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Skinny Bitch: A No-Nonsense, Tough-Love Guide for Savvy Girls Who Want to Stop Eating Crap and Start Looking Fabulous!
by Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin
My fellow vegans will love this book. Meat-eaters will, I hope, be convinced to switch to a vegan diet, but they are probably more likely to hate this book or to stop reading it because it makes them uncomfortable.
Initially, the book seems like just another diet/health/fitness book with the the authors pontificating on why sugar and food additives are bad and organic food is good. However, Skinny Bitch is atypical in that the authors write in a very, very conversational tone, and this is definitely not G-rated material. I laughed out loud when, on the very first page, they tell us, "You cannot keep eating the same shit and expect to get skinny." There is also a liberal scattering of "fucks" and "fucking" and other variations of "fuck." But, other than the language, the book does, at first, seem to be a very traditional health and nutrition book.
Then we come to the chapters on meat and dairy and the diatribes against factory farming and modern industrialized agriculture. For those of us in the vegan and animal rights community, there is nothing really new here, but it is ever and always depressing to read again about the vile, despicable manner in which animals are treated. If you've ever read Peter Singer's classic Animal Liberation, you will find that the Skinny Bitch authors give what can be described as a very condensed but highly informative summary of Singer's book, detailing many of the same cruel and abusive practices to which animals are subjected.
The book also provides many resources for vegans: websites, books, lists of non-vegan ingredients that are hiding in various foods.
This is a highly informative book written in a somewhat unusual style, and it is a quick and easy read. (I easily finished it in a day.) If you take the ideas of these authors seriously (and you should), you will not only find yourself living a much healthier lifestyle, but you will also be a better person because you will, hopefully, adopt a vegan diet and thus stop contributing to the vile, horrific treatment of animals.
Initially, the book seems like just another diet/health/fitness book with the the authors pontificating on why sugar and food additives are bad and organic food is good. However, Skinny Bitch is atypical in that the authors write in a very, very conversational tone, and this is definitely not G-rated material. I laughed out loud when, on the very first page, they tell us, "You cannot keep eating the same shit and expect to get skinny." There is also a liberal scattering of "fucks" and "fucking" and other variations of "fuck." But, other than the language, the book does, at first, seem to be a very traditional health and nutrition book.
Then we come to the chapters on meat and dairy and the diatribes against factory farming and modern industrialized agriculture. For those of us in the vegan and animal rights community, there is nothing really new here, but it is ever and always depressing to read again about the vile, despicable manner in which animals are treated. If you've ever read Peter Singer's classic Animal Liberation, you will find that the Skinny Bitch authors give what can be described as a very condensed but highly informative summary of Singer's book, detailing many of the same cruel and abusive practices to which animals are subjected.
The book also provides many resources for vegans: websites, books, lists of non-vegan ingredients that are hiding in various foods.
This is a highly informative book written in a somewhat unusual style, and it is a quick and easy read. (I easily finished it in a day.) If you take the ideas of these authors seriously (and you should), you will not only find yourself living a much healthier lifestyle, but you will also be a better person because you will, hopefully, adopt a vegan diet and thus stop contributing to the vile, horrific treatment of animals.