A review by robertrivasplata
Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag: A Memoir by Michael Anthony

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4.5

Memoir of the author's attempt to get his girlfriend to go back to eating meat, by becoming a vegetarian with her. Had Anthony read Mother Night, it might have occurred to him that by successfully pretending to go vegan, he would go vegan. I found the author's to be very annoying throughout most of the book, but I guess that's kind of the point. He paints Coconut as kind of a saint, but I guess she'd kind of have to be to put up with any amount of his basic-ass arguments against going veg, 2010s era male contrarianism, & Cards Against Humanity style edgy nihilism. Showed a glimpse of the world of ex-military vegans. So this is also a memoir of growing up. I'm surprised that in all of the vegetarian/vegan literature cited, there's never anything about the harms the meat industry inflicts on its workers, especially with the stories in the news from 2020 about the meat packing plants practically competing to see how many of their workers would get covid and die. I'll definitely want to see any other graphic novels that the artist Simone comes out with.