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A treasure for both vegetarians and lovers of history., May 28, 2004
This review is from: Vegetarian America: A History (Hardcover)
This book is facinating. What a treasure!
If you are a vegetarian you will love this book.You will be surprised and in awe of those who have ventured the path before you.
Not a vegetarian but have a love for history especially presented in an entertaing and informative manner? If so, you will find this book rich with facinating information that can not be found anywhere in one volume. The first chapter for example, grabs the reader by describing the vegetarian path of our dear and beloved Ben Franklin.
This book is a must for both vegetarians and lovers of history.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Treasure Trove of Vegetarian History, August 16, 2004
This review is from: Vegetarian America: A History (Hardcover)
The Iacobbos' book is an excellent introduction to the vegetarian movement in the United States. The authors adroitly blend a sociological approach to vegetarianism with colorful, informative sketches of the lives of major historical figures in the movement from William Alcott, Sylvester Graham and John Harvey Kellogg to contemporary advocates of vegan and raw food dietetic practices and animal rights crusaders. The authors weave together various threads of health-related social reformism of the 19th Century such as natural hygiene, anti-tobacco and temperance movements along side vegetarianism in an intriguing and well-researched book. Students, culinary historians, and general readers alike will be well served by this source.
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A Delightful History Resurrected By Writer Power, June 25, 2005
This review is from: Vegetarian America: A History (Hardcover)
Karen and Michael Iacobbo are brilliant writers, tenacious
researchers, scribes of compassion whose pens are magic wands
touching all hearts by enlivening the vegetarian past of America. They describe the Bible Christian Church whose pastors Metcalfe and Cowherd had names which perhaps sparked their consciousness, the poetry of John Harvey Kellogg, MD, the dedicated life of Sylvester
Graham (after whom Graham crackers are named), the feminist
activism of Connie Salamone for female chickens and cows
who are in prison, the passion of Ellen G White and other
Seventh Day Adventists, the power of Srila Prabhupad whose
Hare Krishna movement has given out trillions of free vegetarian
meals around the world.
They delineate ethical, health, energy, environment, esthetic
and other reasons to take the plunge into a nonviolent diet.
Vegetarians now receive life insurance discounts as the average
abstainer from flesh lives 7 years longer.
The Iacobbo's cover Alex Hershaft, founder of the Great American Meatout,
PETA activists, Dudley Giehl, author and founder of Animal
Liberation in NYC, raw vegetarian meals for Congress, and
thousands more activists.
This poster has one point of separation, believing that
vegetarian diet began not with Pythagoras and the Greeks
but with Rama, considered by a billion Hindus to be the
first Avatar, about whose Spirit of which vegetarianism
was a part, the Ramayana was written 20,000 years ago.
Famous vegetarians include Buddha, Krishna, Jesus, Susan B
Anthony, Van Gogh, Da Vinci (a fruitarian), Tolstoy,
Einstein, Ramanujan. The vegetarian community, some estimate,
is now a billion souls in the world.
This poster put 2 books in her vacation satchel. This was one
of them.
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