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veggie or vegan?

 

 

the effects, on the environment and human wellbeing, of omnivorous versus vegetarian/vegan diets

 

http://www.alternet.org/story/36552/

It's Not Enough to Be a Vegetarian

By Christina Waters - AlterNet - May 23, 2006.

There wasn't much wiggle room left for the casual carnivore when über-ethicist Peter Singer got finished with us in 1973.  That's when his uncompromising assault on trans-species suffering, Animal Liberation, had millions of readers trading in their T-bones for tofu.

But now even the moral high ground of a vegetarian lifestyle isn't good enough.  Singer's new book,   The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter, argues that, all things considered, only a vegan lifestyle will do.  The reasons go far beyond Singer's past exposés of animal abuse and factory farming.  Tracking the source of food served at three very different American tables, Singer and his co-author Jim Mason uncover more than they could swallow.

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