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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

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March 1, 2016
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
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Mara Kahn, MS, is a noted science writer specializing in health, the environment, human-animal ethics, and eco-traveling. She lives in Colorado's snowy Rockies with her family and a roving tribe of elk, cougars, and black bears.

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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

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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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A. Brunelle

Great book for those questioning a vegan diet

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 28, 2020

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The main problem I've always had with the vegan diet were the deficiencies inherent in the diet. I've been vegan almost 5 years now and I've read both sides of the argument and what I've concluded not just from this book but from many other viewpoints on this topic is that an optimal diet is not 100% vegan. There have never been reproducing societies that were strictly vegan. There have been vegetarian and pescatarian diets that have been amazing, though.

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.

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LeeAnn

There is a lot to like about this book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 17, 2016

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There is a lot to like about this book. I liked reading her story on her vegetarian/vegan history and return to omnivore. In my family, we have a mixture of people who really need more animal protein as opposed to some of us (me included) who are a mixed/carb type and could probably suffice on a vegetarian (NOT vegan) diet.

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.

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E. Wiggins

Mara Asks the Tough Questions

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 28, 2018

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I bought this book as a former vegan of six and a half years turned vegetarian for a few months and now pescetarian for the last six months. I felt this book was long overdue as there needs to be a healthy counter argument to the vegan movement, as with any movement. Mara addresses many of the grey areas others skirt around or avoid (pets, medical care, primitive communities, soil health and fertilizers etc), and she addresses concerns and dilemmas I questioned and faced in the later years as a vegan. I like that she doesn't state that veganism is impossible or unhealthy for everyone. But that the world is made up of a very diverse people and one size or way of living does NOT fit everyone. The religious cult like self righteous extremism and total abolition of all animal use regardless of merit within the vegan movement is disturbing to say the least. I found myself caught up in this for a while to the extent it nearly ruined my relationships with family and friends. I could very much relate to Mara's observations having been in the thick of the movement myself (not just in diet but in hands on activism in the local community) and what it was like to leave veganism behind and relax my standards. I also like that Mara does not push one particular agenda (ie Paleo/Primal, Atkins, Low carb, religious beliefs etc) as the one and only way as other ex vegan writers tend to do. She leaves the door open at both ends of the house, and challenges us to dig a little deeper and ask the bigger questions before diving in to a movement that is still little known and that still makes up a very small population of the world.

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Ira M. Edwards

Great anthopology

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2016

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This is an autobiography and an anthropology volume. If you want proof that vegan diets are harmful, that is here over and over. Vegetarian isn't much better. Her personal experience matched many others whose mind was muddled and body failing while doing all possible to never harm and animal. Like many others, she had to change. Like Lierre Keith, she then studied thoroughly and wrote the truth that should have been obvious to her years sooner. Then, with all that protect-animal philosophy, the diets fail to do that. Those who make a market for ethical meat production are much more effective.
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.

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Dag Viljen Poleszynski

Too many words, but an interesting story. The ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 14, 2016

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Too many words, but an interesting story. The book would be more interesting if the personal voyage was shortened so that the message came forth sooner and more succint.

Rolf Schwartz

This is a great book, when can we expect it in German language because I want it as a gift for my daughter who feed our grandson two years old, not knowing the consequences, onjy vegan.

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on March 11, 2018

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This is a great book, when can we expect it in German language because I want it as a gift for my daughter who feed our grandson two years old, not knowing the consequences, onjy vegan.

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