Vegan Betrayal: Love, lies, and hunger in a plants-only world - Softcover

Kahn, Mara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990341321 ISBN 13: 9780990341321

Publisher: Little Boat Press, 2016

Synopsis

Science meets sensuality in this penetrating examination of veganism, its scant history, dazzling health claims, fiery proponents, and growing throngs of disillusioned drop-outs. If you've ever wondered whether a plants-only diet is right for you, your son, daughter or significant other, Vegan Betrayal answers all your questions. 

Weaving intimate storytelling with cutting-edge nutrition research, this coming-of-age journey veers passionately from youthful idealism to intense questioning to mature acceptance of our genetic dictates and the earth's sacred but unforgiving biological truths. Travel the wisdom roads of the Buddha, female bow hunters, and salt-of-the-earth family farmers in this candid, comic, fierce but always honest look at our dietary choices and the rightful individuality of your chosen way. 

In this book you will learn:

---Why some thrive and some take a dive on this non-historical, minimally researched diet

---The author’s concept of reverse speciesism: favoring another species well-being over your own and other humans

---All the important carninutrients found exclusively in animal-sourced food (there are a lot of them)

---Why lab-concocted supplements and synthetics can never replace real, whole foods

---How to find out if you are a high-protein or high-carb metabolic type (or something in between)

---Why daily protein recommendations have been substantially increased by nutrition experts

---The Ayurvedic body type that suffers most as a vegan, and which type best tolerates this restricted diet

---The dark side of soy: why an excess is harmful, while eating a large variety of species, both plant and animal, is the road to good health

---The 2.5 million-year anthropological record of human omnivores vs. the extremely brief history of veganism, who invented it, where and why

---Why the ethical argument does not hold up under close examination of modern industrial plant agriculture

---How our youthful idealism is not always grounded in reality

 

 

About this title

About the Author:

Mara Kahn, MS, is a noted science writer specializing in health, the environment, human-animal ethics, and eco-traveling. She lives in Colorado's snowy Rockies with her family and a roving tribe of elk, cougars, and black bears.

Review:

"Vegan Betrayal tackles the thorny issues surrounding plants-only eating and confronts our genetic diversity head-on. If you want to do right by your body's unique needs, here is the road map. Everyone should read this wonderful book."
---Joel Salatin, eminent grass-farmer in The Omnivore's Dilemma and author of Tilling the Soil
"This book celebrates not only real food and individuality but nature, sex, the fertility of the soil and the healing of our planet. Eat it up and be amazed."
---Jean Auteur, author of The Human-Animal Contract
"Mara Kahn dissects the complex reasons individuals pursue the vegan or vegetarian lifestyle and is upfront with the possible health consequences: fatigue, moodiness, carb craving, insomnia, hormonal disruption, and other symptoms of malnutrition. Vegan Betrayal takes us on an eye-opening journey and reminds us that the spiritual path is first and foremost one that gives us vibrant health."
---Sally Fallon Morell, best-selling author of Nourishing Traditions

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Boat Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0990341321
• ISBN 13: 9780990341321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448