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Vegan Betrayal: Love, lies, and hunger in a plants-only world Paperback – March 1, 2016
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Science meets sensuality in this penetrating examination of veganism, its scant history, dazzling health claims, fiery proponents, and growing throngs of disillusioned drop-outs. If you've ever wondered whether a plants-only diet is right for you, your son, daughter or significant other, Vegan Betrayal answers all your questions.
Weaving intimate storytelling with cutting-edge nutrition research, this coming-of-age journey veers passionately from youthful idealism to intense questioning to mature acceptance of our genetic dictates and the earth's sacred but unforgiving biological truths. Travel the wisdom roads of the Buddha, female bow hunters, and salt-of-the-earth family farmers in this candid, comic, fierce but always honest look at our dietary choices and the rightful individuality of your chosen way.
In this book you will learn:
---Why some thrive and some take a dive on this non-historical, minimally researched diet
---The author’s concept of reverse speciesism: favoring another species well-being over your own and other humans
---All the important carninutrients found exclusively in animal-sourced food (there are a lot of them)
---Why lab-concocted supplements and synthetics can never replace real, whole foods
---How to find out if you are a high-protein or high-carb metabolic type (or something in between)
---Why daily protein recommendations have been substantially increased by nutrition experts
---The Ayurvedic body type that suffers most as a vegan, and which type best tolerates this restricted diet
---The dark side of soy: why an excess is harmful, while eating a large variety of species, both plant and animal, is the road to good health
---The 2.5 million-year anthropological record of human omnivores vs. the extremely brief history of veganism, who invented it, where and why
---Why the ethical argument does not hold up under close examination of modern industrial plant agriculture
---How our youthful idealism is not always grounded in reality
- Print length448 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherLittle Boat Press
- Publication dateMarch 1, 2016
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100990341321
- ISBN-13978-0990341321
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- Publisher : Little Boat Press (March 1, 2016)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 448 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0990341321
- ISBN-13 : 978-0990341321
- Item Weight : 1.43 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,779,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #333 in Vegan Diets (Books)
- #2,001 in Culinary Biographies & Memoirs
- #3,771 in Ecology (Books)
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Mara Kahn, MS, is an ecologist and science writer specializing in health, the environment, eco-traveling and human-animal ethics. She is the author of "Studied to Death: A Critique of Ethics in Wildlife Research" and co-author of "Life Abounding: Paddling the Seven Continents" with wildlife biologist Lawrence Rice. Her articles have appeared in a variety of national journals and magazines including Trumpeter, Journal of Ecosophy, Canoe Journal, Paddler and Backpacker.
The author's journeys in pursuit of nature's truths have taken her from the wild salmon runs of coastal Alaska to the dense swamps of backwoods Arkansas in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker. Currently she is researching how the carnivore-herbivore relationship ensures ecosystem health in Yellowstone and Rocky Mountain national parks. Mara lives in the snowy northern Rockies with her family and a roving tribe of elk, cougars and black bears.
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I'm still vegan as of today (except for honey I put in my berry-banana-kale-spinach smoothie). And I just started taking krill oil a few days ago. I will probably be adding fish a couple of times a week, but that's it. I think this book confirmed what I was feeling myself with the DHA and EPA deficiency and even though there are algae-based DHA supplements, I'd feel better getting it from a fish. I eat very healthily, 90% whole foods and I still feel lacking in energy, so I do believe the optimal diet is mostly vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds with a little bit of animal products, mostly fish and clean fish from non-polluted sources. But read the book if you're curious about it. Also check out Rob Greenfield's blog entry about veganism and why he's not vegan on robgreenfield.org/veganism.
Edit: I will also be reintroducing eggs into my diet due to a possible choline deficiency. Occasional dairy as well, but I won't over do dairy and only eat organic pastured eggs, dairy, and meat/fish.
Her comments on a sustainable food supply are well taken, but there are other things to consider. Our world has always done some type of trade the past several thousand years that include various foodstuffs -- i.e. coffee, tea, spices, various grains etc. The current supply of fresh produce transportation is a bit concerning. Personally, I always think of ways to work my food supply in the upper Midwest when these things are not naturally available. My grandparents used to put root veggies in the cellar, make fermented foods (i.e. sauerkraut), can food, etc. to get through the winters. I grew up on a farm and sill live on a small farm. We grow our own beef and poultry. We have a garden, keep enough of the food in our cellar to get through a good share of the winter, so I can relate to those comments. She mentions 5 yr olds in poor countries working in deplorable conditions. Has she seen them? That may or may not be true - don't know. But I do know I was working in the garden, gathering eggs, and helping care for livestock at that age and didn't think anything of it. There's a lot that can and should change in our food supply, but I think we'll always have some type of global food transportation going on.
The last part of the book talks a lot about Buddhist perspective and diet. For me, it was a bit too much. I felt like I was getting Buddhism shoved at me and didn't appreciate it. I do feel most religions have a spiritual side that could answer a lot of these questions the same way she answers with Buddhism.... sorry, but just didn't appreciate it.
In short, a good read on vegetarianism/veganism/omnivores and diets. The political/religious stuff kind of got to me.
If you love to read, and want a great story, this should be 5 stars.
If like me, you just want the information and get it over with, it minus a star for being too wordy.
Lierre Keith's book Vegetarian Myths gave me the thorough study that I wanted, and I really didn't need to read this one.
The Weston A. Price Foundation is another reliable source of heathy eating information..
It really is a great book.



