Tag: Vegan
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BR166) “Eat & Run” Book Review
Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness by Scott Jurek. 3/5 rating. 273 pages. Book #2 of 2021. Read January 10, 2021. This is Scott’s story about his early life as an ultramarathoner. Scott is one of the most decorated ultrarunners (ultras are officially any race longer than 26.2 miles) in the world.…
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BR123) “Animal Liberation” Book Review
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals by Peter Singer. 3/5 rating. 258 pages. Book #48 of 2020. Read July 28, 2020. This is a classic about humanity’s need to take seriously the sentience and suffering of nonhuman animals. Peter does a great job of offering a very-well reasoned justification for our…
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BR114) “Eating Animals” Book Review
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. 3/5 rating. 267 pages. Book #39 of 2020. Read June 19, 2020. This book is about Jonathan’s in-depth search into the animal agriculture system once he became a father. I will say that he has a very weird way of writing, so be prepared for all of this important…
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BR80) We Are the Weather
We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer. 3/5 rating. Book #5 of 2020. Read January 10, 2020. This book had an incredibly important message for how to save the world: eating vegan before dinner. If everyone implemented this, we could move to vastly less environmental impacts, while still…
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BR2) The China Study or How to Fix Your Health
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas Campbell 5/5 rating. Read January 27, 2019. There is an entire body of scientific work supporting that a healthy diet can not only lower your chances of getting cancer, heart disease, osteoporosis, kidney stones, MS, Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s, and autoimmune diseases, but actually even maybe reverse…