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    Please Don't Eat the Animals: All the Reasons You Need to Be a Vegetarian
    Please Don't Eat the Animals: All the Reasons You Need to Be a Vegetarian
    Please Don't Eat the Animals: All the Reasons You Need to Be a Vegetarian
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    Please Don't Eat the Animals: All the Reasons You Need to Be a Vegetarian

    By Jennifer Horsman and Jaime Flowers

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    ""Please Don't Eat the Animals"" is an exciting and provocative new book on the universal benefits of being a vegetarian. Authors Horsman and Flowers detail the many reasons for the burgeoning movement toward a plant-based diet in four short, interesting, easy-to-digest sections: health, environment, animal welfare, religion and spirituality.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherQuill Driver Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2006
    ISBN9781610350976
    Please Don't Eat the Animals: All the Reasons You Need to Be a Vegetarian
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    Jennifer Horsman

    was born and raised in San Francisco, California. I moved south to finish my college degree at the University of California at Irvine. Here I fell instantly and madly in love with one of my professors, who I finally convinced to marry me. While most of my life force was sucked up by a steady stream of kids, dogs and cats, I managed to write a few books. I currently live in Laguna Beach, California. Things I love: life, the ocean, good books, Ashtanga yoga, redwood forests, most people, all animals, long walks and stormy nights. In addition to historical romance novels, I write children's novels and non-fiction, plays and screenplays. Now, about e-publishing: I am a voracious reader,(favorite authors: Toni Morrison, JM Coetzee, David Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates and Margaret Atwood) and between my friends and I, we have sony readers, kindles, nooks, and quite a few Ipads. Ebooks are an amazing development in the ancient art of reading and writing. I wanted to be a part of it. Fortunately, historical romances never go out of date or fashion. I am currently working on a novel. I love hearing from readers--contact me at [email protected]!

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      Please Don't Eat the Animals - Jennifer Horsman

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      Please Don’t Eat the Animals

      "A pocket battleship of ammunition to use in debating those who consider meat-eating an inalienable right."

      —Chris Mercer and Beverley Pervan, Animal People

      "As easy to read as it is to say "veggie burger." In a few words, this book gives you one good reason after the other to follow a good diet, from reducing high blood pressure to conserving top soil, from livening up your menu and your life to being able to look a cow in the eye without feeling guilty."

      —Ingrid E. Newkirk, president, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)

      "I can remember when someone who ate food that was unhealthy, that was produced in a way that did serious damage to the environment and caused immense suffering to animals, was considered normal. While someone who ate food that was healthy, and produced in an Earth-friendly way without any cruelty was considered a health nut. But all that is changing. If you read this book, you will be far more able to make your food choices align with your values. And your body will thank you for the rest of your life."

      —John Robbins, Healthy at 100, Diet for a New America, and The Food Revolution

      "This exciting and easy-to-read book succinctly presents the key reasons to stop eating animals. As you will see, vegetarians enjoy healthier and longer lives while preserving the earth’s precious resources. Most importantly, we go to sleep at night knowing that our choices have greatly reduced suffering in the world."

      —Stewart David, president, Carolina Animal Action

      "…a reference for those of us who shun meat, and a handbook for our friends who are still on the fence."

      —Joseph Connelly, founder and publisher, VegNews Magazine

      "Bravo to the authors for presenting a concise and easy-to-comprehend case for why adopting a vegetarian lifestyle is the road map to a better world for all. This book should be circulated in libraries and schools. I wholeheartedly recommend it."

      —Eric Brent, founder, HappyCow’s Vegetarian Guide to Restaurants and Health Food Stores (www.happycow.net)

      Copyright © 2007 by Jennifer Horsman and Jaime Flowers. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      1. Horsman, Jennifer, 1957-

      Please don’t eat the animals : all the reasons you need to be a vegetarian / by Jennifer Horsman & Jaime Flowers.

      p. cm.

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 1-884956-60-2

      1. Vegetarianism. 2. Vegetarian cookery. 3. Meat--Health aspects.

      4. Vegetarianism--Religious aspects.

      I. Flowers, Jaime, 1984- II. Title.

      RM236.H66 2006

      613.2’62--dc22

      2006029610

      This book is dedicated to Dr. Peter Singer who is destined to appear in the history books as our century’s greatest philosopher.

      CONTENTS

      ONE

      The Healthy Vegetarian

      TWO

      The Environmentally Conscious Vegetarian

      THREE

      The Compassionate Vegetarian

      FOUR

      Spiritual and Religious Aspects of Vegetarianism

      Fabulous Vegetarian Cookbooks

      Web Sites of Interest

      Suggested Reading

      References

      About the Authors

      ONE

      The Healthy Vegetarian

      "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

      —Albert Einstein

      Health and vegetarianism go together. If this is in any way a surprise, you haven’t been paying attention to the preponderance of nutritional and medical research that advocates plant-based diets for everyone. Meat-based diets are weighted with unhealthy fats, too much protein, and loaded with calories, pesticides, hormones, and other chemicals. Meat might be what’s for dinner, but it definitely is not what’s good for our health.

      In dramatic contrast, healthy vegetarian diets are full of fruits and vegetables, plenty of fiber, tons of nutrients, less saturated fats, and less cholesterol.

      Additionally, plant-based diets are comprised of a far greater variety of foods, making these diets not just more healthful and nutritious but also more exciting and fun.

      Hundreds upon hundreds of scientific articles from around the world demonstrate that a healthy vegetarian diet is the single most powerful thing individuals can do to promote, protect, or improve their health.

      "Each year, the meat industrial complex abuses and butchers nearly 9 billion cows, pigs, sheep, turkeys, chickens, and other innocent, feeling animals just for the enjoyment of consumers. Each year, nearly 1.5 million of these consumers are crippled and killed prematurely by heart failure, cancer, stroke, and other chronic diseases that have been linked conclusively with the consumption of these animals. Each year, millions of other animals are abused and sacrificed in a vain search for a ‘magic pill’ that would vanquish these largely self-inflicted diseases."

      —Alex Hershaft, Ph.D., president, Farm Animal Reform Movement

      TYPES OF VEGETARIANS

      Vegetarian: A person who doesn’t eat meat, fish or fowl.

      Lacto-Ovo Vegetarian: A person who doesn’t eat meat, fish, or fowl, but does eat eggs and dairy products.

      Ovo-Vegetarian: A person who doesn’t eat meat, fish, fowl, or dairy products, but does eat eggs.

      Lacto-Vegetarian: A person who doesn’t eat meat, fish, fowl, or eggs, but does eat dairy products.

      Vegan: A person who doesn’t eat meat, fish, fowl, eggs, or any dairy products. Most vegans also do not use any animal products such as leather or fur either.

      "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men."

      —Alice Walker, author, The Color Purple

      "Certainly, a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible."

      —Pope Benedict XVI

      STRONG AND HEALTHY HEARTS

      Heart disease is the leading cause of death and disability in the world; according to the World Health Federation it kills almost 17 million people a year, stealing more lives prematurely than all other causes of death combined. A stunning 41.6 percent of all deaths in the United States last year were caused by cardiovascular diseases. Worldwide, more women die from heart disease than the next seven most common causes of death. A plethora of large-scale scientific studies shows that a plant-based diet prevents deaths from heart attacks:

      When analyzing 8,300 deaths in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany among 76,000 men and women in five different, large studies, researchers concluded that vegetarians have a 24 percent reduction in death from heart disease (Key et al., 1998).

      Similarly, in the famous Oxford Vegetarian Study where 6,000 vegetarians were compared with 5,000 meat eaters over nearly two decades, scientists found that the rate of death from heart

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