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Please Don’t Eat the Animals:
All the Reasons You Need to be a Vegetarian
By Jennifer Horsman & Jaime Flowers
Quill Driver Books, 128 pp.
Just last month, a new study led by doctors at the Harvard Medical School and Brigham’s and Women’s Hospital revealed that women who ate more than 1 1/2 servings per day of red meat – cow, pig, or lamb flesh, were almost twice as likely to develop hormone-related breast cancer as those who ate fewer than three portions per week. While adopting a vegetarian diet in no way guarantees one will never develop cancer, it is, however, a wonderful way to increase one’s protection against not only breast cancer, but also other forms of cancer.
Indeed, there are many reasons to switch to a plant-based diet, not the least of which is reducing one’s cancer risk. But if you need further convincing that vegetarianism is for you, add Please Don’t Eat the Animals: All the Reasons You Need to be a Vegetarian to your reading list.
Obviously, choosing to go vegetarian or vegan is a highly personal and individual decision, and most of us would not appreciate being told what we should or should not eat. Yet, when considering a lifestyle change, it helps to have the most accurate and up-to-date information – preferably all in one easy-to read book! This is what readers will find within the pages of Please Don’t Eat the Animals. The authors list the numerous benefits of vegetarianism, with chapters on the environment, animal welfare, health, religion and spirituality. The book is an excellent guide that can assist in making a confident and well-informed decision to go vegetarian.
In one chapter, the authors describe how “the process of becoming a vegetarian acts like a spark to consciousness…”. The same can be said of Please Do Not Eat the Animals. The book’s title is a reminder, “a spark to consciousness,” that the packages of chops, cutlets and ribs conveniently for sale at grocery stores are the remains of animals that were once living, breathing creatures, not merely meat.
While Please Don’t Eat the Animals is most suitable for non-vegetarians, the book includes many quotes—some rather uncommon, on the topic of vegetarianism that will interest long-time vegetarians.
So, if you’re thinking about giving vegetarianism a try, pick up a copy of Please Don’t Eat the Animals and discover the many reasons to seriously consider a change to a more healthy and compassionate way of life.
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