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Ed was the reason I went vegan, so being able to refer to all of my favourite arguments and logical reasoning in one place is amazing. This is the best book to explain veganism to a non vegan. It’s informative, it doesn’t beat around the bush but at the same time isn’t an attack or anything like that. He touches on soooo many topics that many miss. It’s a brilliant collection of topics, thoroughly research and referenced. I learned a lot despite being well informed already. This is something I will refer back to again and again.

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4.5

Super thorough and well researched take down of the animal agriculture industry - breaking down the key arguments people make in its favour and exposing the massive machine that props it up. I could have done with slightly less confronting language to describe the treatment of animals as I think his points stood up without it, but I appreciate that's part of his point. Still, I find it hard to see this being a great introduction for a hardened meat eater as I can imagine them switching off at the strength of his descriptions early on.

Otherwise a very accessible overview of the issues around animal agriculture. I was already vegan-ish for environmental reasons, but I can now bump animal cruelty up the list of rationales. The chapter on pandemic risk was also particularly powerful. I listened to it, but want to buy a copy so that I can recite the facts more readily.

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5.0

Well informed, widely cited, spectacular book. I don't know what I was expecting from this book but it went above and beyond my expectations. Anything you want to know about veganism, why people choose to go vegan and how everyone (not just vegans) get their nutrients (spoiler alert: it's plants). Everyone should read this book.

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3.5

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4.5

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informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.5

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4.5

A really great comprehensive book on veganism! Thought the first part was a little brutal (but fair enough), the second was so informative and told me a lot I didn’t know before about the effect of animal agriculture on the environment, and the last part I probably enjoyed the most: really identified with a lot of the points he makes about being vegan, where some of the meaner responses to veganism come from in society, as well as the roles of advertising and the meat/dairy industry in its own propaganda to promote a lifestyle that is really quite fundamentally incompatible with a healthy society in general. Really recommend!

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