Stop Eating the Animals: An Appeal on Behalf of The Voiceless to Adopt a Meat-Free Foodstyle - Softcover

Parisella, Jerry H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1499246803 ISBN 13: 9781499246803

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Are you concerned about the disconnect between healthy eating and engineered, factory-farmed food? Stop Eating the Animals employs reason, emotions, and beliefs to advance a unique argument from the dual perspectives of human health and animal welfare, enabling readers to see how the two issues are inextricably linked.

It looks at what science is revealing about harm to our health from animal protein. It examines how we make our food choices and our faulty assumptions. Then it profoundly reframes the eating of animals’ bodies as not just a simple dietary choice, but as a moral decision with existential consequences.

The author reintroduces us to our beloved pets as “Ambassadors” of the animal kingdom who are no different than their relatives imprisoned on factory farms. He challenges us with difficult questions like, Why are we thrilled to bring children to an orchard to pick fruit, yet shield them from seeing a slaughterhouse? Salient points are reinforced by numerous fascinating quotes from historical figures who advocated against eating animals.

Follow Jerry H. Parisella’s transition away from animal flesh. Then use his first thirty days of meals to begin your meat-free foodstyle as the most healthy and humane way to nourish ourselves.

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About the Author:

Jerry H. Parisella, author and public speaker on the topic of how humanhealth and animal welfare are inextricably linked, is an advocate of a"meat-free foodstlye" as the most healthy and humane way to nourishourselves. He is talent development professional, a former corporatebanker, a United States Air Force veteran and currently works for TheState Of New York Office Of The State Comptroller. He graduated summacum laude from Gordon College in Massachusetts and earned a Master'sDegree from Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service inWashington, DC. He and his wife, Anna, currently make their home in NewYork City with Mishka, their fourth charming and cherished "ambassadorof the animal kingdom.

From Kirkus Reviews:

A deep empathy for animals informs a convert’s plea for a meat-free lifestyle. Parisella’s debut effort, equal parts pitch, memoir and diet plan, argues that all creatures deserve a life free of human-created suffering. Like his beloved dogs, food animals - pigs, cows, ducks, etc. - feel pain and emotional distress; if they could speak to us, they would say, “Stop eating us." In addition to frequent appeals to empathize with other creatures, he includes references to animal-advocate websites (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and Mercy for Animals) as well as diet authorities (The China Study, Forks Over Knives, etc.) and doctors (the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine) to bolster his stand that vegetarianism is also a matter of self-interest. “Our lust for animal flesh is also compromising our health. It’s inducing chronic inflammation in our cells, clogging our arteries, slowing our digestion, contributing to colon cancer, and making us fat.” Parisella wisely advises readers to think of vegetarian eating as a “switch” rather than a “sacrifice" that will benefit health, affect change via supply and demand, and make many animals happy. This readable exhortation on an important topic gives a quick and easy introduction to a meat-free lifestyle. Healthy food for thought that might win a few converts.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1499246803
• ISBN 13: 9781499246803
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 178