A review by bookwoods
Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were by Philip Lymbery

3.0

This book has one excellent aspect and two quite annoying things. Let’s start with the positive. Dead Zone gave me heaps of information about the problems related to agriculture – new views to issues I was already familiar with and introductions to ones I hadn’t even heard of before. But I wish the book was more concise and focused on those brilliant facts. Instead, there’s a lot of personal stories and I wasn’t interested in reading about things like how Philip Lymbery and her wife celebrated their anniversary, or how Philip encountered his first Barn Owl. I feel like these parts took away some of the credibility of the actual information. The other complaint I have relates to the way Lymbery states multiple times that even though animal agriculture is causing unfathomable suffering and severe environmental problems, you still shouldn’t stop eating meat. As a vegan activist, this didn’t resonate with me. At all.