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Vegan reads - books about animal rights
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items A list of books about animal rights, veganism, plant-based diets that could really amplify the knowledge about these topics. It is my wishlist, the notes are the reviews and descprition of the books. Let me in the comments your thoughts on the book i...
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Social challanges
Animal rights
Plant-based diet
Feminism and veganism
Veganism outside animal farming (zoos, pandemic etc.)
History
Social challanges
Books to help you deal with the alienation as a vegan in this nonvegan world and to help you communicate veganism to others
Another great book from vegan activist Ed Winters (Earthling Ed). Great tool fro a new or even experienced vegan to get by in any convo about veganism.
How to Argue with a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) | The new book ...
As a vegan, you probably know that the hardest part about being vegan is living in a nonvegan world after you wake up from the carnist propoganda. This book will help you to understand your emotions and that all you feel is totally valid. <3
Vystopia – the anguish of being vegan in a non-vegan world
In The Joyful Vegan, author shares her insights into why some people stay vegan and others don't. Understanding that the food is the easy part of being vegan, Colleen turns her attention to what she believes is the most challenging--dealing with the ...
The Joyful Vegan: Stay Vegan in a Meat World
Tired of hearing other people's opinions, but never having the communication skills, or the right words to say to debunk their arguments and WIN THEM OVER? Has anyone ever questioned your choice to be vegan? How many times have you engaged in an argu...
The Vegan 'Beef' Guide: Win Every Argument
Great book for a vegan sceptic, new vegan, vegan curious or a family member or a friend, who' s close one just turned vegan. It will reply every question on veganism you have.
This Is Vegan Propaganda: Meat Industry Lies
Animal rights
Books that dive deep in animal rights - classics. Read these to be able to have deeper convos with your fellow vegans on veganism.
Ethics Into Action is not only a book about Henry Spira's life and the animal rights movement, it is a detailed guide for fighting injustice. As people all over the world continues to struggle for justice, Spira's method of effecting change serves as...
Peter Singer: books, biography, latest update
In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art,...
Peter Singer: Ethics in the Ream World
Peter Singer has been called the most influential philosopher alive. Animal Liberation (1975) fully rewritten for the twenty-first century, Animal Liberation Now reveals these new developments and refines its arguments to address the pressing problem...
Peter Singer - Animal Liberation
Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of "speciesism"—our systematic disregard of nonhuman animals—inspiring a worldwide movement to transform our attitudes to animals and el...
Animal Liberation (book)
Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world’s leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientifi...
Why We Love and Exploit Animals: Bridging Insights from Academia and Advocacy
A powerful and wide-ranging indictment of the treatment of animals by humans--and an eloquent plea for animal rights. Every cow just wants to be happy. Every chicken just wants to be free. Every bear, dog, or mouse experiences sorrow and feels pain a...
A Plea for the Animals: Compassion for All
A revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum. Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game...
Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility
More than twenty years after its original publication, The Case for Animal Rights is an acknowledged classic of moral philosophy, and its author is recognized as the intellectual leader of the animal rights movement. In a new and fully considered pre...
The Case for Animal Rights
This book is about a revolution--a revolution of the heart. The exploitation of animals is pervasive, entrenched, and horrific. In this book, the authors reject the idea that animal use is morally acceptable if we treat animals “humanely.” They rejec...
Animal Rights The Abolitionist Approach – …and Abolition Means ...
Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to....
Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights
Gary L. Francione is a law professor and leading philosopher of animal rights theory. Robert Garner is a political theorist specializing in the philosophy and politics of animal protection. Francione maintains that we have no moral justification for ...
The Animal Rights Debate: Abolition Or Regulation?
Plant-based diet
Books on plant-based diet and its health benefits
The vast majority of premature death and disability can be prevented through simple changes in diet and lifestyle, and, in How Not to Die, Dr. Michael Greger, the internationally-recognized lecturer, physician, and founder of NutritionFacts.org, examines the top 15 causes of death in America—heart disease, various cancers, diabetes, Parkinson’s, high blood pressure, and more—and explains how nutritional and lifestyle interventions can sometimes trump prescribed pills, other pharmaceutical ...
How Not to Die: Foods Scientifically Proven
Feminism and veganism
Can you call your self a feminist and not be vegan? Do the reads to dive deeper in this topic.
The Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary society's ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First published in 1990, the book has continu...
The Sexual Politics of Meat - Carol J. Adams
In this landmark work of animal rights activism, Carol J. Adams - the bestselling author of The Sexual Politics of Meat - explores the intersections and common causes of feminism and the defense of animals. Neither Man Nor Beast explores the common l...
Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism & Animals
Veganism outside animal farming (zoos, pandemic etc.)
Animal exploitation goes beyond industrial farming. And it hurts not only animals, but also us humans eventually. Read about zoos, pandemics, wildlife trafficking and more.
Metamorphoses of the Zoo emphasizes creative and reconstructive analyses of zoos that do not simply advocate marginal reform or quick abolition. By focusing on issues such as interspecies progress and eco-psychological health, this unique collection ...
Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter after Noah
In How to Survive a Pandemic: Overcoming COVID-19 and Preventing the Next Deadly Outbreak, Dr. Greger digs deep into the roots of the pandemics and tackles the fundamental question: How can we stop the emergence of pandemic viruses in the first place...
How to Survive a Pandemic: Greger, Michael
An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking--the poachers, the traders, and the customers--and of those fighting against it. Journalist Rachel Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a...
Poached: Inside Wildlife Trafficking
History
History of veganism.
Sins of the Flesh examines the history of vegetarianism in its ethical dimensions, from the origins of humanity through to the present.
Sins of the Flesh: Ethical Vegetarian History
Economics and veganism
What economics has to do with veganism? Read these books and find out.
Written in a clear and accessible style, Meatonomics provides vital insight into how the economics of animal food production influence our spending, eating, health, prosperity, and longevity.
Meatonomics: The Economics of Meat & Dairy
Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents ethical and political challenges to deeply rooted structures of violence and exploitation, challenging ideologies of capitalism and speciesism. Corporate i...
Constructing Ecoterrorism: Capitalism & Animal Rights
Factory farming
Veganims is not only about factory farming, but here are some book to give you more detailed insights into this topic.
This book pulls back the curtain on factory farming in America. For much of the book the author lets industry workers speak for themselves - and it's those moments that make the most condemning case.
Eating Animals - Foer, Jonathan Safran: Books
A bold yet realistic vision of how technology and social change are creating a food system in which we no longer use animals to produce meat, dairy, or eggs. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma and Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals brought wi...
The End of Animal Farming
Activism
Vegans want to help animals, but question is - what is the most effective way? Read stories and advice on activism in the books below.
In this thought-provoking book, Tobias Leenaert leaves well-trodden animal advocacy paths and takes a fresh look at the strategies, objectives, and communication of the vegan and animal rights movement. He argues that, given our present situation, wi...
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach
Immerse yourself in the world of animal rights protests, campaigns, demonstrations, outreach, rescue, and so much more. In today’s world, voices of the marginalized are in the spotlight and people across the globe are recognizing animal rights as a s...
Voices for Animal Liberation: Activist Accounts
How can we as animal advocates best help nonhuman animals? This is a question that gets thrown around and debated passionately among those who care deeply about animals. Many fall within different "camps," claiming that their particular approach is m...
Motivational Methods for Vegan Advocacy
A collection of essays, lecture transcripts, and unpublished writings from former animal liberation prisoner Peter Young. Breaking into farms and labs.Researching ALF targets.Fugitive stories of being hunted by the FBI.History of ALF lab raids. How t...
Animal Liberation: Above The Law Stories
What exactly do vegans believe? Why has veganism become such a critical and criticized social movement, and how does veganism correspond to wider debates about sustainability, animal studies, and the media? Eva Haifa Giraud offers an accessible route...
Veganism: Politics, Practice, and Theory
The Vegan Activist is all about getting active in animal activism and standing up for animal rights. The best thing we can do for the animals is to Get Active in Animal Activism and encourage more people to do it too. So we wrote this book, The Vegan...
The Vegan Activist: Activism for Animals
Art
Helping animals though spreading awarness through art. Check to books below.
The Art of Compassion is the first book of its kind—a collection of heartwarming and awakening vegan art from eighty artists around the globe. Through the power of visual and literary art, this book aims to expose the plight of animals, to empower an...
The Art of Compassion: Activism for Animals
Religion and veganism
Religion has a huge influence in poeple accross the globe. Read the book on how different religions or absence in religion relates to the vegan message.
Buddhism ought to be an animal rights religion par excellence. It has long held that all life forms are sacred and considers kindness and compassion the highest virtues. Moreover, Buddhism explicitly includes animals in its moral universe. Buddhist r...
The Great Compassion: Buddhism and Animal Rights
Religious arguments for animal rights and liberation are fairly common in the literature on the animal question and the animal condition. Meanwhile, arguments considering animal liberation from a deliberately secular perspective are virtually nonexis...
Animal Liberation and Atheism by Kim Socha