Recommended Reading & Viewing
All of the
books are available at Compassionate Cook’s Online Store at Amazon.com. Just
click on Stock Your Pantry from the homepage at www.compassionatecooks.com.
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This exhaustive
presentation of the findings from the China Study conclusively demonstrates the
link between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Referred to as
the "Grand Prix of epidemiology" by the New York Times, this study
reveals the dramatic effect proper nutrition can have on reducing and reversing
these ailments.
Becoming Vegan: The Complete Guide
to Adopting a Healthy Plant-Based Diet by Vesanto
Melina, M.S., R.D. & Brenda
Two of
Diet for a New
An extraordinary exposé
of the consequences our food choices have on the earth, animals, and human
health. By far the most popular book ever published on the subject matter.
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet
Can Help Save Your Life and Our World by John Robbins & Dean Ornish MD
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 argues.
He demonstrates that individual dietary choices can be both empowering and have
a broader impact.
An Unnatural Order: Why We Are
Destroying the Planet and Each Other by Jim Mason
Mason--attorney,
journalist, and coauthor of Animal Factories--examines how our nature-alienated
culture deprives us of kinship with the rest of the natural world, stifles
empathy, and destroys our sense of continuity with other living things.
Animal Liberation by
Peter Singer
The
book that sparked the modern animal liberation movement. Completely revised and updated. If you only read
one book on the subject, make this the one.
Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story
of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the
Slaughterhouse exposes
the cruel industry that turns live animals into sterile, cellophane-wrapped
food in the meat display case. The testimony of dozens of slaughterhouse
workers and USDA inspectors reveals the nightmarish truth as innocent,
sentient, and intelligent horses, cows, pigs, and chickens are forced into
interminable agony.
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the
Cattle Rancher who Won't Eat Meat by Howard Lyman
Persuasive,
straightforward, and full of the down-home good humor and optimism, Mad Cowboy
is both an inspirational story of personal transformation and a convincing call
to action for a plant-based diet.
World Peace Diet: Eating for
Spiritual Health and Social Harmony by Will Tuttle, PhD
The author of this
eloquently written book challenges our thinking about our relationship to
non-human animals with respect, sensitivity, and grace. His understanding of
the human psyche is deep. His use of language is divine, and his compassion
reaches jumps off each and every page.
Appetite for Profit: How the Food
Industry Undermines our Health and How to Fight Back by
Michele Simon
This is an incredibly
important book that finally explains why the answer to our food problems does
not lie in the food corporations themselves. With brilliant insight and facts
in hand, Simon’s book empowers and motivates.
For the Prevention of Cruelty: The
History and Legacy of Animal Rights Activism in the
I can safely say I think
this is one of the most important books to be published - not only for the
animal protection movement but for all social justice causes. Diane is an
eloquent writer and has created an fascinating
narrative that would interest anyone who's ever adopted a dog or a cat, donated
to their local SPCA, or who works on behalf of the voiceless. I highly
recommend this book!
Food Politics: How the Food Industry
Influences Nutrition and Health by Marion Nestle, chair of
nutrition and food studies at NYU
Nestle offers an expose
of the tactics used by the food industry to protect its economic interests and
influence public opinion. She shows how the industry promotes sales by
resorting to lobbying, lawsuits, financial contributions, public relations,
advertising, alliances, and philanthropy to influence Congress, federal
agencies, and nutrition and health professionals.
Dominion: The Power of Man, the
Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy by Matthew Scully
Dominion is a plea for
human benevolence and mercy, a scathing attack on those who would dismiss
animal activists as mere sentimentalists, and a demand for reform from the
government down to the individual. Dominion is a nascent masterpiece.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of
the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
Frequently using
McDonald's as a template, Schlosser, an Atlantic Monthly correspondent,
explains how the development of fast-food restaurants has led to the
standardization of American culture, widespread obesity, urban sprawl and more.
Peaceable Kingdom: by
Tribe of Heart
In this beautiful film, we hear
the riveting stories of people struggling with their conscience around some of
our society’s most fundamental assumptions. An inspiring story of personal
redemption, compassion, healing and hope, Peaceable
Kingdom is described by many of its viewers as “a life changing
experience.” Purchase at www.tribeofheart.org.
The Witness by Tribe
of Heart
In this award-winning
documentary, Eddie Lama explains how he feared and avoided animals for most of
his life, until the love of a kitten opened his heart, inspiring him to rescue
abandoned animals, become a vegetarian, and ultimately, to bring his message of
compassion to the streets of New York. Purchase at www.tribeofheart.org.
Meet Your Meat by PETA
The green pastures and
idyllic barnyard scenes of years past are now distant memories. On today’s
factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy windowless
sheds, wire cages, gestation crates, and other confinement systems. Though it
contains footage that is difficult to watch, if we can’t be a witness to what
the animals endure, how can we support it by eating meat, dairy, and eggs?
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