10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You need this book!, October 9, 2002
By A Customer
This book will change your life! Peter Cox is solely responsible for my family giving up meat five weeks ago. The information is clearly presented and hits hard. After reading this book, I think it would be virtually impossible to continue consuming a Western diet. You don't need meat!! And you won't want any ever again after reading this amazing book.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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You Really Don't, July 8, 2003
Mr. Cox has spent considerable time in the service of corporations as a marketing guru. His focus has shifted from corporate profits to human health and consciences but the tactics employed are the same.
The first 266 pages of his 339 page book are dedicated to "revealing" the realities of the meat industry, the failures of government to protect its citizens from said meat industry, and information about diseases that may be induced or aggravated by consuming the products of the meat industry.
One assumes the target for the bulk of this book are individuals who find themselves on the fence about choosing a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle. In which case, this book inevitably has the ability to knock you clean off that fence and onto the non-flesh consuming side. Especially, if you were completely unaware of the realities of the meat industry and the products they produce.
The remainder of the book proves to be helpful, even through its brevity, in converting to a meat-free way of living. There is a small recipe section, some stories about how certain individuals coped with the social complexities of conversion, a Q & A section, and a list of vegetarian organizations.
If you are considering eliminating meat from your diet, or even shooting for the moon and eliminating all animal products, this book is useful in reinforcing your decision to do so. If you are looking for a how-to manual on developing a meat-free way of living, this book is limited in its ability to help guide you in that direction but can still assist you, if ever so slightly. In either case, I recommend, to all would be or current veggies, to read this book eventually.
Another book in a similar vein you may want to explore is Hope's Edge by Anna and Frances Moore Lappe.
If you are looking for information on what steps to take in becoming a vegetarian, I apologize, I haven't found a solid single volume to recomend. I would suggest spending as much time as you can before making this type of decision reading from many sources. Lorna Sass, Steve Brill, Dr. Timothy Smith, Dr. Ronald Klatz and Dr. Robert Goldman are authors you may want to take a look into to get started and get some recipe ideas.
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
brilliantly depicts the impact of vegetarianism on health and lifestyle, November 30, 2005
This review is from: You Don't Need Meat (Paperback)
Having been bombarded by vegetarian books lately, I chose not to pick up this book at the library fearing that it would reiterate the same issues over and over again- disease prevention and weight loss. I love John Robbins books and I was hoping for a parallel which is what I found in this. Cox is humerous, he understands the skepticism that non-vegs face, and how much vegetarian research was never put in headlines. He intends to show that there is firm evidence with the connections between the ingestion of meat and spongiform death in humans, that the younger generation's risk of disease are much higher due to high fat and meat diets, that we were meant to be herbivores, and that our livestock was never meant to consume their own kind. Cox includes in his book the reasons behind the Mad Cow epidemic, the proven facts that farmers and meat ad agencies want to cover up, and the overwhelming (yet hardly heard about) reseach that shows different people and cultures that consume less meat are less likely to contract disease. I like the way that Cox writes with the understanding that meat eating is deep rooted and he can attempt to teach us but not convince us to change our eating habits. I like that he doesnt try and impose a strict diet or make us feel guilt trips for eating meat. He just is showing facts and research that we may not have known about and is important. I also like how Cox makes this book easy to read and humerous.
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