This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

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I think people would be interested to know more about the past such as ancient Greeks Pythagorean diet, Buddhism, Jainism, Christian monks and Islam's opposition to cruelty to animals. The tone of the book is undoubtedly aimed at converting people to veganism, which I don't mind in the slightest but as the title states it is vegan propaganda. The first chapters — about animal, environment, and human exploit The book gives the impression that the concept of refraining from eating meat etc is not much older than Ed himself. Winters is sharp when describing the conditions animals are forced to endure, but relies on platitudes to underline his point about them.

Occasionally, however, the stunning doesn’t work and the creatures are still conscious when lowered into a “scalding tank” of hot water that loosens their skin. Aunque durante algunas etapas he vuelto a comer huevo y algunos lácteos (por un tema de salud, no vengo ahora mismo a debatir con nadie por qué), nunca he dejado de considerarme vegana y así lo sabe todo el mundo que me rodea. This Welsh chef, author and self-styled “avant garde” vegan’s aspirational, high-energy Insta feed is a mouthwatering gallery of man-sized vegan dishes. In This is Vegan Propaganda, the popular vegan activist Ed Winters, known online as Earthling Ed, argues that this cognitive dissonance helps explain why vegans are so reviled. Actually, numerable — I was surprised to see the e-book finish sooner than I expected, at 66%, due to the sheer amount of citations.Following that, the book delves deep into the less-discussed, complex matters: why the topic is so divisive, what drives the strong beliefs and reactions, and how the division harms our social relationships. But vegans can easily obtain all the essential amino acids they need by eating a variety of plant proteins each day.

Britons have reduced their meat intake by almost 17% in a decade, according to a 2021 study in The Lancet’s Planetary Health journal. As a vegan, this serves as a great tool for facilitating conversations in the future in a more informed and effective manner. Without turning my review into too much of a regurgitation of these arguments that I clearly agree with and uphold, I want to establish once more just how significant the decision of what we chose to consume is. Ed has given speeches at over a third of UK universities and at Ivy league colleges, including as a guest lecturer at Harvard University in 2019 and 2020. He is a prolific public speaker who has been invited to schools, universities and businesses across the world.

Ed Winters is incredibly thorough and compelling in his exhaustively factual analysis of the benefits of Veganism from any angle you may look at it from: health, environment, ethics and animal rights. Still, as a vegan of eight years, I found my sense of urgency on the subject of animal liberation totally renewed.

It really doesn't help when the stories you read are all people who went vegan overnight and apparently had no difficulty at all making the transition. I found the audiobook very engaging however I think it's a really widely held belief that humans are omnivores, we have front facing eyes and need meat to live healthy. It should be clear that I read this book as a vegan beforehand, and I am pretty well informed on most aspects of the industry in large part due to Ed’s content. Almost all the people who debate me are men: they are certainly the ones most proud of eating meat,” he says. This Is Vegan Propaganda is the empowering and ground-breaking book on veganism that everyone, vegan and sceptic alike, needs to hear.He's taken his ironic title from the dismissive phrase used most often by representatives of the meat industry to disparage and discredit any critiques of their industry, adapting his speeches and interviews into a comprehensive and compelling case for the benefits of a vegan diet when it comes to things like improving personal health, combating climate change, reducing the risk of future global pandemics, and of course refusing to be complicit in the systematic exploitation and cruelty toward non-human animals. I love the way the book has been organised as a tool kit to help vegans answer questions offer those curious for themselves. Photograph: Kellie French/The Guardian ‘Every time a man becomes a vegan, it challenges basic assumptions about masculinity and femininity. Overall, I think this is an essential read both for vegans and for curious non vegans, who care about the future of our planet. The first chapters — about animal, environment, and human exploitation, and disease causation — are, admittedly, hard to read, but necessary to build knowledge and compassion.

Ed Winters, AKA Earthling Ed, is a British vegan activist and author with more than 400,000 YouTube subscribers. Such is the effectiveness of his advocacy that I knew about Ed Winters (aka "Earthling Ed") long before reading this book.Ed's compassion is exemplified by the section on slaughterhouse workers: rather than condemn them, he explains why people work there (lack of choice) and brings sympathy for its effect on their mental and physical health. Nowadays, it’s like everyone in the bar knows your band, likes the singles and is curious for the next album to arrive.