Why Veganism Matters presents the case for the personhood of nonhuman animals and for veganism in a clear and accessible way that does not require any philosophical or legal background. This book offers a persuasive and powerful argument for all readers who care about animals but are not sure whether they have a moral obligation to be vegan.

"What exactly do vegans believe? Why has veganism become such a critical and criticised social movement, and how does it correspond to wider debates about the environment and sustainability, animal studies, and the media? Eva Haifa Giraud offers an accessible route into the debates that surround vegan politics, which feed into broader issues surrounding food activism and ethical consumption. Giraud presents an overview of both arguments in favor of veganism and the criticisms levelled at vegan politics. She outlines the essential debates and topics that are central to conversations around veganism, including identity, intersectional politics, and activism, with research drawn from literary animal studies, animal geographies, ecofeminism, posthumanism, and new materialism. While publicly vegan chefs and proponents have been accused of elitism and class warfare, Giraud examines the portrayal of these tensions in relation to class, race, and disability, using public media campaigns as her case studies, for example in the appropriation of activist slogans by high profile vegan campaigns such as #alllivesmatter movement. Giraud also makes an original theoretical intervention into these often fraught debates, and argues that veganism holds radical political potential to act as 'more than a diet' by disrupting norms and assumptions about how humans relate to animals. Drawing on a range of examples from popular culture, from recipe books with punk aesthetics to social media campaigns, Giraud shows how veganism's radical potential is being undermined by its commercialization, and elucidates new conceptual frameworks for reclaiming veganism as a radical social movement."--

This detailed and comprehensive overview of meat-free diets introduces readers to their long history in human cultures and analyzes some of the important questions and issues surrounding their practice in today's world. The text illustrates the rich background of individuals who have promoted and practiced vegetarianism throughout the ages; describes some reasons that people choose to become vegetarians or vegans; discusses the positive and negative nutritional issues involved in living a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle; and comments on reasons that some people have (sometimes strong) opposition to vegetarian and/or vegan lifestyles.

A Diet for a New Millennium, picks up where Jon Robbins left off with recipes, ideas and tips for every week of the year for going vegan.

The tenth anniversary edition of Tanya and Sarah's classic first cookbook.

Owner of Sydney's Sadhana Kitchen, Maz Valcorza shares 140+ nourishing, plant-based, raw food receipes for health and wellbeing. There once was a nurse-turned-pharmaceutical sales manager who had always partied hard, chain smoked, eaten as many bacon sandwiches as she liked and exercised just enough to stay fit. One day, she decided to take up yoga (because it seemed like a great way to get a toned butt). Little did she know that this snap decision, made out of curiosity and vanity, would change her life forever, leading her on a journey to organic, plant-based, raw food health, one delicious bite at a time.

In this informative and practical guide, two seasoned vegans offer tips and advice for thriving without animal by-products. Sometimes funny and irreverent yet always aware of its serious message, this resource for being vegan in a world that doesn't always understand or have sympathy for the lifestyle illustrates how to go vegan in three weeks or less by employing a ?cold tofu method;" convince family, friends, and others that there is no such thing as a vegan cult; and survive restaurants, grocery stores, and meals with omnivores. Also offering answers to

Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, Vegucated follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured by tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover the hidden sides of animal agriculture that make them wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. This entertaining documentary showcases the rapid and at times comedic evolution of three people who discover they can change the world one bite at a time.