them on. Just as the cover promises, reading and internalizing this book is the surest way to heal our planet and your body. Two birds, one stone. Give it a shot. ~A global Top 10 Save Self and Planet Book~
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Summary: A Compassionate Look at the Effects of our Diet
Review: Erik Marcus has done a phenomenal job researching and writing this book. I highly recommend it for anyone concerned about their health, the environment, and animal suffering. It has reaffirmed my beliefs in choosing a plant-based diet and that the right amount of animal products for optimal health is zero. It's time for everyone to make the transition to a plant-based diet and Erik has done a great job to support this argument.
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Summary: A must-read...
Review: Erik Marcus hits the nail on the head with this book. As a vegetarian making the transition to veganism, this book not only answered my questions about veganism (such as, will I get enough calcium?), but it also re-enforced my reasons for choosing to go vegan in the first place: to do my part in healing the planet. I applaud this book and I encourage anyone who cares about either the environment, animal welfare, their own health, or even weight loss to read this book.
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Summary: Wonderfully written
Review: Erik Marcus is a great speaker and a wonderful author. It was nice to have an updated look at vegan issues. Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating is put together very well and a pleasure to read. This book makes a great present for people in your life that wonder why you are vegan or people interested in making a change to a plant-based diet. I hope this is not the only book we see from Mr. Marcus.
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Summary: A win-win
Review: Erik Marcus's "Vegan" is a great starter book on the subject. Anyone who's already an ethical vegan would probably not learn anything new, but it presents the compelling case for veganism to neophytes in an organized, rational manner. It starts off with the nutritional benefits of cutting out meat, dairy and eggs along with case histories of people who were restored to health through veganism. It goes on to talk about the horrible lives and deaths of factory farmed animals as well as the devastating impact of carnivorism on the environment. Veganism is a win-win proposition: for healthy, longer lives, for animals who are otherwise forced to be our "food slaves," and for the future well-being of our planet. I can't all the whys. He also dispels the myths about veganism being unnatural or unhealthful. Of course, it's possible to be a "junk food" or "chemical" vegan; Erik tells you how to be a nutritionally balanced vegan. If you're thinking about becoming a vegan but you're not quite convinced, be sure to read this book.
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