Denver, CO (10/20/2005)—“This book confronts the serious problems of the modern American food industry, from unhealthy eating habits to the abuse of our environment to issues of world sustainability,” says Sara Kate Kneidel, the daughter in the dynamic mother-daughter author team of Veggie Revolution: Smart Choices for a Healthy Body and a Healthy Planet. “This is a very relevant topic at a time in which health and diet concerns are mounting and the environmental and population issues impacted by diet choices are approaching the breaking point.” Including everything from personal anecdotes to recipes, Veggie Revolution is an in-your-face look at our food and how our dietary decisions affect our environment.
Sara Kate Kneidel and her mother, Sally Kneidel, visited factory farms as well as smaller family-run farms and based much of their writing on their interviews with the people they met there. When the Kneidels first started, they were told that they would never be able to gain access to factory farms, let alone obtain interviews. Not only did they obtain access to four factory farms, they also managed to get interviews with the farmers and take the graphic photos of the animals and their living conditions, all of which can be seen in Veggie Revolution.
“Also unique to this book are the interviews with students and with others involved in the food industry, such as the school cafeteria manager and the grocery store manager,” says Sally Kneidel. First-hand accounts, interviews, and photos support all of the information included in Veggie Revolution, with student opinions interspersed throughout, making the text easy to read and very accessible.
“For a reader choosing a vegetarian diet or thinking about it, this book is a comprehensive look at every reason people cite for giving up meat,” says Sally Kneidel. Veggie Revolution answers firsthand any questions readers have about animal care in the meat industry, environmental issues related to meat consumption (from pollution problems to loss of land to the use of fossil fuels), nutrition and health concerns for both vegetarians and heavy meat eaters, and world population growth and sustainability issues. Veggie Revolution also explains why right now the Earth could not support the current world population if everyone ate as much meat as Americans eat. Nearly 100 simple and delicious vegetarian recipes support the text, which urges readers to become educated about what they eat and to learn to use their dietary actions to create a revolution.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Sally Kneidel, Ph.D., is a biologist, journalist, photographer, and teacher. She is also a vegetarian family cook and a parent of two college students. She has taught biology and writing in colleges and public schools for more than 15 years, and teaches tropical ecology on student trips to the rainforests of Costa Rica. She is particularly interested in issues related to the impact of our growing human population on wildlife and habitat. While her first ten books deal strictly with zoology and botany, Veggie Revolution is her first examination of how human behavior and social responsibility affect the natural environment. |
Sara Kate Kneidel, an activist, feminist, and Quaker, earned a B.A. in Spanish and women’s studies from Guilford College in 2005, with a minor in field biology. She worked as a vegetarian cook for three years, then organized a communal vegetarian household for herself and friends, centered around a “food ethics” theme. After a stint as coordinator for a community-development program in Mexico, she is currently traveling in Spain and Africa before returning to North Carolina. Writing, she believes, is an effective means of raising public awareness of political issues and social concerns. Veggie Revolution is her first book. |
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For more information about Veggie Revolution, please visit www.fulcrum-books.com and the authors’ blog at http://veggierevolution.blogspot.com.
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